The Persecution of Ms. Ye Huiming, Teacher at Xinxiang City Judicial Officials' School in Henan Province

Name: Ye Huiming
Gender: Female
Age: 40
Address: Xinxiang, Henan Province
Occupation: Teacher at Xinxiang City Judicial Officials' School
Date of Most Recent Arrest: October 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Xinxiang City Detention Centre
City: Xinxiang
Province: Henan
Persecution Suffered: Harassment, home ransacked, and detention

Ms. Ye Huiming, a teacher at Xinxiang City Judicial Officials' School, has been subjected to arrest, detention, and long-term surveillance.

Ms. Ye graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing in 1994. She began the practice of Falun Gong to cure her rheumatoid arthritis. She strictly followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and regained her health.

After Jiang Zemin, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] and his clique started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Ye travelled to Beijing to appeal on behalf of the practice in April 2000. Xinxiang County Police Department officials held her in the county detention centre for a month after she returned from Beijing.

After the staged "Tiananmen self-immolation"¹ incident in 2001, Ms. Ye wrote to the director-general of the Justice Department to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong. As a result, her employer sent her three times to be "reformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] at the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City.

Ms. Ye's employer has withheld the majority of her wages and bonuses since 2004.

On June 30th, 2006, Muye District Police Department Domestic Security Division officer Qian Lin, along with a group of officers, broke into Ms. Ye's home and confiscated a computer, printer, DVD player, audio recorder, MP3 player, and Falun Gong materials, valued at nearly 10,000 yuan². They took Ms. Ye to the detention centre, where she was held for 15 days.

Since April 2008, Xinxiang Judicial Officials' School leaders have kept Ms. Ye and another retired employee practitioner under surveillance around the clock. They turned what were originally welfare fees into a "persecution fund," which is being used to award those who participate in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Every employee that monitors practitioners can obtain over 10,000 yuan from the persecution fund each year. The school authorities have also linked the issuance of the persecution reward to school officials' year-end assessments. Only if their year-end assessment reaches 100 percent "excellent" rate will they be granted 100 per cent of the persecution reward. Some individual employees went off the deep end about receiving the persecution award and took advantage of that policy. They followed Ms. Ye closely wherever she went, made phone calls to harass her, and frequently went to harass her at home.

Danyang Police Station officers Zhang Baoliang, Dong Fazhan, Cheng Weidong, and others, with the co-operation of those who monitor practitioners--including Ma Sizhen, Zhao Yongmei, and Wang Jihong--broke into Ms. Ye's home on September 17th, 2008, and again on May 27th, 2009, and confiscated Falun Gong materials, a notebook computer, an MP3 player, and other valuable items. They also held Ms. Ye at a detention centre twice for a total of 15 days.

Cui Yuxing, Xinxiang Judicial Officials' School head: 86-13598881269
Zhao Yongmei: 86-13937310341
Wang Jihong: 86-13949608535
Ma Sizhen: 86-13633733184
Wang Mingtang: 86-13803806011 (Detention centre head)
Zhang Baoliang: 86-13333804809
Qian Lin, Muye Police Department Domestic Security Division head: 86- 13569827812

1. The "Tiananmen Self-Immolation" an incident on Tiananmen Square in January 2001 whereby four people set themselves alight and the Chinese Communist claimed they were Falun Gong practitioners, yet there was video evidence to strongly disprove this claim

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/2/7/217712.html