Deputy Director of the Internal Mongolia Public Security Bureau was beaten and sentenced to death: the bed cage and procedural dispute

The late-night hospital emergency room, which was supposed to be a place of peace for the dead and wounded, was a suffocating scene.

One person suffering from severe coronary heart disease was lying in a bed with a fluid, and his heart was stifling and he was sweating. However, instead of providing basic medical and humanitarian care, the public security officers, who were former colleagues, forcibly uprooted the fluid dispenser in which he was dripping nitrate glycerine. Immediately thereafter, a cold, closed iron cage was installed on the bed, with iron locks being kept to death. The man was handcuffed and shackled, and spent 90 long and humiliating days in a cage like this.

His name is Guo Xiaoqiao, Deputy Director of the Darat public security bureau in the city of Ordos, Mongolia, and an old policeman from the police force for 30 years.

Is it because he committed a heinous crime that cannot be forgiven that he was locked in a cage in his bed by a deputy chief of the police who had been in service for years? Or is it because, in one late night, he was simply beaten by three strong men, in instinctively using his fist to defend himself?

13 minutes of terror outside the night ER

Time to call back the night of 26 June

1. While he was playing with his friends in KTV, he was beaten in the ear by the Wang army, which clashed with Wang Daejun and Zhang Xia, and was ready to return fire, and was stopped by his fellow police officer, Guo Xiaojun, who was injured in the head. Guo Xiaoqiao and others immediately accompanied Tinning to the emergency room of the Darat Flag People's Hospital. I'm not sure.

This was an ordinary dispute, but after two calls from Zhang Xia, it became a vicious violence. Zhang Xia, who felt he had been bullied, called the local gambling group organizers “long lives” twice and asked to bring someone “out of their breath”. The funeral was a long one, but he ordered Xu Boven, Pao Sung-glu and Tullyguer to drive to the hospital.

At 0021 hours on 27 June, the three strong men arrived at the emergency room door without any words or words, punching and kicking Guo Xiaoqiao and others, and their companion, Wu Hae-chung, was knocked out. In the face of sudden violence, Guo Xiaojun has spoken out “I am a police officer”, but the abuse has not stopped. When the other party was prevented from leaving, there was a renewed physical conflict between the parties.

Even more alarming, the head of the gambling ring “long-term” drove himself to the scene as the police officers arrived to dispose of it. Instead of calming the situation, he ran back inside, and then drove without a permit, deliberately hit the scene, the civilian police and Guo Xiaoqiao, among others, and fled. From the attack to the assault and then to the flight, the entire conflict lasted about 13 minutes, and public order in front of the hospital was completely violated.

After-action tests revealed that the perpetrator, Xu Boven, was slightly injured in the first category and was covered in the second in the second in the case of Shang Glu; The government has not yet been able to provide any information on the situation. It was also determined by the Scientific Institute of Forensics that Guo Xiaoqiao ' s fourth posse and neck had a complete fracture and that if it was found to have been caused by external force, it should be assessed as a minor injury to the second degree.

Paranoid sentence: Defence man sentenced, perpetrator light

However, this case, which was clear, monitored and corroborated by multiple witnesses, led to a false verdict in the first instance.

On 15 October 2024, the Ikinholo Flag People ' s Court handed down its first instance judgement: Guo Xiaoxiang was sentenced to eight months ' imprisonment for intentional assault, six months ' imprisonment for the offence of plagiarism, several counts of which were punished with a decision to execute one year ' s imprisonment and one year ' s six months ' probation.

Meanwhile, the head of the gambling ring, who organized the crime and drove himself into the crowd of civilian police and the crowd, “long lives”, was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for the crime of mob-fighting.

(a) An old policeman who returned fire during the night while being beaten up and was convicted of intentional assault and sedition; The ringleaders of the gambling ring, who gathered the batterers and drove the car into the crowd, were sentenced to only one year and two months. How can such a decision be convincing to the public? How can the words “fair justice” be met?

Guo Xiaojun appealed the judgement. His reasons were loud: he was beaten by three strong men in the middle of the night, his companion was knocked out, and the other was calling for help, and the temporary interruption of the assault did not end, and the defensive could not be sought from a “God's Perspective”; Two minor injury determination procedures and the existence of a double issue of entity cannot be relied upon by law; The first instance proceedings are serious violations, including the violation of the designated jurisdiction, the prosecution by the public prosecutor ' s office, which has no right to prosecute, and the trial in absentia, where the accused is not fully present.

The truth in the tape and the code of court

What is more chilling than the outcome of the judgement is the procedural disorder and power interference that was revealed behind the case.

The first-instance prosecutor, the General Prosecutor of the Ikinholo Flag People's Procuratorate, rarely told the truth in a recording: “In fact, I feel that the administrative penalty has been exceeded... The public order is going to take the case to the top... The most serious thing to blame is XXX.”

Even the public prosecutors consider that “administrative punishment has passed”, even if it is “most wrong”, why take the case to the top? Why should an old self-defence policeman be put on the stand?

In the second trial, there was also a surprising scene. According to the appellant, the second instance judge, Rui Guang, said to first instance judge Lee Jinju in the wine booth: “The case is to be upheld at the end of the trial. The blogger adds:

What is the meaning of the Tribunal if the verdict is pre-decided before the trial? Where is the dignity of the law?

The details of the trial are also constantly challenging the public's bottom line. (a) The right of Zhang Zhang Zhang An, an appealr of Mongolian nationality, to take proceedings in his own language, and the court hired an interpreter, but the translation of the entire trial did not translate a sentence; The prosecution read the words “control” in Guo's statement in the statement, and was subsequently replaced by the word “accusation” after the testimony; The presiding judge passed on the information to the prosecutor on his cell phone; Even three public security officers testified in court and were examined to prove that they had given false evidence, and the prosecution withdrew the evidence in court.

Even more painfully, in such a controversial trial, the appellant, Joo, had a heart attack and fell on the ground.

Neglected crashes and pending rights

There is also a key element of the trial that was deliberately overlooked: the long-term driving.

The testimony of three civilian police officers present at the scene confirmed that a white Ford suddenly ran over the civilian police and Guo Xiaoqiao and drove away; Another white mini SUV ran through the crowd. A white Land Cruiser hit the man in the middle of the road. However, the public security authorities considered that the person who was hit had caused damage to the mirrors of the vehicle, and that the vehicle had not been held up; The Public Prosecutor ' s Office found the facts of the crime but did not evaluate them; The court has not given a sentence for the conviction.

This “discovery without evaluation” practice effectively cuts the chain of self-defence. If long-term driving crashes are not recognized as armed crowds fighting, Guo's defensive actions lose the basis of legitimacy.

Furthermore, the Kombash Public Security Directorate illegally searched the houses of Guo Xiaoqiao and five of his relatives and friends outside the case, without searching the homes of the one of the perpetrators; (a) The lack of conformity of the subject of the public prosecutor in the first instance (reassignment); The investigation officers followed the hearing and added that the investigation was illegal and that the second trial was to be remanded in accordance with the law, in accordance with article 238 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Currently, the case is defended by a well-known lawyer, the Suh Yong-joon. The first session of the second trial was adjourned after a week, the case was postponed to the present day, and four court summonses were issued, the time being being adjusted. On the first day of the second trial, the appellants were not able to be present until 3:30 p.m.; The status of the appellant, Tinning, remains outstanding.

Why are we following the case of Joo-Chou?

The case of Guo Xiaoqiao has long exceeded the meaning of an ordinary criminal case.

It concerns the innocence of a police officer who has been in police custody for 30 years, the fall of the self-defence system in judicial practice, the bottom line of procedural justice, and, more importantly, the courage of every ordinary person to use his or her fists in self-defence in the face of an unlawful act.

What can a common man expect when he is in danger if he is sentenced to a penalty for a lifetime of fear of the law and for not having enforced it when he is beaten in the middle of the night? If the public prosecutor admits that the public security wants to take the case to the top, the judges say that “it will be maintained after the trial”, what can be done to guarantee the fairness of the law?

The cages on the bed of the sick are locked not only in the body but also in the public confidence in the justice of the justice system.

We call on all sectors of society to pay attention to the case of Guo Xiaojun and to the bottom line of procedural justice. We expect the court of second instance to be able to stand trial independently of the law, to rule out undue interference and to give a fair verdict that will stand the test of history to a policeman and to society as a whole.