(Clearwisdom.net) There are many colleges and universities in Beijing. Since July 1999, Jiang Zemin paid great attention to the persecution of Falun Gong at Beijing's colleges and universities. Li Lanqing personally inspected Tsinghua University to deal with the so-called "Falun Gong issue." The Jiang regime created a "610 Office" at the Education Department of Beijing to focus on the persecution of Falun Gong. Through the heads of the party committee of each school, the "610 Office" coerced each school to force its faculty members and students who practice Falun Gong to stop practicing. Each school was required to report those who refused to give up their practice and force them to attend the notorious "Beijing Law Education Center" in Tuanhe for closed-door brainwashing. In addition, a fee of 5,000 yuan was collected for each. The practitioners were forced to watch videos and read books defaming Falun Gong. Those insisting on their belief after repeated brainwashing attempts were sent to forced labor camps. The "610 Office" of the Education Department in Beijing persecuted a large number of practitioners who insisted on believing in "Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance).
In the brainwashing class, the "610 Office" orders the schools to send their own personnel to closely monitor Falun Gong practitioners one on one, 24 hours a day. They do not allow practitioners to study the teachings of Falun Dafa or practice the exercises, nor do they permit practitioners to make phone calls. They had to report to the "610 Office" each day. In addition, the security guards violently "escorted" practitioners from their barracks to the brainwashing class in Tuanhe each morning and back again in the evening. Each evening, the school must assigned personnel to monitor practitioners. There were also security guards on night duty to prevent the practitioners from escaping. There were guards who patrolled inside and outside the building.
The following describes the persecution of the faculty, students and alumni at some of the colleges and universities in Beijing:
China Xiehe Medical University
* Dan Ling, an associate professor in the Basic
Science Institute, China Xiehe Medical University had been awarded the title
"Excellent Teacher" for many years. She was removed from her position by the
school in July 1999. In 1998, eleven experts including Dan Ling from China Xiehe
Medical University units surveyed 12,731 Beijing Falun Gong practitioners. The
result showed that the general efficiency of Falun Gong's healing was 99.1%.
This survey was "The Survey Report Based on 10,000 Cases in Beijing Regarding
the Efficacy of Falun Gong's Fitness Effects." On October 13, 1999, Dan Ling was
arrested and taken to the No. 14 Division of Beijing Public Security Bureau.
Later on she was forced to leave her home. In August 2002, Dan Ling was arrested
in Fujian province and sent back to Beijing. Her current whereabouts are
unknown.
* Mr. Lin Chengtao, 37 years old, was an assistant research scientist at the Institute of Fundamental Medicine, China Xiehe Medical University. He was an important figure in the US-China research project. He was a good and decent person who always worked very hard. This young scholar was severely persecuted in Tuanhe Labor Camp for upholding his belief in Falun Gong.
He was abducted and sent to the No.2 unit of Tuanhe Labor Camp in October 2001. He immediately faced inhumane torture such as sleep deprivation and other physical punishments. After a long period of torture by the police, he seemed distant all the time and would not speak a single word. At the end of 2001, his wife (a music teacher in No.1 middle school of Beijing) was brainwashed in the Xin'an Labor Camp, and she turned against her belief in Falun Dafa. She sent letters suggesting that the leaders in Tuanhe Labor Camp adopt the methods used in the Women's Labor Camp, including electric shock, physical punishment, psychological abuse and sleep deprivation to force Lin to give up his belief. The police then forced Lin to read his wife's letter over and over again. Finally, Lin could not take such mental stress, and rushed into the hallway, shouting loudly. Since then, his mental condition has remained severely damaged. Even so, the perpetrators of the No.2 unit sent him to the West Building of Tuanhe Labor Camp to suffer even worse torture and humiliation.
Lin Chengtao started practicing Falun Dafa in 1993. In just a few days, he
recovered from severe gastric and liver disease. From then on he persisted in
his practice of Dafa. Lin Chengtao participated in investigating and writing
"The Survey Report Based on 10,000 Cases in Beijing Regarding the Efficacy of
Falun Gong's Fitness Effects."
* Liu Xiao was an assistant professor in the
Basic Science Institute at the China Xiehe Medical University. Together with Lin
Chengtao, he participated in writing "The Survey Report Based on 10,000 Cases in
Beijing Regarding the Efficacy of Falun Gong's Fitness Effects." At the
beginning of the persecution, he was forced out of his teaching position. On
October 13, 1999, he was arrested together with Lin Chengtao and sent to the No.
14 Division of the Beijing Public Security Bureau. In September 2001 he was
arrested and detained at the Tuanhe Labor Camp with a term of one and half
years. After being brainwashed and tortured in the Tuanhe Labor Camp, he
suffered a mental collapse. The policemen were afraid to bear responsibility for
persecuting him, so they claimed that he feigned his condition assigned people
to monitor him. His wife was a doctor who worked for the General Hospital of the
Armed Police. Because of her determination in practicing Falun Gong, she was
dismissed from the Armed Police in 2001.
* Ms. Zhang Jingchun was a technician in the Basic Science Institute, China Xiehe Medical University. Because of her determination in practicing Falun Gong, she was dismissed from the school without explanation in 1999.
* Mr. Wang Feng was a graduate student in the Basic Science Institute, China Xiehe Medical University. In September 2000, he was arrested in Tianjin railway station because he was found with Falun Gong materials inside his bag, and his whereabouts are unknown.
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing University of Technology created the Falun Gong Committee and claimed that everyone had to pass the test, and all Falun Gong practitioners had to make statements. The followings are some cases of persecution.
* Mr. Huang Yongchang was an associate professor
from the Physics Department of Beijing Industrial University. On July 19, 2000,
he and Mr. Shao Mingheng from the Materials Department were arrested while
exchanging experiences with practitioners from other places. It was said that
they were detained in the Third Detention Center of Beijing. On May 24, 2001
Huang Yongchang was arrested again and detained in the third "transformation
class" in the Beijing area. He suffers from brainwashing and persecution.
* Ms. Zhang Huirong is over 30 years old and was
an excellent young teacher from the Engineering College of Beijing University of
Technology. In 2000 her workplace gave out apartments. Thinking of her fellow
teachers, she gave up the apartment that was given to her. In the first semester
of 2001 she taught three or four courses, which had the heaviest workload, but
she had no post (they wouldn't give her a position due to her belief). Around
April or May 2001, she was forced to leave her home because of the persecution.
One day in June when she met her husband at a hotel, she was arrested and sent
to the Tuanhe brainwashing class. Because she refused to be transformed, she was
sentenced to one and a half years of labor re-education and detained in the
Women's Labor Camp located in Daxing county of Beijing City (formerly the
Tiantang Labor Camp, Xin'an Labor Camp). She was persecuted and suffered a
mental collapse and sent to Unit No.4. The leader of Unit No.4, Li Jirong,
regarded her as someone who was intentionally making trouble, and allowed the
perpetrators to beat and abuse her for several months. She was forced to squat
behind the door, suffering beating and kicking. Her body became black and blue
and she was nothing but skin and bones.
* Ms. Xu Xiuling, was a teacher from the
Environmental Chemistry Institute of the Beijing University of Technology.
Because of her determination in Falun Gong, she was sent to the forced labor
camp in 2001. She was very steadfast in the brainwashing class.
* Ms. Zhuang Yanhong was 46 years old and held a
Master's degree. She was a teacher of the Human Sciences Institute of Beijing
University of Technology. In March 1994 she began practicing Falun Dafa. After
the persecution began on July 20, 1999 she persisted in Dafa practice and
clarified the truth about Dafa to the government and various people. She was
illegally detained five times and suffered cruel torture. In January 2002,
Zhuang Yanhong was sent to "the Legal Training Center" in the Beijing Public
Security Bureau where the perpetrators took turns verbally abusing, threatening,
humiliating and otherwise tormenting her. She was also detained in solitary
confinement for a long time.
* Ms. Ren Guoxian graduated from the Beijing
University of Technology. Although she successfully passed her Master's degree
thesis defense, the school did not grant her a Master's degree because she
refused to write the guarantee letter required by the university. Later, she got
a job and was eventually fired because of her determination in practicing Dafa.
Ren Guoxian has gone to appeal to the State Appeal Office many times. During the
period of the two meetings (the meetings of the National People's Congress and
the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress) in 2000, she and two
other practitioners walked into a Beijing restaurant and delivered a petition
letter to the deputies of the National People's Congress. The police detained
her and sent her back to the university authorities. Around May or June 2000,
she went to appeal on Tiananmen Square twice. The first time, she was detained
for half a month and released. In mid September 2000, she was arrested in the
Fangshan district of Beijing when handing out Dafa materials and was sentenced
to one year in a labor camp.
* Ms. Li Fengqin, about 50 years old, worked in the Property Management Division of the Beijing University of Technology. In January 1993, she began practicing Falun Gong. On the eve of the Spring Festival of 2000, Li Fengqin was arrested by plainclothes police when she was taking pictures on Tiananmen Square. She was sent to the Tiananmen Police Branch office and suffered interrogation and beating. Afterwards, she was taken back to the local police station. In the police station she was locked up in a metal cage. On February 24th she was released. In the same year she was arrested again from her home.
Beijing University
* Mr. Miao Naiyi was a graduate student from the
class of 1998 of the Department of Earth and Physics of Beijing University. In
early 2000, he was frequently taken away for interrogation due to his practicing
Falun Gong. In March 2000, he was detained for a month because he went to
clarify the truth about Falun Gong to the People's Congress. Later, the school
suspended him from school for half a year. In September 2000, because he put up
posters revealing the truth about Jiang inside the university, he was detained
for another month. In mid December, he was arrested because he went to Tiananmen
Square to appeal. His current whereabouts are unknown.
* Ms. Cheng Xulin is 50 years old. She was the
former deputy director of the Training Department of Qingniao Corporation of
Beijing University. In September 1999, she was arrested when she went to file an
appeal at the Appeal Office. Afterwards, she was sent back to the school
security department. When she again went to appeal in October, she was sent back
in handcuffs. On December 26,1999 she was arrested when she attended a trial of
Falun Gong practitioners in the intermediate-court. Later on she was released.
In April 2000, she twice went to appeal on Tiananmen Square and was arrested and
detained for a month. She was forced to quit the Party and retire. At the same
time her house was ransacked.
* Mr. Zhou Li, 29 years old, earned a Master's
degree from the Biology Department of Beijing University. In August 2001, he was
arrested by the police from Shijiazhuang city and illegally detained at the No.
1 detention center in Shijiazhuang city for several months. Later, he was
released on bail for medical treatment. In mid November 2002, he was again
arrested from his residence in Taiyuan city, Shanxi province.
* Ms. Dong Wenhua was a staff member at Beijing
University. On July 21 and 22 of 1999, she went to appeal at Fuyou street and
was detained for 24 hours.
* Mr. Luo Xiang, 28 years old, was a Ph D
student from the class of 1998 of the Philosophy Department of Beijing
University. On January 15, 2000, because of practicing the group exercises at a
practice site, the Beijing Public Security Bureau interrogated him. The school
pressured him to write a pledge; otherwise, he would be dismissed. On March 15,
2000, he was detained after he went to the Appeal Office to clarify the truth
about Dafa. He was later escorted back by the school. On June 15, 2000, he went
to Tiananmen Square and was beaten after he opened a banner reading "Falun Dafa
- Truth, Compassion, Forbearance". He was later released. In the beginning of
2001, he was arrested because he helped Falun Gong practitioners from other
locations. He was detained in Tuanhe Labor Camp and sentenced to one and a half
years of labor reeducation in March 2001.
* Ms. Li Zhangjin, 52 years old, was a senior
engineer of the Qingniao Corporation of Beijing University. She was forced to
quit the Party and retire. On December 26, 1999, she was detained for one day
because she attended a trial in the intermediate-court. On April 13, 2000, she
was detained because of going to appeal on Tiananmen Square. On April 17, she
was forcibly taken away from home to the Yanyuan police station and detained for
24 hours. On the evening of July 19, under the pretense of "talking to her", the
police from the Yanyuan police station tricked her into going to the school
security department. The City's Public Security Bureau then took her away. She
was released after being detained in the "Bomb Bureau" for a week. Before the
Spring Festival of 2001, she was arrested because of going to the home of a
Falun Gong practitioner. In April 2001, she was forcibly "brainwashed" for one
month. Afterwards she was forced to leave her home to avoid the persecution. In
November 2001, the No. 14 Division of Beijing Public Security Bureau arrested
her and ransacked her temporary residence with a charge of "'illegally gathering
and organizing communications". In October 2001, she was sentenced to one and a
half years of labor reeducation and detained in Beijing Women's Labor Camp.
* Mr. Ma Ang, 30 years old, was a graduate student of Telecommunications Department of Beijing University. In October 1999, he was arrested for reading a Falun Gong book on Tiananmen Square. He was dismissed by his workplace. He was forced to leave home to avoid the persecution. Later on he was sentenced to an undisclosed labor camp term.
* Miss. Qi Jiangli, 23 years old, was a student
of Psychology Department of Beijing University. She got her bachelor's degree in
1999 and soon after entered the Master's program. In 1999, she graduated with
honors from Beijing University and was accepted by the graduate program without
having to go through any entrance exams. In September 1999, she went to appeal
to the Appeal Office and was escorted back to the school security department. In
the same month, she was arrested when sharing experiences with other
practitioners in Tsinghua University. She was again sent to the school security
department and interrogated. In December, she was escorted back while attending
a trial in the intermediate court. The department staff tried to persuade her to
stop practicing Falun Gong several times. But because of her determination in
Falun Gong, she was disqualified from the scholarship.
* Miss. Sui Xiaoshuang, 23 years old, was a
student of the Psychology Department of Beijing University. She got her
bachelor's degree in 1999 and then entered the Master's program. Due to her
outstanding academic record, she was accepted by the graduate program without
having to take any entrance exams. She was arrested for appealing to the
People's Congress during the 1999 session and was sent back to the school
security department. The department staff also tried to persuade her to stop
practicing Falun Gong several times. But because of her determination in Falun
Gong, she was disqualified from the scholarship.
* Ms. Wang Suyun, 57 years old, was a retired
librarian at Beijing University. On December 26,1999, she was detained for 48
hours because she attended a trial in the intermediate court. She was again
detained for one day because she appealed to the State Appeal Office during the
congress session in March 2000. On April 13, 2000 she was beaten and detained
until midnight because of going to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong. On
April 17, she was forcibly taken away from her home by police from the Yanyuan
Police Branch and detained for 24 hours. On October 6, she was arrested on
Tiananmen Square for no reason and was detained for one day. On December 28, she
was detained for 12 hours when she was applying for a new resident ID, and later
sent to the Qinghe Detention Center. She was released when the physical exam for
the detention process showed that she had high blood pressure.
* Fang Ciqing was detained for 48 hours because of attending a trial in the intermediate-court on December 26, 1999.
£Mr. Wang Huancheng, 24 years old, was a graduate student from the class of
1998 of the Life & Science College of Beijing University. On October 29,1999, he
was tricked into going to the Tiananmen Police Branch and detained because of
going to appeal during the congress session. On December 26, 1999, he was
stopped while on his way to attend a trial in the intermediate-court and sent to
the Police Branch. After being sent back, he was interrogated. His department
tried to pressure him several times. They tried to convince him to write a
pledge to not contact other practitioners, otherwise, they would dismiss him.
Because of his determination in cultivation, he was deprived of the right to
pursue a PhD after he got his Master's degree.
* Ms. Xue Weiwei, 31 years old, was a PhD
student from the class of 1998 of the Remote Sensory Institute of Beijing
University. On April 13, 2000, she and her husband went to Tiananmen Square to
clarify the truth about Falun Gong. After being arrested, she was sent back to
her hometown, Jinan, and was detained for four months. She was not allowed to
leave her room for the first three months (she was pregnant at that time). She
was fired from her job with the army and dismissed from the Party. Later,
Beijing University also dismissed her from the PhD program.
* Ms. Yang Fengling, 64 years old, was a former
senior chemist at the Department of Applied Physics of Beijing University. On
July 21 and 22, 1999, she was illegally detained for 24 hours because she went
to appeal at Fuyou Street. On December 12, 2000, she was detained for 14 days
due to her appealing on Tiananmen Square. She went on a hunger strike and
refused to drink water for 5 days, suffering from police beatings.
* Ms. Yuan Lin, about 50 years old, was a
teacher at Beijing University. She was sentenced to seven years in prison
because of her belief in Falun Gong. On October 26, 1999, she was detained for
twelve hours because she appealed by doing Falun Gong exercises on Tiananmen
Square. In January 2000 she was arrested for practicing the Falun Gong exercises
at a practice site. She was later detained at the Haidian Police Branch for
thirteen days. After she was released, her workplace told her that she could not
work until she gave up Falun Gong. They also stopped paying her salary as of the
beginning of June. On April 25, 2000, she was arrested for appealing on
Tiananmen Square and her house was ransacked, then she was sent to the "Bomb
Bureau" and was detained there for thirty days. During the detention, she was
handcuffed with her hands behind her back, for having practiced the Falun Gong
exercises. Afterward, she was dismissed from the Party. In early 2002, Yuan Lin
was detained in the No.3 Division of the Women's Prison. Police Tian Fengqing
ordered prisoners to "transform" Yuan Lin and forced her to give up her belief
in " Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance". Yuan Lin was very determined in her
belief in Falun Gong. As a result of severe torture, she was deaf in one ear and
many wounds covered her body. What's more cruel was that after forcing her to
double cross her legs in the meditation position, they tied her legs up for
eighteen hours so that her legs could not move, during which time she could not
use the toilet or drink water. They even stepped on her neck and pressed her
body down. They forced her to face the wall and spread her legs apart. Two
people would ride on her shoulders so that her legs were split wide into a
position almost parallel to the ground. Yuan Lin went on a hunger strike to
protest the cruel abuse. The police carried out brutal force-feeding and
tortured her even further.
* Ms. Zhang Qiuyu, 62 years old, was a senior teacher. On April 13, 2000 she was detained for two days due to her appealing on Tiananmen Square. On December 12, 2000, she was again detained for two days for appealing on Tiananmen Square.
* Prof. Quan Gaoxi, 69 years old, was a former associate professor of the Biology Department of Beijing University. He was illegally detained for one month. In January 2002 he was sentenced to one and half years of labor reeducation and detained in Tuanhe Labor Camp of Beijing.
* Ms. Duan Hongxia, 33 years old, was an employee at Beijing University's Fangzheng Company. In June 2000, she was arrested because she unfurled a banner on Tiananmen Square, and detained in Qinghe detention center for one month. On the night of November seventh or eighth, police stepped into her home and took her away after ransacking the house and detained her for 12 hours. In July 2002, she was sentenced to one and half years of labor reeducation.
* Ms. Liang Fenghua, 51 years old, was a retired worker at Post Office of Beijing University. On January 22, 2001, at 8 o'clock (before the Eve of Spring Festival), she was taken away from her home by two policemen from the Qinglongqiao police station. It is said that she was detained in the Qinghe detention center.
* Mr. Cao was an employee of the Publishing
Department of Beijing University. He was detained for over ten days because he
practiced Falun Gong outdoors in September 1999.
* Ms. Jin Ying, 31 years old, was a relative of
an employee. On February 4, 2000 she was illegally detained for two days due to
her appealing on Tiananmen Square. On March 5, 2000, she was again detained for
two days due to her appealing on Tiananmen Square. In March 2000, she practiced
Falun Gong exercise at a practice site, and she was tricked into the police
station and detained there. On April 13, 2000 she was detained for 30 days
because of appealing on Tiananmen Square. While being detained, she suffered
various forms of physical abuse, as the police ordered the prisoners to beat
her.
* Ms. Wu Yunying, 58 years old, was a senior teacher. She was detained for 40 days for appealing on Tiananmen Square on February 4, 2000.
* Ms. Liu Julian, 59 years old, was the relative of an employee. She was detained for 2 days due to her appealing on Tiananmen Square on February 4, 2000. On December 12, 2000, she was arrested and taken away by the police from Zhejiang province because she appealed on Tiananmen Square. Her current whereabouts are unknown.
* Ms. Zhao Ruiyu, 24 years old, was a student
from the class of 1995 of the Department of Asian Language Study of Beijing
University. After graduation, she returned to her hometown. Between September
and October of 1999, she and her mother went to Beijing to appeal and were
arrested at the railway station. Her mother was detained. At the end of October,
she went to Beijing, this time alone. In December, she was arrested while
attending a trial in the intermediate court. In April 2000, she went to appeal
on Tiananmen Square and was escorted back to her hometown. She was detained for
a month and forced to work during her detention.
* Mr. Liu Baoqun, about 28 years old, graduated
from Beijing University. In June 2001 he was abducted by police from Fangcun
Police Station in Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, and forced to attend a
brainwashing class. Only 10 days after being released from the brainwashing
class, he was arrested again in Beijing. Later on he was sentenced to three
years of labor reeducation. He was detained on the No. 1 team, No. 3 group of
Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp.
* Ms. Wang Yue, over 40 years old, graduated
from the Philosophy Department of Beijing University. She worked as editor in
the Renmin Publishing Department. Because she practiced Falun Gong, she was
tricked by her boss to attend the "transformation class", and was later forcibly
sent to the No.7 Division of the Beijing Public Security Bureau.
* Ms. Li Jie, 29 years old, graduated from Beijing University. On October 12, 2000, she was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment by the Beijing Xicheng Court.
* Ms. Jin Xianghua, 26 years old, graduated from the Mathematics Department of Beijing University. She was beaten and shocked by Guo Yuxin and Liu Lianying from the Heizuizi Labor Camp of Changchun city, Jilin province. She was tortured severely, and as a result she became thin and pale. She was later released on bail for medical treatment.
* Ms. Qiu Yanyan, 33 years old, graduated from
Beijing University in 1992. She can speak German, English and Urdu fluently. She
had excellent grades when she was studying at Beijing University. She currently
works at an import and export corporation. Qiu Yanyan started to practice Falun
Gong in 1998. In her work, she disciplines herself well with Falun Dafa
principles and seeks no fame or self-interest. Many times, she refused to accept
improper payments and bonuses. She is well known in her workplace for her high
degree of professional skill. At 2:00pm on February 4, 2004, when she was
preparing to come to the US on business, Qiu Yanyan was abducted at her
workplace by the Chaoyang Public Security Sub-Bureau in Beijing. Her home was
ransacked and her Falun Gong books and audiotapes, computer, printer and
passports were confiscated. Qiu Yanyan was detained in the detention center of
Chaoyang Public Security Sub-Bureau in Beijing. On March 26, 2004, she was
sentenced to two years of labor reeducation.
(To be continued)
