Men Who Vandalized Falun Gong Sites in Hong Kong, 4 Sentenced to 8 Months in Jail

Other cases are ongoing

A Falun Gong information site in Mong Kok was damaged by vandals on April 2, 2021. Chow Lei/The Epoch Times

On numerous occasions since 2012, vandals have physically harassed and threatened Falun Gong adherents and damaged their Truth Clarification Sites in Hong Kong.

The Epoch Times in Hong Kong has reported such stories in Hong Kong, even under the social turmoil of recent years.

For instance, The Epoch Times printing plant in Hong Kong, run by Falun Gong adherents, was attacked on April 12, 2021. On another occasion, Epoch Times reporter, Sarah Liang, was beaten with a baseball bat by an attacker in May 2021. The attacker is still at large.

The Epoch Times also reported that at least six Falun Gong information sites in Hong Kong were vandalized more than ten times in April 2021.

Justice Finally Comes

On Dec. 8, three suspected attackers, Hu Aimin, Zhou Yonglin, and Zhuo Jinseng, were charged with two counts of criminal damage in the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court.

Defendant Zhou Yonglin, 43, a decoration worker, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on Jan. 4, 2023, after the trial of the other two participants who pleaded not guilty. Their case will be heard on Jan. 4, 2023. Compensation for the victims will also be dealt with at that time.

The three defendants have been released on HK$300 (about $38.6) bail.

(L-R) Hu Aimin and Zhuo Jinseng were charged with criminal damage for vandalizing the display of Falun Gong practitioners on April 3, 2021, This photo was taken on Oct. 31, 2021. Sung Pi-Lung/The Epoch Times

The charges allege that the trio damaged 16 display panels and one banner near Wong Tai Sin Square shopping center, on April 3, 2021, and two display panels, two flags, and one flag pole outside Wai Fung Plaza in Mong Kok, with total damages of US$449.5.

Ten Attacks in One Week

Within one week on either side of the April 2021 incident, at least six Falun Gong information sites in Hong Kong were vandalized 10 times.

The police announced that they made multiple reports on April 2 and 3 at sites vandalized in Mong Kok, Wong Tai Sin, Hung Hom, and Wan Chai, including more than 90 banners and printed promotional materials. The property losses involved about US$3,850, and the police arrested eight suspects.

Attackers Have a Triad Background

The Epoch Times reporter learned from police at the time that most people involved had triad (gang member) backgrounds.

Hu Aimin, one of the defendants in this separate case, destroyed Falun Gong’s information sites five times in Dec. 2019.

In a court hearing related to this separate case on Dec. 1, he was sentenced to two weeks in prison and given a 30-month suspended sentence. Hu claimed that he would lodge an appeal.

The police recently replied to a request for information by The Epoch Times explaining that the other four defendants in the same case were each charged with four counts of “criminal damage” and had pleaded guilty in July and August this year. The four Defendants, including a man aged 41, surnamed Pan, a man aged 27, surnamed Yan, a man aged 33, surnamed Wu, and a man, aged 36, surnamed Yau, were each sentenced to eight months in prison.

Those Attackers are Just Scapegoats

Ms. Chow, a Falun Gong practitioner who attended the case, told the Epoch Times she believes that the attackers were just scapegoats.

She said she hoped those who had been poisoned by the CCP’s lies and used by its agents would stop doing bad things for the CCP and working for it.

Zhou Yongkang, a former senior leader of the CCP; Bo Xilai, a former Chinese politician who was convicted on bribery and embezzlement charges; Tomson Dongsheng Li, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TCL Corporation; and other corrupt public officials who suppressed Falun Gong, are serving prison sentences for corruption and various other charges.

Ms. Chow also said that Falun Gong is practiced by 100 million people all over the world. It has improved people’s health and morality and has been praised by politicians in many countries.

According to statistics from the Minghui.org website, in 2021, Falun Gong spread to more than 100 countries around the world and received more than 5,400 awards, proposals, and letters of support from governments around the globe.

About Falun Gong

Falun Gong is a spiritual practice introduced by its founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, in China in 1992. It includes five qigong exercises (including meditation) and guides practitioners to improve their character by following three tenets of the belief: truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. According to the CCP’s internal statistics, the number of Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China reached 70 to 100 million in 1999.

Former CCP leader Jiang Zemin and others launched a political campaign to persecute Falun Gong in 1999 and staged the “Tiananmen Square Self-immolation” case to slander Falun Gong. The CCP’s organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners has also been exposed internationally. United Nations human rights experts and parliaments of many countries have issued statements calling for investigations.