(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner, Ms. Qi Yuna, was persecuted for her steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. The persecution caused her to suffer a mental breakdown and develop a serious heart condition. She stays at home now, hoping to recover.

Ms. Qi Yuna was born in 1963. She was an engineer in a food company in the Guzhi District, Tangshan City. Before that, she was the Vice Director of the Basic Construction Section. Her membership with the Party was revoked because she practices Falun Dafa. She also lost her job as a Vice Director.

In the morning of July 21, 1999, the Party Commissioner, Wang Shumei, had a talk with Qi Yuna. He told her to give up practicing and renounce her belief in Falun Dafa. but Qi refused. She went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Dafa that same afternoon. Qi was arrested at the long distance bus station and sent to her local police station. Later her workplace sent her supervisor to take her back. Qi's husband, Mr. Wang Jinxing, was also a Dafa practitioner. He was sent back to the local police when he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. They had son at home who was almost 8 years old. Upon returning home on the 24^th, they found that their household items had been confiscated. Dafa books and materials were also all taken.

On September 13, 1999, Wang Jinxing was again illegally arrested at his work place and detained by the local police. On September 15, Qi Yuna petitioned to renounce her membership in the Party, as she was firm in continuing to practice in Falun Dafa.

On February 19, 2000, Wang was imprisoned for the third time without charge. Qi refused to sign the authorities "Note for the Family" and went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa that same night.

On the morning of the 20^th, Qi met a Dafa practitioner from Dalian City on Beijing Tiananmen Square. The two of them practiced the exercises on the east side of Tiananmen Square. The police rushed over, beat them up, dragged them into the police car and sent them to a police station nearby. A few hours later the Tangshan police from their Beijing Liason Office sent her back to Tangshan that night.

She arrived after 8 p.m. at the police station. She had nothing to eat all day long. The police cuffed her onto an iron pole outside the minute she arrived, so she would freeze in the cold weather. The director of the first division of the police station, surname He, began to interrogate Qi a few hours later. Another director, Wang, kicked Qi with all his might on her left side. Qi almost fell because she was very small. She stood still. Wang slapped her with his right hand. She felt her face was on fire and was swollen. Qi did not say a word. They found a rope to tie her arms back and tried to pull her arms up from behind as high as possible in order to torture her. The authorities sat her on a chair and pulled her arms to the back of the seat. Wang did not want to be responsible for breaking Qi's arms, so he loosened the rope and sent her to the detention room.

Shang Jidong took a few people to Qi's house on the 21^st to confiscate her property, but was unable to take anything as Qi's house had already been ransacked. Shang went back again later and discovered some Falun Dafa books and material hidden in the coal storage which he confiscated. The police were glad to have found something illegal. Song (first name unknown) used this as an excuse and take another group of people to Qi's house and stole her television and VCR, which were the last items of value left in her home.

Qi asked for that her Dafa books and materials be returned to her however, her request was denied. In protest, Qi went on a hunger strike on the morning of the 24^th. That afternoon, during a meeting, more than 20 practitioners were illegally sentenced and sent to prison. Qi continued her hunger strike in the prison. She was forced to go to the Ankang Hospital when she was found to weigh only around 41 kg (92 lbs). She was tied to the hospital bed for many days, because she insisted on practicing Falun Dafa. Later the hospital sent her back to the prison and her illegal imprisonment continued. After fighting this persecution for such a long time, she was released without any charges on Aug 18, 2000. From then on, she was removed from the Party and lost her job.

Qi was very responsible at work. She received good reviews from her workplace, colleagues and supervisors and had attained a good reputation. Her supervisor gave her a week's salary, as he recognized her mental and physical suffering. Though her job title was taken, she still worked normal hours, doing the same work. She ordered 16,000 yuan (1) worth of equipment from one supplier. On September 14, she signed the contract with the supplier and they gave her 2,000 yuan payment for giving them the business contract. Qi immediately told them that she could not take the money because she was a Falun Dafa practitioner. The supplier insisted that she take the money and left it there. Qi sent a letter to the Party bursar's office together with the 2,000 yuan. The letter stated that as a Falun Gong practitioner, she would not accept kickbacks for doing her job properly. At that time, Qi and her husband had been imprisoned for more than 6 months and they did not have any income during that time.

On the 18^th, around noon, Qi was arrested and taken to a labor camp. That morning, her supervisor tried hard to save her from being taken to the labor camp. However, under Jiang's persecution policies, people's and company's interests were of no importance. The police took Qi to the labor camp that afternoon. A local policeman was very moved by Qi's dignity and felt great sympathy toward her. The police told Qi to say that she had a heart condition at the physical checkup and then he would be able to take her home. Qi said that Dafa practitioners do not tell lies. In October, her husband, Wang Jinxing, was sentenced two years of forced labor for crimes he did not commit.

Before mid January in 2001, the labor camp began to treat Falun Gong practitioners cruelly. Qi was well known for continuing to practice the exercises daily with another practitioner. However, every time she began her exercise practice, someone would report her and she was punished. She had to either stand or be tied up for prolonged periods. The guards also made her either stand in the snow for half a day, or tied up for half a day. She thought to herself that she must be strong. She never stopped studying the Falun Dafa principles or practicing the Falun Dafa exercises in the Hebei First Labor Camp (a.k.a Kaiping Forced Labor Camp).

On February 21, Qi was taken to an office and tortured. A few days before that, Officer Wang Xueli threatened Qi that if she exercised again, he would use violence on her. But it did not scare her. Wang yelled at Qi and told her to kneel down in front of him. Qi did not. Wang kicked her and she fell. Wang and another person shocked her head with high-voltage electric batons simultaneously. The batons were used to shock her entire head. It was known that the rules said that officers could not shock the back of a person's head or close to the neck with electric batons. She could hear the sparks against her head. The electrical current went though her head again and again. Qi lost consciousness because of the electrical overload. Wang revived her. The other person stopped but Wang would not give up. He grabbed Qi's head again and Qi began to go into convulsions. She was as stiff as a rod. They had to put Qi on a bed but no matter how they tried to resuscitate her or attempt CPR on her, she would not wake up and she stopped breathing. The doctor on duty rushed over and put her on oxygen and sent her to a hospital for emergency rescue. She woke up later. When Wang was later talking about what happened after Qi became unconscious in the prison, a police woman, Yan Hongli, said, "That's OK. If she died today, I can be your witness and say that she died of heart attack."

After Qi woke up, her chest and rib cage hurt. It was probably because they used too much force when doing CPR. Her chest was swollen and bleeding because they pinched her very hard after she lost consciousness. The marks were the size of a nickel and were all over her chest. She survived but was traumatized mentally and physically. She could not stop talking in her sleep and was coughing up blood all day. Every day she filled bags of tissue papers soaked with blood. She shivered all day long and had a hard time walking. Her heart was severely injured. Qi never said anything but the people watching her kept on lying to the prison officials and saying she made complaints.

In the evening of April 24, the officers asked the practitioners to watch a movie defaming Falun Gong. None of the practitioners wanted to go. Officer Wang Xueli rushed into the room and said, "Qi Yuna will lead you to go to the movie." Qi was not moving and Wang became irritated with her. He went over to Qi and tried to drag her outside. Qi could not bear any physical abuse in her weakened condition. When she got outside, she trembled severely while stretched out on the floor. A captain still tried to make her go to the movie. However she could not walk at all and could not stop trembling. The captain had to give up and let her go back to her cell. When they put Qi on her bed, her chest started to contract and she could not breathe. The prison sent her to a hospital for emergency rescue. Since then, she often had difficulty breathing and needed oxygen to support her life. Her blood pressure went down to 50/70 mm Hg. The hospital diagnosed her with a heart condition. Qi's life was in danger, so the labor camp had to report to the higher authority and the information got to the Guzhi District Commission.

Given her outstanding performance at work, and as the food company needed her for technical and security work, Qi's supervisor tried to rescue her. On May 12, she was finally sent to an external hospital and held on probation. However, the "610 Office" (2) demanded to have its people watching her daily, in three shifts. She had become very fragile and was under tremendous mental pressure. Her husband was still in the labor camp and her son lived with her mother. Her parents were both aged over 70 and were living with her sister who was paralyzed. Her family was falling apart. Still the officials called her and told her that she had to return to the labor camp once her health condition got better.

Her central nervous system had already become injured from the electric shocks. Given the bad news and the tremendous pressure because of her family situation, she suffered a mental collapse. Her work place sent her to a psychiatric hospital and she stayed there for six months. She was suffering there and her family repeatedly asked if they could take her home. The "610 Office" would not allow it until her workplace was unable to pay the hospital bill. She was sent back to her workplace. The very next day, on January 15, 2002, the "610 Office" sent her to a brainwashing program. The "610 Office" knew that she was on the verge of death, but still would not allow her to leave. She was locked up in the brainwashing center for almost six months. During that time, the doctors checked her daily and kept on reporting to the higher authority that she had heart and was mentally disoriented. On June 4, 2002, the brainwashing center sent her back to her workplace saying that she had was mentally disoriented and she thus was being released.

Qi's hair had turned white by the time she left the psychiatric hospital. Because of the destructive drugs she was given, her body and face became unrecognizeable. Her eyes looked dull and she was having a hard time recognizing acquaintances. She was no longer capable and smart. She was in better health than when she had been admitted, but still weak. She had an average heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute. Her heartbeat was irregular and if she moved quickly, she could not catch her breath. Her hands trembled a lot. She would hide in a corner trembling and acted up when they stimulated her. She gradually lost her memory and her mental faculties became worse. She has not been able to take care of herself for almost two years now and her neighbors have not seen her leave the building.

Because of the pressure from the government, now even Qi's workplace had people assigned to watch her. Her workplace calls her family once in a while or sends someone with flowers or fruits to "visit her" which is an excuse to threaten her. Over these past years, Qi's workplace was in need of a professional with her knowledge. Her workplace requested that she come back to work many times as there are not many people with her knowledge of the frozen food industry. However Qi was unable to return to work because of her health condition which was caused by the authorities persecution of her for her belief in Falun Dafa.

For two years now, Qi never blamed or asked her work place for anything. She thinks all the misfortunes came from the Jiang's regime, not her workplace. She shouldered everything herself. Yet, police officer, Shang Zhidong, still shamefully comes to her house to harass her.

(1) yuan: Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 yuan.

(2) "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.