[clearwisdom.net] Our teacher (the founder of Falun Dafa) published an article "Suffocate the Evil" on Oct. 22^nd, 2000; we practitioners realized that we should try to stop the oppressors instead of merely enduring the hardship passively. On Jan. 1^st, 2001, we went to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa and were taken to Tiananmen Police Station. We were sent to Dongcheng Collecting Post in Changping County that afternoon. Seventy-five of us female practitioners were then sent to the detention center in Huairou County, where Falun Dafa practitioners were all subjected to various inhumane tortures.

First, every practitioner was assigned a number and forced to have her blood pressure taken. The prison guard told the inmates to slap the faces of the practitioners who refused to give their age. For those practitioner with high blood pressure each were held up and hanged upside down by four prisoners, stripped of their pants exposing their bare buttocks and forcibly given an injection. They were laughing and having fun with their indecent assault totally oblivious to practitioners' stern condemnation. Some were given medicine by force. If they threw up, they were beaten and given the medicine again. Some were punched in the face when they refused to have their photos taken.

We tried to lie down to go to sleep, however, we were kept awake by the chill of the icy cold beds and the cold draft through the wide-open windows. We sat through the night. The next morning, we heard the guard beating a practitioner in an adjacent cell. We called out in chorus: "suffocate the evil", "stop beating people, policeman!", "we are innocent", "release us", "return innocence to Dafa", "Restore innocence to our teacher", etc. A number of male prisoners kicked and hit us from behind. I was dragged bare-foot through the hallway as they slapped my face and head, and finally I was tossed out into the courtyard . Then I was pulled up and made to stand by the wall. Some practitioners were already there and more were being tossed out. All of us were forced to bend over at the wall. Whoever attempted to straighten up even slightly would receive a beating. This torture lasted for over one hour.

We were force-fed by the prisoners when we staged a hunger strike on Jan. 5^th. After the feeding, we were stripped of our coats and pants and pushed outside to stand barefoot on cold wet clay ground. Those who threw up and choked during the force-feeding received the same torture without exception. Some had stood for over one hour. At night, there were no quilts when we were to sleep, and we even had cold water poured on us by the police.

On January 8^th, the guard slapped my face, and twisted my face and ears before starting to interrogate me. We disclosed the truth about and promoted Dafa to the police during the first interrogation. We were forced to bend down with arms lifted up to our back in front of the wall for half or one hour for not disclosing our names and addresses. They kicked us and knocked our heads against the wall if we didn't obey them. Many practitioners' legs became numb, and unable to stand, others became dyspneic and passed out. In the afternoon the police forced us to take off our coats etc and stand in the snow with bare feet. I recited the Fa (Falun Dafa's principles and laws.), memorized the teachings of our teacher, and didn't feel cold at all. One hour later, the police felt the cold and ordered us to put on our coats and run around. Only then did my feet start to feel painful. Some practitioners' feet were frozen stiff and could hardly run. They received a round of beating. Some who were weak from hunger strike were forced to run as well.

The torture resumed next morning. We were forced to take off our coats again and stand barefoot in the yard. Our faces were slapped until swollen when we refused to tell them our names. We were kicked if we did not fight with each other on command. I was kicked on the waist, legs and back. When they saw that I did not flinch, they kicked me in the epigastrium till I doubled up. Two other practitioners were kicked in the lower abdomen. That afternoon we were forced to take off our coats and socks again, and stood on one foot with the other extended forward, and holding our shoes with outstretched hands, some had to hold their shoes with their mouths. We stood this way for the entire afternoon. We still did not cave in, and received more beating. Some were made to stand in the snow and others had their hands buried in snow. The sounds of pummeling and kicking accompanied by cursing occur with regularity and inevitability when the practitioners practice the exercises at midnight or in the early morning.

We didn't take any food after the second force-feeding. On Jan. 10^th, a female guard shocked me with electric batons on the palms, face, legs, and even the chest because I didn't eat . Some practitioners tried to convince me to take some food. I thought about it for a whole night, and came to the conclusion that there was no test I couldn't pass. Teacher had said if one really wanted to pass then one would be able to pass. The test would show oneself up. I felt I could endure it if they shocked me again the next day. I shouldn't eat any food here, because I'm not a criminal.

I was interrogated next morning ( Jan. 11th) until well past 11, by the time I returned it was after mealtime. The same thing happened in the afternoon, therefore I was not hassled about not eating. Those on hunger strike were force-fed again. I was questioned for the entire day of Jan. 12th, but I refused to provide my name no matter how they tortured me; be it squeezing of my neck, clipping my legs with pliers, blowing at me with a fan, piercing my fingers with a pen or by laying me down on the freezing floor.

The Huairou Detention Center has detained over two hundred practitioners and there are still dozens held there currently. The situation there is wicked: male prisoners can go through the female cells at will; male guards monitored the female cells. One threat they used most often is: "If it still doesn't work, we will have you stand naked." That's how they treated the female practitioners and why some practitioners couldn't withstand such sick torment, gave their names and addresses in order to leave this sickening place in a hurry. We all have the same feelings: Huairou Detention Center is a hell in the human world.

After the final interrogation on the morning of Jan. 13th, I was released. The first thing I had in mind after coming out of the Detention Center is to disclose the wicked conduct there. "Their evilness must be made known to people around the world--this is also offering people salvation. While the evil is being eliminated, you are consummating yourself in cultivation and strengthening the Fa's manifestation in the world." (From Teacher's article 'Rationality'). I feel to stop the evil it is contingent upon the collective action of all the practitioners. "If a cultivator can let go of the thought of life and death under any circumstances, evil is bound to be afraid of him. If every practitioner is able to do this, evil will of itself no longer exist." (From Teacher's article 'Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)')

All the genuine practitioners, please let's hurry up, and step forward to stop the evil and validate Dafa. Teacher tells us: "Those disciples who have been persecuted in tribulation are waiting, amidst their suffering, for precisely these people! They're waiting for these people to break away from humanness. ... If a person has obtained the Fa but isn't able to validate the Fa, does he still deserve to be a Dafa disciple?" (From 'Serious Teachings') We have gained the Fa and there is no place for us here in the human world. "In the human world, they are completely lost. They might have to end up like this. I'm afraid they won't even qualify to be humans in the end!" (From Teacher's article 'A Dialogue with Time'). Fellow practitioners, let's remember the teachings of our teacher, strike vigorously forward, join the torrential current of Fa-validation, suffocate the evil, and reclaim the innocence of Dafa and our teacher.

"Follow Teacher closely, steadfastly cultivating Dafa"( from Teacher's poem 'The knowing heart').

A practitioner in Mainland China

January 21, 2001