Student Deprived of Right to Education for practising Falun Gong

Falun Dafa Practitioner Yang Junlei Deprived of His Right to Take the National College Entrance Examination

[Mengyin County, Shandong Province]

Yang Junlei, a 19-year-old male practitioner and recent high school graduate, is from Xinanyu Village, Liancheng Town, Mengyin County, Shandong Province. On April 30, 2001 he went to Beijing to appeal. Beijing police caught him, and beat him up so brutally that he became deaf in one ear. Local policemen escorted him back home where he was then illegally detained for one month. He was arrested and brought to the town government, along with his Father Yang Zhenquan, his mother, and even his uncles Yang Zhenhua and Yang Zhenguo, who did not practise Falun Gong.

Instigated by Li Zhiye, the county secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, the head of the town, Ji Shengyu, organized the search of Yang Junlei's home. They confiscated furniture, electrical equipment and six pigs. In addition, they forced Yang's family to hand over 7,400 Yuan in cash. The value of the confiscated items and the cash totalled 10,400 Yuan (the average monthly income in rural China is only about 500 Yuan). Yang's two uncles were released after a one-month detention. Yang Junlei himself and his parents were detained in a garage during the hot summer weather. There were no beds inside. They had been detained an additional two months and told to hand in 5,600 Yuan more. The family was in poverty already and could not pay the money. They were forced to write an IOU and then were released.

The unreasonable persecutors would not excuse practitioner's parents and relatives who did not practise Falun Gong. Yang Junlei was deprived of the right to participate in the National College Entrance Examination, preventing him of his right of further education. Now he stays at home with his parents to do farm work.

Source:http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/10/8/14537.html