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Summary of Key Persecution Facts
Name: Mo Zhikui (莫志奎)
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Address: Yilan Town, Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March, 2013
Most recent place of detention: Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province Prison (黑龙江省佳木斯市监狱)
City: Jiamusi
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered:Detention, forced labor, illegal trial, illegal sentencing, brutal beatings, electric shock, solitary confinement, being hung up by wrists, handcuffed and shackled, extensive sitting on small stool, sleep deprivation, harmful force-feeding, forced to have blood drawn, extortion
On August 21, 2013 five Falun Gong practitioners--Mo Zhikui, Zhang Jinku, Sun Wenfu, Li Dapeng and Xu Feng--were detained and persecuted in Jiamusi City Prison in Heilongjiang Province. Mo Zhikui is in critical condition, so the CCP officials used a stretcher to carry him from the hospital to a vehicle that would take him back to the prison for further persecution. Falun Gong practitioner Xu Feng suffered severe anemia and had a stroke as a result of the torture he endured. He was sent to the prison hospital.
Mo Zhikui was sentenced to 12 years. This is a huge hardship for his family, who relies heavily on him. The Yilan County Court feared they would be sued by his family for such an injustice. They instigated the director of the residential committee to obtain the phone numbers of his wife and son, and also to obtain information regarding the ownership of his house. Later Mo Zhikui's wife received an anonymous phone call from a woman who intimidated her, causing her to remain silent and live in fear.
Mo Zhikui was born in Xingan Village, Shanzi Township, Yilan County. He lives in Yilan Town, Yilan County now. He is 56 years of age. He started to practice Falun Gong in 1997, and has benefited both physically and mentally. Mo Zhikui is the backbone of his family. He has an 89-year-old mother, a son with a disability and a granddaughter with congenital skin disease.
Re-enactment photo: sticking up the legs
Since Jiang Zemin and the CCP began persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners on July 20, 1999, Mo Zhikui has persisted in his belief in Falun Dafa. He has been arrested eight times, and five times detained in the detention center. He has spent three years in a labor camp. He endured much torture in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Harbin. Once, he was forced to leave home. Currently he has been sentenced to 12 years.
During the past fourteen years Mo Zhikui suffered from various torture methods while he was detained in the detention centers and labor camp. The torture methods include extensive twisting of the arms behind the back, sticking up legs, squatting, beating with electric batons, beating with fists, and repeated kicking, hanging up by handcuffed wrists, being locked up in a tiny cell, sitting on small stools, sleep deprivation and more. He was also handcuffed and shackled. The police made the handcuffs very tight, and pushed him to walk fast. His ankles were rubbed raw and became bloody. He was also brutally force-fed. One time they knew the tube had entered his lung, but still inserted and removed it harshly. As a result he coughed up blood for many days afterward. Police also continued to instigate inmates to force-feed him, and left the tube in his mouth after the feeding, sometimes for over ten days. He was pushed down to the sofa to have his blood drawn. Police extorted him multiple times, for a total of over fifteen thousand Yuan.
In March 2013 police from Yilan, Fanzheng, and Tonghe Counties raided the homes of Falun Gong practitioners. Beginning on the evening of the 29th police arrested close to fifty practitioners within a three or four day period. So far, fourteen Falun Gong practitioners are still detained: Mo Zhikui, Fei Shuqin, Zuo Zhenqi, Lu Fengyun, Chen Yan, Sun Wenfu, Liu Fengcheng, Xu Feng, Zhang Huijuan, Li Dapeng, Duan Shuyan, Jiang Lianying, Meng Fanying and Zhang Jinku. Yilan City Police Department, the Procuratorate, the court, and the judiciary system secretly colluded with each other and knowingly violated the law. They did not provide the practitioners or their families with any information. Mo Zhikui vomited blood while he was being interrogated by police from the Harbin City Police Department in Yilan County First Detention Center.
It wasn't until early July, after the families had made inquiries, that they learned the case had been submitted secretly to the Procuratorate. Fourteen people in five groups were sent to trial. Except for the group including Mo Zhikui, the rest of the nine Falun Gong practitioners were tried in four groups: Liu Fengcheng, Zuo Zhenqi in one group; Zhang Huijuan, Meng Fanying, Duan Shuyan in another group; Fei Shuqin, Lu Fengyun, Chen Yan in another group, and sixty nine year old Jiang Lianying by herself.
On the morning of July 18, 2013 Yilan County Court put Mo Zhikui on trial. His family hired two lawyers from Beijing to defend him. However, on the day of the hearing the presiding judge, Zhang Kean, only allowed one lawyer to come in, and prevented the other lawyer from getting into the courtroom. The lawyers and family members objected. Zhang Kean said that it was an order from his superiors, and asked them to resolve this issue with the President Fan Qinglu.
When they found Fan Qinglu, he said that the lawyer's practice certificate must be verified by the Bureau of Justice. So they called deputy director of Yilan County Bureau of Justice Chen Shufang Chen to come to the court. The lawyer's practice certificate was verified to be valid, and he passed the annual licensing inspection in 2013. But President Fan Qinglu and presiding judge Zhang Kean still prevented another lawyer from attending with the excuse that his name is on the blacklist on a document in the Yilan County 610 Office. During the hearing, presiding judge Zhang Kean repeatedly interrupted the lawyer's defense. The lawyers and family members requested to see the 610 Office's document regarding the blacklist. They also pointed out that this kind of document violated Criminal Law and is illegal, and requested to protect Mo Zhikui's rights according to the law. But President Fan Qinglu and presiding judge Zhang Kean rejected the requests, and insisted on carrying out the trial regardless.
The lawyer defended Mo Zhikui in court against prosecutor Ning Yan's allegations. People in the court understood that practicing Falun Gong is not a crime and distributing DVDs and other truth clarification materials is legal, and it is protected by freedom of speech. The judges and prosecutor had nothing to say. The lawyer asked the court to judge the case fairly and declare that Mo Zhikui is innocent based on the law.
However, judge Zhang Kean and Lu Shoufan violated the law publicly, and sentenced five Falun Gong practitioners unjustly. Ten days later the lawyers were notified of the verdict. Mo Zhikui was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, Zhang Jinku and Sun Wenfu to five years, Xu Feng and Li Dapeng to three years. Mo Zhikui's appeal was sent to the Harbin Intermediate People's Court, and his family hired two lawyers to defend him.
Harbin Intermediate People's Court received the appeal on August 13, but they simply ignored the law and did not have a second trial. They did not notify the lawyers or Mo Zhikui's family. Harbin Intermediate People's Court presiding judge Wang Gang, Zhang Guodong, Tang Jun, and court clerk Yu Haiyang made the decision to uphold the previous verdict, and on August 16 denied Mo Zhikui's rights to let lawyers defend him. This appeal was rejected and the case was closed in just four days between the first and second trial.The verdict was given to the five practitioners who are still detained in Yilan County detention center. It is not hard to see that Harbin Intermediate People's Court disregarded the laws to uphold the previous verdict.
Mo Zhikui's defense lawyers said they wanted to continue to appeal this case. Eight lawyers jointly sued and requested that presiding judge Zhang Kean and Lu Shoufan be removed their duties.
Responsible parties:
Zhang Guodong, Judge of Harbin Intermediate's Court
Tang Jun, Judge of Harbin Intermediate's Court
Judge Zhang Anke
Judge Lu Shoufang
Prosecutor Ning Yan
