During a defense hearing for his client, a Falun Gong adherent, lawyer Xie Yang was repeatedly interrupted by the judge and finally expelled from the court.
Immediately after he was driven from the Hui County courtroom in China’s Henan Province, he was arrested by local police. He was released later that night.
The incident, which occurred during the Feb. 17 trial of Falun Gong adherent Zhang Suqin, is a sign that the Chinese legal system is dead, Xie told The Epoch Times.
In China, Falun Gong adherents and their lawyers stand together against a system that no longer even makes a show of being legal….