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A Young Missouri Woman's Experience in China Testimony at the Press Conference in Chicago Hello, everyone. My name is Sue Jiang, I graduated in May
2000 from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Master's degree in
Statistics.
After graduating I went back to China to visit my parents. In
China all the channels for telling the truth about Falun Gong have been blocked
by the government. Like other practitioners, I had no choice but to go to
Tiananmen Square to appeal peacefully to the government. On May 13, 2000, I went
to Tiananmen Square and held a banner, on which "Falun Dafa" was
written, choosing to use this peaceful but special way to tell the people of
China and the government my thinking. I was arrested and sent to the detention
center in my hometown in Hebei province.
The cell I was detained in was dirty and damp. Six people
share one piece of wooden board to sleep on. We had to lie like sticks and could
not move. I could only use the restroom twice a day. During the 24 day
detention, I was not allowed to take a single shower. We almost had no privacy
since the door and window had no covering except metal bars.
The officers in China's detention centers are not only
brutal; they are also corrupt. The officers did not torture me physically
because my father gave them lots of money and gifts. They told me that if they
didn't know my father, they would definitely beat me! The officers interrogated
me almost everyday, and threatened me, saying they would send me to a labor
camp, to a jail or to a mental hospital, and told me I would never be able to
reunite with my husband and daughter in the US. They threatened to expel my
younger brother from college, although he is not even a practitioner, and also
put tremendous pressure on my parents in other ways, which nearly made them
collapse. In less than two weeks time my father's hair became much whiter than
it had been before.
But thanks to the great help of my local congressman, Kenny
Hulshof, and the timely media coverage, one month later I was released and came
back to the US.
There is one other thing worth mentioning: The Chinese Consul
told my local congressman that I was only detained for 15 days. Actually, the
more one tries to hide the more one is exposed. On the one hand, by lying about
my 24 day detention and subsequent house arrest, the Consul showed an awareness
that the government had done something wrong, that it had deliberately broken
the law, which needed to be covered up. On the other hand, this lie exposes to
broad daylight the true nature of the government's persecution once again.
The brutal persecution is still going on and has been
escalating, as tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in China are
suffering tremendous tribulations. My dear, kind-hearted friends, your help can
definitely make a difference. Please make your best efforts to help these
innocent, good people in China. Thank you!
Posting date: 6/26/2001 |