March 21, 2002

(Clearwisdom.net)

13. A Crime in the Abandoned Building

In the morning of our second day in this place, the thirteenth day of our hunger strike, the police took off my handcuffs and told me that someone wanted to talk to me. I did not know what trick they were going to play this time. I was taken to an office on the first floor, where there were three policemen from the police station. One of the three was a director whose surname was Wang, another one was Liu Zongcai, and the third one has the surname of Peng. They said they wanted to help me solve my problem. I told them the reason for the hunger strike and our mistreatment. I also said that we had no choice but to hunger strike because we were not criminals and should not be illegally detained. There were no means left for us to use to appeal. We were incarcerated and brutally persecuted in this earthly hell. I appealed to them, asking that they not persecute the innocent but rather respect basic human values and human rights, or at least follow the law rather than ignore it. However, they replied by saying that they were not the ones establishing the policy, and would only follow what their "superiors" told them to do. I said, "'Superiors' would not allow police to curse and torture practitioners, yet you still beat us. Now you want to solve my problem, but you say that you can't make a decision. Then what is the point of talking to me?"

They said that it was not very convenient to talk there, so they wanted to move to another location, the abandoned building across the street. I knew that they were going to do something bad and that they did not dare to let others know. On the way to the building, I told them, "Today is the thirteenth day of my hunger strike. I can still walk with ease and talk to you like this. Think about it, could a non-practitioner make it? Could you make it?" I told them that if I had not practiced Dafa, I would have been in far worse condition. I might even have already died from the brutal persecution. However, they ascribed this to some kind of mental side effect. I asked them, "You take Communism as your belief. Can you show me a side effect from Communism like this?" They became silent.

(1) Vicious Policeman Guo Zhenshan Ferociously Commits Crimes

Upon arriving at the building, they dragged an old table into the room to take notes. I said, "You claim to be solving the problem for me, however you do not do anything with the policemen who committed the crime. Rather, you take notes of my words. I will not do this." They asked, "Who persecuted you?" I said, "It was Jiang Zemin and a handful of evil persons who used their power to persecute Falun Gong and illegally detain good people. There are also some accomplices who acted as hired thugs. All of them will be brought to justice some day." After listening to my words, policeman Liu Zongcai began to shout slanderous words. Seeing that I kept silent, they cuffed one of my hands to the bed, and said that they would report this to their leaders. At 3:00 p.m., several other policemen came. They pressed me down on the bed and tried to cuff both of my hands. I struggled to resist it. Then the director of the police station Wang grabbed one of my legs and forcefully pushed upwards while others exerted all their strength to press down on my other leg. I looked at him without saying anything. I thought that he was nearly in his fifties and must have had a family, a wife, daughters and sons, yet his heart was so venomous. He did not know that he was harming others and himself as well. What a pity for him! Noticing that I was staring at him without saying anything, he released his hands and said, "I forgive you this time."

Two policewomen named Mou Chunyan and Lu Yanxia remained in the building, enlisting the help of a criminal inmate as well, to watch me. I wanted to go to the bathroom, but they refused to remove the handcuffs. So I exerted my strength and banged the bed with the handcuffs. Mou Chunyan called He Qiang. Shortly after, about a dozen policemen came. One of the vicious policemen grabbed me by the hair from behind, took my head and slammed it against the mattress board repeatedly. Another tried to cuff my feet, but failed, so they wound rope around my feet and tied them down to the bed. They then wound rope around my entire body until I could not move at all. The evil policeman that I had complained about then beat my head until he became exhausted, then he put his black hand on my face, pressing on my nose and mouth to make me unable to breathe. Seeing that I really could not bear it any more, he stopped. Then he used his fists to beat both sides of my face while saying, "Do you remember me? Do you know me?" He kept on beating me until my face became numb and I lost consciousness. I looked at his evil face and said to him, "You beat a lady like this? You have no human nature! Don't you have a mother and wife at home?" The troublemaker replied, "Are you my mother?" and punched my face several times.

I told him, "How can you call yourself a policeman? You are a degenerate and a troublemaker! Although you dare to commit crimes, your crimes will sooner or later be published on the Internet, so that all the people in the world will know what degenerate policemen like you are doing!" He brazenly laughed and said, "Go to the Internet, I don't care! I can hardly wait." Then he hit my face several times and this was followed by wild laughs from those around him. One of them pulled out a hazelnut and said to me in a mean way, "Do you want me to feed you?" I did not reply to him, he then spit out the hazelnut shell on me and threw the hazelnut onto my face and neck. The police blinded me with a flashlight while speaking dirty words. Right before leaving, they told the two policewomen, "Do not allow her to go to the restroom, just let her use her pants."

After a long time, a policeman said that the degenerate who beat me was named Guo Zhenshan. He was the director of the Jiamusi Labor Camp Political Division and was a troublemaker notorious for abusing women.

(2) Mentally Devastated and Physically Tortured

This time I was handcuffed to the bed for 40 days, just as police officer He Qiang had said. Unlike Liu Hongguang, He Qiang did not handcuff us for only a few days. The other practitioners were all handcuffed for 35 days, as well.

During these 40 days chained to a bed in the abandoned building, at least 20 policemen and many other criminal inmates watched me in turns. I clarified the truth to them, telling them about the persecution I had suffered. Most of them were very sympathetic to me, and were not against Dafa. There were also a few blind followers of the Party who said, "I will not do it if the Party tells me not to. If some day the Party allows Falun Gong to be practiced, I will practice." I then asked one of them, "If the Party tells you to kill someone, say kill your family members, are you going to kill them?" In fact the question is this simple. I do not understand why these people do not have any conscience or the ability to discern right from wrong.

Most of them had not had any contact with Dafa practitioners before and had been fooled by the evil propaganda. Revealing the truth to them, their close contact with practitioners gradually changed their minds. They realized that Falun Dafa practitioners are all good people. Later, when the watch guard was not on duty, they would remove the handcuffs for me to let me take a break and have a bath. They even allowed me to do the exercises.

I had waged a hunger strike for 20 days. He Qiang said, "Everyone has already eaten except you. Do you still not want to eat?" Failing to understand the Fa from within the Fa, I thought that it was useless to continue the hunger strike by myself. Therefore I stopped under the policewoman's persuasion.

During the days when I was handcuffed, the evil tortured me both physically and mentally. One day the vice-party director cursed Falun Gong, calling us dregs of society and defaming Teacher with dirty words from his mean-thought-filled mind. I told him to be quiet and that every single word and behavior of his made actually made him fall into the category of a dreg of society. I also told him that only a person who had a dirty mind like his could do the dirty things he did. Zhu Tiehong and a person named Fu were echoing each other, talking vicious nonsense. I turned my face away from them with tears flowing from my eyes. I felt very bad in my heart because I did not do a good job, which resulted in the evil's being able to viciously defame Teacher. I decided to pay no attention to the two evil people. Zhu Tiehong then called a newly arrived criminal inmate to shake my head violently. Feeling that this criminal did not work hard enough, she called another, convicted for prostitution and drug abuse, to violently shake my head. The torture did not stop until they left with a wicked laugh.

Shortly after, the newly arrived criminal quietly told me, "Don't be angry sister, although I just came here, I know that you are all good people. I have to do this, please forgive me." Later I mentioned this to a policewoman, she said angrily "Why don't you ask them what they are shaking you for? Are they going to take responsibility if this caused your death? How come they shake you while you still have very high blood pressure? If they do this again, next time you can sue them through the Inspection Department."

After being abused by the two evil people, I continued my hunger strike for 6 days. On the third day a vicious doctor from the clinic named Yang wanted to force feed me, and I refused. She seized my hair and pinched my nose while forcibly sticking in the tube until it was inserted into my trachea. This made me unable to speak. She pulled out the tube and intended to insert it again. I told her that she was killing me, and I tried to stop her. At this time, the vicious policewoman Liu Chunlan brought several female criminals in in order to force-feed me again. I said to Liu, "Don't you realize that I will choke to death if you stick it into my trachea? Aren't you afraid of taking responsibility?" Then they switched people.

During my hunger strike, they force fed me a lot of salt and soybean milk with unknown drugs many times. After the force feeding my throat was covered with salty and bitter juice, I would vomit and have diarrhea as well as a dry tongue, which was too painful for me to bear.

During this time, the criminals told me that the letter written to me by a Beijing traitor (a former practitioner who had renounced Falun Dafa) had been broadcast without my permission. The captain, Zhang Xiaodan, carried a copy of it. She told me that she had made many copies and distributed them to other practitioners. I protested to He Qiang for illegally opening my personal mail without my permission. I also told him that the traitor's letter was a very bad one that had a lot of lies. It not only cheated more people by broadcasting it, but also caused a bigger crime for the person who wrote the letter. He urged me to sue them. I told him that suing them is not the purpose, and hopefully they would no longer do this. Just then did he say that this would never happen again.

(3) Disclosing evil while the police retaliate

There were extremely bad policewomen too. Liu Yingzhi was one of them. She abetted an inmate (a prostitute and drug addict) to hit and swear at others. She told me shamelessly in front of my younger brother and a guard named Zhang that she did so because she didn't like the other policewomen treating me so well. This completely exposed her abnormal psychology.

Every time she was on duty, the inmate behaved as if she had police support, and would speak a lot of bad words. When practitioners were sent food from the dining room, she would say they were going to feed a pig. I conducted a hunger strike for two days, and I have reported this to the authority, but no one did anything to stop her.

One day Liu Yingzhi was back on duty. She told the inmate something and the inmate proceeded to swear at me for more than twenty minutes. I said, "How could you possibly say such low words?" She even beat me. Liu Yingzhi called He Qiang. In front of another policewoman, she shifted the blame to me saying that it was me who swore at and beat the criminal. While the witnessing policewoman said it wasn't the fact, she then claimed that it was the policewoman that I swore at and beat. How unreasonable! In the end, even though He Qiang knew that it wasn't my fault, he ordered that I be handcuffed. The second day after, while I was still cuffed, He Qiang had someone write a sheet of rules and post them on my door. One said that no police were allowed to walk in and talk to me. The police were furious at this. They asked, "What is this rule all about? We are limited too?" They talked to the authority of the labor camp about this.

Later on I asked He Qiang why he was so unreasonable and had ordered them to cuff me. He said angrily, "It was you who reported me to the person from the Judiciary Department. More than twenty people told me this. I have been trying to find an excuse to punish you and couldn't find it! That's why I kept you cuffed up." What he was mentioning was that on the second day when I was cuffed, I reported about the persecution in the camp to a representative of the Judiciary Department. I did so in front of the head of the labor camp, people in charge of the institute and the police, altogether more than twenty people. I questioned He Qiang, "Was it you or not who had me cuffed for more than 40 days? Didn't you cuff practitioners and torture them on Spring Festival Eve?" Didn't you force us to eat and excrete inside our room and not allow us to go out for some fresh air in order to forcibly transform us? Didn't you deceived your superiors and deluded your subordinates trying to conceal the truth of this transformation? How can you dare to do these things yet be afraid of it being talked about? If you were doing what was right, why are you so afraid of being exposed?" He talked nonsense, saying, "It wasn't all done by me. No matter what, you reported me, so I want to cuff you." Moreover, he said ill--naturedly, "To deal with you Falun Gong, we've got to cuff you. It is of no use to prolong your terms. You wouldn't be afraid even if you're held for ten thousand years, because when the Fa rectifies the human world, you'll all get out." He even said more ill--naturedly, "If it was just for me, I would shoot you all, like was done on June 4 (Editor's note: Tiananmen Massacre happened on June 4, 1989). Then see who will still practice." I said, "Impossible! But listen, even if you drag me out to shoot me now, I will have a smile on my face. Otherwise, I wouldn't be a Dafa disciple." In fact how can evil understand that true practitioners have let go of life and death a long time ago? We only have one thought in mind, "Steadfastly cultivate Dafa, the will unflinching."(Essentials for Further Advancement II True Nature Revealed)

Later on another policewoman on duty told me, "I'll never stay in the same team with Liu Yingzhi again, her quality is too bad! I feel shameful to be in the same team as her!" She reported to the vice commissar and told him his objection to Liu Yingzhi. A department police told me, "Being a disciplinary inspector, Liu Yingzhi is so ill-natured. I don't even want to talk with her now." Another policewoman told me, "Liu is so low, and everyone now knows how she is."

After I was cuffed, I started a hunger strike. On the fifth day, they started to tube-feed me. On the sixth day a policewoman told me, "They're so bad, talking about how to discipline you. They said they would charge you 10 yuan each time until you run out of all your money in the book. They'll frame you. You shouldn't let them feed you tomorrow." Liu Yingzhi provoked Zhu Tiehong, and Zhu Tiehong came to the abandoned building and threatened she would discipline me to death. A policewoman reported for me to the group about this. When she came back, she said Zhu Tiehong yelled at her.

On the sixth day, more than ten people came. They wanted to tube-feed me again. I said, "Wait! Let me finish my words." I told them why I was on hunger strike. After that, the prison doctor said, "We know you're being treated unjustly. I'll report it for you. But we have to feed you, otherwise how will it do if you don't eat?" I said, "You won't get it in." The tube turned out getting into the trachea both times even though they changed two people during the process. They had to leave because they didn't know what to do.

On the same day, Gong Chunbo and Liu Chunlan took the cuffs off me and tore down the rules. The drug-addict criminal who beat me had their term prolonged for another month, and Liu Yingzhi said she would never be on duty again. As it turned out, Liu Yingzhi and Shi Libo from the Accounting Office had taken several thousand-yuan bribes from the criminal and released her even before her regular term was over. There were no laws or principles in the labor camp. Everything was completely based on money and power.

Liu Chunlan had been trying to persuade me to write a renunciation of Dafa for a long time. She said she would guarantee my going back home soon if I was "transformed." She could also then retire early because of her achievement. She said that surely it would cause a sensation by airing on TV. She told me to think about it carefully, "Don't be silly by suffering in here. You could be living a good life outside." I told her to stop dreaming. Seeing her deception failed, she again said. "since you won't write the renunciation, you can obey the rules and regulations of the labor camp by taking part in labor and study. You'll get a reduced term also." I told her, "I'm not a criminal, and I'm not here to be reformed. I will never join any labor or study." Thus, I did not do any forced labor during my illegal detention in the labor camp for a year and five months.

(4) Hearing "You are not allowed to beat people", policeman Li Xin lashed out at a practitioner.

On the evening of May 21, 2001 a fellow practitioner, Wang Yuhong, was escorted into my room by several policemen and was handcuffed to the Dead Person's Bed (The four limbs are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. Neither is he allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment lasts from several hours to more than a dozen days. This cruel torture causes severe damage to the practitioner both mentally and physically.) At that moment, she looked very pale, and her face was swollen from beatings. Even I did not recognize her. She told the policeman who handcuffed her, "Yu Dalong, when you beat us, you are doing something evil." He replied: "If you call me by my name, I will beat you again." There were still three other practitioners who were locked up in the neighboring room. I knew two of them -- Fan Xirong and Jin Lihong. I did not know the name of the third person. Wang Yuhong is still being illegally detained in the labor camp. The long-term persecution has made her physically very feeble.

The two policewomen Zhu Tiehong and Chen Chunmei, followed by the prisoners, searched Wang Yuhong's body for Teacher's articles. When Zhu Tiehong saw me, she said, "Also search her body to see whether she has the articles." I replied, "You have locked me up alone in an abandoned building for three months, and now you think of searching me? The articles are all in my head and there is no way you can take them away from me."

At the same time that they were searching Wang Yuhong's body, the police also ordered other practitioners out from the "strictly disciplined team" and searched them one by one. When they were searching Wang Junhua's body, they used electric batons to shock her face, neck, mouth and hands and forced her to give over her copy of Teacher's articles. She held tightly to her pant pocket and did not let her hand go. The brutal policeman shocked her hand with an electric baton. She continued to hold tightly and only did she let her hand go when we could smell flesh burning. She quickly rethought about the fact that she had released her hand and again held tightly to her pants. Since that incident, the police have left us alone. As one of the policemen, He Qiang said, "Someone said you all had the scriptures, but I did not ask them to search you individually, neither did I ask them to search your cell inside out. Unless we witness it from the monitoring room, we will not search each person individually." What he said did not come out of compassion, rather it was the dignity of Dafa practitioners that had deterred the evil.

After the police had gone, security guards from the government office remained. I asked Wang Yuhong to tell me what had happened. Wang Yuhong said that day Fu Meilin, a practitioner said she had a headache and could not join the drill. She was asked by one of the policewomen to go with her to the office. A few minutes later, they heard her cry and ran over to see what was happening. Liu Chunlan and the other policemen did not allow them to get through the door. At dusk, Liu ordered them to come over to talk. Hardly had they reached the bottom of the steps when Liu ordered a dozen policemen to beat the four female practitioners. Later they locked them up and held them captive there.

The next day, the policemen hoped to take notes of practitioners' conversations to use against them in order to prolong their prison terms. Wang Yuhong said, "I don't want to say anything. I want to speak with Commissar Fu." Officer Li Xin came in to ask the other policemen, Xie Ying and Miao Xueqi, whether they had recorded what the practitioners had said. When he learned that they had not, Li Xin gave Wang Yuhong a violent slap on the face. I stood up immediately and said, "You are not allowed to beat people." Li Xin, like an insane dog, jumped up against me and grabbed my hair and forced me to turn around and beat me severely. He slapped me on the face with force while uttering, "I will beat you to death." I responded, "You are beating people and committing evil acts. You will have to pay for what you have done today." When he heard this, he again grabbed my hair and slapped me on my face. Zhu Tiehong stood aside looking. I said to her: "When you see him beating people without any reason, how come you do not stop him?" The policeman again slapped me violently on my face. Zhu Tiehong said nothing. The assistant section chief of the administration section Yan rushed in and saw that I was being beaten. He not only did not stop the beating, he reprimanded me. I told him: "Can't you see that he is committing physical assault? I only asked him to not beat people and he responded by further assaulting us." Li Xin continued to grab my hair and did not let go. He said, "Handcuff her too." Miao Xueqi took over the handcuffs, while Li Xin grabbed me by my hair and dragged me into the corridor. I held on to a thick pipe and did not let them drag me away. I asked Zhu Tiehong, "Why don't you stop him? He is committing crimes." Zhu Tiehong did not stop him. Instead she helped him to drag me to another room at the end of the corridor. They handcuffed one hand of mine to the iron bed. When I used my hand to stroke my hair, a whole handful of hair fell off. Li Xin was responsible for my hair falling out.

With two glass windows between us, I still heard the sound of the electric batons used to shock the other practitioners. I stood up and saw Li Xin holding up the electric baton to shock and beat Wang Yuhong on her face, neck and the rest of her body. Over and over again they shocked her down to the ground. Zhu Tiehong was standing aside and looking. In the middle room, two policewomen Gong Chunbo and Liu Zongcai were interrogating another practitioner. I cried out, asking Li Xin to stop. He did not. I cried out to Gong Chunbo and Zhu Tiehong to stop them from committing further physical assault. Gong Chunbo pretended not to listen. Zhu Tiehong not only did not stop him, she brought over another man to handcuff my other hand to the iron bed. I could not stand up, but I could still hear the sound of the inhumane beatings and electric shock. My heart almost broke. Tears rolled down my face. After I was severely beaten, nobody criticized Li Xin for his evil deeds. They handcuffed me to the Dead Person's Bed for seven days. Wang Yuhong was handcuffed for over half a month.

I asked Liu Chunlan why the evil policemen beat practitioners. She said, "You deserve to be beaten. Tonight we will continue to beat you." She is part of the disciplinary inspection cadre of the labor camp and a deputy team leader temporarily in charge of the Third Team. She is a woman and a mother too. Her daughter also works as a disciplinary guard in the forced labor camp. Despite all this Liu Chunlan is still so savage. She committed crimes without mercy and fear of being caught.

One week later the officer, Gong Chunbo told me that if I wrote a self-criticism, they would release my handcuffs. I replied, "Policemen beat me and you locked me up for seven days. And now you want me to write a self-criticism? If you don't release my handcuffs, I will not eat even if I am starved to death." Finally they removed my handcuffs. From the window I could see that Wang Yuhong's face had been scratched.

One day, Commissar Fu came to make an inspection of those on duty. I told him that Li Xin had beaten the practitioners. He asked knowing full well the answer, "Who beat you? Did someone beat you?" I said, "It was Li Xin." I also pointed to Yu Dalong beside him, "Also him -- Yu Dalong." Several policemen burst into roars of laughter. Yu Dalong flew into a rage from shame and pulled out a gun and pointed it at me and said, "If you use my name again, I will put handcuffs back on you." I said, "How come I can not use your name? Isn't your name how someone should identify you?" Liu Chunlan said, "You have to call him Section Chief Yu. You should not say Yu Dalong." After she said this, Fu gave a snort. Several of them stormed out of the room.

One week later, police officers Mu Chunyan and Lu Yanxia were again on duty. Li Xin came to check on them in the evening. He said to the two policewomen indecently "You can both go. I will sleep here and I will make them all go out on bail to see the doctor." The two policewomen laughed lustfully. These are the present "People's Police". They heartlessly beat us and humiliated us. When we made our situation known to them none of them upheld justice. On the contrary, they brazenly supported each other.

Wang Yuhong went on hunger strike after she was beaten. Everyday she kept vomiting, but was still savagely force-fed. She was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor in October 1999. In the labor camp, she was tortured severely. She was reduced to a skeleton. However she always remained firm in her belief in Dafa and Teacher and refused to give in to the insane persecution. During the time she was handcuffed, she still taught me to recite new scriptures. We encouraged each other and did not give in. We refused to listen to the evil's orders and demands. She said she would no longer join in the labor and brainwashing study. She would rather be locked in the "strictly disciplined team."

After Wang Yuhong was locked up in the abandoned building, Dafa practitioner An Hong from Jiamusi was also handcuffed to a Dead Person's Bed in another room since she refused to follow the policemen's order to watch TV. The prisoners were incited by Gong Chunbo to handcuff An Hong very tightly, which was unbearably painful. One week later, the policemen believed that they could now bring her under control. When they asked her whether she would go back to watch TV, she said she did not want to watch, and neither would she join in any forced labor activities, since she was not a prisoner. And she would never be a prisoner. The policemen continued to handcuff her for many more days.

For the three months before they came, I did not have contact with any practitioners. I did not hear any new scriptures. When they came, they recited to me, "Coercion Cannot Change People's Hearts" and "Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts are Powerful." Wang Yuhong told me they had asked a prisoner to pass me the scriptures before, but the prisoner handed it to the policemen. The policemen offered prisoners a reduction in their prison terms as a reward for those who handed in scriptures taken from practitioners. The police would prolong the terms and beat those who were found to pass around the scriptures. In this way, they forced the prisoners to commit crimes.

Half a month later, Wang Yuhong and An Hong were locked up in the "strictly disciplined team." I was left alone in the abandoned building. When the prisoners helped them with their luggage and supported them with their hands to go downstairs, I turned my back and could not help shedding tears. How good are those days that we are able to spend with fellow practitioners, even if we are only able to say something through the glass!

It was June and it became hotter every day. All the windows were fastened completely with nails. Only the window in the corridor could be opened. It was very stuffy in the room. One morning I stood by the door and looked outside through the window in the corridor. At this moment, the prisoner who watched over me forcibly pushed me back into the room. I asked her why she did what she did and she said, "The director saw you and was yelling loudly. Go back to the room quickly." "I did not see her. Am I not even allowed to breathe some fresh air?" "Go back quickly, otherwise I will have bad luck," the prisoner said. A while later, Gong Chunbo took a one-inch nail and fastened the window in the corridor. Since I had been locked up in the abandoned building I had never had the chance to go downstairs. I could not see the sunshine or have a chance to breathe fresh air. The bedpan was left inside the room and was emptied by a prisoner everyday. Even under such conditions, the evil policemen kept the window in the corridor nailed shut. They were afraid of justice, afraid of me having contact with fellow practitioners. They were even afraid of me seeing my fellow practitioners from far away.

(To be continued)