(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Sun Li, 63, was tried by the Tianshan District Court in Urumqi City on November 19, 2014.
Ms. Sun's attorney argued that giving out Shen Yun Performing Arts DVDs does not cause harm to society, and that she did not organize anything to sabotage law enforcement.
The judge responded, “How can you say that they are not organized? I have been getting calls every day from overseas Falun Gong practitioners recently, even one this morning.”
The attorney requested that Ms. Sun be released immediately, while the Procuratorate suggested that she be sentenced to three years in prison.
Ms. Sun was arrested on June 7, 2014, by the Dawannanlu Police Station, for handing out Shen Yun Performing Arts DVDs, and detained in the Urumqi City No. 3 Detention Center (a.k.a. the Shuimogou Detention Center). The Tianshan District Procuratorate issued a warrant for her arrest on July 10, 2014. She was first brought to trial on October 21, 2014, but the proceedings were adjourned due to procedural problems.
Ms. Sun has been arrested, detained, and sent to brainwashing centers many times since the persecution of Falun Gong began. She has twice been sent to forced labor camps.
Ms. Sun was previously employed by the Xinjiang Military District. She was arrested by the local Military Force Security Section in 2001, and sent to a brainwashing center in the Xinjiang Military District for over a year. She was forced to divorce her husband in April 2002. The Xinjiang Military District extorted 10,000 yuan from her and made her move out of Military District housing.
Ms. Sun was sent to a forced labor camp for one year in April 9, 2004.
She was arrested by the Dawan Police Station in February 2008 and sent to Urumqi Women's Forced Labor Camp for one year.
Yang Ling and two others from the Chenguang Community Neighborhood Committee in Yan'an Road Sub-District in the Tianshan District went to Ms. Sun's home on May 20, 2011, on the pretext of conducting a physical exam. They actually intended to taken Ms. Sun to a brainwashing center. No one was at home.
The neighborhood committee rang her doorbell four days later, but she didn't answer. The committee and Ma Qiyuan from the Dawan Police Station continued calling and harassing her family. Ms. Sun was forced to leave home.
The Chenguang Community in the Yan'an Road Sub-District used underhanded methods to arrest Ms. Sun and admit her to the Nanshan Brainwashing Center on July 1, 2012. She was held there for over a month.
Ms. Sun was arrested at home on July 22, 2013, and subjected to brainwashing in the Banfanggou Workers' Sanitarium.
Parties Responsible for the Persecution of Ms. SunYu Chunsheng (俞春生), director of Tianshan District Court: +86-991-8552770, +86-13609913663 (Cell)Tianshan District Criminal Court: +86-991-8559872Lu Jun (鲁军), assigned judge, Tianshan District CourtChen Liang (陈亮), secretary, Tianshan District CourtHuang Yanyu (黄燕语), public prosecutor, Tianshan District Procuratorate: +86-991-7830912 (Office)Yuan Zengjun (袁增军), main perpetrator, Tianshan District Police Department: + 86-13319838366 (Cell)Zhang Xiaoying (张小英), secretary, Chenguang Community: +86-13999853395 (Cell)