(Minghui.org) Four Falun Gong practitioners from Jiaonan, Qingdao City, Shandong Province were illegally sentenced to prison and are now incarcerated in Jinan Prison. Mr. Zhang Maoyuan was sentenced to seven years, Mr. Li Qibing to three and a half years, and Mr. Geng Dexiao to five years. Mr. Yin Qiye's sentence is to be clarified.

Disabled Seniors Left Uncared for When Their Children Are Arrested

The Political and Legal Affairs Committee of Jiaonan Government and the 610 Office in Qingdao arrested 14 Falun Gong practitioners in March and April 2012. Mr. Zhang Maoyuan and his wife, Feng Jinhua, were arrested on the way home from work by officers from Zhangjialou Police Station on March 27. Mr. Zhang was taken to Jiaonan Detention Center while Ms. Feng was taken to Dashan Detention Center in Qingdao. Later Ms. Feng was found to have high blood pressure and the detention center would not admit her. The Political and Legal Affairs Committee and the 610 Office then transferred her to Jinan Brainwashing Center.

Mr. Zhang and Ms. Feng were known as good people in their hometown, Xiaohedong Village in Jiaonan. They had been taking good care of two of their elderly disabled parents: an 85-year-old father, a veteran, who has been paralyzed in bed for the last 10 years, and an 87-year-old mother who is blind and cannot get along on her own. Their caring children fed them and took care of everything for them.

After the police arrested Mr. Zhang and Ms. Feng, they locked the two disabled seniors in their room. When relatives found out about this, the two seniors hadn't had anything to eat for two days. Family members and neighbors burst into tears to hear them crying, “Where is our son? Why doesn't he cook and bring us any food?”

Young Girl's Father Arrested

Falun Dafa practitioner Li Qibing, 45, was a physician at the Women and Children's Hospital of Jiaonan. His wife works overseas, and he lived with his parents, who are almost 80, and his 7-year-old daughter. Mr. Li also often helped out his parents-in-law, who live in the same city.

Mr. Li was arrested at home at noon on March 6. The grandparents were afraid to tell his daughter, Zhenzhen, when she came home. Instead they said that her father was on a business trip. Several days later, her father still not home, and Zhenzhen questioned her grandparents hard about her father's whereabouts. Once she cried so hard from missing her dad that she threw up. Zhenzhen was usually picked by her maternal grandmother from daycare everyday and sometimes stayed overnight at her place, but now every day she asked to go to her paternal grandparents' home to wait for her father in case he was released. They told Zhenzhen to study hard and learn to write well so that she could write letters to her father. Zhenzhen always nodded in tears.

When Mr. Li was detained in Jiaonan Detention Center, the Jiaonan 610 Office did not let his family visit him. A couple of months later, Zhenzhen's grandfather received a notice confirming the arrest of his son, Li Qibing, from Jiaonan 610 Office. The whole family fell into deep sorrow to learn that he would be tried.

Mr. Geng Dexiao, Mr. Yin Qiye, and Mr. Li Qibing were tried in Jiaonan City Court on August 6. Mr. Zhang Maoyuan was tried on August 22, and Zhang Shuxin, Zhang Shuwen, Chen Yuzhen, and Ms. Feng Jinhua on August 23. The public procurator, Sun Chunfang, described the case briefly and judge Liu Jinren quickly went through the motions of the trial.