(Clearwisdom.net)
[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article published on minghui.ca
Officers from Shijiazhuang City Police Department, from the Qiaoxi Police Department, and from the Keyuan Police Station arrested practitioner Mr. Song Aichang at noon on June 22, 2007. He is a senior engineer at the No. 13 Institute of the China Electronic Technology Corporation. They ransacked his home and took him to the Keyuan Police Station, where they tortured him. The police submitted documents containing fabricated information against Mr. Song to officials at the Qiaoxi District Procuratorate. The court held a trial on the morning of October 26, 2007. Mr. Song's lawyer presented an airtight argument. The judge, however, dared not cross the police. The case was returned to the procuratorate for supplemental information.
It was re-submitted to the Qiaoxi District Court on January 18, 2008. Another trial commenced on February 27, six days past the 45-day retrial statute of limitations. According to Chinese law, a second trial should not have taken place, but the court officials operated above the law and also denied Mr. Song Aichang family's request for parole.
Mr. Song's lawyer stated that "Wrong application of law, ambiguous facts, lack of evidence" were the reasons why the case did not stand. Public prosecutor Wu Huiling and Chief Judge Su Changyin failed to present any sensible rebuttal. They knew Falun Gong practitioners were exercising their freedom of belief by explaining the facts, even according to the Communist Party's own laws, and had not committed any crime. Pressured by Party officials, however, the judge still sentenced Song Aichang to detention, in complete violation of the Chinese constitution. Mr. Song was taken to the Shijianshuang City No. 2 Detention Center, where he has been held for more than nine months. His lawyer and family have petitioned for his release.
