Teacher Arrested by "610 Office" Personnel for Showing a Falun Gong Video in Class

According to reliable sources, the District Court of Maojian District, Shiyan City, Hubei Province will soon put Ms. He Jiao on trial. She is a young teacher at the Shiyan City Experimental High School. The court officials admitted that the case has already been decided by "upper level authorities" and that the court and the government lawyers will "merely follow the routine procedure." They also admitted that the case was reported to the district authorities, the city authorities and all the provincial authorities. The "upper level" authority that decided the case was the provincial 610 Office (1). They have a three-step plan: first, designate He Jiao guilty and continue to persecute her; second, find and persecute He Jiao's husband Wang Delin, also a Falun Gong practitioner who is currently homeless and do the same to other practitioners; third, extort money from He Jiao's family and relatives.

On January 4, 2005, He Jiao showed the Falun Gong video, "Walk Forward in the Wind and Rain," to a class of junior high school students where she was employed. On January 6, the National Security Team from the Maojian Police Station arrested her. The vice principals of Shiyan City Experimental High School also participated in the illegal arrest.

They ransacked He Jiao's home and confiscated a computer and other property. After He Jiao showed the Falun Gong video CD, the director of the Shiyan City's 610 Office and He Shixing, who is the associate head of the Shiyan City Bureau of Education and who is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong within the city, went to the high school and used the following persecutory tactics: They implicated the school principal and ordered the principal to write a self-criticism statement and forbid the school from competing in a model school contest. They then held a meeting with all the teachers and staff in which they spread slander about Falun Gong. They also showed a video CD to the students of the class who had seen the Falun Gong video exposing the persecution. The persecutor's video CD denounced Falun Gong, and they tried to poison the students and teachers with it.

He Jiao is currently being detained in the First Detention Centre of Shiyan City. According to the internal sources at the detention centre, officials from the Public Security Bureau and the government lawyer's office frequently try to coerce or cajole He Jiao. She is now facing tremendous pressure and cries often. Her husband's brother is taking care of her eight-year-old daughter, whose life is difficult without parents.

We also appeal to all kind-hearted people in China who have a sense of justice to step forward, help end the evil persecution and provide more details about the persecution.

Country code: 86, area code: 719.

Ji Qunfeng, Vice Mayor of Shiyan City and in charge of persecuting Falun Gong: 8688666 (office), 8673253 (office), 8669222 (home), 13807281100 (mobile)
Yang Guoshun, head of the Shiyan City Bureau of Eduation: 8672878 (office), 8655195 (home), 13807289636 (mobile), E-mail: [email protected].
He Shixing, associate head of the Shiyan City Bureau of Eduation and in charge of persecuting Falun Gong: 8486529 (office), E-mail: [email protected].
Liu Rong, Principal of Shiyan City Experimental High School: 8666489 ext. 8028 or 8018, 13907284557 (mobile).

Note:

(1) "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/5/2/100948.html