Recently, the Judicial Court of Luzhou City, Sichuan Province in China has sentenced four people to prison for acts such as downloading Falun Gong materials, posting resignation statements from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on The Epoch Times website and posting solemn declarations on the Falun Gong Clearwisdom.net. Among the sentenced, Liang Jinhui, who has been declared mentally ill and unfit to serve prison term by the Xinan Court of Sichuan Province, was sentenced to two and a half years.
Renowned Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng exclaimed, “It is absurd that resigning from the CCP is considered a crime. Both foreign and Chinese laws dictate that mentally ill patients have no criminal responsibility. Since the offense involves Falun Gong and quitting the CCP, the CCP deemed it necessary to embarrass itself again in the international legal community by creating such an absurdity.”
Quitting the CCP is Considered a Crime
On May 10, 2006, the Judicial Court of Luzhou City in Naxi District of Sichuan Province sentenced Liang Jinhui, Jiang Jiyun, Hu Jingbin and He Shifang to prison terms ranging from one and a half to three and a half years. The group was sentenced for two reasons. First being having published their resignations statements from the CCP and its related organizations on The Epoch Times website between February and March 2005. The second reason is it that they downloaded and distributed Falun Gong books and other sensitive materials, such as 10 copies of The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, 15 copies of The Real Story of Jiang Zemin, and two copies of Collections of Resignations from the CCP. In addition, the group copied The Nine Commentaries and Falun Gong materials onto ten DVDs.In a January 2006 discussion of this case, Gao Zhisheng said, “It is absurd that they should be found guilty for quitting the CCP and assisting others in publishing resignations. If the court decides to punish them under these circumstances, this will leave another black mark on the CCP’s reign.
The Mentally Ill was Also Sentenced
