December 22, 2002
(Clearwisdom.net) Song Xu, 29 years old, was a graduate of Henan
Agriculture University.
On July 22, 1999, several thousand Dafa practitioners, including Song Xu,
went to the provincial party committee of Henan Province to appeal peacefully
for the release of practitioners in charge of the Dafa Assistant Center of Henan
Province who had been illegally arrested on the night of July 20. In the
afternoon, all practitioners were detained in a nearby elementary school. Song
Xu had kept talking to the police about Dafa all that time. Several police were
around him and earnestly listened to him. He did very well. When almost all the
people had left in the evening, he was seen still picking up the litter on the
ground.
In March 2000, during the conference of the National People's Congress, Song
Xu went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. He was arrested and detained at Qiliyan
in Zhengzhou City. At that time, most practitioners just passively endured the
evil's persecution, but Song Xu started a hunger strike to resist the
persecution. He was released unconditionally after seven days on a hunger
strike.
In June 2000, Song Xu went to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa. He was
arrested and detained in a detention center in Beijing. He started to deny any
evil arrangements from the first day of his detention, refusing to tell his name
and to wear a prisoner's uniform. He went on a hunger strike to protest the
illegal detention. At the instigation of the police, prisoners in the cell
tortured him brutally. They claimed, " There were even some with death sentences
here. Nobody can walk out of here without telling his name." Although he
suffered severe physical injures, he still kept clarifying the truth to both the
prisoners and the guards and introduced Dafa to the prisoners who had beaten
him. Everyday the prison guards force-fed him. One time a prison guard violently
pulled out one of his teeth with pliers and force-fed him with two packages of
salt. During this extreme suffering, he called out, "You will not have a good
ending." The next day, when the guard came to force-feed him again, Song Xu said
to him, "I thought about it a long time last night. I'm sorry that I was angry
with you and scolded you yesterday. My Teacher told us not to have any complaint
or hatred, under any circumstances. I didn't do well yesterday and said
something that a practitioner should not have said. Although it was wrong that
you tortured me, I still want to apologize to you sincerely." The prison guard
was struck by what he said, and was on the verge of tears. He put down the
pliers in his hand and left.
Gradually, all the prisoners in the cell made friends with Song Xu. The
prisoners, with tears in their eyes, who had brutally beaten him earlier, helped
him wash his wounds. After being detained for 20 days, Song Xu was released. The
prison guard accompanied him all the way to the railway station. He held Song
Xu's hand and said, "I would like to have a friend like you. You are the first
one who walked out of here without telling your name."
Song Xu studied the Fa diligently and was able to understand major issues
from the perspective of the Fa. Because of this, he was able to play an
influential role in Dafa work in the Zhengzhou area, and the evils also tried
hard to find him.
In November 2000, Song Xu went to help a practitioner who had gone astray
along an evil path. When he opened the door to that practitioner's home, the
police from Jinshui District of Zhengzhou happened to be there. They were
over-excited and shouted, "Song Xu, we finally got you!" At that moment, the
practitioner who had gone astray was shocked by the situation and she suddenly
became awakened and was deeply moved by Song Xu's selflessness and by his
willingness to risk his own life, helping other fellow practitioners. Since that
incident, that practitioner has again become a steadfast and diligent Dafa
disciple.
Song Xu was detained in the No.1 Detention Center of Zhengzhou. He refused to
cooperate with any evil demands. On the 13th day of a hunger strike,
he was found to have no pulse. The authorities became scared and sent him back
home. He recovered quickly at home and returned back to the mighty current of Fa-rectification.
In February 2001, Song Xu and another practitioner from Kaifeng were arrested
at the Zheng Zhou railway station. He was directly sent to the No.5 Unit,
Baimiao Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou, and was sentenced to two years of forced
labor. Song Xu denied any evil arrangements from the very beginning. He refused
to wear the prison uniform and to have his photo taken; he refused to answer
roll call and to do manual labor. He went on a hunger strike at the end of
March. His righteous actions intimidated the authorities causing them to
brutually torture him.
There was no bed for Song Xu in the prison cell and he had to sleep on the
ground. With the excuse that Song Xu had violated the rules of the labor camp,
the deputy of No.5 Unit, Chen Lingling, and the political instructor Han Hongtao,
locked Song Xu in a small cell and commanded four prisoners to monitor him. Li
Mingyao, Wu Minghai and Mao Bo were three of those whose names we know.
Song Xu suffered brutal beatings constantly from the prisoners. He was also
forced to undergo daily "brainwashing" from collaborators. [Note:
collaborators are former Dafa practitioners who have gone astray due to
brutal torture and brainwashing]. He pointed out to those collaborators,
"You all made a big mistake in your understanding. How can you think you can
reach consummation? When other gods ask you how you cultivated yourself to
consummation, would you tell them you had arrived there because you had become a
traitor to Dafa. Isn't it a joke?"
At one assembly, one deputy mayor said, "We must transform Song Xu, and make
him "the second Zhuang Li in Zhengzhou"! [the name of an active collaborator
detained in the Provincial Labor Camp.] Chen Lingling and Han Hongtao are
constantly putting pressure on the collaborators, saying, "We must transform
Song Xu!" None of the collaborators dared to talk to Song Xu, because faced with
all of his righteous thoughts and deeds, every bit their own ugliness and
shortcomings were completely exposed.
After about 20 days on the hunger strike, Song Xu stopped and started to eat
a little bit. The evil persecution intensified immediately. Because he could not
walk due to his damaged legs at that time, he needed help from those four
criminals in order to cope with daily life. When he wanted a drink of water,
they would not give it to him; when he wanted to eat, they would not pass the
food to him; when he wanted to write, to appeal against the torture he suffered,
they would not give him any paper. Under the instigation of the team leader Chen
Lingling, the four criminals locked him up in cell No.9, covered his mouth and
beat him up in order to force him to give up his faith and to compromise.
A few days later, Song Xu realized that his righteous thoughts were not
strong, of which the evil took advantage. Realizing this, he strengthened his
righteous thoughts and started the difficult hunger strike again.
When the evils saw that their hopes [to make him give up his belief]
were again shattered, they treated him with extreme cruelty and severely
tortured him. When they force-fed him, the evils used metal tools to pry his
teeth apart. They used a very dirty and thick pipe to forced-feed him through
his nose. They also forced-fed him with hot pepper water and highly concentrated
salt solution. In addition, they also wiped burning ground chili pepper paste
into his eyes. Once, when forced-feeding him, the vicious authorities even tore
his mouth badly. Each time they tortured him, the evils were afraid that what
they were doing would be known or heard by others. Song Xu quickly realized that
the authorities were most afraid of being exposed to the public; that is why,
whenever they persecuted him, he would shout loudly, to expose the evil's
criminal acts, so that everybody could hear him.
In order to prevent Song Xu from exposing their evil conduct, they would beat
him up at midnight, with his mouth covered up. When this happened, Song Xu then
would shout loudly the next day. He also sternly warned the doctors and the
police who forced-fed him that this kind of conduct was illegal. After that,
they dared not to force feed him themselves, but have the criminals do it. He
would shout out loudly the names of those who were persecuting him this way.
During the few days, while he suffered through extremely brutal persecution, he
loudly shouted, "I, Song Xu, don't want to die. If I should die, it is because I
was tortured to death, and is not a suicide!"
In order to prevent Song Xu from appealing against their atrocities, after
each beating they would forcibly take away Song Xu's bloodstained clothes and
also remove pieces of his broken teeth resulting from the force-feeding, and
they would declare that he had no evidence for his appeal.
With such inhuman tortures, the police still said that, "nobody tortured Song
Xu." The collaborators also slandered him, but no matter what they said, nothing
could waiver Song Xu's rock-solid determination to resist and expose the evil
and to defend Dafa. Song Xu's righteous thoughts and deeds frightened the evil
authorities, and eventually nobody dared to torture him or treat him
unscrupulously any more.
Song Xu's story was published on Minghui net. The labor camp strictly blocked
the news to the public, and they fabricated rumors that it was not true, that
Song Xu had not been on hunger strike for many days. In order to attack Minghui
net, the authorities carefully concocted one fraud. They arranged for all who
were detained in Team 5 to participate in a sports meet, and secretly pointed
several video cameras at Song Xu, intending to get pictures of Song Xu playing
games or watching games together with others. But Song Xu saw through their plot
and firmly refused to cooperate. The whole time during this sports meet was
held, he was bending over the table and did not lift his head at all.
Song Xu always made sure that the evil would not have any opportunity to take
advantage of him. Whenever there were reporters or video cameras present, he
would keep waving his hands in front of his face while speaking so that his
pictures could not be used by the evil to fabricate rumors against Falun Gong.
Once at a big assembly, which was attended by leaders from the prosecutor's
office and some other departments, as well as journalists from TV stations and
newspapers, Song Xu loudly shouted, "I am treated unjustly. I must appeal!"
Several criminals quickly pushed him down, covered his head and carried him
away. Afterwards, some people came to talk with him. He finally had a chance to
hand in his appeal. Although the criminals who beat him had several days added
to their incarceration terms, the fact that the police and the criminals acted
in collusion with one another to torture him was not actually dealt with. From
then on, though, no police dared to order any criminals to beat him any more,
and the criminals were all very afraid of him. Whoever was ordered to guard
Song, that criminal would become frightened and shake all over, because those
criminals who tortured Song before were all threatened by the police that they
could not say the truth, and furthermore, they had to take responsibility for
the torture against Song.
Song Xu's physical condition deteriorated. He became thinner and thinner
everyday, and it looked like that he was going to die. No criminals wanted to
guard him, fearing that they would be held responsible for his death. The police
also did not know what to do. Finally, they had to let those collaborators who
had gone astray from the Fa's principles take turns guarding him.
Once there were two of them guarding Song Xu. He took the opportunity to talk
to them for several hours, and they were both moved to tears at the end. The
next day, they wrote solemn declarations and handed them in to the police,
declaring that all of their " three written guarantees" (giving up practicing
Falun Gong) null and void, and they would start practicing again. Inspired by
them, those who had written the "three written guarantees" all declared that
their written statements have become invalid. By then, Master's scripture "A
Suggestion" had been brought into the camp, and most of those who had gone
astray became clear-headed now. The evil became very angry at their loss. They
began to strictly supervise Song Xu, and nobody was allowed to approach Song at
all. They also arranged specific people to guard Song, and encouraged criminals
to torture Song. Although he could not contact anyone, whenever people passed by
his cell, Song would shout some words to keep people alert. He would also raise
his thumb to those who stayed firm with Dafa, to encourage them to strengthen
their righteous thoughts.
The head of the group who was assigned to monitor Song Xu was a drug user by
the name of He Suizhu. This person was really vicious and brutal. In order to
score points with the authorities to get his sentence reduced, he brutally
tortured Song Xu. They tied up Song Xu's whole body with ropes, then tightly
wrapped him with a quilt, covered his head with a helmet and put a piece of
dirty cloth into his mouth. They did not allow him to move or turn his body all
day long. As a result he had to urinate and defecate inside his pants. He Suizhu
the drug addict once squatted in front of Sun Xu, spit on Mr. Song Xu's face,
cursed him with all kinds of words and slapped his face for as long as four
hours. The whole purpose was to make Song Xu angry.
During this whole event, Song Xu was not affected and kept quiet. He Suizhu
got so angry that he started to curse Dafa and Master. At this point Song Xu
shouted, "Stop your nonsense! Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is good!" He
shouted and shouted until he lost his voice and his mouth was stuffed with a
piece of dirty cloth. The drug addict He Suizhu used to stand on practitioner
Mr. Song Xu's chest and pressed hard. He then forced Song Xu to lie down with
his face to the ground and asked two other prisoners to lift up his feet and his
upper body and push hard towards the center. Song Xu felt his body was about to
break and was in extreme pain. They often hit his buttocks with wooden sticks
until they became bloody. He Suizhu also forcibly inserted a drumstick into Song
Xu's rectum.
In addition to such inhumane tortures, Song Xu had to endure the daily brutal
force-feeding, but Song Xu managed to hold on. Each time when he was carried out
for force-feeding, when he saw other Dafa practitioners, although he was too
weak to speak, he looked at fellow practitioners, and in his eyes they could see
encouragement and righteousness. At such moments, fellow practitioners would
give him a thumbs-up and he would also raise his skinny arm to wave to them.
During the 80 days of Song Xu's hunger strike, his body weight dropped to
about 25 kilograms and his life was in danger. The labor camp had to take him to
a hospital for medical examination. When Song Xu was carried out of the labor
camp, he was all bones and was dying. A family member of a labor camp inmate
said that she almost cried when she saw Song Xu's situation. The hospital found
Song Xu's kidneys, intestines and stomach had suffered serious damage due to
long time torture. As a result of being tied up for several weeks, Song Xu lost
the ability to walk as his calf muscles had became atrophied. Even in such a
condition, Song Xu still took this opportunity to tell the facts and expose the
evil to the doctors and patients, telling them what he and other Dafa
practitioners had suffered. Many doctors learned the truth.
The vicious people were extremely scared. They quickly informed Song Xu's
family to finish the paper work to release him on bail for medical treatment.
Thus Song Xu got out of the forced labor camp.
After the brutal persecution Song Xu had suffered and when his enormous
endurance was revealed on Clearwisdom.net, the vicious people in the Baimiao
Forced Labor Camp were deeply shaken and they had to somewhat restrain
themselves in their behavior. This also strengthened the righteous thoughts of
other Dafa practitioners in the labor camp. The wicked person He Suizhu said in
private, after Song Xu left, "To speak from my heart, I was overcome by Song
Xu's will. I have never seen such a strong man. I admire him from my heart. I
wish I had a friend like him."
At that time a policeman said, "Song Xu has become crippled. He will not be
able to be up and about in one or two years after he gets home." However, Song
Xu recovered within a short period of time. He then left his home to continue to
play his role in the mighty current of Fa-rectification."
Today, Song Xu was captured once again by the vicious people. He was kept in
the Zhengzhou No. 1 Detention Center.
We Dafa practitioners are one whole body, and each of us will send forth pure
and powerful righteous thoughts to help Song Xu break away from the devil's den.
Provincial Police Bureau: Switchboard 86-371-5991155, Division 2 (criminal
division), there are two division heads, one male, one female, both have last
the name of Li.
Provincial 610 Office:
86-371-5902233, 86-371-5904038
City Police Department Switchboard:
86-371-6222023
Jinshui District Police Station:
86-371-6256038
Henan Province Party Committee
Switchboard: 86-371-5902627
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2002/12/22/41493.html