(Minghui.org) Ms. Hao Liqin lived away from home to hide from the authorities, after she was sentenced to prison in 2020 for practicing Falun Gong. She was arrested again on October 27, 2021. She was secretly tried on November 18, 2021. The local court didn’t allow her to hire a lawyer and barred her family from attending the hearing.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Hao, a resident in Mutoudeng Town, Qinglong County, Hebei Province, was first arrested on December 23, 2018, for talking to people at a local fair about Falun Gong. The arresting officers from Mutoutown Police Station took her to the Qinglong County Lockup. She was released on bail on January 5, 2019.
She was tried by the Changli County Court on May 7, 2020, and sentenced to three years and ten months, with a 3,000-yuan fine. To avoid serving time, she lived away from home and hid from the police.
After a year of displacement, Ms. Hao was arrested on the street in Mutoudeng Town while buying daily necessities on October 27, 2021. As she resisted the arrest, a police supervisor ordered the officers to carry her into the police car.
Ms. Hao was first held at the Qinglong County Lockup and then transferred to the Qinhuangdao City Detention Center. The police submitted her case to the local procuratorate again, charging her as a wanted fugitive.
The Changli County Court informed Ms. Hao’s husband in early November that she was booked to appear in court on November 18, but didn’t say the exact time of the hearing. Her husband figured it may be around 11:20 a.m. because that was the start time of her last hearing in May 2020.
So he and other family members got to the court before 11:20 a.m. on the hearing day, but they were barredrejected from entering the courtroom. They said that they had only learned the judge in charge of her case was Zhang Qiusheng, without knowing the name of the prosecutor or whether the judge had appointed a lawyer to represent her.
At around 1 p.m., they asked a staff member if Ms. Hao’s hearing was still going on and were told it had long ended. According to insiders, the hearing took about 30-40 minutes. Agents from Mutoudeng Police Station and local governments were present at the hearing. While Ms. Hao’s family waited outside the courthouse for hours, they didn’t see Ms. Hao or judge Zhang entering or exiting the main entrance.
Perpetrators’ contact information:
Tan Jun (谭军), head of Mutoudeng Town Police Station: +86-13730352699Song Xueqiang (宋学强), head of Qinglong County Domestic Security Office: +86-13903340818
(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)
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