(Clearwisdom.net)
Xu Zhiguang was a graduate student of the 1999 class, studying to receive his doctorate degree in the Department of Precision Instruments and Machinery in Qinghua University. He was the winner of top scholarships and was once the chairman of the Student Association of Science and Technology. Having graduated from his undergraduate courses, he was exempted from examination and proceeded to specialize as a doctoral student.
On July 25, 1999, Xu Zhiguang was unreasonably detained for one day by the Beijing City Public Security Department when he went to appeal and explain facts about Falun Gong. In October 1999, he was sent home for six weeks for being steadfast in his belief in Falun Gong. He was instructed that he could not return to his university unless he was willing to abandon his belief in Falun Gong. In June 2000, he was informed that he was to be immediately suspended or expelled from the university if he made any further attempt to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. In April 2001, the university officials sent him to a brainwashing center against his will, and subsequently expelled him from the university. He lost his state housing and became homeless.
In April 2002, Xu Zhiguang was arrested in an internet cafe and sent to a brainwashing center known as the " Training Center of Law of Beijing," where he was detained for 6 months. After that, he was sent to the Tuanhe Labor Camp in Beijing for forced brainwashing. He had been detained in many places before he was finally sent to the Detention Center of Haidian District Branch Police Department in Beijing. Around May 2003, Xu Zhiguang was secretly sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment in the Haidian district court. He was continually held in the Haidian District Detention Center after receiving the unlawful sentence. Not long after that he fell seriously ill and was in critical condition. The authorities sent him to the hospital for urgent treatment. He was finally released on January 20, 2004, because of his poor physical condition, as the authorities did not want to take responsibility should he die while in detention.
