(Clearwisdom.net) Li Jinghua, female, 34, used to live in
Lizhangzi Village, Zhaoduba Township, Longcheng District, Chaoyang City,
Liaoning Province. In 1996, after she started to practice Falun Gong, her
chronic illness was gone and she regained her health. Her husband joined the
Falun Gong practice group and also experienced great health improvements.
Her family had a harmonious life, but it didn't last very long, as Jiang's
evil regime started the persecution against Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. As
her family's life was disrupted, with full trust in the rule of law, Li
Jinghua made a decision to go to Beijing to tell the leaders of the country
the facts about Falun Gong. She intended to share, through her own personal
experience, the benefits of practicing cultivation. Because the authorities
prohibited Falun Gong practitioners from buying train tickets to Beijing, Li
and a fellow practitioner made the trip by bicycle. Later they were arrested
and sent back to a local detention center. The authorities confiscated the
family's TV set, a cassette recorder and materials about Falun Dafa from her
house. Because Li refused to renounce her belief in Falun Dafa, the
authorities detained her on several different occasions and then abducted
her to Xidayingzi for brainwashing. After one month in detention she still
refused to compromise, so the authorities illegally sentenced her to one
year of forced labor in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.
Falun Dafa practitioner Li Jinghua has suffered a mental breakdown after
being tortured extensively in the Masanjia Concentration Camp.
The Masanjia Forced Labor Camp is a place where Falun Gong practitioners
suffer all kinds of tortures because they steadfastly refuse to betray their
own conscience by renouncing their belief in Falun Dafa. Under the influence
of such an oppressive environment, Li Jinghua was worn down after being
severely abused both physically and mentally. In the Second Section, she was
beaten because she continued to practice the Falun Gong exercises.
In January 2000 Li was transferred to the First Female Section for hard
labor, where she was forced to make clothes, working under a very high
requirement for quality and quantity. Laboring long hours every day and
being cursed or beaten over failing to finish the required quotas, Li was
under extreme mental pressure. The concentration camp authorities set Li's
regular work hours as from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with overtime lasting up to
3 a.m. when it was necessary to complete a certain quota. On one job
destined for overseas export, she was forced to work continuously with no
rest for thirty-six hours straight, missing two regular meals with no extra
meals for overtime between the regular shifts. During the course of this
grueling labor, for breakfast and dinner Li was only given a partially
cooked steamed bun and a pickle, while lunch was just a small amount of
rice. She was kept sandwiched between two inmates, who monitored her closely
twenty-four hours a day, even when she went to the bathroom or ate meals. Li
was forced to sleep between two inmates at night, in between two single
beds.
In the middle of June 2000, the labor camp authorities ordered the
practitioners in the First Female Section to halt their work in order to
undergo brainwashing. More than twenty practitioners were forced to sit
bunched up next to each other on benches in hot muggy weather, from 6:30
a.m. to 12 a.m., while the guards took them out individually for
brainwashing. Because some practitioners refused to compromise, the guards
beat them fiercely. Li and her fellow practitioners were surrounded by the
guards' cursing, the screams of the victims, and the sound of electric
batons hitting flesh.
On July 6, 2000, Li Jinghua was detained in the First Female Section for
brainwashing. Every day the collaborators [former practitioners who have
turned against Dafa under intense pressure and torture] tried to
brainwash her until midnight. To take away her freedom, they followed her
wherever she went and forced her to eat her meals in her cell rather than in
the cafeteria. After twenty more days of brainwashing, Li was physically
injured and mentally worn down, but she still refused to compromise. Then
the vicious policeman Zhang Yan forced her into an isolated small cell,
where she was forced to remain in a bent over position for a long period of
time. Meanwhile, two collaborators tortured her. Li Jinghua had to eat and
relieve herself in the cell. As it was during the intense heat of summer,
she suffered from the suffocating heat and countless mosquito bites. The
collaborators made her hold this posture for seventy-two hours without
sleeping, and cursed or beat her whenever they saw her moving even a little
bit. After three days of torture, she was exhausted and looked like a shadow
of her former self, but still she didn't compromise. Utterly infuriated, the
guards shocked her hands, feet, chest and neck with high-voltage electric
batons. Witnessing her skin and flesh burned black under the electric shock,
some onlookers couldn't help but shed tears for her. As Jinghua was not in
her right mind from this continual torture, the guard Zhang Yan forced her
to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. But after reading it,
Zhang felt that this statement was not sincere and forced her to make a
handwritten copy of the collaborators' slanderous statements before
releasing her from the small isolation cell. Knowing that Li's statement was
written against her own will, the guards had the collaborators continue to
brainwash her.
After coming out from the small cell and having a short break, Li Jinghua
quickly regained her righteous mind. When she declared the "guarantee" to be
invalid and stated her resolve to continue Falun Dafa cultivation, Zhang Yan
beat her right way and imprisoned her in the small cell again, where two
collaborators forced her to hold the "flying dove" position for over two
hours, until she lost consciousness. They then dragged her back and reported
to the guards, Yang Yu and Zhang Yan. Yang roared, "Since she was still
alright after bending over for three days and three nights, how could she
fall unconscious within two hours? Is she playing games with me?" Yang
pinched and hit her. It took quite a while before Li Jinghua regained
consciousness. The perpetrators shifted her back into the small cell again
and forced her to hold the same position for four days and four nights.
Because Li firmly refused to compromise, the guards were at their wit's end,
and transferred her back to the Second Squadron of the first group for more
hard labor.
When Li was sent back to the first group, her fellow practitioners saw
the scars caused by the electric shocks on her chest and neck. She developed
a terrible complexion and fell into depression. Li was beaten whenever she
practiced the Falun Gong exercises. When Li's one-year term in the forced
labor camp expired, the authorities extended it indefinitely because she
refused to renounce her belief. She started a hunger strike to resist the
persecution and refused to take part in any more slave labor, so the wicked
police shocked her with electric batons. Every morning she was taken away
somewhere and sent back at night. Upon coming back, she stared blankly and
talked to nobody. Several days later she suffered a mental breakdown. She
became incontinent and left her clothes just lying in a tub of water. Later
she was sent to a mental hospital in Shenyang City. Her family had to take
care of her there and pay the entire 4,000 Yuan medical fee [500 Yuan is
the average monthly salary for an urban worker in China]. She was sent
back home in May of 2001 and has still not recovered.
A good person has been tortured into a state of mental collapse under the
tyranny of Jiang's regime. Her happy family life has been destroyed by the
persecution. Good people have been deprived of their fundamental human
rights by Jiang's dictatorship. They are tortured for speaking the truth and
punished for being good people.
Posting date: 1/14/2003
Original article date: 1/14/2003
Category: Eye Witness Accounts
Translated on 1/7/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/1/5/42218.html