I was Paraded Through the Streets and Humiliated for Going to Beijing to Appeal for Falun Gong

(Clearwisdom.net) On October 8, 2000, I arrived at Tiananmen Square after I freed myself from the questioning of the plainclothes police in the streets of Beijing. There was one guard positioned every three steps and one sentry post every five steps. [The security was extremely tight.] There were also plainclothes police lined up in a long row at the center of the Square, waiting to change shifts in view of the public. There were police vehicles everywhere. I selected a crowded spot with lots of people passing by to do the sitting meditation. As a result, I was pulled away by a few plainclothes policemen and put into a police vehicle. I was sent to a police station in Beijing, and was told that I was the 300^th practitioner arrested at Tiananmen Square that day.

On the same day, my local government's liaison office in Beijing came to take me back to my hometown. I stayed in their liaison office in Beijing for 24 hours, forced to wear handcuffs even while sleeping. The local police station sent one male and one female police officer to escort back the other two female practitioners that were also arrested in Beijing for appealing to the government to stop its persecution of Falun Gong. They searched my body and confiscated 570 Yuan. [The monthly wage of an average urban worker in China is 500 Yuan]. They didn't give me any receipt and claimed that the money was to buy train tickets. The next day, all three of us were handcuffed together and boarded the train. We were transferred to a police vehicle when we reached our destination station.

One of the female practitioners that was arrested told me that she arrived at Tiananmen Square on China's National Day on October 1, 2000. At that time the Square had already been cordoned off. She saw numerous police surrounding nearly a thousand practitioners and brutally beating and kicking them. The police said to another practitioner, "I could never imagine that you would go to Beijing. With only 20 Yuan left, how did you expect to return home from Beijing?" She had walked more than 40 km (25 miles) during the night before taking the train to Beijing.

Several hours later, we arrived at the local police station and we were "greeted" with the sounds of rude swearing. The two staff assigned to specially "take care of" the two female practitioners faced the threat of being dismissed from duty, since these practitioners managed to get to Beijing while they were on duty. Within ten minutes after we were locked up in the detention room, the two female practitioners were taken away. Then the voices of their husbands could be heard from next door. The husbands had been locked up there after their wives left for Beijing and had been only given one meal a day. At this time, the chief of the police station came and I asked him "Their family members do not practice Falun Gong, why have you locked them up?" "They are relatives of counter-revolutionary family members!" was the reply. I was called to the office. The three of us were handcuffed together again, with me in the center. The chief said, "Let them shout the slogan. [Note: The "slogan" was to say slanderous words against Falun Gong] Anyone who doesn't shout will be beaten. It doesn't matter how badly they are beaten, I will take the responsibility, as along as they still have one breath left." A short and stout man rushed forward (It was said that he was the deputy chief ) and yelled at me, "Are you going to shout [the slogan]?" "No!" I replied calmly and firmly. He then slapped my face on both sides. I only felt a little numbness and did not feel any pain. I only saw his hands sweeping from afar towards me and he only stopped when he had become exhausted. "Will you shout [the slogan] or not?" I shook my head in refusal. He slapped me two more times. I only had one thought: I'd rather die than shout [the slanderous slogans]! I looked at the indifferent or sneering faces around the room and felt sad for them.

The sky that was previously clear and cloudless suddenly became covered with dark dense clouds, and the rain was incessant. The late autumn was quite chilly at the plains of the Yangtze River. We were forced to parade through the streets wearing only thin clothing and a signboard hanging around our necks. I repeatedly recited the phrase from Teacher's article, "Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)," "If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will become non-existent." No matter whether the loudspeaker on the truck behind us loudly broadcast "This is the disgraceful end of practicing Falun Gong!" I recited without stopping. With the incessant cursing of the hatchet men on the side prodding us with tree branches; the harassing calls from the many hatchet men behind us yelling, "Walked off track, Walking too fast, Walking too slowly." or the continuous flashing of the cameras, I recited without stopping. There were many spectators and most of them were indifferent. Many also asked about the identity of the persons whose names were written on the signboards, and what kind of practice Falun Gong is. Some people said, "It has become the Great Cultural Revolution again, it must be the doings of Jiang Zemin!" They didn't finish the parade until we had passed through several streets and the crowds started to leave, even the sky was crying. That evening I was escorted away by police from my hometown police station after they paid the local police station 1400 Yuan.

All the practitioners in my city who had gone to Beijing to validate Dafa were fined a few thousand to twenty thousand Yuan upon their return. Some became financially ruined and destitute from the exorbitant fines. Our related work units were all fined 10,000 Yuan. I was fined 2,000 Yuan and detained for 8 days. This is what they call obtaining "bail" before the trial.

I do not hate or resent anyone. On the contrary, there is only deep concern for these police that continue to do things that help the evil. I sincerely hope that all those police officers abandon their wickedness and become good people. To them I say, "Do not use any excuse to shirk your responsibility. Fame and profit are transient. Think of the future of your life; if you conduct evil deeds, in the future, you must suffer the retribution! "Good is rewarded with good and evil is met with evil" is forever the unchangeable law of heaven! Persecuting a Dafa pracitioner is a heinous crime, rescuing and helping a Dafa practitioner will gain one boundless merit!"
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/12/9/21116.html

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