Investigative Report on the Persecution of Falun Gong by Yang Xiaoping

Vice President of the Panlong District Court, Deputy Judge of the Criminal Court of Kunming City, Yunnan Province

December 29, 2020

Full Name of Perpetrator: Yang (last name) Xiaoping (first name) (杨晓萍)

Gender: Female

Country: China

Date/year of Birth: May 1977

Place of Birth: Unknown

Title or Position:

Current: Vice President of the Panlong District Court in Kunming City, Yunnan Province[1]

Deputy Judge of the Criminal Court of Kunming City, Yunnan Province

2007: Judge and Presiding Judge

2003: Assistant Judge

She was awarded the Master of Case Handling and Excellent Judge awards for many years.[2]

Note: There is no legal basis for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to persecute Falun Gong. All Falun Gong practitioners who were illegally tried did not violated any laws. The CCP always uses the first paragraph of Article 300 of the Criminal Law, “using cult organizations to undermine the implementation of the law,” to validate the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, but they have never proved which law is undermined. All judges know that the sentences they imposed are political and not a result of legal issues. Judges should be responsible for their decisions and accept the consequences.

Major crime

Since Jiang Zemin’s group started to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme Court of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) followed Jiang’s orders closely. They illegally arrested and sentenced Falun Gong practitioners and made new laws to support the persecution. During the past 20 years, many innocent Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally brainwashed, sentenced, and even persecuted to death. As an essential part of law enforcement, judges have to take full responsibilities for their decisions in this persecution.

From April 2008 to January 2012, Judge Yang Xiaoping was involved in the illegal sentencing and persecution of 30 Falun Gong practitioners, including Li Huiping, Zhao Feiqiong, and Li Wenbo. They were all sentenced at the Intermediate Court of Kunming City, Yunnan Province. Yang Xiaoping was directly responsible for all these cases.[3]

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Jiaman was an employee of Yuhua Temple Park of Kunming City. Around 8PM on May 1, 2011, she was arrested as she was clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to two plain clothed policemen. On September 14, 2011, the Kunming City Procuratorate illegally prosecuted He Jiaman with the excuse of “using cult organizations to undermine the implementation of the law.” On November 10, 2011, He Jiaman was illegally tried at the Kunming Intermediate People's Court. Yang Xiaoping was the presiding judge. On November 10, 2011, He Jiaman was illegally sentenced to three years in prison.[4]

Other Falun Gong practitioners who were illegally sentenced by Yang Xiaoping are listed as the follows:

Li Huiping, female, was arrested on February 13, 2009, and sentenced to four years in prison on June 29, 2009.[5]
Ling Li, female, was arrested on April 21, 2009. She was sentenced to five years in prison during her trial on November 18, 2009.
Zhang Xiuying, female, was abducted on April 21, 2009. She was sentenced to three years in prison on November 19, 2009.
Wang Yong, female, was abducted on April 21, 2009. She was sentenced to three years in prison after her trial on November 19, 2009.6
Dong Guifen, female, was abducted on April 21, 2009. She was sentenced to three years in prison after her trial on November 19, 2009.[6]
Li Wenbo, male, was abducted on April 24, 2009 and sentenced to five years in prison after his trial on October 12, 2009.
Zhao Feiqiong, female, was kidnapped on May 16, 2009 and sentenced to four years in prison in October 2009.
Li Ruihua, female, was kidnapped on September 4, 2009 and sentenced to three years in prison on February 10, 2010.[7]
Peng Sufen, female, was kidnapped on October 16, 2009 and sentenced to on year in prison on June 2, 2010.
Zhang Meilan, female, was kidnapped on October 16, 2009, and was sentenced to one year in prison on June 2, 2010 (external execution of the sentence).
Wu Qifen, female, was kidnapped on April 12, 2010. She was illegally tried on November 3, 2010 and sentenced to five years in prison.
Wang Shulan, female, was kidnapped on April 12, 2010. She was illegally tried on November 3, 2010 and sentenced to 4 years in prison.8
Yang Gongxiu, female, was kidnapped on April 12, 2010. She was illegally tried on November 3, 2010 and sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Zhu Enhua, female, was kidnapped on April 12, 2010. She was illegally tried on November 3, 2010 and sentenced to 4 years in prison.[8]
Li Huanzhen, female, was kidnapped on May 19, 2010. After the trial on December 3, 2010, she was illegally sentenced to three years in prison.
Chen Jingwu, male, was kidnapped on March 26, 2011 and sentenced to three years in prison on December 20, 2011.[9]
He Jiaman, female, was kidnapped on May 1, 2011 and sentenced to three years in prison on November 10, 2011.
Zhang Liang, male, was kidnapped on June 2, 2011 and sentenced to three years in prison on January 11, 2012.[10]