An Appeal to Help Rescue Wang Bo, a Talented 20-Year-Old Musician

Wang Bo is a 20-year-old woman. She was a college student in the Music Department of China’s Central Music Conservatory. She was expelled from school and illegally sent to a labour camp for three years because of her belief in Truthfulness - Benevolence - Forbearance. Now she is being inhumanely tortured in that living hell. We are calling for help in rescuing this talented college student.

Wang Bo started to learn piano when she was young. She is very intelligent and sincere. In her 12-year study of music, all of her instructors enjoyed teaching her because she was gentle and mild. When she was 8 years old, she won the award for excellence in piano performance in Hebei Province. At 13, she passed the 10th level (highest level of skill) of national amateur piano playing. After she entered high school, she followed the trend of moral corruption in society. She became selfish and lazy, and began seeking material pleasures. Driven by the pursuits of fame and self-interest, she rejected other people’s advice and became arrogant, conceited, and impatient. She was sick a lot, and her grades and the quality of her musical performances plunged.

At that time, she started to notice great changes in her parents. Both of them had benefited a lot from cultivating Falun Dafa. As a result, she started to read Zhuan Falun(principle book of Falun Dafa). She was deeply touched by "Truthfulness - Benevolence - Forbearance", and from then on she developed a firm belief in Dafa. She became independent and diligent looking inside herself when problems came up. She enjoyed helping others, and became more and more assimilated to "Truthfulness - Benevolence - Forbearance", making her grades and performances improved rapidly. With excellent scores on the entrance examination for college, she was concurrently accepted by the Tianjin Music Institute (Central Music Institute and Hebei Normal University). In the test of "talent of musical skills" held by Central Music Institute, most students fail, but Wang Bo did so well that she won an award of 1,000 Yuan [Approximately 2-months salary of an average urban worker]. The teachers who administered the test thought that she was a very talented student. Her story is a strong rebuttal to the disparaging comments made by He Zuoxiu and his associates.

Wang Bo deeply understands that she has benefited from practising Falun Gong and her wish is that others can also benefit. Seeing that Dafa was being slandered viciously by some bad people, she spoke the truth to people in the college with a kind and selfless heart. For doing that, and also for refusing to renounce Dafa, she was expelled from school in September of 2000.

One day in Dec. 2000, Wang Bo went to Tiananmen Square to peacefully appeal to the government. She went with a kind heart and trust in the government. Exercising every citizen’s basic rights, she opened a Dafa banner and spoke out the words from her heart, "Falun Dafa is good!" Policemen in plain clothes and others in uniforms swarmed around her. They beat her with fists, kicked her with boots and hit her on the head with batons. Several big and rude men threw her into a police car and drove her to Tiananmen Police Station. In the police station, officers searched her body forcefully and took away 600 Yuan from her while saying extremely dirty words. When the police promised to release her if she gave her name and address, she believed their lies and told them. As a result, she was sentenced by Yudong Police Station (in Shijiazhuang City) to a labour camp term of three years, simply for her sincere call, "Falun Dafa is good." She was only 19 when they sent her to the labour camp.

Wang Bo's father is also a Dafa practitioner. He went to legally appeal in Beijing, and spoke out about the truth of Falun Gong. For this, he was dismissed from the Party and all his administrative duties. Also, he was not paid for six months, and his persecutors even detained him for 21 days. Wang Bo's mother is also a practitioner who has gone to appeal in Beijing many times. As a result, she was illegally detained again and again. The total time she has spent in detention centres exceeds 100 days. Now she has been forced to abandon her home to avoid further persecution. A perfect family has thus been torn apart. They were persecuted simply because they persisted in their cultivation to become better people, and because they wanted more people with a predestined relationship to benefit from obtaining Dafa.

Wang Bo is now illegally detained in Shijiazhuang Labour Camp (No. 5 division, subdivision 2). While transferring her from the detention centre to the labour camp, policemen in Yudong Police Station illegally took away 500 Yuan--the only money she had. Also, the police did not even notify Wang Bo's parents when sending her to the labour camp. Her whereabouts were unknown to them. The labour camp does not allow visitors, so she has been separated from her parents for more than four months now. In March, 2001, Dafa practitioners in No. 2, No. 4, and No. 5 divisions of Shijiazhuang Labour Camp spontaneously went on hunger strikes to voice their grievances and to request their release. Afraid that people outside would learn the truth of their persecution, the labour camp officials did not allow any visitors. We don't know what is happening to Wang Bo inside that living hell.

We are calling for the family members of Dafa practitioners to take action immediately and stop the criminal behaviour of Jiang Zemin and his associates. Not only Wang Bo, but also countless other excellent citizens have been detained and tortured illegally for speaking out against the persecution of Falun Gong. We are also calling for international human rights organizations to investigate and stop the severe human rights violations by Jiang Zemin and his followers. Cultivating to be a better person is a basic human right of every human being.

The address of Central Music Institute: 43 Baojia Street, Xicheng Region, Beijing. Tel: 86-10- 66425723, 66414186

Criminals who persecute Dafa practitioners:

1. Department of Public Security of Hebei Province, Law Enforcement Division; It is also the "Labour Re-education" commission. Tel: 86-311-3033941 Ext. 2142

2. Management Office of Labour Camps in Shijiazhuang City (forbids family members to visit) 86- 0311-7754007 Ext. 207

3. Shijiazhuang Labour Camp: manager Zhao Yunlong, Party secretary Wang Bingfang. Address 1: 050051, 22 Beijiao Street, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province (No. 5 Division of Shijiazhuang Labour Camp) Tel: 86-311-7752350, 7753569, 7776422, 7763488, 7776421, and 7752749
Address 2: 050000, 10 Beicheng Road, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Tel: 86- 311-7767140, 7797124, 7797145, operator: 7754007

4. Address of Centre for Exposal of Shijiazhuang Labour Camp: 050051, 20 Beijiao Street, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Tel: 86-311-7752225

5. Vice Chief of Shijiazhuang Public Security Department Zeng Jiangxing (the primary local persecutor of Falun Gong). Division of Administrative Protection: Xiao Shuxiang (Head) Tel: 86-311-7725449. Ma Chunsheng (Vice Head, who murdered a Dafa practitioner in Cangzhou City) Tel (secret): 86-311-7726574. Officer Deng Fang and Li (in Charge of religious issues). Public Security Department of Shijiazhuang City: 83 Minzu Road, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Tel: 86-311-7023296

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/29/17243.html