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Chapter 4 Social and Economic Coercion
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4.1 PERSECUTIONS AGAINST FAMILY MEMBERS AND RELATIVES
4.2 SUSPENDED OR DISMISSED FROM WORK AND STUDY FOR CONTINUING PRACTICING FALUN GONG OR APPEALING FOR FALUN GONG
4.3 FINANCIAL PENALTIES
4.4 HUMILIATION DURING STREET PARADE
4.5 OTHER PERSECUTIONS/MISTREATMENT
4.1 PERSECUTIONS AGAINST FAMILY MEMBERS AND RELATIVES
4.1.1 Practitioners warned to receive punishments used in “Great Culture Revolution”
4.1.2 A practitioner’s children barred from university or joining the army
4.1.3 A practitioner’s parents brought to detention center to pressure their son
4.1.4 Family members’ yearly bonuses revoked because practitioners went to
Beijing
4.1.5 Practitioners’ family members and relatives detained
4.1.6 Practitioners’ family members detained, homes ransacked
4.1.7 Official removed from post because wife went to Beijing to appeal
4.1.8 Practitioners forced to divorce in order to avoid bringing trouble to family members
4.1.9 Practitioner’s family members not allowed to be hired, promoted or recruited by the
army
4.1.10 Family of Jinhua Zhao threatened and forced to deny that she died of torture
4.1.11 Worker threatened with loss of job for failing to persuade parents to stop practicing
4.1.12 Family members appointed as guarantors and face loss of employment
if practitioner goes to Beijing to appeal
4.1.13 Relatives arrested because practitioner went to Beijing to appeal
4.1.14 Practitioner’s father detained in order to force him to leave Beijing
4.1.15 Family members detained in order to force practitioners to come back from appeal
4.1.16 Families of practitioners forced to attend brainwash workshops
4.1.17 Practitioner’s mother frightened and family in crisis
4.1.18 Practitioner’s family harassed because he went to Beijing to appeal
4.2.1 Practitioners ordered to quit school for going to Beijing to appeal
4.2.2 Member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress removed from duty for speaking in favor of Falun Gong
4.2.3 Practitioner expelled from the party, lost job and home
4.2.4 Teacher forced to resign from her job and divorce her husband
4.2.5 Eleven-year-old practitioner expelled from school for practicing Falun Gong
4.2.6 Practitioners forced to work without pay
4.2.7 Twenty-five students suspended for two months, young teacher sent home
4.2.8 Practitioners in some institutes faced discharge for practicing
4.2.9 Communist Party members asked to stop practicing Falun Gong, or have their membership revoked
4.2.10 Practitioner detained by work unit for nearly half a month
4.2.11 Practitioner arrested, her business license suspended, husband unemployed
4.2.12 Practitioners dismissed by working unit because of belief in Falun Gong
4.2.13 Practitioner detained for two weeks, wife divorced him
4.2.14 Practitioner’s wife fired and fined, relatives under pressure
4.2.15 Enterprise forced to fire and discharge Falun Gong practitioners
4.2.16 Party, League member, workers and students not allowed to practice Falun Gong
4.2.17 Party and League members must not participate in Falun Gong activities
or face expulsion from the Party and loss of employment
4.2.18 Practitioners threatened to be expelled from the Party and fired from their jobs
4.2.19 Practitioner laid off without reason
4.2.20 Practitioner asked not to practice Falun Gong, otherwise face unemployment
4.2.21 Practitioners forced to choose between practicing Falun Gong and being a party Member
4.2.22 Practitioners forced to choose between Falun Gong and Party membership
4.2.23 Practitioner fired because of practicing Falun Gong
4.2.24 Practitioners threatened with loss of job, salary and Party discharge
4.2.25 Students warned of expulsion if practice of Falun Gong continues
4.2.26 Practitioner’s current job put under risk if Falun Gong practice continues
4.3.1 Police department imposed heavy bail
4.3.2 Practitioners arrested for attending a local conference
4.3.3 Practitioners detained for appealing to local government
4.3.4 Practitioners from oil plant arrested for practicing exercises in
a part and imposed stiff fines
4.3.5 Practitioners detained, their family members pay 1,000 Yuan
per month to the detention center
4.3.6 Doctor’s clinic confiscated for her appealing in Beijing
4.3.7 Practitioners detained and tortured for not being able to afford the financial
penalty
4.3.8 Practitioners escorted back from Beijing asked to pay for air ticket and 10,000 Yuan fine
4.3.9 Practitioners threatened life imprisonment if they refuse to pay high financial penalty
4.3.10 Practitioners fined 40,000 Yuan for appealing in Beijing; School bonus award
cancelled
4.3.11 Enterprises fined for failing to prevent their employees from going to
Beijing
4.3.12 Practitioners serve criminal detention because workplaces
refused to pay the 350,000 Yuan penalty
4.3.13 Practitioners escorted back from Beijing and required to pay a fine of 5, 000 Yuan
4.3.14 Practitioners denied salary increase
4.3.15 Practitioner fined 20,000 Yuan for appealing in Beijing
4.3.16 Local authority represses practitioners with financial penalties
4.3.17 Practitioners escorted back from Beijing asked to pay for expenses of the police officers
4.3.18 Practitioners detained and fined 3,000 Yuan,
their grain of stock confiscated if they failed to pay
4.3.19 Practitioner arrested and fined 20,000 Yuan
4.3.20 Practitioners forced to pay stiff fines
4.3.21 Practitioners’ money taken without any reason after being released
4.3.22 Practitioner’s family asked to pay 1,000 Yuan to get him released
4.3.23 Practitioners’ personal computers confiscated
4.3.24 Policemen blackmail practitioners for money
4.3.25 Practitioners required to pay 5,000 Yuan as cash pledge, confiscated if go to
Beijing
4.3.26 Practitioners beaten and fined from 500 to 5,000 Yuan
4.3.27 Practitioners forced to pay a large sum of penalty
4.3.28 Practitioners’ company car confiscated and used by the police
4.4 HUMILIATION DURING STREET PARADE
4.4.1 Practitioners paraded through streets
4.4.2 Practitioners paraded barefooted on streets for appealing in Beijing
4.4.3 Practitioners humiliated in street parade
4.5 OTHER PERSECUTIONS/MISTREATMENT
4.5.1 Local authorities ransacked practitioners’ homes
4.5.2 “Transforming” practitioners by cutting off water and power supplies
4.5.3 “Transformation Class” ran out of “Educational Materials”
4.5.4 Police in Meizhou City interfered with group practice
4.5.5 Beijing government officers demand tourists to curse Falun Dafa and its founder
4.5.6 Practitioners arrested for selling Falun Gong books
and exchanging experiences with other practitioners
4.5.7 Head and political instructor removed from post for failing to
prevent practitioners from going to appeal
4.5.8 Practitioner detained again after release
4.5.9 Practitioners required to attend the “transformation education” class
4.5.10 Professor sentenced with three years of forced labor “education”
4.5.11 Practitioner forced to leave his home to avoid trouble
4.5.12 Violation of the Constitution: Official Announcement to All Villagers
4.5.13 Three year old child taken onto a police van
4.5.14 Seven practitioners arrested for having a conversation with some local practitioners
4.5.15 China draws up blacklist of Falun Gong practitioners abroad
4.5.16 Police officers dismissed or suspended from work for failing to prevent practitioners
from
4.5.16 going to Beijing to appeal
4.5.17 Practitioners detained or sent to labor camps for appealing
4.5.18 Practitioners under intense surveillance
4.5.19 Practitioners threatened with labor “education” if refuse to denounce Falun Gong
4.5.20 Practitioner’s ID card confiscated to prevent them from going to Beijing
4.5.21 Falun Gong crackdown spreads to homes
4.5.22 Foreign language teacher arrested on suspicion of her taking part in the press conference
4.5.23 Practitioner’s child sent to orphanage after divorce
4.5.24 Families required to pressure Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs;
large fines levied, brutal beatings from criminals
4.5.25 Practitioners detained for refusing to turn in ID cards and write pledge
4.5.26 Hundreds of practitioners were arrested without any reason
4.5.27 Practitioners arrested for practice of Falun Gong
4.5.28 Four hundred practitioners arrested for practicing Falun Gong
4.5.29 Practitioners arrested for protest of the new legislation for
dealing more harshly with Falun Gong
4.5.30 Practitioners detained to prevent them from going to Beijing
4.5.31 Twenty practitioners arrested for attending a Falun Gong discussion meeting
4.5.32 Thirty-four practitioners arrested for attending a Falun Gong discussion meeting
4.5.33 Seven practitioners arrested for practicing in the park
4.5.34 Five hundred practitioners arrested in various places
4.5.35 Practitioners' right of appealing is deprived
4.5.36 Practitioners from Dongying were arrested
4.5.37 Practitioners from Shenzhen were arrested
4.5.38 Practitioners from Chengdu were arrested
4.5.39 Practitioners from Beijing were arrested
4.5.40 Practitioners thrown into police cars while petitioning to the government
4.5.41 Practitioner couple arrested and sentenced to one year of labor education
4.5.42 Practitioner detained, phone under full control by the authorities
4.5.43 Students, teachers, old couple detained for appealing
4.5.44 Practitioner threatened and under surveillance
4.5.45 Practitioners arrested for telling the truth
4.5.46 Seventeen practitioners detained without any reason
4.5.47 Practitioners asked to drop their work for questioning and detention
4.5.48 Practitioners under surveillance 24 hours a day
4.5.49 Classes conducted to dissuade practitioners from practicing Falun Gong
4.5.50 Practitioner arrested while practicing at home
4.5.51 Three hundred practitioners arrested in regional areas
4.5.52 Illegal search of Falun Gong practitioners
4.5.53 Illegal detention of Falun Gong practitioners
4.5.54 Mail boxes of practitioners under the control of the Public Security Department
4.5.55 More than 3,000 practitioners detained
4.5.56 More than 60 practitioners on hunger strike
4.5.57 Practitioners supervised closely by local police
4.5.58 Practitioner detained in Shenzhen
4.5.59 Police intensified checking for practitioners on buses and trains
4.5.60 Practitioner charged by the police
4.5.61 Large scale suppression of Falun Gong practitioners
4.5.62 Practitioners required to write promise break ties with Falun Gong
4.5.63 Graduate students detained while speaking for the truth
4.5.64 Teachers detained for Falun Gong practice
4.5.65 Rejected by landlords, practitioners forced to sleep on grass in cold weather
4.5.66 Middle school teachers forced to write untruthful report against their will
4.5.67 Air Force and government officials were disappeared after interrogation by police
4.5.68 Students were forced not to participate in the morning group practice
4.5.69 Practitioners harassed, practice sessions disrupted, practice sites occupied
4.5.70 Secretary of the Provincial Committee vowed to eliminated Falun Gong
4.5.71 Participation in Falun Gong activities prohibited
4.5.72 Falun Gong practice prohibited in all institutions of higher learning
4.5.73 Falun Gong practice sessions disrupted, practitioners dispersed
4.5.74 Practitioners harassed at 13 practice sites
4.5.75 Practitioners were harassed in park
4.5.76 Gaoan City authorities' brutality against Falun Gong practitioners
4.5.77 Further actions taken against Falun Gong in Shangdong Province
4.5.78 Falun Gong practitioners were unfairly treated in Nanchang City
4.5.79 Illegal treatment received when appeal to central government in Beijing
4.5.80 Weifang City government steps up to "fight against Falun Gong"
4.5.81 Police broke into the homes of practitioners
4.5.82 Pressure from the "Upper Level" to suppress Falun Gong
4.5.83 Falun Gong was banned in Benxi City on Jun 16, 1999
4.5.84 Fuzhou City treated Falun Gong practitioners unfairly
4.5.85 Public Security departments in Fuxin City illegally dispersed Falun Gong study groups
4.5.86 City government's brutal treatment of practitioners in Linyi, Shandong
4.5.87 Public Security Departments harassed Falun Gong practitioners on group practice site
4.5.88 Police and county officials were breaking into practitioners' homes
4.5.89 The Urban Countenance Bureau in Linyi City harassed Falun Gong practitioners
4.5.90 Public Security Bureau began to confiscate books from practitioners in Guangdong Province
4.5.91 Officials in Qidao City harassed Falun Gong practitioners
4.5.92 Public security agents wiretapped Falun Gong practitioners' telephone lines
4.5.93 Police tailing practitioners and wiretapping telephones
4.5.94 Falun Gong practitioners received threats from police
4.5.95 Practitioners detained, tailed, interrogated and requested to write report
4.5.96 Practitioners will lose their Party membership and jobs, military personnel
and their family members strictly prohibited from practicing Falun Gong
4.5.97 Some work units demand their employees to quit practicing Falun Gong
4.5.98 Falun Gong practitioners in Wuihai City were harassed on practice site
4.5.99 Public Security Bureau pressed work unit to denounce Falun Gong
4.5.100 Practice site was shut down by police
4.5.101 Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army prohibited from practicing
4.5.102 Practitioners' identification cards were confiscated
4.1 Persecutions Against Family Members and Relatives
4.1.1 Practitioners warned to receive punishments used in “Great Culture Revolution”
Message received: February 29, 2000
Victims: Xie Huiying and other Falun Gong practitioners in Meizhou City
Location of incident: Meizhou, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
At 10:00am of February 24, the Party Secretary of Fudong Village, Hu, warned Falun Gong practitioners that if they went out of village to appeal to the central government or other government authorities for Falun Gong, they and their family members would be punished like the “four types of people” (i.e., landlords, rich people, reactionary people, and bad people) in the “great culture revolution”. After Hu finished his speech, the police arrested the local contact person Xie Huiying on the spot and sent her to the local Daqiao detention center. After that, they confiscated the ID cards of all local practitioners to prevent them from traveling out of town.
4.1.2 A practitioner’s children barred from university or joining the army
Message received: February 16, 2000
Victims:
1. Wang Xuihui, her husband and children
2. Zhang Wenlong
3. Jiang
Location of incident: Zhoukoudian, Beijing
Description:
(Associated Press) Wang Xuihui, whose husband is a tractor-driver and also practices Falun Gong, said police told them their children, aged 14 and 17, would be barred from attending the university or from joining the army. Zhang Wenlong, 37, said he lost his job as a deputy manager in a construction firm. Jiang, the retired teacher, said police told her she could lose her pension.
4.1.3 A practitioner’s parents brought to detention center to pressure their son
Message received: February 8, 2000
Victim: A Ph.D. student of Chongqing University, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Chongqing, Sichuan province
Description:
(News from China) A Ph.D. student of Chongqing University went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After he was escorted back to Chongqing, police brought his parents to the detention center to pressure their son to give up Falun Dafa.
4.1.4 Family members’ yearly bonuses revoked because practitioners went to Beijing
Message received: February 3, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Wuguiqiao area, Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan province
Description:
(News from China) All the Falun Gong practitioners living close to the Wuguiqiao of Chengdu were required to attend the “transformation education” class held at the local police station. A practitioner was threatened by police stating that if he could not make his mother-in-law give up Falun Gong, a formal request would be issued demanding the army authorities to discharge him and send him back to his hometown. Family members of the city of Wuguiqiao appealing for Falun Gong rights in Beijing, had their yearly bonuses revoked.
4.1.5 Practitioners’ family members and relatives detained
Message received: January 22, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
Some Falun Gong practitioners including Cheng Zhan (who went to Beijing to appeal) and Li Xiaojun were arrested and serving criminal detention. Their homes were ransacked. The local police also detained a dozen of the family members and relatives of these practitioners. They were all given 15 days of detention. They were released later after their workplaces or family members paid several thousand Yuan (amounts to several months of salary of an average employee in China). Many of them had bruises due to police tortures and beatings by the detained criminals. They were forced to do hard labor for 18 to 19 hours every day while in police custody. They were not given enough food.
4.1.6 Practitioners’ family members detained, homes ransacked
Message received: January 22, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
More persecutions against Falun Gong practitioners in Chengdu City: detention of family members, homes ransacked, 18-19 hours of hard labor, tortures, humiliations, and fines.
4.1.7 Official removed from post because wife went to Beijing to appeal
Message received: January 5, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Mianyang, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Mianyang, Sichuan Province
Description:
An official in Mianyang was removed from his post because his wife went to Beijing to appeal. Some officials have also been suspended or removed from their work because they were not able to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal.
4.1.8 Practitioners forced to divorce in order to avoid bringing trouble to family members
Message received: December 29, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
Many police departments have received notices stating that if they could not transform the local Falun Gong practitioners, the officials will be dismissed. If a soldier or a state employee has some family members who practice Falun Gong, he would be suspended from work until the family members give up Falun Gong. Many practitioners have to divorce their spouses so they don’t bring trouble to their family members. Some practitioners wrote statements terminating family relationships in order to protect their families.
4.1.9 Practitioner’s family members not allowed to be hired, promoted or recruited by the army
Message received: December 14, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in Xinhua North District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Location of incident: Xinhua North District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
The family members of Falun Gong practitioners are under pressure from their workplaces and related government departments. For example, Falun Gong practitioners and their family members were refused employment or promotion at workplaces, nor may they be recruited by the army. Even worse, some employers have warned people that they may be fired or their jobs may be changed if they are not able to prevent their family members from practicing Falun Gong. This has brought great suffering to numerous families.
4.1.10 Family of Jinhua Zhao threatened and forced to deny that she died of torture
Victim: Zhao Jinhua, from Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province
Location of incident: Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province
Description:
In October 1999, after Zhao Jinhua was tortured to death, her family members were threatened and forced to write a statement to claim that she did not die of torture. When fellow practitioners went to the hospital to visit Ms. Zhao, they were arrested and detained without any reason.
4.1.11 Worker threatened with loss of job for failing to persuade parents to stop practicing
Message received: October 29, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Jinzhou, Liaoning Province
Location of incident: Jinzhou, Liaoning Province
Description:
Recently, Falun Gong practitioners continue to be arrested and fined. Three practitioners in a work unit in Jinzhou City were arrested and brought back from Beijing to Jinzhou City, and each of them was detained for 15 days and fined 5,000 yuan. The secretary of that work unit ordered the worker to go home and persuade his parents to stop practicing Falun Gong. Otherwise, he would be discharged from his job. Every work unit was asked by the local resident committee offices in various districts to monitor the Falun Gong practitioners 24 hours a day.
4.1.12 Family members appointed as guarantors and face loss of employment if practitioner goes to Beijing to appeal
Message received: October 20,1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province
Description:
In Changchun, the government is pressing Falun Gong practitioners by appointing their family members as guarantors. Namely, if a practitioner goes to Beijing to appeal, his guarantor will be fired from his/her job or be dismissed from school. One practitioner’s daughter who is a second year high school student was appointed as her mother’s guarantor. If her mother goes to Beijing to appeal, she will lose her future employment opportunity.
4.1.13 Relatives arrested because practitioner went to Beijing to appeal
Message received: September 21, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from various places in China
Location of incident: various places in China
Description:
During the celebration of the National Day, all work units asked Falun Gong practitioners’ neighbors to keep a close watch on practitioners. If the practitioner being monitored went to Beijing, his/her neighbor would be fined 3,000 Yuan (Chinese currency). The relatives of a practitioner appealing for Falun Gong in Beijing were arrested by the Bureau of Public Security.
4.1.14 Practitioner’s father detained in order to force him to leave Beijing
Victim: Li Xiangdong, from Yongxin Village, Hegang, Heilongjiang Province
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
The following is a statement by the practitioners.
In September, I went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested by police. They did not give me any food, nor did they allow me to use the restroom. I escaped from the police station by jumping out of the building at about midnight on September 21st. In order to force me to go back, the local police in my hometown detained my father, who is not a Falun Gong practitioner. The local police finally had to release him because my father’s was of very poor health.
4.1.15 Family members detained in order to force practitioners to come back from appeal
Message received: August 20 1999
Victims: Falun Gong Practitioners
Location of incident: China
Description:
Some practitioners were summoned. Because they were out of town, their entire families were detained to force the practitioners to come back. For some practitioners, all of their relatives were summoned and interrogated. One practitioner was threatened to quit practicing Falun Gong. If he refuse to obey, his brother would lose his job.
4.1.16 Families of practitioners forced to attend brainwash workshops
Message received: July 24, 1999
Victims: Hundreds of female practitioners, from Zhuhai, Guangdong Province
Location of incident: Zhuhai, Guangdong Province
Description:
Practitioners who went to appeal were not allowed to go home for one week. They and their families were forced to stay and attend brainwash workshops.
4.1.17 Practitioner’s mother frightened and family in crisis
Victim: Sun Shihong, currently in Beijing. Address: Section 56-13, Gongnong District, Hegang, Heilongjiang province, phone: (04)54-3341494
Location of incident: Gongnong District, Hegang, Heilongjiang Province
Description:
The following is a statement by Sun Shihong:
My wife was arrested because of practicing Falun Dafa. She was escorted back home after 48 hours in custody. She was forced to write a pledge against her will. My 79 year-old mother was so frightened that she asked us not to study and practice any more, otherwise she would commit suicide. This event has brought a crisis to my family. I had no other choice but to come to Beijing to appeal.
4.1.18 Practitioner’s family harassed because he went to Beijing to appeal
Victim: Yuanguang Xiao, from Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, currently in Beijing
Location of incident: Nanchang, Jiangxi Province
Description:
The following is a statement by Yuanguang.
Because I have come to Beijing to appeal, police officials in my hometown have been harassing my family continuously. They told my family to pass their words to me that I should report and confess to them upon returning home. I feel that we have nothing to confess for we commit no crimes. Instead, it is the government that is severely violating the constitution and human rights.
4.2 Suspended or Dismissed from Work and Study for Continuing Practicing Falun Gong or Appealing for Falun Gong
4.2.1 Practitioners ordered to quit school for going to Beijing to appeal
Message received: January 16, 2000
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Description:
Since November of 1999, some universities in Guangzhou City started to punish those practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal by ordering them to quit school. In both Huanan Normal University and Jinan University, there were students who had been ordered to quit school. Some practitioners were removed from their posts for appealing in Beijing.
4.2.2 Member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress removed from duty for speaking in favor of Falun Gong
Message received: January 15, 2000
Victim: Zhou Jiaying, female
Location of incident: Chongqing, Sichuan Province
Description:
AFP reported that in Chongqing, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress, Jiaying Zhou, was relieved of her duties on Monday after she protested the ban on Falun Gong and called for an end to the ban on the group. Zhou is an engineer in the Hechuan Electrical Company of Chongqing. During a meeting of the conference in December of last year, Zhou made a proposal stating that the government’s view of the group as a “religious sect” was not correct and called on the authorities to allow the group to legally register. The local authorities of Chongqing were extremely angry with her and on January 10th they removed her from office.
4.2.3 Practitioner expelled from the party, lost job and home
Message received: January 11, 2000
Victim: Huifang Zhang, female
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
Ms. Huifang Zhang, a staff member of the department of services in the Sichuan army district, was dismissed from the party, and her military post. Her apartment was also taken back by the authorities (in China, the apartments of workers are usually owned by the state). Later she was forced to rent an apartment near the Luyou village police station.
4.2.4 Teacher forced to resign from her job and divorce her husband
Message received: January 11, 2000
Victim: Li Zhi, female
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Description:
Li Zhi, a teacher of the fourth middle school in Xindou, was forced to resign from her job and divorce her husband in order not to bring trouble to her supervisors and her family. She was sent to the “transformation class” and later to the detention center. Still, she was able to keep her faith and her dignity.
4.2.5 Eleven-year-old practitioner expelled from school for practicing Falun Gong
Message received: October 28, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Beijing
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
Falun Gong practitioners have suffered all kinds of persecutions in China. The practitioners who participated in the press conference told the journalists the real situation of the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. An 11-year-old little practitioner told the journalist how he had been expelled from school because he insisted on practicing Falun Gong.
4.2.6 Practitioners forced to work without pay
Message received: October 23, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Jilin Province
Location of incident: Jilin Province
Description:
Four Falun Gong practitioners from a factory in Jilin Province were illegally detained and interrogated. The factory decided not to pay the salaries to those practitioners, but the practitioners must continue to go to work. This is forced labor.
4.2.7 Twenty-five students suspended for two months, young teacher sent home
Message received: October 21, 1999
Victims:
1. 25 student practitioners
2. 1 young teacher practitioner
Location of incident: Tsinghua University in Beijing
Description:
Tsinghua University forcefully suspended about 25 students (including 10 undergraduates, 7 Ph.D. candidates, 7 Masters, and 1 MBA) for two months without any formal announcement. They also telegraphed the students’ parents and requested them to take their children home. A young teacher, escorted by her parents, was also sent home.
4.2.8 Practitioners in some institutes faced discharge for practicing
Message received: October 16, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Beijing
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
In some important institutes including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cases were placed on file for prosecution for a total of 72 people including many graduate students because they continued to practice Falun Gong. The institutes have hinted that the practitioners would be discharged soon. Many of these practitioners were responsible for important research projects.
4.2.9 Communist Party members asked to stop practicing Falun Gong, or have their membership revoked
Message received: September 2, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners who are Communist Party members, from Beijing
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
In Beijing, Falun Gong practitioners who were Communist Party members were asked to stop practicing Falun Gong. The practitioners who did not want to give up Falun Gong had three options, “Withdraw from the Communist Party voluntarily”, “withdraw from the Communist Party by order”, or be expelled from the Communist Party.
4.2.10 Practitioner detained by work unit for nearly half a month
Message received: September 2, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Hebei Province and a province in North East of China
Location of incident: Hebei Province and a Province in North East of China
Description:
A Falun Gong practitioner from the Northeastern part of China was sent back to his home town. At first, he was interrogated by the police. Then he was detained by his work unit for nearly half a month. Some practitioners in the rural area of Hebei Province were fined. Those practitioners not paying the fine would be beaten. Some Falun Gong practitioners in a province were handcuffed. Some practitioners refused to place their finger print on the document that pledges their cessation of Falun Gong practice. Those who refused were forced to imprint their fingerprints.
4.2.11 Practitioner arrested, her business license suspended, husband unemployed
Victims:
1. Ximeng Zhou, female, from Shijiazhuang,
Hebei Province
2. Zhicun Jia, from Shijiazhuang, Hebei
Province
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
Ms. Ximeng Zhou and her husband Mr. Zhicun Jia arrived in Beijing on July 26th to appeal. She was arrested by the Beijing public security department and was sent back to the Shijiazhuang detention center. Her business license and all the other documents were also suspended. After a month of detention, she was secretly transferred out of the detention center. Now her whereabouts are unknown. Since then, her husband has been unemployed. He is now at home taking care of their elementary school-aged son, and their elderly, paralyzed father.
4.2.12 Practitioners dismissed by working unit because of belief in Falun Gong
Message received: July 24, 1999
Victims:
1. Wang Aiyin
2. Jin Xumei
Location of incident: Tsing Hua University, Beijing
Description:
Wang Aiyin and Jin Xumei were dismissed by their working unit because of their belief in Falun Gong.
4.2.13 Practitioner detained for two weeks, wife divorced him
Victim: Zhao Xizen, from Xinan District, Hegang, Heilongjiang Province
Location of incident: District conference room of Xinan District Government, Hegang, Heilongjiang Province
Description:
The following is a statement by Zhao Xizen.
On July 22nd, 1999, Xinan District government officials took me to the District conference room to watch TV programs on Falun Dafa, and commanded me to write a pledge not to practice Falun Dafa. They prevented me from saying anything good about Falun Dafa, and threatened to fire me from my job and detain me for 15 days. I told them I wouldn’t give up Falun Dafa practice. They sent me to the police station and jailed me for 24 hours. Because of the threat from the government, my wife has been facing unemployment. My mother was so frightened that she became seriously ill and was bed-ridden. I was forced to write a pledge against Falun Gong against my will. After that, they sent me to the security office of my working unit, forced me to study the materials defaming Falun Dafa and to change my thoughts, and demanded that I speak out against Falun Dafa. I didn’t comply with them, so I was detained for another week. After that, they demanded that I report my whereabouts every morning to the security department of my working unit, and to hand in a repentance report every Saturday. A month later, as my mind was still not changed, my wife divorced me.
4.2.14 Practitioner’s wife fired and fined, relatives under pressure
Victim: Yang Guang, from Lequn Street, Changchun, Jilin Province.
Location of incident: Beijing
Description:
The following is a statement by Yang Guang.
Since April 25, my wife and I have been under great pressure. My wife’s workplace and the police threaten her and restrict her personal freedom. I was also pressured to give up Falun Gong. On July 21, we went to the provincial government to appeal. The police brutally dispersed, beat and kicked us. Later on, the police ransacked our home. My wife and I had to go to Beijing to appeal this injustice. On our way to Beijing, we were questioned by the police. We were sent to the Fengtai Stadium and detained there for 4 hours. We were forbidden to eat or to use the toilets. They made us stand in the burning sun. Later I was sent to the Changchun liaison office in Beijing where the police swore at us and threatened us. At night, I was forced to sleep on the cement floor. I was detained there for 20 hours. My wife was fired from her job and fined. After I was released, my wife’s workplace and street office often searched my home without any legal formality. It has severely disturbed our daily lives. My relatives have also been put under pressure.
4.2.15 Enterprise forced to fire and dis-charge Falun Gong practitioners
Message received: June 28, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, from Guangzhou, Guangdong province
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong province
Description:
In Guangzhou, under great pressure from higher level governments, some enterprises had to fire and discharge Falun Gong practitioners. Many Falun Gong practitioners in Guangzhou jointly wrote letters of appeal to stop the inhumane actions.
4.2.16 Party, League member, workers and students not allowed to practice Falun Gong
Message received: June 17, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province
Description:
1. Many of our city agencies, companies and schools announced the guidelines from “above” which requires Party, League member, workers and students not to practice Falun Gong.
2. Names of all Falun Gong practitioners were filed and published in newspapers.
3. Teachers forced middle school and elementary school students to stop practicing due to guidelines set by the government. The non-compliant teachers would face reprimand.
4.2.17 Party and League members must not participate in Falun Gong activities or face expulsion from the Party and loss of employment
Message received: June 16, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Dalian, Liaoning province, P.R. China
Description:
Some government institutions made announcements from their superiors: Party and League members and cadres cannot participate in Falun Gong activities. Otherwise, they will be expelled from the Party and lose their jobs. Schools declared that students could not practice Falun Gong, or they would be forced to drop out. The three governing bodies of the PLA announced that soldiers in service, retired military personnel and their families, as well as employees of military agencies were not allowed to practice Falun Gong. Otherwise, they would be expelled from the Party and the military.
4.2.18 Practitioners threatened to be expelled from the Party and fired from their jobs
Message received: June 16, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Tonghua City
Description:
I’m an employee in a department of the Tonghua municipal government. On June 7, an official in my department asked to have a talk with me right after I arrived that the morning. He said, “Last time the municipality only called on directing Falun Gong practice properly. This time it is different. You have to show your attitude instead of giving any explanation. The upper level is waiting for me to report your stance.” My other fellow practitioners faced even harsher treatments as they were asked to quit the practice and threatened to be expelled from the Party and lose their jobs. All these conducts were made under the guidance of some people who used their power to exert pressure on the practitioners and interfere in normal practice activities.
4.2.19 Practitioner laid off without reason
Message received: June 15, 1999
Victim: Zhang Defeng
Location of incident: Pinghu, Zhejiang Province
Description:
Zhang Defeng, a Falun gong practitioner was laid off without reason from her temp job at one of the malls.
4.2.20 Practitioner asked not to practice Falun Gong, otherwise face unemployment
Message received: June 15, 1999
Victim: Falun Gong Practitioner, a retired accountant
Location of incident: Pinghu, Zhejiang Province
Description:
A retired accountant found a job at a different company, but the company director asked him not to practice Falun Gong, otherwise he might have to face unemployment. They even asked for an affidavit. I also encountered police filing of individual practitioners. They all said they were only carrying out the policy from above.
4.2.21 Practitioners forced to choose between practicing Falun Gong and being a Party member
Message received: June 15, 1999
Victim: Ge Cuidi, a retired Party member from the Pinghu Experimental School
Location of incident: Pinghu, Zhejiang Province
Description:
Ge Cuidi, a retired Party member from the Zhejiang Experimental School, is a Falun Gong practitioner. School directors clearly asked her whether she wants to stay in the Party or continue practice Falun Gong. She said she wished to do both. But when she was forced to choose between the two, she chose Falun Gong. At that moment, the director said kindly that you can practice anything else but Falun Gong, otherwise you can no longer be a Party member nor a teacher, and the situation will not be this pleasant next time we talk to you.
4.2.22 Practitioners forced to choose between Falun Gong and Party member-ship
Message received: June 15, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong province
Description:
The leader in a certain college has frequently had talks with a Party member and cadre, and asked him to quit Falun Gong. Otherwise, he has no chance of being promoted. Also, his Party membership and job would be affected. He also warned the practitioner not to reveal to others what they had talked about.
4.2.23 Practitioner fired because of practicing Falun Gong
Message received: June 15, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China
Description:
On June 12, 1999, Manager Liang in Huatai Tube Supplying Division where I work came to me and said that I could no longer practice Falun Gong. He also said the order came from “the upper level”. I believed that his words were unreasonable and did not comply with the central government’s policies. Therefore, I continued my practice as usual. Later he told me that I was fired because of my practice. He also claimed arrogantly that I could only stay with my husband, and that if more than 3 people get together, it constitutes an illegal convention. He asked me to fill out a form immediately in order to start the procedures of firing me. In the “reason” column, I filled in “practice Falun Gong.” I was fired right on that same day. My husband also experienced similar unfair treatments.
4.2.24 Practitioners threatened with loss of job, salary and Party discharge
Message received: June 12, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Gaoan, Jiangxi Province
Description:
Practitioners are being threatened with loss of job, salary and discharge from the Communist Party.
4.2.25 Students warned of expulsion if practice of Falun Gong continues
Message received: June 9, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Nanchang, Jiangxi Province
Description:
Universities prohibit Falun Gong practitioners from practicing on the property. Students received warnings of expulsion if they practiced Falun Gong.
4.2.26 Practitioner’s current job put under risk if Falun Gong practice continues
Message received: June 6, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Qiqihaer, Heilongjia Province
Description:
Beginning a month ago, police forces and police cars appeared during morning practice. Sometimes, community counselors would count the number of practitioners, and ask us not to practice Falun Gong. On June 11, a director from my work unit told us of the guideline that says that Party or League members and officials are not allowed to practice Falun Gong. On that same day, my petition for a vacation was also denied. All practitioners at my work place are being monitored. At 8:00am of the same day, the director from the department of Political Guidelines told me the same thing, that Party, League members and Officials can not be involved in Falun Gong. If this advice is ignored, then any risk brought to the current job position is solely the practitioner’s responsibility. Such are the threatening methods they use to stop us from practicing Falun Gong.
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