[1] Practitioners from Oil University of Eastern China Detained, Fired, Dismissed, and Abused
Wang Yan-shu, a student from the Oil University of Eastern China, went to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong and got arrested on the Tiananmen Square. Later, he was escorted back to the University and detained in the Public Security section 110 office for 2 days and 2 nights. He was not allowed to sleep during that time, and he would be waken up by the guard even for a sitting nap. He is now in Oil Public Security for 15 days of detention.
Cheng Guang-chang, a faculty member of the Oil University, was removed from his post for having gone to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong.
Yu Li-jian, a student from the Oil University, was dismissed from the University for writing a letter to the University officials to report the truth of Falun Gong.
[2] Practitioners from Oil Plant Detained and Imposed Stiff Fines
On January 29, practitioners from Shengli Oil Plant went to practice Falun Gong exercises in a park and 89 of them got arrested. Later most of them got released after paying a fine of 2,000 to 20,000 Yuan except 17 practitioners (6 female and 11 male) including Zhou Tian-rong, Wu Zheng-nan, Jing Tian-ming, Wang Hai-xia and Tan Jin-ming etc. One of them was an aged woman. They were first detained in the detention center of the Public Security Bureau of Dong-ying City. On February 16, they were transferred to another place. Up to February 20, they have had been on hunger strike for 5 days. A female practitioner could not move by herself.
Currently, officials of the Shengli Oil Plant talked to practitioners and required practitioner to give up Falun Gong, otherwise, they would be fined from several thousand up to several tens of thousand Yuan (the monthly income of an average worker in China ranges from 500 to 1,000 Yuan).
[3] More Sufferings of Practitioners from Villages: Homes Ransacked, Frozen in Snow,Stiff Fines, Tortures, and Being Fired
Tan-ge-zhuang Township police station went to the homes of practitioners who refused to give up Falun Gong to confiscate their personal properties such as TVs and tractors etc. They took off practitioners' clothes with only some underclothes left and then kept them in the snow during the day. At night, they detained practitioners in an empty house with windows opened.
Local authorities of Jiangtong Town beat up practitioners. Some were beaten to lose consciousness and almost got crippled. Each of them were fined 5,000 Yuan. Practitioners from all villages and towns were fined from several hundred to more than ten thousand Yuan.
The He-ping Village in Lai-yang City had cut the power supply of Falun Gong practitioners for a long time. They also ransacked their homes. In the detention center, practitioners suffered all kinds of tortures including one called "Being Fully Fixed" (namely, one's head, hands, and feet are all fixed for days and could not move a little bit.)
Some practitioners were under home arrest of their workplaces and could not go home. Some were removed from their posts or dismissed from schools.
Category: Accounts of Persecution
