In April 2024, Falun Gong practitioners in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, China, have been facing various forms of persecution from the authorities. For instance, Liu Min from Lanxi County was kidnapped in November 2023 and subsequently framed with false evidence by the public security bureau, leading to an unjust three-year sentence in April of this year.
Similarly, Zhou Qunhui, a 67-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, was unlawfully sentenced to three years and two months in the first trial in December 2023. Despite her appeal, the second trial upheld the original verdict.
Meanwhile, 80-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Geng Yingfeng from Nanjing has faced additional unjust imprisonment on top of a previous four-year wrongful conviction. Geng has been held in custody at the Changzhou Women’s Prison since 2021.
The Chinese Communist Party’s judicial authorities have been illegally sentencing Falun Gong practitioners based on manufactured false evidence and other severe breaches of the law. Two mainland rights lawyers and former Beijing lawyer Lai Jianping, now residing overseas, spoke to The Epoch Times about the CCP’s authoritarian nature and its methods of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, manipulating the state machinery, trampling on the law, and framing innocent practitioners.
According to Minghui.org, Liu Min was abducted by five or six police officers who entered his home on November 13, 2023. Liu was falsely implicated with fabricated evidence by the local National Security Brigade leader Liu Xiaobo and police officers from the Public Security Bureau. Despite the prosecutor’s office dropping the investigation, Liu was continuously targeted with fake materials until his illegal detention.
In the process of being framed by the prosecutor’s office, deputy director of the Public Security Bureau and director of the “610 Office” (an extralegal entity dedicated to persecuting Falun Gong) Qin Zhongwei and National Security Brigade head collaborated to fabricate false evidence against Liu Min, leading to his illegal arrest and subsequent trial.
Moreover, lawyer Li emphasized that the authorities are using various means to fabricate false evidence to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in order to suppress the group, which he considers a standard operating procedure.
Lai Jianping highlighted that the CCP engages in arbitrary framing of Falun Gong practitioners to suppress any form of resistance. This totalitarian regime has a long history of manipulating criminal law to incriminate citizens, including the fabrication of false evidence and baseless accusations, reflecting an oppressive and unlawful exercise of power.
The abuse of legal principles in China is evident in cases where judicial authorities openly admit to prioritizing political directives over legal standards when dealing with Falun Gong cases, emphasizing the CCP’s control and disregard for due process.
For over 20 years, the CCP has systematically targeted Falun Gong practitioners through unlawful arrests, detentions, and the fabrication of false evidence to frame them with charges.
According to Minghui.org’s reports, the extensive persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese authorities has resulted in numerous deaths, wrongful convictions, arbitrary detentions, and harassment incidents, illustrating the systematic campaign of suppression against the group.
The use of fabricated evidence and false accusations in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners highlights the disregard for the rule of law and due process within the Chinese judicial system.
(This is a continuing story)