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Using the Evidence of Persecution Of My Family for the Past Three Years to Launch a Lawsuit Against Jiang By a Dafa practitioner in China
March 19, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net) I am a Dafa practitioner in China. I have been
persecuted because I appealed to the government according the Chinese
Constitution and exposed the facts of the persecution of Dafa practitioners to
people. Now I want to sue Jiang and his regime for this persecution. I had been unhealthy since childhood and suffered from many diseases
including a rheumatic heart and bronchitis. Amazingly, after practicing Falun
Gong, all the diseases and the pains afflicting me for over 30 years
disappeared. Falun Dafa gave me a second life. On July 20, 1999, Jiang started the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
I wanted to ask for fair treatment for Dafa, so on the next day, together with
two fellow Dafa practitioners, I went to the provincial government office to
appeal. There were about 10,000 Dafa practitioners in front of the Party's
Provincial Office. Police officers separated us into groups, shoved us into
buses while kicking us, and detained us in an open stadium. For a whole day, we
were exposed to the hot sun without any food or drink, and we were registered
one by one. I really could not understand why the government treated Dafa
practitioners who followed "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" in such a way. We
just wanted to be good and better people. On July 22, I appealed again but was treated in the same fashion. In the
evening we were sent to the public security bureau branch and told that
appealing for Falun Gong was not allowed, and we would be detained. Overnight,
our constitutional right to appeal was taken away, and we were forbidden to
practice our own belief. All the media in China started defaming and slandering
Falun Dafa with lies, the whole country was covered in terror. On October 11, 1999, four of us, including my sister, went to the National
Appeals Office in Beijing. Before we stepped in the door, about six plainclothes
police officers blocked us. They separated us and pushed us into a car, and then
sent us to the provincial liaison office in Beijing, where we were detained in a
basement along with many other Dafa practitioners. They forced us to squat down
or they would beat us up. Every evening after they had finished supper, they
would torture us in various ways. Male Dafa practitioners were hurt even worse
than the female practitioners. There was a newly married couple. When the police
officer tortured the husband, they forced the wife to watch and then asked her
how she felt. On October 13, I was sent to the Danan Detention Center, where over 40 Dafa
practitioners were already detained. I was repeatedly interrogated and coerced
to write a guarantee to say that I would not go to Beijing to appeal anymore
under the threat of imprisonment. They also made use of my relatives to try to
shake my resolve. My 70-year-old mother was asked to travel 100 kilometers to
try and persuade me, which broke my heart. I consoled my mother, my husband, my
brother, and others, and told them that I was doing the right thing. What I did
was legal; it was the dictator who was wrong. On October 24, I was illegally sentenced to be held for 7 days because I
refused to write a guarantee. My sister was detained until January 2000. My
husband said that my term was 7 days because he had paid almost 20,000 Yuan [Chinese
currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500
Yuan] to the relevant officers to do me a favor. After the detainment, my
employer escorted me back and kept on trying to brainwash me. The Party
Committee tried to force me to give up Falun Gong. When I refused, I was fired. The day after I was fired, the local police station officer Gao and the head
of the residential office came to my home to talk with me and asked me again to
write a guarantee. I reasoned with them based on the law: "To appeal is the
right of a citizen. What to believe and how to live is a person's own choice and
a human right. I have benefited from Falun Gong, so I wanted to ask for fair
treatment for Falun Gong. I am not wrong, but you treated me like a criminal. I
was detained and beaten, so what else do you need? You are the ones breaking the
law." The police officer said that he was only doing his job. I felt sorry for
him after hearing his words. He aids evil to hurt kind people for a living. What
a pity! Since then, my family has had no peace. When I was detained, my husband, my
mother-in-law, even my children were harassed. Government officials threatened
my mother-in-law, "Since your daughter-in-law practices Falun Gong, you grandson
will not be able to enter a university." She was frightened out of her mind by
all of their harassment and became nervous whenever someone knocked at the door.
The street office head Gu went to my child's school to coerce the headmaster and
the teacher to force my child to write a guarantee; otherwise, he would be
suspended. He refused. For my son's sake and having no other choice, my husband
wrote a guarantee. His company blamed him for not stopping me from practicing
Falun Gong. They forced him to try and "transform" me and do a self-criticism,
so my husband was implicated for no reason. The company delivered special documents to the whole company criticizing me.
The company broadcast station attacked me for a whole week. My husband, his two
sisters and I worked at the same company. To relieve my load, he bore a lot of
the pressure, but he finally collapsed. He started drinking excessively, then
beating me up or cursing me. A happy family was torn apart by the persecution.
On every holiday or special occasion, the street office, the local police
station, and the "610 office" [a bureau specifically created by the Chinese
government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of
administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary
branches] would come to harass me. My normal life was totally ruined. We had
to send my mother-in-law to her daughter's home. My child had to go live at
school. I had to go to my mother's home. My family was broken apart. In June 2000, a local police officer and the street office went to my home to
press me again to write a guarantee. I told them, "I did not blindly choose
Falun Gong. I disciplined myself according to
'Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance' to be a noble person, I've done nothing
wrong." The police officer said, "Your work place and neighborhood know that you
are a good wife and mother. You can just write a guarantee to say you no longer
practice but still practice in your home. Won't that work? You'll lose nothing."
I said, "No, I will not do it. I am cultivating
'Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance', doing so means that I am against
truthfulness. Wouldn't that be deceiving you?" He couldn't figure out what to
say, so he just insisted that I talk to his superior. I knew that if I did, I
would be detained for sure. The way to appeal was blocked, and the media widely spread fabricated cases
and lies to slander Falun Gong, such as the staged Tiananmen Square
self-immolation, and reports of suicide or murders. The public was being
deceived. Fellow Dafa practitioners and I decided to clarify the truth to the
Chinese people. We pooled our money and bought a copier, and copied a lot of
Dafa truth materials and delivered them. On January 13, 2002, our materials site
was discovered by police officers. A fellow Dafa practitioner and I were
arrested. They did not allow us to sleep for four days and nights, interrogating
us about the source of our materials and other people involved. To protest, I
started a hunger strike and refused to answer their questions. They handcuffed
me from behind to the back of a chair, and hit my face with a rolled up book.
They also pulled my handcuffed hands up from behind, causing the handcuffs to
cut into my flesh and my wrists to bleed. They also walked on my hands, and
kicked my ankles and calves. I said nothing while enduring the pain. The second day two new hatchet men came. They said that they would not beat
me but will make me suffer nonetheless. They asked me to squat down, but I
refused. So they forced me down by tightly holding my shoulders and neck. I
still refused. Then one of them pushed me down by pulling my collar while the
other one kicked my calf from behind. I still refuse to squat. Then a tall man
hit my back and neck hard. As he hit me again and again, I fell to the ground
with ringing in my ears. But they did not stop, and pulled me up by the collar
to force me to squat. I was too weak to stand. My legs gave way and I passed
out. The third day another two hatchet men from the public security bureau came.
As soon as they saw me, one of them said, "It's me who tortured Song Hengjie to
death." The other one said, "No responsibility is noted for torturing Falun Gong
practitioners to death. If they die, it's counted as a suicide." Song Hengjie
and I lived in the same district. He was tortured to death in 2001. Police lied
by saying that he committed suicide. The murderer who killed Song Hengjie
brutally dragged me to him, and then slapped both sides of my face in quick
succession. Facing the murderer, I was not scared and kept a tranquil mind. The
fellow practitioner who had been arrested with me suffered even worse. A cruel
policeman repeatedly covered her face with a plastic film to suffocate her. They
pressed her legs down with a metal bar while two people stood on it, so that she
couldn't move her right leg. They drenched her with cold water, put a motorcycle
helmet on her, lighted two cigarettes, and forced her to inhale the smoke until
she was vomiting. Finally she was shut up in a small storage room. It was the
winter and dreadfully cold. Her face was swollen and bruised with vivid rings
around her eyes. On January 18, 2002, I was held at a detention center. The local police
station and the public security bureau worked together to charge us in the local
court. I clarified the truth to them, "Falun Dafa asks people to improve
themselves according to 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance', and that's not at
all wrong. Our Teacher is innocent. The media reports are lies. I did not break
any laws." They refused to listen. On February 9 when they informed me of my
charges, I refused to sign. The procurator said that I would be sentenced even
if I do not sign. On February 17, 2002, my midsection was injured and I couldn't move my arms.
Painful scabies covered my body and hurt me badly. I could not take care of
myself. Until March 7, I couldn't move my legs. Only then was I sent to the jail
hospital. On March 16, my situation deteriorated. I could not talk or eat, and
became comatose. The hospital sent a critical situation notice. To avoid
responsibility, the "610 office" extorted over 50,000 Yuan from my family before
agreeing to let me be treated outside the jail. Even in this case, the "610
office" still coerced the local police station, the residential office, and my
former employer to dispatch people to monitor me 24 hours a day. They wanted to
stay in my living room, but my husband said absolutely not. Then they wanted to
stay in the next room. They even removed the door of my home to make it easy for
them to keep an eye on me. On April 19, 2002, about 20 days later, their monitoring relaxed. I managed
to escape with the help of my relatives. But the same day, my sister-in-law was
interrogated in the police station, and the head of the residential office
injured her arm. She was released that evening. Later they checked my mother's
home, my brother's home, my sister's home, and my husband's sister's home.
Almost all of my relatives' homes were searched. They also dispatched six people
to stay in the city where my mother lives, and placed my mother's home, and my
brother's home under surveillance. Now I am homeless. After I escaped, they sentenced me to 16 years of imprisonment. In October
2001, my sister was arrested when she was delivering Dafa truth materials, and
was sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp, where she remains today. In
October 2002, my elder brother, sister, my sister-in-law's elder sister, and my
brother-in-law were arrested simultaneously. They are not Falun Gong
practitioners. They were arrested because they had helped Dafa practitioners who
were forced to leave home to avoid the persecution. My brother was sentenced to
8 years. My own experience is just one example of the persecution being endured by
millions of Dafa practitioners in China. As a result of this brutal,
unprecedented persecution, many practitioners have been physically handicapped,
suffered mental collapses, or even lost their lives. Their family members are
also under tremendous pressure and abuse. Here, as Dafa practitioners being
persecuted, we launch a lawsuit against Jiang and his gang for their inhuman
crimes against Dafa practitioners and human rights. Posting date: 4/2/2003 |