Student at the Chinese Medicine University in Shandong Province Is Illegally Sentenced to Three Years of "Reeducation Through Labor"

(Clearwidsom.net)

Mr. Liang Guiai, 27, from Qiaojiatun Luoxin Village of Huashan Town in Jimo City, Shandong Province, was an undergraduate student at the Chinese Medicine University in Shandong Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1996.

Before practicing Falun Gong, Liang Guiai suffered from very serious headaches. After practicing Falun Gong, his headaches were gone and he was full of energy, so his grades improved rapidly. In 1999, Jiang's gang started persecuting Falun Dafa. On December 20, 1999, Liang Guiai went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Dafa. When policemen saw him, they started beating him and took him to the Tiananmen Police Substation. Later, the police transported him back to Jinan. The leaders of the Chinese Medicine University tried to force him to give up Falun Gong, but he refused and consequently was expelled from the school. After returning home, the government officials in Qiaojiatun refused to issue identification papers for him and harassed him at every turn.

In April of 2000, Liang Guiai was brought into the police station and then released after two days. When he got out of the police station, his body was bloody and dirty all over, one of his teeth was missing and his mouth was split open.

On July 20, 2000, Liang Guiai and more than ten other practitioners decided to go to Beijing to appeal to the higher authorities. Because the local police blocked the roads, they left in a hurry in the night and didn't take much money with them. They had to live on very little on the way to Beijing. After walking 497 miles, they arrived in Beijing. Liang was arrested by police at Tiananmen Square and held at the Jimo Liaison Office in Beijing. A young police officer beat him because he practiced Falun Gong in the office. The policeman handcuffed Liang to a metal post and kicked him viciously. The policeman didn't stop until Liang had blood all over his face and on the verge of losing consciousness.

After Mr. Liang was brought back to his hometown, Zheng Cen, Wang Zeyi, and Sun , following the orders of the Qiaojiatun County Political and Judiciary Secretary, Liu Dianchong, handcuffed Liang to the motorcycle of a county government staff worker. Liu Dianchong also told Wang Zeyi to beat Liang Guiai. After beating Liang savagely, they handcuffed him to a post and left him under the hot sun for ten days. The temperature was very hot during the day and very cold and wet in the evening. After ten days, they sent Liang Guiai to the Jimo Detention Center, where the police tortured him even more.

Later, Liang Guiai was taken to the county police station. The police asked his family pay 2000 Yuan [The average annual income is less than 2000 Yuan per person in rural areas]. Liang Guiai refused to allow his parents to pay the money to the police, since he knew that they had borrowed a lot of money for his college expenses. He broke out of his handcuffs and escaped from the local police station that night. He left home and went from place to place in order to avoid further persecution, and bore a lot of hardship in the process. The police even went to his parents' home to look for him on Chinese New Year's Eve. They said that Liang Guiai was a "criminal wanted by the law."

On January 28, 2001, Liang Guiai went home and was arrested by the police, who had been watching for him for quite some time. Mao, the head of police station, tried to force Liang to write an "Announcement" and a "Guarantee Letter" to declare that he is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and promises not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners. Liang refused to do so, but instead wrote a letter describing how good Falun Dafa is to the head of the "610 Office"* in Jimo City. A few days later, Liang Guiai was illegally sentenced to three years of "reeducation through labor" in the Qingdao Forced Labor Camp.

*The 610 Office is a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches.

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