(Minghui.org) A 43-year-old Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province resident was sentenced to a three-year prison term and fined 10,000 yuan on April 6, 2023, for giving out one flyer about Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Mr. Cai Huaxing

Mr. Cai Huaxing, a native of Maoming City, Guangdong Province, moved to Guangzhou in 2012 for his job. Both of his parents are in their late 60s and he also has a 15-year-old son, who has an intellectual disability due to an accident when he was younger.

For placing a flyer in front of a local resident’s home on the evening of March 19, 2022, Mr. Cai was reported to the police and arrested two days later. The Baiyun District Procuratorate approved his arrest on April 26.

The police on June 22 submitted Mr. Cai’s case to the Baiyun District Procuratorate, which then forwarded it to the Liwan District Procuratorate, the designated procuratorate to handle Falun Gong cases in Guangzhou. Prosecutor Xiong Yihua indicted him on August 18 and moved his case to the Liwan District Court. He was charged with “undermining law enforcement with a cult organization,” the standard pretext used to criminalize Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Mr. Cai was tried through a virtual hearing at the Baiyun District Detention Center on November 2, 2022. The prosecutor couldn’t provide any evidence to show how Mr. Cai undermined law enforcement or what harm he had brought to society or any individual.

Mr. Cai’s lawyer entered a not-guilty plea for him. He also testified in his own defense and said that he merely wanted to be a good person by practicing Falun Gong.

The judge announced Mr. Cai’s verdict on April 6, 2023. Mr. Cai appealed the sentence on the same day. He also filed complaints against the judge and the prosecutor in charge of his case, suing them for abusing the law and wrongfully prosecuting him. He explained in the complaints that there has never been a law that criminalizes Falun Gong in China and that Falun Gong practitioners did nothing wrong by raising awareness about the practice.

Mr. Cai was only 19 years old when the persecution started in 1999. As he remained firm in the practice, he was given a term at the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp and held in the local brainwashing center. The labor camp guards forced him to stand outdoors in the winter wearing only a thin layer of clothing for hours on end. He was also hung up by his handcuffed wrists and beaten, for protesting the persecution.

Perpetrators’ contact information:

Li Guowen (李国文), presiding judge, Liwan District Court: +86-13312852296Xiong Yihua (熊一华), prosecutor, Liwan District Procuratorate: +86-18318512103Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), head of Baiyun District Domestic Security Office: +86-13903078317

(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)