Two Offenders Receive Prison Terms for Train Derailment AttemptsDou Zhenyang, was sentenced to life imprisonment Sunday, by the Intermediate People's Court of Fushun City in northeast China's Liaoning Province, for sabotaging communications devices and other crimes, and Wang Hongjun was sentenced 13 years imprisonment for the same crimes.Court investigations indicated that the two offenders made a telephone call to the Mayor's Hot line of Fushun City, asking for immediate release of detained Falun Gong practitioners who attended illegal gatherings. They claimed that if those people were not released, they would "derail passenger trains between Fushun and Beijing." After their threats failed, the two offenders placed two specially made roadblocks on the railway on the night of January 19. The driver of a passenger train from Jilin to Tianjin saw the roadblocks and urgently applied the brakes. The train slowed down and collided with the roadblocks. Some parts of the train were damaged and railway traffic was suspended for 12 minutes. Four days later, the two offenders placed roadblocks on the railway again and this time, a train was damaged in parts and the normal operation of the railway was stopped for one hour. The two criminals were also involved in printing and spreading Falun Gong leaflets. |
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