2002年3月5日19時許,像往常一樣,長春市許多家庭圍坐在電視機前,收看中央電視臺的新聞節(jié)目。19時19分左右,一些觀眾驚訝地發(fā)現(xiàn),電視信號突然中斷,幾秒鐘后,模模糊糊地出現(xiàn)了宣揚邪教“法輪功”的內容……
邪惡打破了寧靜、祥和的夜晚,群眾紛紛向“110”打電話報警……公安機關很快查明,這是由“法輪功”邪教組織策劃、教唆“法輪功”頑固分子精心組織實施的一起破壞有線電視傳輸網(wǎng)絡設施的重大惡性刑事案件。今天,長春市中級人民法院對這起破壞廣播電視設施,利用邪教組織破壞法律實施案進行一審公開宣判,依法分別判處周潤君、劉偉明、梁振興、劉成軍等15名被告人20年至4年不等的有期徒刑。
夜幕下的罪惡
3月5日晚,忙了一天的長春市廣播電視局局長劉樹清正準備下班回家。突然,值班室電話鈴聲大作,一個又一個群眾舉報:電視節(jié)目中出現(xiàn)了邪教“法輪功”非法宣傳內容。
劉樹清第一個反應就是迅速趕到位于廣電中心大樓20層的播控中心,沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)異常。劉樹清據(jù)此判斷,很可能是線路出現(xiàn)了問題。他馬上打電話通知長春市有線電視網(wǎng)絡公司,立即組織所有值班人員沿線巡查。
長春市有線電視網(wǎng)絡公司從群眾舉報的情況分析,問題可能出現(xiàn)在有線電視信號輸出的主干線上,他們馬上布置工作人員分赴各區(qū),沿主干線展開拉網(wǎng)式巡查。
20時左右,長春市有線電視網(wǎng)絡公司副總經(jīng)理劉文祥等人巡查到南關區(qū)凈月胡同附近時,發(fā)現(xiàn)一個黑影正從前方的電線桿上往下爬,另一個黑影在接應??吹窖膊槿藛T后,兩人迅速向附近的居民區(qū)逃離。巡查人員立即追上前,合力將企圖逃跑的一個“小個子”制服,另外一個“瘦高個”則趁亂逃脫。巡查人員隨后拆下了掛接在有線電視傳輸線上的小型播放裝置,并向公安機關報警。清明街派出所民警很快將抓獲的這名破壞分子帶回所里。
半個小時后,巡查人員又在長春大街吉林省國稅局南側發(fā)現(xiàn)第二處破壞點,立即拆除了破壞分子加掛的播放設備。為了終止邪教“法輪功”非法宣傳內容的播出,網(wǎng)絡公司人員摸黑對全市的網(wǎng)絡主干線逐點巡查。20時50分左右,長春市全面恢復了電視信號的傳輸,市民可以正常收看電視節(jié)目了。
但是,許多群眾的正常生活秩序被打亂、合法權益受到侵害。公安機關查實,長春市有線電視自3月5日晚19時19分起,由于兩處電纜主干線被割斷,全市有4個城區(qū)的部分居民無法正常收看32個頻道的有線電視節(jié)目,尤其令人氣憤的是,有相當數(shù)量的用戶接收到了“法輪功”邪教的宣傳內容。在這期間,僅長春市公安局的“110”指揮中心接到的此類報警電話就達2000多次,廣大群眾對“法輪功”的違法犯罪活動十分反感和痛恨。家住南關區(qū)平治小區(qū)的街道干部王桂蘭回憶說:“當時我和兒媳婦吃完晚飯正在看電視,突然里面出現(xiàn)了宣揚‘法輪功’的鏡頭。我們實在看不下去了,只好把電視機關上了?!?
3月5日晚,吉林省松原市前郭縣也出現(xiàn)了破壞有線電視網(wǎng)絡、插播邪教宣傳片的情況,造成全縣有線電視停播210分鐘。
精心策劃的陰謀
經(jīng)公安機關審理,這名犯罪嫌疑人很快交代了自己的身份和有關犯罪事實。雷明,男,26歲,吉林省白山市人,“法輪功”頑固分子。根據(jù)交代的情況,公安機關一舉破獲了周潤君(化名周姨)、劉成軍(化名田力)、梁振興(化名小鄭)、劉偉明(化名小文)等10多名“法輪功”頑固分子精心策劃的這起案件。
參與這起案件的“法輪功”分子交代,他們破壞有線電視網(wǎng)絡設施,非法宣揚邪教的“靈感”,源自李洪志及邪教“法輪功”在境外的傳授。2002年1月,52歲的“法輪功”頑固分子周潤君和從“明慧網(wǎng)”上看到利用有線電視網(wǎng)絡進行非法宣傳介紹的梁振興,萌生了作案動機。他們分別找到當?shù)亍胺ㄝ喒Α鳖B固分子劉成軍和劉偉明,幾人一拍即合,緊鑼密鼓地密謀實施。
劉偉明在長春市某電子有限責任公司工作,對有線電視傳輸技術“輕車熟路”,是團伙中最懂技術的“功友”。梁振興則有一定的資金保障,他提供了1萬多元人民幣,購買了大量播放“法輪功”光碟的作案工具。此后,周潤君、梁振興又網(wǎng)羅了劉成軍、云慶彬、雷明、趙健、張聞等10多名“法輪功”頑固分子加入到這一團伙中來。
此后的兩個多月時間里,周潤君等人以長春市寬城區(qū)一處租住房為窩點,多次密謀。劉偉明負責插播“法輪功”光碟的技術培訓,梁振興負責召集人員、資金籌措,周潤君作為“后勤部長”,分管采購、做飯,劉成軍則分管“人員調度”等具體工作。通過一段時間的“集訓”,團伙中的大多數(shù)人掌握了利用有線電視網(wǎng)絡播放“法輪功”光碟的技能,然后購買了VCD機、分支放大器、腳扣子、電工刀等作案工具。張聞等人繪制了有線電視主干線剖面圖、相關安裝步驟圖,并自制了4臺播放設備。
一切準備就緒,罪惡的活動悄悄展開了。3月5日19時許,根據(jù)分工和事先“踩點”,張聞、雷明等7人攜帶一臺播放設備和作案工具,來到長春市南關區(qū)的凈月胡同附近。張聞爬上一架電線桿,割斷了主干線電纜,安裝并接通了裝有“法輪功”內容光碟的播放設備,其他人負責接應和望風。與此同時,周潤君、劉偉明等人攜帶作案設備及工具,割斷了吉林省國稅局附近的主干線電纜,插播了同樣的“法輪功”宣傳片。
當天上午,劉成軍帶領李德海等4人,利用同樣的方法,在吉林省松原市進行了犯罪活動,造成嚴重后果。
長春警方向記者介紹說,周潤君等人預謀犯罪已久。案發(fā)前,他們曾派人去吉林省延吉市、吉林市和通化市“踩點”,計劃進行破壞活動,但因條件不具備而未得逞。
劉偉明在第一次抓捕漏網(wǎng)后,又與他人密謀,計劃利用“明慧網(wǎng)”提供的無線發(fā)射裝置技術,購置1000套設備,將“法輪功”邪教宣傳片“推廣”到全國各地,幸被警方及時抓獲。
正義的審判
多行不義必自斃。今天,長春市中級人民法院對此案作出一審判決,周潤君等15名涉案成員受到了應有的法律制裁。
這是一次正義的審判。宣判結束后,在場旁聽的群眾拍手稱快。一位姓張的退休干部激動地說:“以前我認為‘法輪功’是邪教,但總覺得與我關系不大,這次事件直接影響到了大家的現(xiàn)實生活?!ㄝ喒Α媸窃絹碓讲?,再不嚴懲,后果不堪設想!”
與這位老干部一樣,許多群眾對“3·05”案件的犯罪活動表示強烈的憤慨。家住長春市吉港小區(qū)的程艷華女士說:“‘法輪功’可真夠邪的,殺人、自焚,現(xiàn)在連有線電視都敢破壞,他們還有什么事做不出來。以前總感覺‘法輪功’是沖政府去的,現(xiàn)在看來更是沖著咱老百姓的。對他們依法審判真是大快人心!”
東北師范大學法律系副教授賈國發(fā)一直在現(xiàn)場旁聽了整個審判過程。他說,這起案件對國家公共安全和社會秩序造成了嚴重影響。法庭判定他們有罪,是因為他們的行為觸犯了刑法。涉案人員均對犯罪事實沒有異議,整個公開庭審事實清楚,證據(jù)充分,適用法律恰當,審判結果是公正的。
吉林大學法學院教授、博士生導師李潔說:“依照刑法的有關規(guī)定,破壞廣播電視設施等公用設備,應依法懲處。世界各國對于破壞國家公共設施的犯罪行為都會依照法律嚴厲打擊。”
在庭審期間,有的涉案人員對自己所犯罪行感到深深的自責。31歲的被告人李曉杰與本案主犯之一劉偉明是夫妻。提起他們給國家和人民帶來的嚴重損失、自己原本幸福的家庭付出的沉重代價,她泣不成聲。但由于這些涉案人員受“法輪功”毒害太深,有的人仍然冥頑不化,一些人在法庭上仍癡迷“法輪功”歪理邪說。
法庭嚴格遵照法律規(guī)定,庭審中給予被告人充分的辯護、陳述、舉證等法律賦予的權利。在依法給予懲處的同時,法庭奉勸他們早日脫離邪教,重新做人。在征得涉案人員同意的情況下,法庭或者家屬為他們指定或聘請了辯護律師。庭審期間,涉案人員與律師發(fā)表了辯護意見。
宣判結束以后,許多參加旁聽的群眾議論紛紛。他們說,一段時間以來,“法輪功”分子從涂寫標語、散發(fā)傳單,到不斷地打騷擾電話、郵寄非法光盤,甚至破壞廣播電視設施,對國家安全、社會穩(wěn)定和群眾的合法權益均構成了嚴重的危害。玩火者必自焚!如果仍然與社會和人民為敵,最終只能是自食其果,等待他們的將是法律的嚴懲!
(新華社長春9月20日電)
Falun Gong saboteurs nabbed in Jilin
March 5 saw TV transmission lines broke down, linkages were wrecked in Changchun City and Songyuan, Jilin. A most monstrous thing is that some TV transmission trunk lines were totally cut and these instead of normal TV relaying had even been set to transmitting illegal printed matters turning out to be the evil doings of Falun Gong diehards in Changchun and Qianguo County.
Investigations pinpoint the clandestine crimes of Falun Gong saboteurs. Early back in December 2001, Falun Gong diehards Liang Zhenxing, Zhou Runjun, Zhao Jian and their company schemed to use TV transmission lines to go in for their activities of cultic agitprop.
Early January this year saw Liang Zhenxing with Falun Gong core elements Liu Chengjun and Yun Qingbin began their rendezvous with various plots hatched in a storeroom rent on Huanghe Street. Replacing this was then a new secret rendezvous to hide out in a residential quarter in Tiebei, Changchun City, to include 18 more of the same batch including Lei Ming and Zhuang Xiankun with schemes plotted.
Liang Zhenxing then with a sum of 11,000 yuan all on his own provided himself and his band with every agitprop, had written instructions ready, and with a training course set up, went on tests publicizing their cult. Meanwhile, Liu Chengjun and others had for many times been to Changchun, Jilin, Yanji and Tonghua to make things sure to translate their crimes into practice.
March 4: Zhou Runjun learned that Changchun Nanguan Court was going to hold court to look into Falun Gong elements' crimes. Zhou with Liu Chengjun along with 18 others including Zhao Jian, Lei Ming and Zhuang Xian, all out of their rendezvous, set about their crimes in sabotaging TV transmission lines, relaying their cultic printed material...
Falun Gong diehards' sabotage fully points to the anti-human and anti-social heretic nature. There will be no way for the saboteurs to excuse themselves from being severely punished by law for their crimes committed.
(People's Daily, April 2, 2002)
Cult members sentenced for cable TV hijacking
Fifteen Falun Gong cult followers were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 4 to 20 years by the Intermediate People's Court of Changchun City, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, on Friday.
The Falun Gong cult followers were convicted of damaging radio and TV property, and of conspiring to use the cult to undermine Chinese law enforcement earlier this year.
Those sentenced were Zhou Runjun, Liang Zhenxing, Liu Chengjun, Liu Weiming, Lei Ming, Zhao Jian, Yun Qingbin, Zhang Wen, Sun Changjun, Li Dehai, Liu Dong, Zhuang Xiankun, Wei Xiushan, Chen Yanmei and Li Xiaojie.
According to local public security authorities, at about 19:00 hours on March 5 this year, when residents in Changchun and Songyuan cities of the province were viewing regular TV programs, to their surprise, some Falun Gong devotees hijacked the cable TV transmission and broadcast a propaganda program for the evil cult through the use of their own small-sized broadcasting equipment.
Due to the hijacking, two trunk cables of the cable TV transmission network in Changchun were cut off, and subscribers to the network in four districts of the city could not watch cable TV programs as usual. The hijacking also resulted in the suspension of cable TV programs for 210 minutes and left 16,000 people affected by video and audio propaganda by the Falun Gong cult.
The perpetrators damaged TV broadcasting equipment that was under protection of State laws and disrupted the public order of society in a serious way.
According to a police officer named Li Shichang from the municipal Public Security Bureau of Changchun, the Falun Gong devotees involved in the TV hijacking case, also dubbed the "March5 Case", were well-organized, and had financial support and relevant technology, with a clear division of labor. The investigation and ensuing confessions by the perpetrators eloquently showed that the carefully-hatched crime had been engineered by Falun Gong ringleader Li Hongzhi and the headquarters of the cult, and had also received technical guidance from the cult's website.
According to sources with local procuratorial authorities involved in the case, the suspects have violated the Clause One of Article 124 and Clause One under the Article 300 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, and they would be accused of sabotaging radio and TV broadcasting equipment and of negatively affecting law enforcement through organizing and utilizing cults.
(Xinhua, September 20, 2002)