A Chinese University with Worldwide Research Ties Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners

On September 10th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Qiu Min, over 30 years old, was taken away by security officers from Sanxia University and the local 610 Office¹. Mr. Qiu is a teacher at the College of Chemistry and Life Sciences at Sanxia University.

Since July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong, several teachers at Sanxia University have been arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre by the university's CCP committee and 610 Office. The so-called anti-[slanderous term omitted] organisation of Yichang City, Hubei Province, was particularly active during August 2006. The chairman of the organisation is Liu Defu, the president of Sanxia University.

Mr. Qiu Min is a lab teacher at the college. He is very dedicated to his work and well liked by staff and students alike. When his colleagues heard the news of his arrest, they were all shocked. They think the university officials' sense of justice and moral standards are severely lacking.

There are three known Falun Dafa practitioners at Sanxia University: Qiu Min, Zhou Qiang, and Zhang Zhenglin from the College of Foreign Languages. Zhou Qiang and Zhang Zhenglin, both of whom the students like, have been forced out of their teaching positions and are no longer allowed to teach.

According to the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, Zhang Zhenglin, Zhou Qiang, and Qiu Min were taken to Tangxiunhu Brainwashing Centre on April 2004, June 2005, and September 11th, 2006, respectively. As of September 17th Qiu Min is still in the brainwashing centre.

The Yichang City 610 Office is the group mainly responsible for these actions. The two later incidents also had the cooperation of the university security and political office and the Chemistry and Life Sciences College. The college president, Huang Yinping, either remained silent or passively cooperated in both cases. However, CCP Committee Secretary Zheng Zejun was involved in the planning and participated in the seizures. (See other persecution activities in the Clearwisdom report at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/1/3/68612.html)

Currently, the university has set up cooperative relations with 54 universities and scientific research institutes around the world. Among them, Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid from the University of Pennsylvania cooperated with the university and established the Alan MacDiarmid Regenerative Energy Research Centre in 2006. This research centre is tied to the College of Chemistry and Life Sciences. The director of the research centre, Dr. Huang Yinping, is also the president of the college. Alan G. MacDiarmid is one of the winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. It is said that Professor MacDiarmid will be working at Sanxia University for one month next year in order to review the operation of the research centre named after him. In addition, the assistant president of the University of Texas at Dallas, renowned physicist Dr. Feng Daxuan, also collaborates with Sanxia University.

Universities with research ties to Sanxia University:

France
Universite de Valenciennes et Du Hainaut Cambresis
Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand
University of Science and Technology at Lille
School of Haute Etudes d'Ingenieur
Pole Universitaire Europeen de Nancy-Metz
University of Hydraulics

Germany
TFH Berlin-University of Applied Sciences
Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences
University of Hanover

Britain
London South Bank University
University of Wales Swansea

Russia
Scientific Research Institute of Energy Structures
Amur University
Moscow State University of Civil Engineering

Sweden
University College Gavle-Sandviken

Holland
University of Twente

Belgium
University of Namur

Ukraine
Zaporozhya State Technical University
National PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
National Academy of Artistic Skill and Architecture
Kiev Linguistic University

Austria
University of Wien
Fachhochschule Technikum Wien

Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Norway
Agder University College
Telemark University College
Vestfold University College

Australia
Flinders University Australia
Adelaide University
University of Griffith
Queensland University of Technology

Canada
University of Calgary

United States
Cuyahoga Community College
University of Memphis
Ferrum College
Troy University
University of Bridgeport
Northern Arizona University
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

Japan
University of Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Nagoya Institute of Technology

Korean
Changxin College
Sunlin College
Soongsil University
Jeonju University
kyungil University
Cheju National University

China
Yanbian University of Science & Technology

Vietnam
Hanoi Water Resources University

Indonesia
University of Surabaya

Malaysia
Systematic College

Iran
Power and Water Institute for Applied Scientific Higher Education

India
Asian Educational Consultancy

Nepal
Kathmandu School of Medical Technology

Contact information for Sanxia University
Address: 8 Daxue Road, Yichang City, Hubei Province 443002
Directors of the Research Centre Hu Bin and Pan Jiarong: 86-717-6395835

Security Section:

Director, Wang Yaohui: 86-717-6392122
Deputy Director, Liu Xiancheng: 86-717-6392122
Deputy Director, Yang Yimin: 86-717-6392626
Deputy Director, Liu Tianrong: 13986756975
Security Office: 86-717-6392124
Residential Committee: 86-717-6392037
Office Director, Hu Xiuren: 6392121, fax 86-717-6392632, [email protected]
Assistant Director of Political and Security Section, Li Jun: 86-717-6392632, 86-717-6392528
Director of Security Section, Cheng Peng: 86-717-6392124, [email protected]
Liao Bin: 86-717-6392204
North Area Police: 86-717-6392200
West Area Police: 86-717-6455894
Huang Hao: 86-717-6392011, [email protected]
Tan Jiaqi: 86-717-6392031, [email protected]
Yie Danhong: 86-717-6392031, [email protected]
Zhang Rui: 86-717-6392611
Jiang Ron: 86-717-6392011, [email protected]
Hu Zongying: 86-717-6392023
Zheng Min: 86-717-6392014

College of Chemistry and Life SciencesOffice: 86-717-6395580
President: 86-717-6395963
Secretary: 86-717-6395515
Vice President: 86-717-6395579
Vice President: 86-717-6395643
Vice President: 86-717-6395547
Biotechnology Research Centre: 86-717-6397188, 86-717-6397169
Student office: 86-717-6395612

College of Biochemistry
President Liu Haibo: 86-717-6395580, [email protected]
Xiu Huiying: 86-717-6395611
Liu Min: 86-717-6395516
Cheng Shaofeng: 86-717-6392601
Liu Defu: 86-717-6392002
Office: 86-717-6392899, 86-717-6392606, 86-717-6392602
Shi Yafe:86-717-6392605 (office), 86-717-6224430 (home)
Yuan Hong: 86-717-63926(office), 86-717-6392603(office), 86-717-6223147(home)

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/9/19/138192.html