Jilin Dafa Practitioner Wang Minli Appeals to U.S. Court Against the Atrocities Committed by Jiang's Regime
Jilin Practitioner Wang Minli from China
February 10, 2002
(Clearwisdom.net)
Respected U.S. District Court:
I'm glad to hear that your court has accepted the Genocide civil suit against
Jiang Zemin filed by Falun Dafa practitioners and their relatives. Since July 22nd
of 1999, Jiang's regime has been persecuting Falun Dafa. My family and I, who
live in Mainland China, have suffered both physical and psychological torture.
Soon such unprecedented injustice will end and the truth will be exposed. The
following statement is the true story of the brutal tortures my family and I
have suffered, and I hope it can serve as part of the evidence for Jiang's
crimes.
On July 20th 1999, under Jiang's order to ban Falun Gong, police
in every area started arresting Falun Dafa assistants (volunteer contact
persons) nationwide. All of the media outlets nationwide then began to fill the
newspapers, radio waves, and television screens with fabricated propaganda
attacking and defaming Falun Dafa and our Teacher, Mr. Li Hongzhi. On July 20th
1999, my eleven-year-old son and I peacefully appealed in Changchun city, where
the Jilin Provincial government is located. We requested the release of all
illegally detained practitioners, the restoration of our Teacher's reputation
and a legal and fair environment for practicing Falun Gong. There were several
thousand practitioners from different areas who went to appeal. During July 20th
and 21st, in order to disperse the crowds of practitioners, police
used high-pressure water hoses to drench the appealers with cold water. Both my
son and I were soaked and trembled from the chill. Even a woman with her
one-month-old baby was hit by the hose. Even a cold-hearted person would shed
tears upon seeing that scene. After that, the provincial government dispatched a
large group of soldiers and policemen. They dragged, kicked and beat up all of
the peacefully appealing practitioners until all several thousand of us were
forced into detention in the courtyard in the Jilin Police Academy. They forced
us to watch a movie attacking Falun Dafa. We were prohibited to walk around and
to use the restroom. Other Falun Gong practitioners and I protested, only to be
met with punches and kicks.
In late 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal for the first time. Upon arriving
at Tiananmen Square, the evil police from the Qianmen Police Station in Beijing
and the Jilin Public Security Bureau illegally arrested me and detained me at
the Jilin liaison office in Beijing. There the wicked police from Jilin City
forcefully body-searched me, took away all my money, 300 Yuan, and put it into
their own pockets. I was later sent back to Jilin City and detained at the Yushu
Street Police Station in Longtan District, Jilin City. I was finally released
after being illegally detained there for seven days.
On February 18, 2001, I was once again kidnapped by the Public Security
Bureau of Longtan District and the Yushu Street Police Station and illegally
detained at the Jilin City First Detention Center for over 50 days. During my
detention there, I suffered brutal torture. One wicked policeman, surnamed Xing,
incited other inmates to monitor practitioners and to not allow them to talk
amongst themselves. During the cold winter days, whenever a practitioners were
sent in to the cell, Policeman Xing ordered the inmates to strip them off their
clothes, pour several buckets of cold water on them and beat them viciously. One
time he forced me to squat for over six hours without moving a bit. He would
beat me up if I moved a little. Other inmates, encouraged by him, also
ruthlessly beat me. Xing has always been notorious for his viciousness in the
Jilin police department. Another time I insisted on practicing the Falun Gong
exercises, so he continuously beat me to the point that both of my eardrums were
broken. My hearing has still not recovered from his abuse.
I was later sentenced to forced labor "education" for one year at the
Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Here I suffered even more
inhumane treatment and torture. The wicked police there tried to brainwash me
with slanderous propaganda and incited other inmates to beat my face with bamboo
sticks and to strike my whole body with leather belts and batons. Very often I
was black and blue all over. During the cold winter months, they stripped me and
forced me to stand in the hallway with all the windows wide open for over five
hours until my whole body was frozen. They forced me into the position of
"backing up an airplane" (please see
http://www.faluninfo.net/torturemethods/2001-11-22-kx-1-1.jpg for an
illustration) without moving and put me under a wood case. One wicked
policeman from the seventh team surnamed Hou repeatedly shocked me with an
electric baton for over one hour until I fell unconscious. Later, I decided to
carry out a hunger strike to protest the persecution against me. On the third
day into my hunger strike, they force-fed me with salt and corn flour gruel.
They tied me up on a bed so that my arms and legs could not move. They used an
iron support just for force-feeding to hold my mouth open and fed me food
without allowing me time to swallow. I was choked; tears flowed out of my eyes
and I spit corn gruel all over. Their torture did not end there. They again used
a metal bar to slide my teeth back and forth. My teeth were loosened and then
dislocated. I have not been able to chew food since then. We were also forced to
do intensive labor. Very often we had to get up at three or four in the morning
and work until midnight. For those practitioners who refused to give up their
belief in Falun Dafa, the police tortured them with even crueler methods. I was
once healthy and strong. After being tortured so brutally and for such a long
period of time, I became extremely weak and my life was in danger. Fearing
responsibility for my death, the labor camp released me.
On December 24, 2002, I went to Beijing to appeal for the second time. I
unfurled a banner printed "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance" in Tiananmen Square.
A dozen policemen immediately rushed towards me. I shouted: "Falun Dafa is good.
Falun Dafa is the righteous way. Restore the reputation of Falun Dafa and of our
Teacher!" I ran while holding up the banner with several dozen police chasing me
from behind. A police van drove toward me very quickly and knocked me down. The
police van drove over my body and I fell unconscious immediately. The wicked
policemen took me to the Qianmen Police Station. They placed me in a quiet place
at midnight and ran away so as to shirk responsibility for my death. Because I
insisted on practicing Falun Gong, the local Yushu Street Police Station in
Longtan District, Jilin City held my identification card and repeatedly
attempted to arrest me. As a result, my now fourteen-year-old son and I were
forced to leave home and move from place to place.
The above is my experience, which I have provided to the United States
District Court. I hope that you will thoroughly investigate the evidence and
uphold justice so that Jiang's criminal group will be punished according to the
law.
My address:
# 104, 2nd building, 4th group, 2nd
committee Yushu Street, Longtan District, Jilin City, Jilin Province, China Zip code: 132000
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/2/25/45207.html
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