By a Dafa Practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net) When I heard that our fellow practitioner Zhang Xiaoru had been tortured to death, I felt tremendous grief and shock. Jiang started this cruel persecution and murdered many Dafa practitioners, who only wanted to be good people and to tell others from the bottom of their hearts, "Falun Dafa is good!"

Zhang Xiaoru was a kind, gentle person, and she never argued with others. When the persecution of Dafa began on July 20, 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal and was detained by the police. Her family and work unit leader pressured her to abandon cultivation, but she clarified the truth to them and firmly refused to give it up.

In March of 2000, Xiaoru went to Beijing to appeal for the first time, and was detained at the detention center. She promoted Dafa to all the prisoners and even gave away some of her clothes to other practitioners and prisoners. Everyone had a good impression of her. Two months later, her family gathered a few thousand Yuan [Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 Yuan] and bailed her out. However, the police still intruded into her house as frequently as two or three times a week. Her husband had been poisoned by the Jiang regime's slander and propaganda, and constantly pressed her to abandon cultivation. She took no notice of it. Every time after the police came, her husband beat her up badly. In August of the same year, police came to her house to harass her. Xiaoru was not able to put away the truth clarifying material in time and was spotted by the police. She was arrested and sent to the detention center. In January of 2001, she was illegally sentenced to Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp.

I heard that she was released in May 2001 and later became destitute and homeless in order to avoid further police harassment and persecution.

In June of 2002, I met Xiaoru's husband and asked about her situation. He said: "The police came so often. She ran away after I had beaten her up." I asked him: " Do you know how much we suffered when we were in prison? We did not do anything wrong. It is all because we would not abandon practicing Falun Dafa and being good people. Jiang would like to put all of us to death. Not only have you not protected your wife but you have helped the evil to persecute us, isn't that the case?" I saw that he showed some regret and I told him: "Didn't police always come to your house to look for her? You should not wait for them to come but take the initiative and go to the police station to ask them to return your wife to you. The police have forced her to leave her house and we should demand her return." After I clarified the truth of Dafa to him, and his understanding became much better. He then expressed that he would go to the police station and reason with them.

Nearly 10 months have passed, and I suddenly received the sad news that Zhang Xiaoru had been tortured to death. Police from Pu Yang City, Shangtong Province denied that they were responsible and claimed that Xiaoru jumped from a building to commit suicide. However, I know that she absolutely would not do this because she was a Dafa practitioner who treasures life, and this is yet another attempt by the police to cover up their crimes.

Posting date: 4/28/2003
Original article date: 4/28/2003
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 4/21/2003
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/4/17/48544.html

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