Chongqing Resident Secretly Sentenced to Prison

(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Dai Xianming from Yongchuan District of Chongqing City was unlawfully detained in July 2016. When his family went to visit him on Jan 23, 2017, they were told that he had been transferred to Yongchuan Prison without any notification to his family.

Unlawful Trial

Mr. Dai Xianming, 64, was followed and arrested by police on July 2, 2016 while he was putting up messages about Falun Gong. He was later put into a detention center.

Around noon on October 11, 2016, Mr. Dai Xianming’s wife received a phone call informing her that her husband would be put on trial at 2:50 pm that same day.

His wife rushed to the courthouse with her sister and grandson.

Outside the court, they saw Luo Mingquan, team leader from their own village and director of the local comprehensive management committee, police officers Deng Guangqi and He Chengjun, others from the Domestic Division of Yongchuan District Police Station, and members of other local neighborhood committees. They were there to try to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from their neighborhoods from attending the court hearing.

They tried to stop Mr. Dai’s family from entering. When his wife showed them the notification phone call, Luo only allowed her to enter the courtroom after checking with his superiors.

When she went in, the hearing had already been going on for some time. There were only seven people in the public gallery, five police officers in uniform and two plainclothes police.

The trial soon wrapped up and Mr. Dai was taken away by two officers.

His wife asked the judge why her husband was put on trial without any summons or notice.

She was told that the summons was issued on October 3. She then asked where the summons was sent to. Nobody could answer her.

When Mr. Dai’s wife asked why they called her about the trial on such short notice, no one in the court room answered her question.

Mr. Dai's Previous Unlawful Arrests

This is not the first time Mr. Dai has been illegally arrested for his belief and sentenced to jail. He was arrested four times between 2000 and 2003. Later he had to leave home to avoid further persecution.

On March 13, 2005, Mr. Dai was arrested again from his rental unit in Rongchang. Staff from the local “610 Office” took him to Rongchang Detention Center and tortured him.

He was later sentenced to four and a half years in Yongchuan Prion, where he suffered more torture and maltreatment.

He was arrested multiple times after his release, including once when he was attending his father's funeral in April 2011.

Falun Gong Changed Mr. Dai into a New Person

Mr. Dai used to chain smoke and was a heavy drinker before he practiced Falun Gong. He was also a gambling addict with a bad temperament. He often talked about splitting up with his wife and there was never peace in their home.

He looked thin and sickly, and suffered from serious rheumatism. He often complained about severe pain all over his body and numbness in his legs.

After he started practicing Falun Gong in September 1997, he turned into a totally different person. He discarded those bad habits and regained good health. He stopped arguing with family members and became a very kind person and a good son to his parents.

Partial list of institutions and individuals who persecuted Mr. Dai Xianming

Yongchuan Prison Duty Office: [phone]Huang Huishu, team leader of Domestic Division: [phone]Zhong Ke, police officer of Domestic Division: [phone]Deng Guangqi, police case officer: [phone]He Chengjun, police case office: [phone]Yongchuan Detention Center: [phone]Liu, head of detention center: [phone]Yu Gang, deputy head of detention center: [phone]