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Six Tsinghua Students Sentenced to Long Jail Terms for Distributing Falun Gong Materials on internet
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At 9:00 p.m. on December 13, 2001, the Beijing
Intermediate People's Court secretly put six Falun Gong
practitioners on trial. The "crimes" they were accused
of were: downloading information about Falun Gong from
the internet; and, spreading the information via the
internet, helium balloons, and banners. At the end of
the trial, Ms. Yao Yue was sentenced to twelve years in
jail, Mr. Wang Xuefei eleven years, Mr. Meng Jun ten
years, Mr. Wang Xin nine years, Ms. Dong Yanhong five
years, and Mr. Liu Wenyu three years.
1. Yao Yue, female, 29, graduate student of the
class of 1996 in the Microelectronics Institute,
Tsinghua University, Beijing. She is a Chinese Communist
Party member and was once awarded the title of
"Excellent Graduate of Beijing City" On September 3,
1999, Ms. Yao Yue was forcefully taken to the police
station at the Tsinghua University because she openly
practiced the Falun Gong exercises on campus. Following
that incident, the Chinese Communist Party and the
university expelled her. Early on the morning of January
1, 2001, policemen from the Zhongguancun Police Station,
Haidian District of Beijing broke into her house and
arrested her.
2. Liu Wenyu, male, 29, Yao Yue's husband, a
graduate student of the class of 1997 in the Heat Energy
Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing. He was once
awarded the "Excellent Student Scholarship" by the
university From January 15 to January 30, 2000, Mr. Liu
Wenyu was illegally held under house arrest at the No.
200 Nuclear Testing Base because he refused to renounce
Falun Gong. In June 2000, Liu Wenyu went to Tiananmen
Square to appeal to the central government to stop the
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Nevertheless,
the police detained him for one month. Later, the
Tsinghua University authorities dismissed him from the
university. He was arrested with his wife and also
detained.
3. Meng Jun, male, 29, associate lecturer in the
Electrical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University,
Beijing. He holds a master's degree from the Electronics
Department, Tsinghua Uni-versity. During September and
October of 1999, police from the Tsinghua University
Police Station and the Beijing Police Department
detained Mr. Meng Jun twice. Because he refused to
renounce Falun Gong, he was forced to leave his job as
an associate lecturer in the Electrical Engineering
Department. At midnight on December 31, 2000, police
arrested him while posting Falun Gong materials on the
street. During his detention, he suffered from inhumane
beatings and torture.
4. Wang Xin, male, 25 years old, a Ph.D. student
of the class of 1999 in the Department of Precision
Machinery & Instrumentation, Tsinghua University,
Beijing. He was once awarded "Excellent Cadre of the
School," "Second Grade Excellent Student," "Haolaixi
Schoolmate," and the "Xiyueyuying" Scholarship. He also
used to be the vice-president of the department's
Science Association. In October 1999, the Tsinghua
University authorities suspended Mr. Wang Xin because he
practiced Falun Gong.
5. Dong Yanhong, female, 30 years old, with a
bachelor's degree, winner of a national calligraphy
contest. The Neighborhood Committee of the Southwest
Building, Tsinghua University, listed Ms. Dong Yanhong
as a key target because she refused to renounce Falun
Gong. In January 2001, the neighborhood committee
tricked her into going to see the committee by saying
that they wanted to have a chat with her. She has been
detained ever since.
6. Wang Xuefei, male, a graduate student from
Shanghai City. He was sentenced to eleven years in jail
for distributing Falun Gong information on the Internet. |
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