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Doctor Li Aijun Is Persecuted in the Beijing Women's Prison
By a practitioner in Beijing, China
(Clearwisdom.net) Li Aijun graduated from a medical university and was a
doctor in the department of internal medicine at the Beijing Xiyuan Hospital.
Before practicing Falun Gong, she was in poor health and suffered from multiple
diseases. But after practicing Falun Gong, she became healthy and full of
energy. Since then, she has disciplined herself to strictly follow the
principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." While other doctors
in the department were in charge of only three hospitalized patients, she was
responsible for nine patients. She never took any commissions for prescribing
medicine, and her good professional skills and ethics earned her high respect
among colleagues and patients. Before she practiced Falun Gong, her relationship
with her husband was very tense. After beginning cultivation, she looked inward
to resolve conflicts and took more responsibility at home. The relationship thus
became harmonious, and the family lived happily together. At the end of 2000, because of appealing on behalf of Falun Dafa and
persisting in practicing cultivation, she was forced to leave her job, and had
to leave home and go from place to place to avoid being persecuted. However, at
the beginning of 2001, she was arrested and sentenced to two years of forced
labor. The hospital she worked for fired her. Under the vicious persecution, she
took the wrong path once and renounced her belief. However, just a few days
before she was going to be released, she corrected herself. She wondered: How
could people who comply with the universal principles of
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," and adopt high moral standards,
abiding by the law, trying to benefit the country, the people and the family,
and without any wrongdoings to hurt others and society... how could these people
be regarded as being against the government and the country? She concluded that
those who practice Falun Gong are following the most righteous path. Therefore,
she announced that she would continue practicing Dafa, and once again became a
Dafa disciple. She was subsequently sentenced to nine years in jail. So far she
has been detained in Beijing Women's Prison for over two years. In the jail, she suffered much humiliation and was overloaded with work. Each
day she had to work over 16 hours from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. or later in the
jail, making and sewing clothes. Although she lost her freedom, she still held steadfast to the principles of
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," and cared for people around her
with compassion. Her words and actions prompted many prisoners to abandon their
misunderstandings toward Dafa that were planted by the propaganda spread by the
state-run media. Even some policemen came to respect her high moral
characteristics. The meals in the jail were very poor. When the jail
occasionally improved the food quality, she always left her portion to older or
weaker inmates. One time, on a holiday when two inmates shared one apple, she
and another practitioner didn't eat their apple and gave it to an inmate who was
missing home and didn't want to eat any food. At Li Aijun's home live her near-70-year-old parents and her elementary
school-aged son, who need to be taken care of. She also has a nearly 90-year-old
grandmother, who is paralyzed and bedridden, and needs help and care. Her
husband has to work all day for a living and can't take care of much at home.
Her long prison term has brought great suffering to her family members, both
financially and emotionally. 10/19/2004 |