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Many Cases of Students Being Dismissed, Expelled from School for Belief in Falun Gong
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Brothers Expelled from School for Practicing Falun Gong
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1. Zang Haoran, male, 14, a fifth
grade student of the 4th Elementary School, Shuangcheng
City, Heilongjiang Province
2. Zang Haotong, male, 13, Zang Haoran’s younger
brother, a fourth grade student of the 4th Elementary
School, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province
In March 2001, all middle and elementary schools in
Shuangcheng City required students to write essays
criticizing and attacking Falun Gong. On March 8, Haoran,
a Falun Gong practitioner, wrote about the truth of
Falun Gong in an essay entitled "Falun Gong is an
Orthodox Teaching." Upon reading this, the principal and
teachers threatened him, "If you don't denounce Falun
Gong, and if you insist on practicing it, you will be
expelled from school!" Despite the enormous pressure,
Haoran stayed firm about Falun Gong practice. The
principal did not dare to openly dismiss Haoran, but
instead forced him to transfer schools (see the "letter
of transfer request" under Attachments below). However,
even before he could find a school to transfer to, the
principal prohibited Haoran from coming to school. In
addition, even though his own "letter of transfer
request" stated "practice of Falun Gong" as the reason
for the transfer, the principal told the teachers and
students at the school that Haoran was asked to leave
for picking fights.
Zang's younger brother, Zang Haotong, 13years old, is
also a Falun Gong practitioner. Like his brother, he was
forced out of the same school for not renouncing his
belief in Falun Gong. They have both been deprived of
the right to an education by professional teachers and
are staying at home.
Attachments:
| 1. The essay that Zang Haoran wrote entitled "Falun Gong
is the Orthodox Teaching"
March 8, 2001
Teachers:
Falun Gong is the Orthodox Teaching and it is not like
what you have thought it to be. It teaches us to be good
people and conduct ourselves according to the universal
principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" in
our daily lives. We are good students at school and good
children at home. If you do not know the truth about
Falun Dafa, it is not your fault, as I have not done my
job well. I urge the principal and teachers to get to
know about Falun Gong. Please consider my words
carefully. All human beings are kind in nature. Please
show your kind nature so as to position yourselves well.
The government has banned Falun Gong because they do not
know the truth. If they knew the truth they would lift
the ban. You also want me to be a good student. These
are words from my heart. Therefore, I must continue to
practice Falun Gong.
Your student, Zang Haoran
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2. The reference letters from the principal, indicating
that Zang Haoran and Zang Haotong need to transfer from
their school because they practice Falun Gong.
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7th Grade Student Dismissed from Middle School for Practicing Falun Gong
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1. Yang Jin, male, 16, a 7th
grade student of Sanhe City First Middle School,
resident of Sanhe City, Hebei Province
2. Li Fengxia, female, mother of Yang Jin,
residentof Sanhe City, Hebei Province
On December 20, 2000, Mr. Yang Jin's teacher, Zhang
Yonghui, the Dean of Studies, Zhang, the school
principal, Yang Zhidong, the Party Secretary of the
school, and several other school officials each
attempted to force Yang Jin to give up Falun Gong. He
was threatened with expulsion if he continued to
practice. He refused to renounce his belief in Falun
Gong and, thus, was expelled from school.
When Mr. Yang Jin's expulsion was exposed on the
internet, policeman Yan from Beicheng Police Substation
of Langfang City Police Station (Hebei Province)
arrested Mr. Yang Jin and his mother Li Fengxia from
their home on March 20, 2001. Their home was ransacked.
Mr. Yang was interrogated by the police for five hours. |
Post Doctorate Researcher Dismissed and Sent to Labor Camp for Practicing Falun Gong
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Mr. Zhang Yong
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Zhang Yong, male, 30,
post-doctorate fellow of the Institute of Chemistry and
Metallurgy,
Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
From April 13 to May 12, 2000, Mr. Zhang Yong was
detained in Beijing for practicing Falun Gong. He was
subsequently dismissed from the Chinese Academy of
Science and was sentenced to one year of forced labor. |
Graduate Students Expelled from School for
Writing to Mr. Kofi Annan
about the Persecution of Falun Gong
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1. Luo Mingpu, a graduate student in
the History Department at the Sichuan University,
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
2. Liu Bin, a graduate student at the Sichuan
University, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
3. Liu Tao, a graduate student at the Sichuan
University, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
4. Chen Mingyong, male, a graduate student at the
Industrial Institute of Sichuan, Sichuan Province
In October 1999, Luo Mingpu, Liu Bin and Liu Tao were
expelled from the Sichuan University in Chengdu City,
Sichuan Province. They were charged by the authorities
at the Sichuan University with participating in drafting
an appeal letter to the Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, for the Falun Gong
practitioners in Sichuan Province. They were also
charged with collecting signatures on a petition which
called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
On October 20, 1999, Chen Mingyong was arrested by the
Chengdu police for writing the letter to Mr. Kofi Annan
and collecting signatures on the petition. He was held
in a jail on Ningxia Street, Chengdu City. Later, he was
dismissed from the Industrial Institute of Sichuan,
Sichuan Province. |
Honor Student Expelled from School for Refusing to Denounce Falun Gong
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Zhang Haibin, male, 17, an honor
senior student in Class 3 of the 22nd Senior High School
in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Zhang Haibin suffered continuous persecution by the
authorities of his high school because he practiced
Falun Gong.
On New Year's Day 2000, school authorities summoned
Zhang to the school and forced him to write a statement
denouncing Falun Gong. They threatened not to release
him unless he writes such a letter. Zhang was released
after he went on a hunger strike for a day and a half.
During the 2000 summer vacation, the school sent
teachers and students to his home everyday to watch him.
On December 6, 2000, the school gave Zhang an ultimatum:
either give up Falun Gong or face expulsion. On December
9, 2000, Zhang went to Beijing to appeal to the
government for an end to the harassment from the school
and the persecution of Falun Gong. He was arrested and
detained in the Qinghe Detention Center in Beijing. He
was also beaten by the guards at the Qinghe Detention
Center.
On December 27, 2000, Mr. Zhu, the principal of the 22nd
High School, went to Beijing to take Zhang back to the
school. Afterwards, they sent him to the Yudong Police
Station in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. In
February 2001, Zhang was sentenced to the Shijiazhuang
Labor Camp, Hebei Province.
Zhang Haibin's father has written many letters to the
authorities demanding that his son be released. Because
of this, his father is wanted by the police. At present,
Zhang Haibin is still detained in the Shijiazhuang Labor
Camp. |
Students From Daqing City Threatened with Dismissal from School
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1. Students in No.69 Middle School, Daqing
City,Heilongjiang Province
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Students in No. 55 Middle School, Daqing City,
Heilongjiang Province
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Students in Fendou Primary School of Daqing City,
Heilongjiang Province
In March 2001, students in No. 69 Middle School, No. 55
Middle School, and the Fendou Primary School of Daqing
City, Heilongjiang Province were forced to sign a
petition defaming Falun Gong.
In the No. 69 Middle School many students objected to
sign documents against Falun Gong. In order to obtain
enough signatures, the school officials forced students
to either sign the petition or face dismissal.
In No. 55 Middle School, the students were divided into
groups of four or five. Under their teachers’
surveillance, they were forced to sign a petition
defaming Falun Gong while being videotaped. Afterwards,
the students and faculty were required to attend a
meeting to slander Falun Gong. They were threatened with
dismissal from school if they would not slander Falun
Gong.
In Fendou Primary School, several students were forced
to sign a petition defaming Falun Gong. Two policemen
took hold of one student and made him sign his name.
Many children were in tears because they did not want to
sign the petition. Some children signed the name of
Jiang Zemin or pseudo names. Students who refused to
sign were dismissed from school or arrested and
detained. |
Gao Shanshan was Deprived of the Right to Higher Education
Because Practicing Falun Gong
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Gao Shanshan, female, 16 years
old (at the time of the incident), a high school student
of the First High School in Qiqihaer City, Heilongjiang
Province
On September 20, 1999, Gao Shanshan went to Beijing to
meet her mother, Zhou Yingjie, who was visiting from
Japan. The owner of the hotel where Gao’s mother was
staying saw Gao carrying a Falun Gong book and had her
sent to the Beijing police department. A policeman
cursed at her, pulled her hair, and forcefully inserted
a piece of spoiled lamb meat into her mouth. When her
mother, Zhou Yingjie, came to visit her in the detention
center, she was ordered to leave immediately.
Because she insisted on her right to practice Falun
Gong, Gao Shanshan was prohibited from taking the
college entrance exams after she graduated from the
First High School of Qiqihaer City in July2000. She was
thereby deprived of the right to receive a higher
education. She was even deprived of the right to receive
education abroad, as the Qiqihaer City Police Department
refused to issue her a passport to go to Japan (despite
her parent's plea to have their daughter go to Japan to
visit them).
On January 23, 2001, Gao Shanshan was arrested again and
sent to the No. 2 Prison of Qiqihaer City, Heilongjiang
Province.
Attachment:
Appeal from Gao Shanshan's Japanese Father to Request the
Release of Gao Shanshan.
My name is Gao Xiazhengsheng. [Note: this is the Chinese
phonetic spelling of the Japanese name]. I am a
57-year-old Japanese man. My wife, Gao Xiayouzi, [her
Chinese name is Zhou Yingjie] is 49 years old, and
Chinese.
My daughter, Gao Shanshan, who is 19 years old, is still
in China. I planned to let her continue her college
education in Japan after she graduated from high school.
However, she has been arrested twice by the Chinese
Government because she practiced Falun Gong. We have
lost all contact with her since January 23, 2001, when
she was detained for the second time. It has now been
four months since we last heard from her.
My daughter is an excellent student and she has a kind
heart. She was unhappy before, due to her skin disease
and stomach problems. We spent a lot of money, though we
were unable to cure her diseases. Since she began
practicing Falun Gong, however, her diseases have
disappeared, and all without spending a penny. She has
become a healthy and happy child. That is why she has
very deep gratitude towards Falun Gong and its founder,
Mr. Li Hongzhi. In July 1999, when the government
started persecuting Falun Gong in China, she had very
courageously gone—as a 16 year-old girl—to Beijing to
appeal and to clarify the truth of Falun Gong and its
benefits to the people and to the country. However, she
was arrested and confined in the school's dormitory for
a month. During that time, she was brainwashed every day
and was forced to give up Falun Gong. After graduating
from the No. 1 High School in Qiqihaer City,
Heilongjiang Province, she was deprived of the right to
attend college and receive a higher education. When we
contacted the local police station to request the
procedures needed for her to return to Japan, the
government deprived her of the right to go abroad and
have a family reunion. On January 23 of this year, she
was arrested again and, ever since then, she has been
detained in the No. 2 Prison of Qiqihaer City.
The Chinese prison system is very dismal and the concept
of human rights is foreign to it. I heard that more than
200 Falun Gong practitioners have died from torture and
beating. [Note: The reported cases of death in custody
surpassed 300 as of October 29, 2001]. I really can't
imagine what kind of life my daughter, a 19 year-old
child, is having in a dismal Chinese prison, nor what
kind of inhumane treatment she may be receiving.
Four months have passed, and we haven't heard a single
word from her. Her mom and I are very concerned about
her situation now. My health was already bad. In
addition, each sleepless night of worrying has caused my
health to worsen. Every day, her mother and I look
forward to hearing from her, and to her returning to
Japan to live with us; we look forward to her enjoying
the happy and beautiful life a 19 year-old girl should
have.
I am hereby sincerely calling for the Japanese
Government and international human rights organizations
to please pay close attention to my daughter's destiny
and to help by doing whatever they can to facilitate her
release from the Chinese prison, thus allowing her to
return to us as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Gao Xiazhengsheng
Telephone: 048-093-6368 |
Cao Kai, a Ph.D. Student, Tortured and Dismissed for Practicing Falun Gong
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Cao Kai, male, 29, a Ph.D.
student at the Institute of Developmental Biology of the
Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
On June 7, 2000, Mr. Cao Kai was arrested during a visit
to a Falun Gong practitioner’s home in Hainan Province.
He was detained in a detention center in Hainan Province
for over half a month. On June 23, 2000, he was brought
back to Beijing and dismissed from his Ph.D. program in
the Chinese Academy of Science. Mr. Cao was detained in
the No. 7 Detention Center of the Haidian District
Police Department, where his health deteriorated due to
police maltreatment. To protest the detention and
maltreatment, Mr. Cao Kai started a hunger strike. The
police force-fed him by inserting a tube through his
nose. Because they left the tube in him for many days,
Mr. Cao Kai’s body became extremely weak and many of his
organs atrophied. His eyes also started to bleed. The
government representatives of the Haidian District
refused to release him despite his poor health. |
Music Student Dismissed from School for Appealing for Falun Gong
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Wang Bo, female, 20, student of China
Central Music Institute in Beijing, resident of 52-2-403
West Tangu Street, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
In September 2000, Ms. Wang Bo was dismissed from the
China Central Music Institute in Beijing for refusing to
write a statement renouncing Falun Gong. She had been
arrested twice and was under police surveillance at
home. Due to her previous appeals to the government in
Beijing to stop the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Wang
was followed when-ever she leaves home.
On December 4, 2000, Ms. Wang went to Beijing again to
appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong.
Then, she was surrounded, beaten, and kicked by several
Tiananmen Square policemen. A police officer conducted a
body search and stole 600 Yuan from her.
Ms. Wang Bo was sentenced to three years in a labor camp
by the Yudong Police Substation in Shijiazhuang City,
Hebei Province. Consequently, she was dismissed from
school. At that time she was nine-teen years old. She
was later sent to the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp and
detained in the 2nd Group (5th Section) of the Labor
Camp.
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