Canadian Citizen Exposes the Persecution of Her Family Members by the Shanghai Police

By Li Jinyu of Canada

(Clearwisdom.net)

My brother Li Chun and my sister-in-law Xiao Hua started to practice Falun Gong at the end of 1997.

Since Jiang started insanely persecuting Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999, Li Chun and his wife always practiced Falun Dafa openly, no matter how much pressure they faced. As a result, they were illegally detained many times.

The first time they were detained was in December 1999. The police tried to force them to write a statement saying that they would not appeal in Beijing. They firmly refused to do so. As a result, they were detained in the police station and not allowed to sleep for two days. It was winter, and they only had indoor clothes on at the time of their arrest. During the two days, they had to suffer from the cold. The policemen still tried to force them to write a statement; however, Li Chun and his wife insisted on not writing anything. Finally, the policemen had no alternative but to free them.

The second time they were detained was during the Spring Festival in 2000, when Li Chun and his wife were arrested from a practitioner's home and put in a detention center. Because Xiao Hua did the Dafa exercises there, she was hung up and tortured for three days and nights with both her hands behind her back. With her swollen hands, blue face, and black eyes, the prisoners could not tolerate it; some of them helped to massage her hands. Some of the prisoners felt so sad they could not sleep after seeing Xiao Hua's condition.

The third time the couple was arrested was in July of the same year. The policemen forced them to write another statement. Li Chun and Xiao Hua wrote about their experience while practicing Falun Dafa, and the benefits to their health. They said that Falun Dafa made people more compassionate, which benefited society and the country. They also asked the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. As a result, they were arrested and detained for more than one month.

The fourth time they were detained was during the Spring Festival in 2001, when a Shanghai policeman intimidated Li Chun, saying, "I will beat you to the ground if you don't listen to me." Li Chun replied, "I will appeal this situation to the top leaders. If they don't care, I will appeal to the central government." Li Chun wrote an appeal letter. Later the policemen arrested Li Chun and detained him for more than a month. The policemen said that Li Chun said something he shouldn't have said, and that he wrote something he shouldn't have written.

On May 9 of this year, Li Chun was arrested again because he clarified the truth to people on the street. The policemen searched Li Chun's home from 9:00pm to 1:00am after they arrested him. At present, they are trying to collect evidence against Li Chun in an attempt to illegally sentence him. Someone told Li Chun's wife to ask for a lawyer, but she could not find any lawyers who dared to defend Falun Gong practitioners in Shanghai.

The unit that illegally detained Li Chun is:

Yangpu Substation of the Shanghai Police Department
Address: No. 2049 Pingliang Road, Yangpu, Shanghai. Zip code: 200090
Telephone switchboard number: 86-21-65431000
The department that specifically persecutes Falun Gong is the National Security Department.

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