(Clearwisdom.net) There are many universities and colleges in Beijing. Since July 1999, Jiang Zemin has attached great importance to the persecution of Falun Gong within Beijing's higher education system. Li Lanqing stayed at Tsinghua University in person in order to investigate and deal with the so-called Falun Gong issues. To aid in the persecution of Falun Gong, Jiang's Regime established the "610 Office," an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, in Beijing's Teaching Staff Committee. The "610 Office" uses top authorities at each university or college to coerce teachers and students who practice Falun Gong to give up their belief. Each work unit is required to keep a list of those who do not give up their belief. People on the list are forced by the "610 Office" to pay around 5,000 Yuan (1) to enroll in the notorious "Beijing Legal Training Center," where practitioners are subjected to intense brainwashing, and forced to watch videos and read books defaming Falun Gong. After repeated brainwashing, those who still insist on practicing Falun Gong are sent directly to forced labor camps. The "610 Office" in Beijing's Teaching Staff Committee has persecuted countless practitioners from universities and colleges in Beijing in this way, because they followed the principles of "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance."

In brainwashing classes, the "610 Office" requires each work unit to provide staff for 24-hour surveillance of the "students." Practitioners are not allowed to study Falun Dafa books, or practice the exercises. They are not allowed to make phone calls, but they are asked to report every day. Security guards violently "escort" practitioners from their room to the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp every morning, and back again in the evening. Security guards and surveillance staff watch over practitiones throughout the evening. They are on guard in the corridors and outside the building to make sure no practitioners escape.

What follows are some persecution cases of Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing's higher education system:

Agricultural University of China

Mr. Zhang Wenge, a Ph.D graduate from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is an associate professor of the Electronics & Electric Power Engineering Institute, and an outstanding young scholar. He is the university's primary research scientist. Because he appealed for Falun Gong many times, and because of his unshakable belief in Falun Gong, he was illegally abducted on April 24, 2000, and sentenced to one year in a Daxing County forced labor camp. His dorm room was searched as well. He has been detained in Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp twice. On September 20, 2003, staff from the detention center of the Haidian District Public Security Bureau abducted him and searched his home again. At the same time, his wife, Tang Fang, an employee of a foreign venture, who graduated from China's University of Political Science & Law, was also arrested.

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Mr. Zhou Xiaojun is a relative of an employee at the Emei Cement Factory, and a student of Class 995 at the Chinese Agriculture Farming University. The school illegally suspended him for one year because of his persistence in practicing Falun Gong. While he lived at home, the police threatened that his whole family and relatives would be implicated, and family members dismissed from their jobs if he continued to practice Falun Gong. Because of this, he was forced to leave home in early March 2001 and go from place to place. Even now, his whereabouts are unknown.

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Su Chenbin, a student of the Electronics & Electric Power Engineering Institute, was illegally suspended from school simply because he practiced Falun Gong exercises on campus in early June 2000.

Tang Nansheng, a student of the Administrative Engineering Institute, was unlawfully suspended from school for one year for practicing Falun Gong exercises on campus in early June 2000.

Liao Xiaohui, a student of enrollment 97 from the business department of the Administrative Engineering Institute, was forcibly suspended from school for one year for practicing Falun Gong exercises on campus in early June 2000.

Tan Haibin, a student of enrollment 98 from the Mechanics & Manufacturing Department, was suspended from school for one year for practicing Falun Gong exercises on campus.

Ms. Zhou Xiangyuan, 32, is a graduate of the Agricultural University of China, and is also an employee of a foreign enterprise. In April 2000 she was sentenced to one year of forced labor in the Beijing Women's Prison. On September 20, 2003, people from the detention center of Haidian District Public Security Bureau arrested her and her husband, Dr. Wang Yongqian. They also searched their home without justification. Wang Yongqian, a 33-year-old post doctor, is an outstanding young scholar and a primary research scientist working in the key national lab of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Beijing's Forestry University

Mr. Shen Yingbai, 43, is a professor at the Beijing Forestry University and dean of a university department. He is an excellent young academic. He was abducted and sent to a detention center for brainwashing many times. On September 20, 2003, people from the detention center at the Haidian District Public Security Bureau abducted him and four other practitioners simply because they practice Falun Gong, and their homes were illegally searched.

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Mr. Ren Lizhong, a graduate student from Beijing's Foresty University, was an employee of the Huazhong Agriculture University. Because he appealed for Falun Gong they dismissed him from his job. Later he was sentenced to nine years of imprisonment because he was found carrying some Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials.

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Beijing Chemical Industry University

Ms. Chen Haifeng is a teacher from Beijing Chemical Industry University. On March 8, 2001, she was abducted along with five other female Falun Gong practitioners. They were illegally taken to Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, where they were detained for fifteen days and subjected to forced brainwashing. In April, 2001, Ms. Chen was sentenced to forced labor reeducation because she published a solemn statement on Clearwisdom.net. Another teacher from the same university was also sentenced to forced labor for resisting brainwashing and refusing to stop practicing Falun Dafa.

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Ms. Hao Li, who works in Beijing Chemical Industry University, is denied several hundred Yuan each month from her salary because she practices Falun Gong. Her daughter is a school pupil, and her husband Li Zili, is a graduate with a master's degree, and was an employee of the Import & Export Company of China Non-Medal Minerals Industry. He has been illegally detained many times for appealing for Falun Gong. On August 18, 2000, he was sent to the Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp.

Beijing Industry and Commerce University

Ms. Lei Xiaoting, a graduate from the Foreign Language Department, Beijing University, is a teacher at Beijing Industry and Commerce University. In October 1999, she participated in the Falun Dafa press conference held in Beijing and acted as one of the interpreters. Through the foreign correspondents present at the conference, the truth about Falun Gong practitioners in China being brutally persecuted was exposed and spread to the world. On the evening of November 5, she was abducted from her dormitory room by police from the No. 7 Branch, Beijing Public Security Bureau, and has rarely been heard of since. By April 2000, her parents learned that she was secretly sentenced to two years imprisonment.

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On October 1, 2000, three students from Beijing Industry and Commerce University were arrested when they went to Tiananmen Square to peacefully appeal.

Ms. Zhu Xiaomei, 22, is a student in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Soon after she was picked up by the school, Zhu Xiaomei was taken away by the security department. She is listed as a primary target for surveillance.

Ms. Zeng Yanxia, 22, is a student in the Department of Business Administration. Because she refused to give her name, she was taken to Miyun Police Substation, where she jumped out the window of the washroom. She broke her foot in the attempt to escape, and was sent back to the school. The authorities and teachers of the university all view her as an excellent student, both academically and morally. Her classmates respect her as well, but she was placed on the blacklist at the university because she firmly insists on practicing Falun Dafa. In September 2000, she was abducted from her dormitory room by police from the No. 14 Branch, Beijing Public Security Bureau (in charge of the higher education system). After a whole day's interrogation, she was taken back to her dormitory, which was illegally searched by police. The school security department also threatened her.

Mr. Sun Xuebing, 24, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanics was abducted by police. When the police brought him back they searched his dormitory room. After he packed some clothes, the police took him away again. He has not been heard from since. Sun Xuebing was a diligent student and won a scholarship every year. He was highly esteemed by his teachers and respected by his classmates. Sun was blacklisted at the university because he firmly insists on practicing Falun Dafa.

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Ms. Zhao Xin was an assistant professor at Beijing's Industry and Commerce University. She was born in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province on June 28, 1968. She was a very kind person and an excellent teacher. On June 19, 2000, she was arrested after practicing Falun Gong exercises in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing. She was sent to a detention center in Beijing's Haidian district. Due to beatings during detention, the vertebra at the fourth, fifth and sixth joints of her neck were fractured. It's a miracle that she survived, but she was paralyzed from the neck down. With her firm will and unshakable belief in Dafa, she lived for six months, enduring unimaginable suffering. On December 11, 2000, she died, at the age of 32.

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Ms. Gu Xuefen, 62, is a retired official from the Internal Trade Bureau, and lives at the Beijing Industry and Commerce University. In early July 2000, she was arrested at home by three police officers from the Ganjiakou Police Substation. Her husband went to the police station to inquire about her situation, but he was told that Ms. Gu had already been sent to the Qinghe Detention Center.

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Beijing Teacher's University

Wang Diangang from Dalian City, Liaoning Province was a student at the Beijing Teacher's University. He was expelled from school for no reason. Both his parents are Falun Gong practitioners. His mother, Qi Xuming, was a teacher at the No. 123 Middle School of Dengshahe Town, Dalian City. One day in July 2000, Li Wenxiang, Party Secretary of the Township Politics & Law Committee, abducted her and took her to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, disregarding the required legal procedures. His father, Wang Youbao, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 2000. He was escorted back by police officers and detained in the Jinzhou District detention center.

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On June 19, 2000, Mr. Rong Wei went outdoors to practice the Falun Dafa exercises. The school sent him to Haidian Detention Center, where he was kept in custody for 30 days. After July 22, 1999, he was dismissed from work simply because he refused to write the so-called "Guarantee Statement." (2) In early November 2000, he was arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials, and detained at the Haidian Detention Center. His wife, Xiao Gao, who had been illegally detained for fifteen days for a so-called illegal gathering at Beijing Gallery, was forcibly taken to Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp by her work unit on July 21, 2000. Policemen from the local police substation went to her parents' home, and asking her whereabouts. They also asked her parents to write a promise statement to take care of the couple's five-year-old daughter.

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Mr. Xu Fan, in his thirties, graduated from Beijing Teacher's University with a master's degree, and had studied in Mexico for three years. At the end of 2000, he was illegally sentenced to one and a half years in a forced labor camp with the charge of "disturbing social order" because he carried Falun Gong materials with him. He was detained in Team Two of the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp.

Beijing Aerospace University

Mr. Shao Mingxue, 34, is a post-doctoral graduate from Beijing Teacher's University. After graduation in October 2000, he began work at Beijing Aerospace University. The university fired him simply because he practices Falun Gong, In February 2001, people from the National Security Bureau unlawfully entered his home and abducted him. In April 2001, his parents and mother-in-law came to Beijing from Shandong Province and Gansu Province, asking to see him. They were denied a visit. We have been informed that he has been sentenced to prison, but the details are unknown.

Mr. Bai Rongchun, a graduate of Beijing Aerospace University, was a computer engineer and a program manager at Qinghua Ziguang and Tongfang Cooperation. In May 2001, police wrongfully arrested him. In September 2002, a Beijing court illegally sentenced him to 13 years in prison. He has been sent back to Liaoning Province, and it is possible that he is detained in Dabei Prison in Shenyang, Liaoning Province.

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Zhu Zhiliang, who graduated from Beijing Aerospace University with a master's degree, was detained in the intensified brainwashing class in Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp for insisting on practicing Falun Gong. Zhu Zhiliang now suffers from a mental disorder due to severe persecution.

Central Chinese Ethnic School

Mr. Li Chunyuan is from Korea, and was a lecturer at the Central Chinese Ethnic School. At the end of 2000, he filed a charge against Jiang Zemin, citing Jiang's disregard for the law and constitution in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. Li Lanqing was angered by this action, and had him secretly arrested by the police on December 28, 2000 and sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. At the Forced Labor Terminal Center, the police officers shocked him with electric batons on the back, face, and penis. One time, when a policeman intended to beat him, and he warned the policeman, "If you keep doing that, I will cut you into two with the hand thunder power." As a result, the policeman could not lower his hand. In forced labor camp, he has never yielded to the evil, even though he was subjected to forcible brainwashing every day. The police guards instructed people to write slanderous words on his body. For over twenty days, he was deprived of sleep, and was still forced to do hard labor during the day, including carrying garbage, digging sewer tunnels, and other heavy work. Li Chunyuan continues to behave very righteously and earns respect of others.

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The Northern Jiaotong University

Ms. Sun Chunhua, 29, came to work in the Northern Jiaotong University after graduation, with a master's degree from the University of International Business and Economics. In 2000, Sun was dismissed from the university for practicing Falun Gong. She had to live on her income as a substitute teacher at other schools. Once after a lecture, she gave a Falun Gong truth-clarifying flyer to every student. On May 25, she was taken away from her class and detained in Paoju Detention Center. Later she was sentenced to forced labor.

Mr. Duan Yi, 26, is Sun Chunhua's husband. Because of his excellent record at Northern Jiaotong University, after graduation he was offered a position in the university. In 2000, he quit his job, and on July 21, 2001, he went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong. After that, he was illegally detained.

Ms. Wang Yi is a young teacher from the Foreign Languages Department of the Northern Jiaotong University. Before she began practicing Falun Dafa, she was in very poor condition, and often fainted while giving lectures. After practicing Falun Gong, her health improved tremendously; but she has been deprived the right to teach since July 1999 because she insists on practicing Falun Dafa. On September 30, 2001, she was abducted and sent to Qinghe Detention Center. She went on hunger strike in protest. Wang Yi's husband, Xu Ming, deceived Wang Yi's father, and helped the police to arrest her. Xu Ming's response to Wang Yi's hunger strike was, "If she does not 'transform', let her stay there."

(To be continued)

Notes:

(1) Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan.

(2) "Guarantee Statement" - A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees 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.