By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin province

(Clearwisdom.net) On December 24, 2000, in Tiananmen Square, two policemen abducted Falun Dafa practitioner Yang Lijuan to the Beijing Qianmen Police Station. She was then taken to the Huairou Detention Center in a suburb of Beijing. It was winter, and the temperature inside the room was almost the same as outside. A policewoman from the Huairou Detention Center forced Yang Lijuan to take off her clothes, leaving her in only her underwear to sit on the concrete floor by the wall. The policewoman felt cold enough to wear an overcoat, holding a cup of hot water in one hand and an electric baton in the other. As she was drinking, she used the electric baton to shock Yang Lijuan's sensitive areas such as the arches of her feet, her palms, belly, neck, and face.

Yang Lijuan demonstrates the torture she suffered

Yang Lijuan, 54 years old, is a kindergarten teacher. She felt fortunate to learn Falun Dafa in November of 1995. She benefited from the practice both mentally and physically. She wanted to say something good about Falun Dafa and rectify the unjust persecution, so she went to Tiananmen Square on December 24, 2000. She unfurled a banner with the words "Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance) is Good" on it, and loudly shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" The policemen in Tiananmen Square beat Yang Lijuan to the ground twice and took her to the Beijing Qianmen Police Station. She was then transferred to the Huairou Detention Center in a suburb of Beijing.

In the Huairou Detention Center, the police searched Yang Lijuan illegally and even grabbed her sanitary napkins. There was no quilt in the cell at the detention center, so she had to sleep on the concrete floor. The first night, police opened the barred door, and poured a barrel of water onto the floor. This was done to twelve practitioners that night.

Since she refused to give information on other practitioners, the police kicked Yang Lijuan and interrogated her twice. Yang Lijuan refused to tell them her name or sign her name, and she went on hunger strike to protest her illegal detention. On the third day of her detention, the police interrogated her a third time.

One policewoman (name unknown) seemed to care for Yang Lijuan at the beginning in order to trick her into telling her name and address. After she failed, the policewoman became angry and shocked Yang Lijuan with an electric baton.

On the fourth day of her detention, Yang Lijuan's blood pressure became elevated, and she was released after being force fed on the fifth day. She was charged 60 yuan even though she didn't have a meal during her time at the detention center.

Posting date: 10/9/2004
Original article date: 10/9/2004
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/9/29/85325.html

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