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Guilt by Association and Coerced Signatures

Since the vicious attack on Falun Dafa at the Wuhan Steel Co. (WSC) was disclosed on http://www.minghui.ca, the anti-Falun Gong forces went to extremes in their actions. They have adopted a method called "Guilty by Association", asking each working unit to submit a list of people practicing Falun Gong. They also require the head of each department and party branch to sign a guarantee letter that no practitioner had been left out. If a practitioner was left off the list, the boss would be held responsible. No one knows how far this program will be carried.

The authorities of Wuhan City are shamelessly collecting signatures supporting the persecution of Falun Gong. Those giving signatures are mostly employees of state-owned companies "sent" by their bosses. Their ill intention is evident to everyone.

Wuhan Steel Co. Accuses Practitioner with False Charges.

Employee Li Xiaoxue went to Beijing in December to appeal for Falun Dafa. When she came back to Wuhan, some of the anti-Falun Gong people in her company kept her handcuffed for ten days and nights without a break. She was detained for a month afterwards. In order to justify sending her to labor camp, these people went out of their way to gather false materials and tried to force her to admit that it was she who organized people from Wuhan to go to Beijing. Some of these people even visited the "conversion class" in Old Court to make some practitioners sign a prewritten document, confessing that Li Xiaoxue had led them to Beijing. They threatened some practitioners with sentences in labor camp if they did not sign.

Party Committee Member Kidnapped Practitioner.

Falun Gong practitioner Chen Yan (alias) was an employee of Electrical Repairing Plant (ERP) of Wuhan Steel Co. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong at the end of 1999 and was sent back to a conversion class in Wuhan. The company fired him, and a record of "severe misconduct" was placed in his file. Then he was detained in the police station for two weeks. The 27-year-old practitioner graduated with a master's degree from a famous polytechnic college. He used to be an electrical engineer for the company. Eventually he was given a job as an accountant in the company, after two weeks' detention. But he had to report to the security department every day when going to and from work. He worked hard though his salary was only 200 Yuan. Many sympathetic people in the company saw how he worked and were indignant at what was done to him. This went on for several months before the head of the company approved restoring him to full pay. But Yang Yuping, head of Party Organization, twice denied his promotion because of his "misconduct" record. And she named it as a policy consented to by the president of Wuhan Steel Co. Now his salary is lower than an intern college graduate. At the end of 2000, Yang Yuping denied his yearly bonus with the same excuse. Confronted with Chen's insistence, she conceded at last.

Among the persecutions to Chen Yan, the most vicious was an illegal kidnapping directed by Party Secretary Wang Jinzhang of ERP. At dusk one evening in mid-December 2000, on the street of a residential quarter of Wuhan Steel Co., five men took Chen and shoved him into a van. Waiting in the van was Wang Jinzhang. The kidnappers were the head of the security department and his employees. They drove to the security department and for no reason were going to detain Chen for two weeks in a conversion class. In order to avoid responsibility for their actions, they claimed it was the idea of the big bosses (Zhang Mingda and Fu Deqin, No.1 and 2 Party Secretaries of Wuhan Steel Co.). Chen condemned the illegal doing as gangster like and refused to get out of the van. He was kept inside for four or five hours before being taken home. The next day when some directors and staff in the company learned about it, they blamed Chen for not calling 110 (the emergency number in China, similar to 911 in US). Some knowing people said in private conversation: "Now there is no place in which to sue Wang Jinzhang for his illegal conduct."

Wang Jinzhang, Party Secretary of Electrical Repairing Plant attached to Wuhan Steel Co. Tel: 86-27-86806698 (H), 86-27-86893627 (O) Cell Phone: 86-13971050981

Yang Yuping, head of Party Organization in Electrical Repairing Plant attached to Wuhan Steel Co.

86-27-86894296 (H), Bp: 86-27-86891188 call 23172

Brutal Arrest

Around 8:00 o'clock on Dec 28, 2000, the police in Hongwei Road, Qingshan District of Wuhan City set out to arrest practitioners living in that area. A woman practitioner was in bed when a committee member from that residential quarter tricked her into opening her door. Two large men immediately entered and forced the woman to accompany them to the police station for a talk. The woman said she'd prefer to have the talk at her place and flatly refused to leave. The two men wrapped her up in a blanket (she was in her nightgown), and literally carried her to their van, which parked some distance away to avoid raising suspicion among the neighbors. There was no talk whatsoever. She was held until dawn and then sent to "conversion class" in the Old Court of Worker's Village (Practitioners in Qingshan District, if they were employees of Wuhan Steel Co, had been assigned to their working unit to be "converted". As to the rest, people working in other companies, including those retired and fired, they would be kept in the "conversion class".). On that same night, the police, using one bus and two vans, illegally arrested a bunch of practitioners, senior citizens as well as young people, without cause or warrant.

Zhang, from No.1Department of the Political and Law Committee in Qingshan District, was very mean. He often went to Old Court and stared at practitioners menacingly. He simply picked people up and sent them to labor camp by staring. The food in Old Court was bad. But each practitioner was charged of 650 Yuan as monthly boarding fee. Some of the camp guards have made a fortune in this business.

Recently, a woman practitioner in Ganghua New Village of Qingshan District was deceitfully taken from home by the police and lost contact with her family. The police, in response to her son's inquiries, declared they knew nothing. When the son swore to make the case public, they finally admitted what they had done.

Here we call upon all the practitioners: in face of this behavior, we should fearlessly expose these evil deeds to the public and force the persecution to stop.