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(Clearwisdom.net) An international art exhibition named "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," shown concurrently in many cities around the world, has received overwhelmingly positive feedback since it opened in Taipei in late February. This high-quality, significant exhibition will be extended to the end of March to serve more patrons.
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The Public Benefits from the Extension
A gentleman who had visited the exhibition twice said that it was great. Now that it has been extended, his friend would be able to see it when he comes back from a trip. Three ladies saw the poster of the exhibition at Songshan and came immediately. They felt fortunate that the exhibition was still open. An older man from Keelung said that he hurried here because it was close to the end of the exhibition according to the flyer he saw. He was happy that it was still open.
"You Have to Come"
The people who had visited the exhibition helped spread the word, telling their neighbors, colleagues and friends about it. An older gentleman brought his grandson after visiting the exhibition by himself. A businessman who has business in mainland China was brought by his daughter. She told him, "You have to come. The Chinese Communist Party is so cruel! They forced Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief by pushing bamboo sticks into their fingers! You have to be careful next time you go there!" Some people took off from work to visit the exhibition. A lady said, "One of our good friends recommended it to us. It is shocking to know such cruel tortures still exist in this century."
People's Personal Experience
Many people shared their personal experience after seeing the torture shown in the paintings. A Catholic believer said, "The Chinese Communist Party persecutes all faiths. Many Catholic nuns had to flee China because of the persecution." A businessman said, "The CCP ignores the law. They took away one of my employees from work because he practiced Falun Gong. He never came back. I was so angry and couldn't do anything. I am so happy that your art exhibition can expose their brutality." An elderly gentleman said that he had never been back to mainland China since he left there in 1948 because his family lost contact with him after being exiled to Heilongjiang. He knows how cruel the CCP is to dissidents.
"We Want to Learn Falun Gong"
In addition to exposing the persecution, the art exhibition also showed the beauty of Falun Dafa. A man said, "There is an energy field here. I feel great!" A Buddhist was very fascinated by the painting showing a meditating lady with three flowers on top of her head. After browsing the collection, the Buddhist said, "I would like to learn Falun Gong." Some young people also wanted to learn Falun Gong and said they would go get a copy of Zhuan Falun right away.
Encouragement
Many patrons of the exhibition expressed their gratitude to the sponsor. A gentleman who regularly visits mainland China raised many questions. A Falun Gong practitioner answered them one by one. He said happily, "It is an exhibition of 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance' and is true to its name! You are so patient in answering my harsh questions! I am impressed with your forbearance!" Another gentleman looked over the illustrations carefully and finally wrote on the signature book, "A single spark can start a prairie fire." He suggested that we show the exhibition to more people and said, "I am sure you will succeed!"
(Clearwisdom.net) When a senior reporter from an Italian national TV station in New York, Flaminia Lubin, watched Falun Gong practitioners' anti-torture exhibition on the streets of Manhattan and saw practitioners sincerely telling of the brutal persecution encountered by Falun Gong in China, she phoned her TV station headquarters and reported what she saw.
As a reporter, Mrs. Lubin was deeply moved by the Falun Gong practitioners' courage and willpower to uphold the truth. She decided to produce a documentary on Falun Gong and human rights, which will record the worldwide spread of Falun Dafa and include stories about the beauty that Falun Dafa has brought to people throughout the world. In doing so, the reporter wanted to help the Italian people to awaken their conscience and sense of justice and to help stop the persecution in China as soon as possible. Mrs. Lubin wanted to go to China to shoot this special documentary, regardless of the Chinese Communist regime's opposition and any pressures related to international economic interests. She made every effort to request permission from her company. However, at present, Falun Gong is still a sensitive topic in China. Her friends told her that it might be too risky and suggested that she go to Taiwan instead, where Falun Gong is warmly received and is spreading rapidly. Therefore, Mrs. Lubin began her journey to shoot the documentary in Taiwan.
  Photo taken by the Italian reporter on March 18 at Hualian, showing Falun Gong practitioners' group morning exercises |
  Falun Gong practitioners' group morning exercises in Hualian |
Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, was publicly introduced in China by Mr. Li Hongzhi in May 1992. During the seven years from May 1992 to July 1999, according to an internal investigation by the Chinese Public Security Bureau, about 70 to 100 million people in Mainland China practiced Falun Gong. On November 24, 1998, a Shanghai TV station reported that Falun Gong was spreading widely in Europe, America, Australia and Asia. It reported on how Falun Gong was warmly received in Shanghai and abroad, and said that 100 million people around the world practiced Falun Gong. At present, Falun Dafa has been spread to more than 60 countries throughout the world and has more than 100 million practitioners. Falun Dafa has received more than 1,000 proclamations from different governments and organizations throughout the world.
Because a Taiwanese practitioner, Mr. Cheng, suffered from serious illnesses, he and his wife went to the Mainland to look for a renowned medical doctor. Their friends recommended the practice of Falun Gong to them, so they attended two lecture series given by Mr. Li Hongzhi in China. Mr. Cheng's health gradually improved, until he fully recovered. In 1995, the couple formally introduced Falun Gong to the Taiwanese people. Mr. Cheng's miraculous recovery was spread by word of mouth and many people started learning and practicing Falun Gong. Currently, there are more than 1,000 practice sites and about 500,000 people practicing Falun Gong in Taiwan.
Qigong has been very popular in Taiwan, because of its health benefits. In public parks in the morning, the slow, smooth and gentle Falun Gong exercises and its sitting meditation form a striking contrast to the generally noisy environment of the parks and other people's intense exercises. The rapid growth of Falun Gong in Taiwan began after April 25, 1999, when more than 10,000 practitioners in China went to the Appeals Office near the central government's Zhongnanhai Compound, to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong when it was unjustly slandered and practitioners were being harassed. The incident drew great attention from the worldwide media. TV stations and newspapers in Taiwan also reported on the incident. As a result, the number of practitioners in Taiwan suddenly increased manifold.
In New York, the Italian reporter learned about the bloodshed and violence carried out by the Chinese Communist Party and Jiang Zemin's regime in suppressing Falun Gong. She also learned about the lawsuits around the world against Jiang. She has also paid great attention to the rescue of orphans in China, whose parents were tortured to death because of their practice of Falun Gong. She called on more kind-hearted people to help rescue these children.
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Since the Jiang faction's persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, the regime has utilized the country's media to demonize Falun Gong practitioners in order to justify their crimes against Falun Gong. The media covered up the persecution, and constantly fabricated lies such as the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident to instigate people's hatred toward Falun Gong.
In Taiwan, learning and practicing Falun Gong is encouraged and welcomed. Unfortunately, on the Mainland, the same activity often leads to illegal persecution, imprisonment and even torture and death. Falun Gong practitioners from Hualian expressed, "Falun Dafa is a profound cultivation practice of the Buddha School. It benefits people both physically and spiritually. We hope that more people with predestined relationships will join the practice and experience the happiness of cultivation. We also call upon the Chinese Communist regime on the other side of the Strait to stop the unlawful suppression of Falun Gong as soon as possible."
  A mother and her infant during morning group practice at Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Plaza on March 19, 2005 |   Mainland practitioner Ms. Wang Lixuan and her 8-month old son Meng Hao, who both died from the persecution |
On the morning of March 19, 2005, nearly 700 Falun Gong practitioners from Taipei came to the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Plaza to practice the Falun Gong exercises. Their movements were uniform and there was no noise at all. Mrs. Lubin was very surprised and kept saying that the practitioners were so coordinated.
The reporter said she understood that Falun Gong is a kind of gentle exercise based on the universal principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, which benefits people both physically and spiritually. Furthermore, the practice is very helpful for social stability, as it improves peoples' morality. On the streets in New York, she saw practitioners exposing the persecution. In Taiwan, she witnessed the wide spread of Falun Gong, and the peace and goodness experienced by those who practice Falun Gong. It is precisely because Falun Gong is so wonderful that we need to work even harder to seek people's assistance to stop the persecution.
  Group morning practice in Beijing before the persecution began in July 1999 |   Group morning practice on March 19, 2005 on the Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Plaza, Taiwan |
(Clearwisdom.net) In order to promote Falun Gong and expose the persecution against the practice in Mainland China, practitioners in Gothenburg took part in celebration activities for the Iranian New Year on March 15, 2005. Falun Gong practitioners distributed brochures and beautiful paper lotus flowers. Owing to many people coming from the Iranian community, they also gave out brochures in the Iranian language.
Even though it was pretty cold, there were still many people taking leaflets happily. Practitioners distributed more than three thousand leaflets within several hours. Practitioners from Iran told their compatriots about the enormous effects that practicing Falun Gong brings to the health of the body and mind.
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Those who participated thought this was a successful activity because they sensed the interest and passion from people. Moreover, some people who took the material during the activity telephoned Falun Gong practitioners the next day to inquire where they could learn the exercises and hear more about Falun Gong.
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200503/25548.html
Monday March 21, 2005
A traveling art exhibition featuring artists from all over the world, including a former Saipan resident, will open in the CNMI Arts Gallery on Capitol Hill today.
"Truth, Compassion, Tolerance" is a collection of 40 pieces of painting and sculpture by over 15 artists including seven pieces by painter Michelle Chen, who has lived on Saipan for nine years.
 Artist Michelle Chen and other Falun Gong practitioners practicing Falun Gong at seashore |
The exhibit explores the brutal persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China. It has been shown in about 20 locations such as New York and Washington, D.C. in the United States; Toronto, Canada; Jakarta, Indonesia; Seoul, Suwon, and Daegu in Korea; Australia; and New Zealand.
"We've decided to bring it to Saipan because I lived and have a lot of friends here," 33-year-old Chen said.
Chen, who has learned traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy in China, came to Saipan as a student in 1992 and went on to spend nine years on island. She now lives and does her paintings in Canada and is also the art director of Community Arts Council of Richmond, BC.
Chen's work has been recognized in China and in the CNMI. She was the recipient of the Governor's Award for Most Outstanding Visual Artist in 1998. Verizon used her works for its phone cards and marketing materials in 2000. Her paintings have also been reproduced as post cards, which are sold at many CNMI establishments.
A Falun Dafa practitioner since 1999, Chen expressed belief that it is her duty as an artist to show truth in her works.
"We, the artists participating in this exhibit, are trying to spread the word about the torture and other brutalities being committed against Falun Dafa practitioners in China. The Chinese government has all the resources to conduct propaganda. They control everything. We have only our fellow practitioners and our art," Chen said.
The exhibit, however, is a must-see not only for its message, but also the technical skill manifested in the paintings.
The works include oil paintings, pen and ink drawings, pastel drawings, and sculpture that were mostly created using a realist approach that captures the subject matter of suffering. The paintings, at the same time, feature metaphysical themes, bearing images of demons and deities, gods, Buddhas, and Taos.
The exhibit will be opened with a ceremony at 4:30pm today and will run until April 9. It will also be shown at the Flame Tree Arts Festival at the American Memorial Park from April 15 to April 17.
Source: http://www.saipantribune.com/archives/newsstorysearch.aspx?cat=1&newsID=45619&issID=1920&archdte=3/21/2005%2012:00:00%20AM
A policeman in northeast China who is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong was severely persecuting practitioners. For example, he directed others to brutally beat a 60-year-old practitioner, withheld food from the practitioner for many days, and even stated, "It's on him if the practitioner is beaten to death."
For the past two years, practitioners have continuously clarified the truth to the public, improving the general atmosphere. Recently, this policeman came to another practitioner's home and tried to force her to renounce her practice. While sending forth righteous thoughts, the practitioner told him, "You didn't know it, but my husband actually did your work for you. He watched me everyday, and once I started doing the exercises, he used an oven stick to beat me. One time I was doing the exercises, and he beat me again. However, I didn't stop practicing, and I didn't feel any pain. Then suddenly a golden beam of light shone from between my eyebrows onto my husband's arm. From then on, he did not restrict me from practicing anymore." After hearing this, the policeman asked the husband, "Is that true?" The husband replied, "It is true, and my arm hurt for several days afterward." Then the policeman said, "Falun Gong is so amazing. I want to know more about it later if there is a chance."
At this time, the policeman's wife was sick, and he ended up having to spend a lot of money to cure the illness. The policeman gradually came to understand about Falun Gong, and the principle of "good is rewarded with good and evil met with evil." He told others that the Tiananmen self-immolation was staged, and that he had also been one of the victims of the deceitful propaganda.
This policeman began to change his ways. For example, later on, he and some other policemen went to another practitioner's home to harass her.However, he refused to get out of the police car, saying that the practitioner had not done anything wrong, and that they shouldn't harass her. Another time higher-ranking officers asked him to help look for a certain practitioner. To protect the practitioner, the policeman told them, "He already moved, and I don't know his current address."
(Clearwisdom.net)
The winter is quite cold in northern China. On a night with temperatures of about zero degrees Celsius, two elderly Falun Gong practitioners arrived in a village to distribute truth clarification materials. Since they were unfamiliar with the village, they looked for one of their relatives who was an official of that village. They explained to him the purpose of their visit and also told him some stories of the persecution Dafa practitioners endured.
The village official and his wife were in favor of letting the villagers know the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." They found their son, who is the leader of the village, and their nephew and asked them to help the practitioners hand out materials in the village.
From 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., they went to one location after another, spreading several hundred truth clarification flyers. When the two elderly practitioners walked on a slippery area, the two young men helped them keep their balance.
The two practitioners were deeply grateful and praised the young men's deeds. The leader's simple and kind words moved the practitioners' hearts, "You Falun Gong practitioners are saving so many people. You came from a town that is so many miles away to this poor village. When the villagers learn the truth, they will treasure this piece of karmic relationship. In the future, please come here often!"
"You are telling the truth: 'Falun Dafa is Good! Falun Dafa is righteous!'"
"Jiang's gang utilizes a huge, nationwide propaganda machine, continuously poisoning the originally kindhearted Chinese citizens, poisoning a big number of people. They do this even with innocent children: the government often inserts propaganda questions in the school tests. In order to answer the questions, the children have to slander Dafa. However, some children who know the truth are not willing to slander Dafa even if they will lose points. One parent told his child: 'If there is another question slandering Dafa, you go ahead and write that Falun Dafa is Good! Falun Dafa is righteous!'"
Clearwisdom.net) Before the 2005 Chinese New Year, I went back to my hometown to clarify the truth. The following are several short stories about my trip.
1. Clarifying the truth on a bus
As the long-distance bus was driving quickly on the national highway, the passengers discussed the corruption of the Communist Party, their taking bribes and their perverted justice, and that man-made disasters are happening more frequently so that people had a hard time making a living. My heart ached, as I knew that everyone was hoping to hear the truth and waiting for salvation.
It did not take very long until a passenger suddenly asked me, "May I ask how old you are and where you are going?" After I replied, he said, "You do not look your age at all." I told him, "That's because I am a Falun Gong practitioner." At that point, the passengers turned around and looked at me. I said, "I used to have several serious diseases and was not able to find a cure, so I started practicing Falun Gong and cultivated my moral character according to the teachings of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. As a result, my illnesses disappeared and I am very healthy now." I could see that the passengers were quietly listening to me and the environment was surprisingly good.
I continued, "However, Jiang's regime began slandering and defaming Falun Gong. Those who appealed the injustice or persisted in practicing Falun Gong were detained, sent to labor camps, sentenced to prison, and tortured. They were beaten with electric batons and metal clubs, or subjected to other kinds of torture to force them to denounce Teacher and Falun Gong, and to be "transformed." Today, people in more than 60 countries worldwide practice Falun Gong. Teacher and Falun Dafa have received thousands of honors and awards. Jiang's regime is the only government that persecutes Falun Gong and defies the laws of heaven. This is why the country has experienced so many natural and man-made disasters. I was sentenced to forced labor because I appealed for Falun Gong and also suffered persecution, but I refused to give up practicing. We are improving both mentally and physical through cultivation, becoming better people, saving medical expenses for both the country and for ourselves. Why would we not practice?" The passengers and driver received my words quite well and started talking amongst themselves about Falun Gong.
The bus reached its final destination and the driver said to me in a friendly tone, "You are welcome to take our bus again on your next trip." I handed him a postcard with the words "Falun Gong is good! Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are good", and he happily accepted it and thanked me. I sincerely wished that more living beings would attain the Fa and be saved.
2. The whole family protects Dafa Books
My relatives and friends had their minds poisoned by the Communist Party's propaganda and could not withstand the pressure. As a result, they either turned in their Dafa books or destroyed them themselves, which caused a large amount of karma. However, one family member who did not practice actually preserved the Dafa books. In February 2005, I told him and his close relatives more about Falun Gong, and they are now determined to become practitioners.
3. "I always knew that Falun Gong was not evil"
A young man obtained the book Zhuan Falun before the persecution began on July 20, 1999. He read it once but did not take up the practice. Recently, after I told him the facts about Falun Gong, he told me that he had preserved the book, and for years he always believed that Falun Gong was good and not evil, as the media had claimed. He also expressed an interest in learning and was enthusiastic about it. I also demonstrated the exercises for him and told him to contact me if he wished to learn more. I also encouraged him to read the book again, and he agreed.
(Clearwisdom.net) Li Ying, 13 years old, is the daughter of Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Shulan from Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. Li Ying's mother, grandfather and grandmother are being illegally detained for practicing Falun Gong. Her two uncles and one aunt died from the persecution. Two years ago, the Changping County 610 Office put Li Ying into a nursing home. For the last two years she has been the only child living there. Moreover, while she is in the nursing home she has no personal freedom.
Li Ying's uncle Chen Aizhong was sent to the Tangshan No. 1 Labor Camp on September 12, 2001. Eight days later, he died from torture. Li Ying's aunt, Chen Hongping, was arrested and severely beaten by police at Donghuayuan Police Station of Huailai County. Both her legs were broken from the beating. Later she was sent to Gangyang Labor Camp for further persecution. She passed away on March 5, 2003. Li Ying's other uncle, Chen Aili, suffered severely from persecution, and he died on November 5, 2004.
Right before the 2005 Chinese New Year, we met with Li Ying. Although she is only 13 years old, her eyes showed early maturity and were filled with sadness. It is apparent that the hardships and adversity of life have left many scars on her heart.
  Since her mother was kidnapped, Li Ying has lost her home. For the past 25 months (Jan. 9, 2003 - Feb. 4, 2005), she has been living here at the nursing home |  Outside of Chaofengan Brainwashing Center. (This brainwashing center is concealed without any sign outside) |
  Li Ying spent a lonely period of over 3 months here. |   Li Ying's recent picture |   Li Ying went to school here from 1998 to 2004 |
Minghui Reporter: What's your name, and how old are you?
Li Ying: My name is Li Ying, and I'm 13 years old.
Reporter: I have heard you have been living at a nursing home in Changping, is that right? How come you are living in a nursing home at your age? Where is your mother?
Li Ying: The "610 Office" and the police forcefully split up my mom and I. They sent me to the nursing home, and they took my mom away.
Reporter: When was that? Can you remember what happened?
Li Ying: It was the morning of September 17, 2002. I was at school (Chengbei Sixth Street Elementary School, Changping, Beijing) taking the third class of the day. A teacher (surname Wang) from the Teaching Office took me outside of the classroom.
He said to me, "You need to go study something."
I asked, "Why me? Is any other student going?"
"You just go study some," he replied without answering my question. He then pulled me into a waiting black car that was parked on campus. There were four adults in the car. I did not know any of them. I was very afraid at that time. I didn't know who they were and where they were going to take me. None of them spoke to me.
Fifteen minutes later, we stopped at an unfamiliar place. There were two police officers guarding the door.
I followed them as they walked ahead. Suddenly I heard my mom's voice. I ran toward the voice and saw my mom standing in a room. Her clothes were untidy and she was still wearing slippers. After a while, I was left with my mom and a policeman from Changping National Security named Wang Yue (also called Wang Jiecheng, they all have 2 names) who recorded my mom's words in the room.
At that time, I found out that I was at a vacation house in Chaofengan of Changping County. This place is in fact used as a brainwashing center for Falun Gong practitioners.
Around eight o'clock that evening, they were going to take my mom away. I grabbed my mom's arm and wouldn't let go. I tried to keep anyone from getting close to my mom. I kicked and screamed, fighting with them whenever they got close. I did not want them to take my mom away. They couldn't get their way, so they went outside to talk. Some people were left in the room trying to persuade me, but I refused to listen to them. I didn't know where they would take my mom. I knew they beat my uncle to death. Would my mom be beaten to death? I thought if I let go of her I might never see her again. I was so afraid that I firmly grabbed my mom's hands and refused to let go. I could not be without a mother.
After half an hour, they started to negotiate with me. They said they would let me see my mom once a month. I did not agree. Then they said they would let me see her once a week. Eventually they took her. My heart was aching as I watched my mom being taken away by force.
Reporter: Do you know where your mother was arrested?
Li Ying: I don't know all the details. I heard from my grandmother later that it was at our home. When we were at the brainwashing center, mom didn't have a chance to tell me anything.
Reporter: Do you have any other family members? Where is your father?
Li Ying: I don't have a father. At the time, my grandmother was detained at Huailai County Detention Center; my uncle Chen Aizhong died from the persecution; my grandfather was imprisoned at Beijiao Prison in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province; my other uncle Chen Aili was imprisoned at Jidong Prison in Hebei Province; and my aunt was imprisoned at Gaoyang Women's Prison in Hebei. I didn't know where they had taken my mom, Chen Shulan.
Although they took away all my family and I had no home to go to, I still wanted to get out. I was the only child at the brainwashing center. I was really scared.
That evening, they took turns trying to indoctrinate me using the propaganda that defames Falun Gong. They threatened that I would not able to go to school if I refused to "transform". It was past 10 o'clock before they let me rest. That place was filled with terror. I was really afraid there. They did not let me go home, and forced me to live there.
I told them, "Either you let me out, or have my teacher come here." I wanted to make it hard on them. I didn't expect they would bring my elementary school teacher, Hu Jingzhi. They arranged to have her, me, and another person who was in charge of brainwashing me, in one room. I am very grateful to my teacher for spending that terrible and unforgettable night with me.
The next morning, they forced me to watch videos that slander Falun Gong. These people were so awful. They took my mom away and did not let me go home. They didn't let me go to school the next day, and then they wanted me to watch slanderous videos. I said I was tired and refused to watch. A woman, who's surnamed Gao, played audiotapes and forced me to listen. I didn't want to listen so I started a fuss with her. She blocked me from turning off the recorder and threatened, "If you don't transform and sign the paper, we cannot let you go back to school." Later she falsely accused me of trying to smash the tape recorder.
There was a man in his 40s named Ren Jiajie or Ren Jiahuai at the brainwashing center. He used to be a practitioner and later was "transformed." He was there to help in transforming others. He told me to write a statement denouncing Falun Gong and I refused. So he wrote one himself and asked me to copy it down. And I refused again. I said to him, "My uncle died before he wrote it. I am not going to do it either ."
They kept me from sleeping until 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. They also threatened that I would not be able to go back to school if I refused to write a denouncing statement or sign one. All those adults surrounded me, a fifth grader, acting ominously. I lost my personal freedom and right to go to school.
One afternoon, they locked me in a room with 4 or 5 adults. They surrounded me, trying to tell me their twisted understanding. So I told them how my uncle died from the persecution. I could not win the argument with them so I tried to leave, but the door was locked from outside. They didn't let me out until dinnertime. And wherever I went, there were 2 or 3 people following me, restricting my personal freedom.
Eight days later, I was forced to sign the statement in order to go back to school. But they did not let me go back home even after I signed their statement. I was forced to live at Chaofengan Brainwashing Center. Everyday, a school bus took me to school and sent me back. I did not have any freedom.
Those people were so bad. They imprisoned my whole family; even a kid like me cannot escape. These people killed my uncle. I feel sad whenever I think about him and how he was brutally persecuted. He was imprisoned several times for speaking the truth. I saw with my own eyes how ruthlessly he had been beaten.
It was New Year's Day of 2001. The seven people from my family went to Tiananmen Square to validate the Fa. That was the last time my whole family was together. There was a light snow that day. Around 8 o'clock in the morning, we opened up a handmade banner on Tiananmen Square. The banner was 2 meters long, with red characters on a yellow background. It read, "Falun Dafa is Good." The entire family shouted, "Falun Dafa is Good!" Suddenly a group of plainclothes police officers appeared from nowhere. They pushed us to the ground and snatched away our banner. I was on the bottom of the pile. I turned my head and saw a man punching my grandfather on his back. Another man stepped on my uncle's head with his leather boots and rolled back and forth like he was grinding out a cigarette butt. Blood came out my uncle's ears right away. But my uncle was strong; he still shouted, "Falun Dafa is Good!" There were many people surrounding us and watching.
Later, they put us on a bus. There were over sixty practitioners on that bus. I took the lead to shout, "Falun Dafa is Good! Falun Dafa is the Righteous Fa!" I shouted once, everyone followed once. Just like that, we shouted all the way.
Reporter: How long did you live at Chaofengan Brainwashing Center?
Li Ying: About three weeks. They tormented me every day. Eight days later, I was forced to sign their statement. The next day, they let me go back to school. But I still did not have any personal freedom. I was watched every day. At night, I had to go back to that horrible place. I was disgusted with that place. I didn't want to live there. After two or three weeks, I proposed to them to let me live at a private boarding home. (It is a business that takes care of children's meals and lodging when their parents are too busy.) The day before my mother was arrested, she arranged a private boarding home for me.
The night before I left the brainwashing center, a man and a woman summoned me into a room. They wanted me to give them an oral guarantee [to not practice Falun Gong.] The woman sat there with her eyes narrowed as if she was waiting for me to say something. Judging by her expression, I was not going to get any sleep or go to school unless I complied. I stalled for a long time. It was the latter half of the night and I was so tired. Finally, I gave them an "oral guarantee" against my own will before she let me leave. Thinking back, I really regret what I said about Falun Dafa at that time. But they forced me and I was afraid. All I wanted was to get out of there.
After that, they sent me to the private boarding home that was run by a lady named Zhang. From Monday to Friday, I stayed there. But the boarding home is closed for Saturday and Sunday because all the kids would go home to spend time with their parents on the weekend. And I had no place to go on those days. After some discussion at the school, it was decided that several teachers would take turns taking me in on weekends. Some of the teachers I did not even know. They all treated me very well, but I felt really uncomfortable because it seemed I was just an extra in this world.
At the end of every day, the other kids are picked up from school by their parents. But I was orphaned and helpless with no place to go. Especially on weekends, there were always people asking me why there was no one coming for me. I really didn't know how to reply. I would remember my mom. There is no one that can love me like my mom. I felt sorry for myself. I wanted to cry but dared not to. So I kept it all inside.
Reporter: How long did you live at the boarding home? Who paid for it?
Li Ying: It was around three months. It cost 500 yuan a month. My mom paid for half a month the day before she was arrested. Later, the school paid for it.
On January 9, 2003, the "610 Office" sent me to Changping Nursing Home without my consent. The nursing home is located in a remote area in the foothills of a mountain. It is very far from school. I had to walk to school every day, and in the winter it was always dark when I walked back from school. There are no street lamps along the way. There are few people, and houses are scarce. I often trembled with fear when I walked on that road. Sometimes, there was no one on the road with me. When the wind blew, the trees moved like ghosts, and my heart felt timid. [Note: according to the writer's research, it is about 1.8 miles from Li Ying's school to the nursing home that she lives in. Every day, Li Ying makes two round trips.]
Reporter: Have you told them about this?
Li Ying: I told them many times, I told Ling Guojun, the deputy director of the nursing home and Kang Li, deputy head of the 610 Office. I said, "I'm scared. Can I go to school on a bike or on a bus?" They said no and completely ignored me. I really missed mom because no one else in the world would pay attention to me, or care for me.
So I had to walk that path every day with my heart in my throat the whole time. I felt an inexplicable fear after school in the winter, when it was dark. I didn't know how much longer I'd have to walk that path. (She shakes her head while saying this)
Reporter: How many times have you seen your mother since you arrived at the nursing home? Did you see her once a week?
Li Ying: They completely lied to me. I saw mom only once in more than two years, and it was when my uncle Aili was alive. He took me to see mom. Theyare so crooked; they told me so many lies.
At the nursing home I didn't receive love and care as is normal for young girls of my age. I lived worse than a beggar in the street. A beggar has freedom and I didn't. All the other people at the nursing home had their families visit them regardless of their length of stay. As for me, the officials from 610 Office dropped me off and left me alone. They didn't approve when I asked to see my mom or go to my grandmother's home.
Reporter: Where did you see your mother? What year was it? Do you remember?
Li Ying: It was on February 16, 2004. I saw her at Tiantanghe Female Prison in Beijing. Mom was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison. She was almost unrecognizable because of the torture. Her hair was more than half white, and she looked so much older than her age. She was a mere shadow of herself, the young and beautiful woman. I wanted to cry but I didn't want to upset her, so I choked back my tears.
The guards saw that I was sad, so they lied to me and said, "Your mom is happy here." Who could believe that? Who could spend a happy time in prison? Seven-and-a-half years are not short!
Mom cried a lot when she learned my aunt and her sister were tortured to death. Aunt died in a miserable state. They brought my aunt back here from Gaoyang Female Prison in Hebei Province. She had a mental breakdown and could not even recognize her parents. She was in rags.
Reporter: In what year did your aunt pass away?
Li Ying: March 5, 2003. My aunt was very pretty; I still have her picture.
Reporter: How long did your visit with your mom last?
Li Ying: Only 30 minutes. I spoke to her on a telephone through a glass partition. I could not say a lot of the things I wanted to say, because a guard was hovering close by and was watching me. I wanted so much to hug and kiss mom but I couldn't.
Reporter: What happened then?
Li Ying: Uncle and I left the Tiantanghe Female Prison. I had to try really hard not to cry when saying goodbye to mom. I could only wave to her.
At that time I didn't know that was the last time I would see my uncle Aili. I regret not taking a better look at him.
On November 5, 2004 uncle Aili was tortured to death. My grandparents had four children; three have been killed. My mom is the only one still alive, and she was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison. I can't imagine how they are taking it. My two uncles and aunt were tortured to death before they even had a chance to be married, and my grandparents have no source of income right now. (Sigh)
Reporter: What about you? What is your source of income?
Li Ying: As I was told, the Beijing city government provides about 300 yuan a month, for the lowest living expenses. The 610 Office and the Education Bureau together provides another 300 yuan a month, so totally about 600 yuan a month. [Note: She does not actually receive the money; it is under the perpetrators' control]
Reporter: What if you need to buy something for personal use or school supplies?
Li Ying: I have to ask for permission before I can buy anything. Ling Guojun, the deputy director of the nursing home, has to approve it first. Then they would take me out and buy it for me. I don't know if 600 yuan covers all my expenses, but I know they always buy the cheapest things for me.
I don't have any pocket change, as they give me only 1.5 yuan every morning for breakfast. I never get any snacks. I really miss the times when mom bought me lots of my favorite food. Now I have nothing and can only daydream.
I often think: mom, fly out of the prison! If you come out I will not have to stay in this terrible place, and I won't be treated differently at school. It's really hard to live a life on my own. Now I dislike police and police cars the most because they took away mom and forced me to live without my parents. My family suffered so much under them and my grandparents are living alone and uncared for.
Reporter: What do you mean by "different treatment" you receive at school?
Li Ying: At parent-teacher meetings, all the students in my class except for me have their parents attend the meeting. When I need a parent's signature, I could only get it stamped at the nursing home office. When other students ask me, "Where is your mom?" I can't answer them. There are many other things I can't face, because I know the other students look down on me.
Reporter: How long have you been living here? Who is taking care of you here?
Li Ying: If you count the last Chinese New Year, I spent three Chinese New Years over here already. I feel lonely, hopeless and uncomfortable being surrounded by elderly. I am the only child in this nursing home and haven't had a visitor for two years. In contrast, old people have visitors on a regular basis. I feel like someone who has been totally forgotten by the world. Sometimes if I come back from school late, I have to eat a cold food and no one cares to heat the food for me. I used to ask for a container to keep the food warm, but nobody cared. Not having enough food, I have to suffer hunger. Not having enough vegetables, I have to eat rice with hot water. Sometimes they forget to pick up food for me and then I end up starving. Sometimes the service lady screams at me and I have to listen. No one knows what I am thinking, and I guess no one really cares about it.
I basically don't have any freedom in the nursing home, except when I go to school. I need to have permission to go out. Ling Guojun, the deputy director of the nursing home, arranges my daily living schedule; however, my care is not one of his priorities. There are many things that he needs to take care of, but he chooses not to unless I keep constantly reminding him and reminding him so many times. As a result he will reluctantly get a few things done. For certain things he has to get permission from Kang Li, the head of the Changping County 610 Office.
Once I inadvertently found a notebook laying around on the reception desk. It contained a list of people who had earned honors for being heavily involved in the Falun Gong persecution. Ling Guojun was one of them, as well as the government head of the Changping County.
Reporter: Do you miss your mom?
Li Ying: Yes, but there is nothing I can do. Nevertheless, I still keep and read the letters that my mom wrote to me long ago.
Reporter: Would you like to share those letters with me?
Li Ying: Sure! I also kept the letter that my aunt wrote to us (my mom and me) before she died.
(The following is the letter that Chen Shulan wrote to her daughter on March 2003 from the Changping Detention Center. The letter was excerpted and edited.)
"Li Ying, How are you?
Time has gone so quickly and it has been a year and half. How is your life? Did you go to grandma's house for Chinese New Year? If your aunt wrote a letter to you, you should respond to her in time. You should study hard and read books. The more you read, the better you will be able to do things. You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Don't worry about me. In your next letter, tell me more about your grandma and the second uncle's health. Send your aunt and me a picture of you, respectively, when you have time.
Take care. If you are short of money, ask uncle Liu for some. Mom will return the money to him after I am released.
Cheer up and be happy!"
(The following is the letter Chen Shulan wrote to her daughter on May 26, 2004 from the Tiantanghe Female Prison; the letter was shortened.)
"The June 1 Children's Day is coming. I wish that you had a happy holiday. I haven't talked to you for a long time. I tried several times at night to call home, but no one picked up the phone. How are you doing? Do you have money? A certified letter is expensive; you can send me a regular letter and I can still get it. Don't use the breakfast money to send a letter to me. Remember to eat a good breakfast and keep healthy so that mom would not worry about you. You looked skinny from the picture compared to the past; try to eat more. Mom cannot take care of you now, which makes you suffer. You have to learn how to take care of yourself and learn to wash your clothes; and don't forget to brush your teeth before going to bed.
My health is getting better compared to the last time you saw me. I am able to do some chores. Do not worry; we can communicate on the phone. Help the elderly in the nursing home."
(The following is the last letter that Chen Hongping wrote to her sister Chen Shulan, dated on September 23, 2002 at the Gaoyang Female Prison in Hebei Province before she was grossly abused from torture, which resulted in her death. Unfortunately, Chen Shulan did not have a chance to read this letter because she was arrested on September 17, 2002 and is still incarcerated at the Tiantanghe Female Prison)
"Dear Sister (Chen Shulan); don't worry about me. Your situation could be very difficult although you did not mention it in the letter. I can imagine the family situation. It must be very difficult; however, I believe that you are a strong person and you have the ability to get over such hard task. You are stronger than me. If it were me, I would have collapsed already. You must overcome this difficult time. I think that it will not take too long."
Reporter: Ying, what do you wish for?
Li Ying: (silent for a while) I miss my mom and wish to end this persecution of good people. I am afraid that mom will be persecuted so severely she will die, just like my aunt and two uncles.
The reporter's comments:
At the end of the interview, my mind was filled with bitterness and sadness.
The Jiang regime and the Chinese Communist Party have ruthlessly persecuted Li Ying's family. This has so severely hurt the thirteen-year-old girl's physical and mental health, it cannot be described in words. This tragic experience is typical of thousands of such persecution incidents that have happened to Falun Gong practitioners and their families in the past six years. (More detailed information of Li Ying and her family was posted on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/2/18/57662.html)
We urge the United Nations, countries, organizations and individuals around the world to lend support to these kind Chinese people and to bring about an end to the already six-year-old, CCP-driven genocidal persecution.
Contact information:
Wang Shuhe, in charge of the persecution, Deputy Party Secretary and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee in the Changping County, 86-10-89703046 (Office)
Liang Shiqang, head of the Changping County "610 Office," 86-10-89741645 (Office)
Kang Li, deputy head of the Changping County "610 Office," 86-10-89741539 (Office)
Changping County Chenbeijie Nursing Home in Beijing
#2A Zhongshan Street, Changping County, Beijing 102200
Duty Office, 86-10-69708904
Ling Guojun, 86-10-69741263 (Office)
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Lou Yan, a determined Falun Gong practitioner from the Tiexi District, Anshan City, Liaoning Province, has been detained ten times. She was sent to a mental hospital and forcibly injected with drugs. She was tortured to disability and to the brink of death many times. Later, the perpetrators sent the disabled Ms. Lou to the Liaoning Province Women's Prison (former Dabei Prison) at Shenyang City for a five-year term. Ms. Lou was tortured to the brink of death in the prison. To avoid responsibility in case she died in prison, the prison allowed her to serve the rest of her term outside of prison, on the condition that she seek medical treatment. When she had barely recovered, two policemen from Songsantai Police Station came to her home. They requested her to go to the police station to "have a talk." On the way back home from the police station, several people arrested Ms. Lou and brought her to Dabei Prison. The Elderly and Disabled Team detained her. Ms. Lou went on a hunger strike to protest this persecution. The persecutors tortured her to death using extremely cruel force-feeding methods. The exact date of Ms. Lou's death is unclear, but it was some time during the first half of 2004. After Ms. Lou's death was exposed, the police pushed all the responsibility for her death on to the prisoners.
Ms. Lou Yan wrote this account of the nine times she was persecuted before her death.
I am a practitioner from Anshan City, Liaoning Province. Before I started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, I had several diseases. On the day I learned Falun Dafa, I just casually browsed through the book Zhuan Falun, but a miracle happened to me. All my diseases were gone. After I took the path of cultivation, my mind and heart kept improving.
After April 25, 1999, Jiang Zemin started the persecution of Falun Gong. I spoke the truth, saying, "Falun Dafa is good," and I have been tortured and persecuted many times by Jiang's regime ever since.
1. Detained for appealing in Beijing and tortured to unconsciousness while on a hunger strike
On October 25, 1999, I was detained in Beijing for appealing for the right to practice Falun Gong. I was detained in the Anshan Third Detention Center for three days. On October 27, I was transferred to the Anshan Women's Ziqiang School, where I was detained for another 15 days. I went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal treatment since I did not violate any law. My protest brought me more maltreatment. I was not allowed to do the Falun Gong exercises or recite any of the contents of Falun Dafa books.
In the Anshan Third Detention Center, the police tied us to very high windows and whipped us with lengths (6-cm) of plastic tubing. In the Anshan Women's Ziqiang School, we were forced to do military drills every day and count numbers. If my voice was too soft, I could be forced to count over 100 times. We were ordered to shout out the number, then quickly squat down and put our hands on our heads. At that time, I had been on a hunger strike for several days. The longer I was on the hunger strike, the harder the persecution was on me. My body was very weak and I was starving. Regardless, the police forced me to keep walking in army stride until they were satisfied. Sometimes I was forced to prepare wooden blocks or collect cabbages from the field. Sometimes I was ordered to wash other prisoners' pants.
During my hunger strike, many policemen tied me up. They used an iron instrument to force open my mouth, breaking off a piece of my front tooth. They put lots of salt in the "food" along with some unknown substance. When the "food" got into my stomach, it caused painful cramping and vomiting. They forcibly kept me in a standing position with my hands cuffed behind my back. The inmates were ordered to watch me and cover my nose and mouth with their hands. I nearly suffocated.When they took their hands away, I vomited uncontrollably, emptying my stomach along with some blood. Two days later I was force-fed again. I lost consciousness after that and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
I was released 15 days later, but the persecutors never stopped coming to my home to harass me. I was often forced to "have a talk" at the city police department. Every such "talk" took a whole day. They prohibited me from leaving the city. If I had to leave the city, I had to first report to the local police station. I could leave the city only with their permission.
2. During my second detention, I lost consciousness after being force-fed with alcohol and drugs
On December 26, 1999, I went to visit a friend in Ciyutuo Town, Liaozhong County of Shenyang. The local Ciyutuo Police Department forcefully took my husband and me to the police department. My husband is not a practitioner, but was locked in a car. He was allowed to go back home at night. They sent me to the Fifth Asylum of Shenyang.
They told me on the second day that I would be detained for 15 days without any legal procedure or document. I went on a hunger strike to protest their illegal action. They force-fed me on the fourth and sixth days of my detention. The food for the force-feeding contained lots of salt, alcohol and unknown drugs. I lost consciousness from the force-feeding. I was released on the sixth day of my detention.
Once I was home, the local police station put me under close house monitoring 24 hours a day. My health was very poor from the torture, so I was unable to go to the police station. I could not leave my house. My elderly mother was over 90 years old and needed my care. The police denied my request to go care for my mother. I called the authorities and firmly refused to cooperate with them. They then took away the staff that was monitoring me.
3. They tortured me using "Tying the Ropes;" I was shocked with eight electric batons
Several practitioners used some of our savings to buy a printer to better spread the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution to people. We planned to use it for making "truth-clarification materials"to help people understand the innocence of the practitioners and the brutality of the persecution. One practitioner was arrested. They tortured him and made him tell them my name. On October 29, 2000, around 2:00 a.m. the police suddenly broke into my home to search for the printer, but they found nothing. My husband and I were taken to the Anshan City Police Department. The persecutors beat me, trying to find out the whereabouts of the printer. I refused to cooperate with them. They tortured me by adapting the "Typing the Ropes." (1) They tied my hands behind my back and hung me up. They pulled my arms so hard that my hands touched my ears from behind. They beat me at the same time and demanded that I give them the information they wanted. When they let me down, they forced me to squat and pushed my head under my legs.
I was in such excruciating pain that I lost consciousness. I woke up lying in the emergency room at Anshan City First Hospital. Sometimes my mind was clear and sometimes I was doped up. While I was unconscious, the police ordered a doctor, with the surname Leng, to shock me with electricity. They tied a piece of 1-inch wet steel on my waist, and then shocked both of my legs with seven to eight electric batons. I woke up in extreme pain and my legs felt as if many needles were piercing them.
The electric shock caused my body to jump over one foot high off the table. After they stopped, my whole body collapsed in exhaustion. The two layers of sweaters I wore were soaked with sweat. My tongue was bitten and bleeding. At that moment, my son's girlfriend (who was 18 years old) was taking care me. The poor girl was so shocked and scared by the scene that she cried uncontrollably. The persecutors lied to her, saying that they were just doing electroshock therapy on me.
Zhang Chengguo, head of the politic and security department of Ganshan District of Anshan City, threatened my husband every day. He told my husband, "If she still refuses to tell us the information, we will send her to a mental hospital and drive her insane. Then, let's see how she makes a living." He told me the same thing.
4. Tortured in a mental hospital
Several days later, some persecutors tried to extort money from my husband, but he had no money to give to them. Then the public security bureau sent me to Kangning Center in Anshan City (a mental hospital) at Tangjiafang Town. The persecutors told the doctors what they wanted done and then left. The doctors forcibly injected me with drugs and forced me to ingest drugs, as well. When I tried to resist, they used cloth rope to tie my hands and legs to the four posts of the metal bed.
When the doctors came to check on me, I often said to their director, "Don't treat me this way. I am not a patient. I practice Falun Gong and am a good person. You are doctors whose duty is to help people. You cannot treat a normal person like me as if I were a mental patient. Don't help those persecutors do evil things." The director responded, "It will do you good to take some drugs." I asked her what the good was. She said, "After taking the drugs, a murderer would not kill other people. So does a person practicing Falun Gong dare to practice Falun Gong again? It is to 'purify your heart.'"
When I resisted, the persecutors viciously threatened me. "If you don't take the pills now, then I will get several tough male patients to forcefully inject you and make you take the pills. You have to take the pills either way." After I ate the pills, they checked my mouth to make sure I swallowed them.
A month later, policeman Kang Kai from the City 610 Office came to see me in the mental hospital. He asked me whether I knew where I was. I said, "I know where I am right now. I don't have a mental illness. Why send me to the mental hospital?" He said, "Tell me the machine's whereabouts. Then it will be clear that you are not a mental patient. Otherwise, you are and have to live here." Then he left. I don't know what he did to pressure the director. The director brought my son and told me that I have to take more pills. I refused to listen. The director then wouldn't let my son go, who was placed under a great deal of pressure.
5. My family members were persecuted because I escaped from the mental hospital
Time was passing in the mental hospital. I was on the verge of a breakdown. I was constantly in deep fear and anxiety. I often felt there was a person talking to me. When I closed my eyes, there would be images of people talking to me appearing right in front of me. I could not take it any longer. If I had not learned Falun Gong and if my main consciousness had not become so strong, I wouldn't have been able to survive the torture. I was determined that I would not take their persecution any longer. I had a very strong thought in my mind. I must leave this place, expose their evildoings to the people outside and let the public know how viciously they persecuted the Falun Gong practitioners.
I started to look for any possible chance to escape from the mental hospital. One day the chance came. It was dangerous, but I had to do it. I jumped out of the building. The moment I fell on the ground, my spine was suddenly compressed. In addition, my left ankle was broken. I was unable to stand up, nor could I walk. I kept crawling and in my heart I kept calling for our Teacher to help me. A miracle happened. I successfully crawled over a two-meter-high wall and got out of the mental hospital. I made my way over three mountains. On the way, a kindhearted family with a predestined relationship helped me reunite with my fellow practitioners.
The 610 Office not only tortured me both mentally and physically, but also locked my family up in the mental hospital behind iron bars and windows. The perpetrators starved my family members and put them under 24-hour surveillance. Sometimes they gave them no food for a day. My family was not allowed to buy food from the cafeteria downstairs.
The police put pressure on my husband. They ordered him to report my whereabouts as soon as he knew. My husband looked for me everywhere. When he eventually found me, he was astonished to see how severely I was wounded during my escape from the mental hospital. He was so hurt that he could not bear to leave me alone. I said to him, "Jiang and his followers are extremely dangerous. Don't stay here with me. I don't want to see you being persecuted because of me." He refused and insisted on taking care of me. At that time, I was incapable of moving and I had been unable to speak for many days.
I kept studying the Fa. After half a month, I could turn my body on the bed. A month later, I could stand up and take care of myself. My husband witnessed my recovery and said, "In the past, when someone mentioned to me how wonderful Falun Dafa was, I might not have believed him. But now I can see this miracle right in front of my eyes. I must also learn Falun Gong." So my husband began to cultivate Falun Dafa. He read the book of Zhuan Falun for twenty days. Before he finished the book, he wrote, "Falun Dafa is Good" on a piece of cloth. He hung the banner on the outside of his living complex. Unfortunately, the police got him and detained him for half a month. In an attempt to force him to reveal my whereabouts, the police beat him for a whole day and night. Then they sentenced him to two years of forced labor.
Under the brutal persecution, my husband was forced to reveal my whereabouts. I was again arrested. On February 6, 2001, the police department at Ciyutuo Town, Liaozhong County of Shenyang City took me to the detention center. They confiscated the machine for making truth-clarification materials, took away my fellow practitioners' 4,800 yuan in cash and my 3,900 yuan cash that was given to me by my friends and relatives for living expenses.
The perpetrators deprived me of sleep for three days and nights. Using the excuse of looking for information, they tortured me both mentally and physically. After I was detained on February 6, 2001, the Songsan Police Station confiscated our truck for over one month. My two sons, who were 19 years old and 9 years old respectively, and my 19-year-old daughter-in-law had no money for food. They had to wander the streets and beg for food. A friend borrowed 5,000 yuan and paid it to the police station to get the truck back for us. My husband was still detained. The perpetrators attempted to drive my children out of our house. The three children were crying and begging them. Someone pleaded with them, so the perpetrators finally allowed my children to live in our house.
My health had not fully recovered from the last time I jumped out of the mental hospital. The detention center prohibited me from doing the Falun Gong exercises. I was totally paralyzed due to the torture in the detention center. I kept vomiting. The police feared that I might die in the prison, so they released me on March 29, 2001. I was detained for 53 days that time.
6. Facing detention with righteous thoughts
Soon after I was released, I went on a Beijing-to-Anshan bus trip. When the bus arrived at a rural station near Beijing, the police started to follow me. The driver and the police worked together to watch me. I called for Teacher to help me. Eventually, I successfully escaped from the bus.
On September 26, 2001, I was reported to the police when I was clarifying the truth in public. The Anshan City Police Station sent me to the Anshan City Third Asylum. I went on a hunger strike for six days. They were afraid I would die there when they saw me vomiting blood, so they released me.
On January 29, 2002, I went to visit a fellow practitioner in Fuxin. I did not know there were police in the practitioner's home, so I was arrested and sent to Fuxin's local police station. That night when they sent me to a detention center, my health condition did not meet the detention center's criteria. I was transferred to a hospital. I walked out of the hospital with righteous thoughts.
7. I was tortured to the brink of death during my eighth detention
On February 2, 2002, the Songsan Police Station of Anshan City arrested me and sent me to the Anshan City First Detention Center. I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. They force-fed me many times. They tied up my feet and hands together, forcing me into a very painful position. I needed the help of others to turn on the bed and use the bathroom. My ankles and wrists were rubbed raw. Every tiny movement caused me intense pain.
The weather was 10 degrees Celsius below zero. The perpetrators stripped off my cotton pants and only left a thin layer of pants on me. I could only lie on the freezing cold wood bed. The police told the inmates, "If she refuses to eat, no one in this cell can buy goods or watch TV." The inmates took out their anger by swearing at, kicking and beating me.
On the 7th day, I lost consciousness. The detention center asked the local police station to take me back to avoid my dying at the detention center. Instead of sending me home, the police station sent me to a forced labor camp. Seeing my health condition, the labor camp refused to take me without the results of a physical exam. The police had to drive me to a hospital. On the way, I woke up. The three policemen Yuan Hongbao, Fu Meng, Liu Jun and Judicial Assistant Sun Hai knew that the forced labor camp would not take me if they saw the results of my physical exam from the hospital, so the four decided to get a doctor to make up the result. They would be able to send me to the forced labor camp
with a fabricated physical exam result.
Policeman Liu Jun called and got the principle doctor Li Xingzhong from the Surgery Department of Anshan City Second Hospital. Li Xingzhong noticed that I was in a very dangerous health situation. He asked them, "Wouldn't she die if she were sent to the forced labor camp?" The policeman Yuan Hongbao and Fu Meng said, "One or two practitioners dead is nothing. It would be much easier to throw her from the car or leave her to freeze to death outside. After all, Jiang Zemin already said, 'death from beating is counted as suicide.'"
They sent me to the forced labor camp again. They sentenced me to three years of forced labor without any legal process and without my knowledge. Practitioners were not allowed to look at or talk to each other in the labor camp. I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Many times the perpetrators tightly held my hands, feet, body and head to force-feed me. Sometimes, when I refused to cooperate with them, they used so much violence to force my mouth open that I was severely injured. The cuts got infected later on. Even after one year, there is still dead flesh near my mouth.
I was force-fed many times. During one of the most vicious force-feedings, I was nearly tortured to death. They pried open my mouth, inserted a pair of wood chopsticks and a pair of metal chopsticks to hold my mouth open, and then quickly poured in the "food" in large amounts. They covered my nose, and inserted paper tissues and a towel in my mouth. I was unable to breathe and nearly suffocated to death. I felt my eyes bulging out. I called to our Teacher to help. A miracle happened. I bit the chopsticks into pieces, including the metal ones.
I did not eat anything or drink water for fourteen days. I was at the brink of death. The perpetrators tried to give me intravenous infusions, fearing that I would die in the labor camp, but it did not work. The labor camp allowed my husband to have several days off and brought him to take care of me. My condition deteriorated every day, so the labor camp had to release me.
I wanted to expose their evildoings to the pubic, and that made them extremely nervous. They tried to silence me by taking my husband back to the forced labor camp for interrogation and torture. They used a torture called the "Big Hang Up" (2) on him. After a few months, his hands were still not recovered. They lied to others, saying that it was my husband who got onto the Falun Gong website or the person who went online was a Falun Gong practitioner. In April, the higher authorities sent out a list of practitioners to be released. My husband's name was on the list, but the Anshan Public Security Bureau at Ganshan Branch refused to release him.
8. Call for support and attention to the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and their families
In March 2002, the CCP central government held two annual meetings: The National People's Congress (NPC) and The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). The perpetrators caused me to be homeless. On June 8, 2000, the Liaoyang City Police Station arrested me again. I did not cooperate with the perpetrators. On the second night, I escaped. I have been detained nine times since April 25, 1999, and my house has been ransacked many times. My oldest son and my daughter-in-law are 20 years old now. My youngest son is 10 years old and my granddaughter is just a few months old. These children have suffered alot. The perpetrators placed a lot of pressure on them. I am still unable to go back home and my children are in a very difficult situation. They don't have enough food. They have to go to friends and relatives' homes to get food. I plead to kindhearted people: please help my husband and our four children.
I call for international organizations to pay attention to Falun Gong practitioners and their families. Urge Jiang Zemin and his regime to stop persecuting Falun Gong. What awaits Jiang Zemin and those perpetrators are punishment by law. It is a principle that good will be rewarded with good, while evil meets with karmic retribution.
Notes:
(1) Tying the Ropes: A thin rope is used to tightly encircle the neck and the rope is wrapped around the practitioner's arms. Then the police use all the force they can muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes tighter and tighter around the body of the practitioner, cutting into the flesh and making it more and more difficult for him to
breathe. The pain is so intense that the practitioner sometimes loses control of the bladder. In many cases the rope was tightened to the point of breaking the practitioner's arm.
(2). The Big Hang Up: With both hands cuffed behind the back and only the toes touching the ground, the practitioner is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frames or the door frame.
 An Fengbo |
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa disciple An Fengbo, 34 years old, from Jilin City, Jilin Province, was employed as a policeman in Jilin City Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp. On March 4, 2005, he was arrested again. He didn't comply with the persecutors and shouted loudly "Falun Dafa is good." He is imprisoned in the Jilin City Detention Center. His 5-year-old child and his over 60-year-old father-in-law, who has a serious heart disease, are left at home without care.
Mr. An started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996. After taking up the practice, he strived to do things according to the standard of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," whether in his family environment or at his work unit. He became a person who always looks after others. On July 22, 1999, he and his pregnant wife went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. His child was born in September 1999, and two months later in November 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for the second time. He was subsequently detained.
Later, he, his wife and his mother-in-law, holding the few-months-old baby, went together to the Appeals Office in Beijing. The police from the Jilin City Liaison Office in Beijing took them away and later sent them back to Jilin City. The police put him and his mother-in-law in detention, and his wife was allowed to go home because she was nursing the baby.
In 2001 Mr. An was sentenced to two years of forced labor because of his steadfastness in validating the Fa. He was imprisoned in the No. 4 team of the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province. The police and the guards there ruthlessly tortured and abused him. He suffered physical torture, including a session where his front teeth were kicked out. He has been very determined to validate the Fa in that environment and has never compromised with the persecutors. Before the 2003 Chinese New Year, when his original imprisonment term was two months overdue, he got out of the forced labor camp.
When he returned to his workplace, the Jilin City Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp, to resume work, the labor camp management demoted him. They used his being a Falun Gong practitioner as an excuse to reassign him from the labor camp officer position to doing janitorial work at the main gate. Still, he confidently faced everything with a Dafa practitioner's mindset. He worked hard regardless of the circumstances and treated everyone around him kindly. His colleagues all knew that he was a good person practicing "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." However, officers from the local Qingdao Police Station under the Chuanying District Police Department often went to his home to harass him. Consequently, he was later compelled to move into his mother-in-law's home.
At about 7 o'clock in the early morning on March 4, 2005, four officers from the Dadong Police Station under the Jilin City Chuanying District Police Department broke into his mother-in-law's home to search the place. The police not only took away his Dafa books, but also arrested Mr. An and his 60-year-old mother-in-law. The perpetrators took them to the local police station for persecution. Mr. An firmly resisted the arrest and tried to get away, but without success.
At the Dadong Police Station, Mr. An refused to respond to the policemen's interrogation and kept shouting "Falun Dafa is Good!" for a whole day. The police station didn't get a confession from him, so they sent him to the Jilin City Detention Center.
The police also fabricated a rumor saying, "Mr. An's arrest resulted from someone reporting him to the authorities." At present, his 5-year-old child and his over 60-year-old father-in-law, who has serious heart disease, are left in his mother-in-law's home without care.
Recently, officers from the Jilin City Chuanying District Police Department, the Fengman District Police Department and the Changyi District Police Department have gone out to harass and arrest Dafa practitioners quite a few times.
Phone numbers: (Note: for home or office phone numbers, dial country code + area code before all numbers. For cell phone numbers, dial country code before the numbers. Country code: 86, area code: 432)
The policeman handling the case: Han Wei from the Dadong Police Station in Jilin City: 2010382
Police officers: Han Yanfeng, Huang Qun, Song Guojun, Li Yuanyuan, Qi Lulu, Song Wencheng, Li Anqi, Zhang Shihua, Sun Yue, Wei Tongbin, Zhang Changjiang, Liu Jinyang
Wang Jiaxing: 7871109; Yu Weijun: 7977457; Chu Qiang: 7826967
Address of the Chuanying District Police Department: 100 Jiefang Road, Zip code: 132012; Phone: 2026300; Monitoring phone: 6962905; Chief's public telephone: 6962787
Address of the Jilin City Police Department: 51 Beijing Road, Jilin City, Zip code: 132011; Fax: 2454682; Switchboard: 2409221
The Jilin City Police Department Chief's public phone: 2409110, 2488110, 2455848; Office telephone: 2454682
The Deputy Mayor of Jilin City and the Chief of Police Department: Liu Peizhu
The Deputy Chief of Jilin Police Department: Di Jiexin: 2087788 (Home), 2010338 (Office)
The CCP Party Secretary and Deputy Chief: Xu Hongshan: 2449606, 2086166 (Home) 13704411666 (Cell)
Deputy Chief: Jiang Jichang: 2451341, 2409601(Home)
Deputy Chief: Han Weimin: 2488017, 2054088 (Home), 3904419966(Cell)
Deputy Chief: Yue Zhongtian: 2497666, 2036988 (Home), 13904408088(Cell)
The Head of Jilin City 610 Office: Yang Zhongping, 2010610
The Deputy Head of Jilin City "610 Office": He Baoxi, 2010610, 13704305666 (Cell) The Deputy Head of Jilin City "610 Office": Sun Yun (female), 6926869 (Home), 13331507278 (Cell)
The Deputy Head of Jilin City "610 Office": Sun Kuiyi, 2010610, 13904425588 (Cell)
The Address of the Jilin City Changyi District Police Department: East section, Jiefang Road, Jilin City, Zip code: 132041
The Criminal Police Control Room: 2485162, Office: 2485940
The National Security Division: 2485537
The Chief's Office: 2485301; Political Head's Office: 2499302
The Deputy Chief's Office: 2485303; Criminal Police Team Leader's Office: 2485378
Du Xingze, Head of the National Security Division of Changyi District Police Department: 2485537, 13704415288 (Cell)
Liu Guoping, officer from the National Security Division of the Changyi District Police Department: 7770677, 13114377032 (Cell)
Address of the Fengman District Police Department: 45 Jilin Avenue, Zip code: 132013; Fax: 4683941
Office: 4662531
Cao Jianguo, Chief of the Fengman District Police Department: 4664060 (Office), 13904402989 (Cell)
Phone numbers of personnel concerned at Jilin City No. 3 Detention Center:
The Head of the detention center: Liu Xuezhi, 2578266
The Political Head: Liu Changjun, 7807299
Deputy Head: Huang Jianmin, 7807298
Deputy Head: Cong Maohua, 2017071
Police guard: Xing Shufen (female), 202673 (Home)
Prison doctor: Zhang Shaoqing, 2031188 (Home)
Guard: Cao Jingyu 2433954
Guard: Dong Yushu 2482155
Jilin City No. 1 Detention Center
Head of the detention center: Sun Zhufeng 4687526 (Home), 1390440775 (Cell)
Political Head: Wang Wenkui 2588147, (Home) 7807228
Female police guards: Bian Hongbo: 7807208; Chen Lili: 2455243, 7807246; Zhao Yanbo: 245506 (Home), 13904415711 (Cell)
The following phone numbers are of the responsible personnel at Mr. An Fengbo's work place: The Jilin City Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp
Head of the labor camp: Yang Guangde 13364405001 (Cell), 2021709 (Office) 13304419777 (Cell), 2022323 (Home)
The Political Head: Chen Tianshu 13364405002 (Cell), 13321508555 (Cell), 4838858 (Home)
Deputy Head: Yan Rongman, 13364405000 (Cell), 2037391 (Office), 13331613867 (Cell), 2031388 (Home)
Deputy Head: Hu Yanjin, 13364405004 (Cell), 2027427 (Office), 13304426558 (Cell), 2032625 (Home)
Deputy Head: Liu Xun, 13364405005 (Cell), 13331605509 (Cell), 4674765 (Home)
Deputy Head: Cao Guomin, 13364405006 (Cell), 13943280567 (Cell), 2081734 (Home)
The Jilin City "610 Office": 2010610, 2010612
(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of January 17, the head of the 610 Office Chen Xiaodong and police from the Weizi Police Station arrested Ms. Ma Guizhen, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Changyi City, Shandong Province. They forcefully put her into a car and then arrested another practitioner named Yu Shenghuo. Both were sent to the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp.
In the beginning, the labor camp refused to accept Ms. Ma, as she did not pass their physical examination. After Chen Xiaodong secretly gave the person in charge of the labor camp 1000 yuan, however, the camp then illegally accepted Ms. Ma, who is in her sixties. Ms. Ma suffered more than ten days of physical and mental torture.
From January 18-20, the guards instigated other inmates to brainwash Ms. Ma. However, she did not listen to their lies and twisted logic. On the fourth day of her detainment, the camp gave her another physical exam and used the excuse of her being ill to give her medication. When she refused to cooperate, she was forcefully pushed to the ground and given an injection. Since then, they continued to inject her with an unknown drug everyday. Several days later, Ms. Ma began to feel weak and tired. She lost sensation in her lower body, hands, and feet. Then the labor camp sent her to the hospital.
From January 28-30, they continued to give her injections and an IV. Ma Guizhen had been paralyzed for several days. After the camp realized that Ms. Ma couldn't take care of herself anymore, they notified her family on January 30. They asked her family to pay 1000 yuan for her release.
Her family members were shocked to see her in such horrible condition after only a few days and carried her home in despair.
The local people who witnessed Ms. Ma's situation remarked, "Falun Gong practitioners have been telling people how the government inhumanely persecutes them, but we didn't believe them until now. The public security officials do not arrest criminals. They only know how to persecute good people."
Due to the persecution she has suffered, Ms. Ma Guizhen can no longer take care of herself.
(Clearwisdom.net) After Falun Dafa practitioner Lu Xiufang from Huashan town, Jimo City was persecuted to death in the Jinan Women's Prison, it drew much attention from the public. In order to conceal their crimes, the Jinan Women's Prison intensified the persecution towards practitioners in the prison. Because Dafa practitioners Liang Sue and Liang Mingfeng knew about what happened there, the persecution against them was especially harsh.
The prison guards transferred 61-year-old Liang Sue and 55-year-old Liang Mingfeng from the elderly group to the youth group, and forced them to do 20 hours of high intensity labor every day. Liang Sue had many diseases before she started to practice Falun Gong and now she cannot sleep at night due to the torture. Her family members went to visit her but the prison guard refused them, claiming that the practitioners did not want to be visited. In reality, they were afraid of their crimes being exposed.
The prison guards called the practitioners' families and asked the family members to help them transfer the practitioners. Recently, the families of Liang Sue and Liang Mingfeng saw them at the prison. Liang Sue's was a total mess. Her cotton garment was torn and there was black, congealed blood under her fingernails. Her face was swollen and black around the eyes. One of her eyeballs was bloodied and there was no color in her pale face. Although her voice was very weak, her expression was resolute and steadfast. According to the prison guards, Liang Sue had been leading the other practitioners to do the exercises and has firmly refused to sign the three statements from the beginning to this day. Currently she belongs to the second level of strict monitoring and is detained separately. Liang Sue declared that she would rather die than to be a person who betrays her conscience. Liang Sue has been on hunger strike for over half a month and is currently extremely weak. The prison guards continue to force-feed her punitively.
Jinan women prison's phone #: 86-531-8928004, 86-531-8928066
(Clearwisdom.net) For a long time, the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City (also known as Jilin Provincial Women's Labor Camp) has forced its illegally jailed practitioners to work overtime, often in a toxic environment.
In 2004, prison officials forced practitioners to make model birds. Some feathers were dusted with camphor particles (used as an insecticide) and they had a bad odor. During the selecting and cutting phase, the entire factory was filled with this dust and people were coughing constantly. Their mucus was even the same color as the feathers. As a result, the practitioners' lungs and bronchial systems were damaged. Rather than taking any preventive measures, however, the labor camp continually increased the practitioners' work loads to increase production.
In December 2004, without concern for the practitioners' well-being, and without considering the adverse effects on society, the labor camp began producing a particular kind of playing card used for gambling. The cards were coated with an unknown chemical on the back. The chemical is extremely harmful, and common side effects from exposure include dizziness, nausea, weakness, and vomiting.
We urge people to boycott products made with slave labor, and to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Telephone numbers of Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City: 86-431-8983380, 86-431-8961487
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioners have gone through six years of Fa-rectification cultivation. The so-called tests of Falun Dafa practitioners by the old forces of the cosmos are unprecedented. Many practitioners have successfully overcome huge tribulations. Some practitioners, however, have lost their lives during this evil persecution, and others are still suffering serious problems. As Falun Dafa practitioners in the Fa-rectification period, we shoulder the mission of assisting Teacher in rectifying the Fa and saving sentient beings in the human world. We are the only hope for human beings if they are to be saved. Every practitioner plays an important role in saving sentient beings and must fully recognize the evil nature of the old forces as it seeks to destroy all beings. We should negate the arrangements of the old forces by keeping our minds, and therefore our bodies, pure and righteous while validating the Fa openly and honorably.
Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, most practitioners in our Fa-study group have gone to Beijing one by one to appeal against the persecution. All means were used to clarify the truth of Falun Gong and to validate the Fa, even while suffering brutal persecution. Some were sentenced and sent to forced labor camps and prisons. Five steadfast practitioners were tortured to death in prisons and forced labor camps, and three died as a result of illnesses incurred as a result of the persecution.
A fellow practitioner endured the persecution passively and was later persecuted to death
One young female practitioner from our study group went to Beijing to appeal several times since July 20, 1999. She never compromised with the evil, but was illegally detained at the local detention center for more than nine months. In that vicious environment, she insisted on openly studying the Fa and practicing the exercises, and she was released unconditionally. After this practitioner returned, she did not stop validating the Fa. She shared her understandings with other local practitioners many times and this helped them to step forward. Because of this she became the focus of the local persecution. Later she again went to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested by officers from a police station in Beijing and suffered all sorts of torture, such as beatings, pricking her fingertips with needles, and burns with cigarette butts. She did not compromise and later escaped using righteous thoughts. After she returned home, she continued to use different methods to validate Dafa, and her exposure of the evil persecution was admired by many.
In November 2000, this young practitioner was arrested for producing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials and sentenced to five years in prison. Facing the evil persecution, she conducted a hunger strike for more than 120 days in protest. She was released on bail for medical treatment and again joined the might current of Fa-rectification. However, quite often in her sharing with practitioners, she talked about how she improved herself and exposed the evil during ordeals. From her words and actions, we could see she regarded every persecution as overcoming tribulation with righteous thoughts. Although she endured a lot, she did not truly understand the principle that these tribulations should not exist in the first place. Dafa practitioners' missions are to firmly protect the Fa, clarify the truth, save all sentient beings, and rectify all incorrect states. This should not include enduring tribulations for self-improvement. Also, she hasn't written about the brutal persecution she suffered and exposed it on the Internet. While she did indeed face the persecution, she endured with the incorrect understanding that it was unavoidable.
On March 8, 2002, this practitioner was again arrested and suffered the torture of the "big hang up" in the police station. She was then sent to the prison, where she conducted another hunger strike to protest the persecution. While she was hospitalized, wicked people forcibly injected unknown drugs into her veins, which damaged her central nervous system. Her limbs were restrained to the hospital bed at all times. Only several times, when she became critically ill, did the prison allow her family members to care for her at the hospital. After she saw her family, she did not tell them about the cruel torture she had suffered, for fear that it would make them sad and upset. She held back the details of the persecution she had encountered. Her family also did not tell more people about her suffering in the prison soon enough to help her. On May 14, 2002, after she experienced all sorts of torments, she died from the persecution she had experienced while in jail.
Because she was repeatedly detained and tortured, she was harmed enormously both physically and mentally. In every situation, she firmly endured and was able to leave jail many times. However, she mistakenly regarded enduring persecution as a part of Fa-rectification cultivation. She did not clearly see that the evil is not qualified to test us, and that brainwashing centers, detention centers, forced labor camps and prisons are not for Dafa practitioners. No matter how noble practitioners' behavior is during imprisonment, illegal detention is part of the path arranged by the old forces.
Accepting illness karma as if there is no alternative
Another young female Dafa practitioner persisted in practicing under all circumstances. In the vicious Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp, she was steadfast and did not compromise, even when she was only allowed 22 hours of sleep in 33 days. Later, due to severe persecution, she had symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis and was released for medical treatment.
After she came home, she persisted in studying the Fa, practicing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts daily. She also exposed her suffering in the forced labor camp on the Internet. She appeared to be very diligent every day and never slacked off in studying the Fa, practicing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts. However, she rarely went out to clarify the truth about Falun Gong, because she had the notion that she should wait for her physical health to return. As a result, her physical situation became worse and worse, and she was puzzled about this. In the beginning, she could walk and eat normally, but gradually, she lost those capabilities. Fellow Dafa practitioners shared their understandings, and they often sent forth righteous thoughts with her to clear away the evil elements in other dimensions that persecuted her, but it was not effective. She considered the old forces' persecution to be a manifestation of illness karma. These thoughts were an insurmountable barrier for her. She also struggled in trying to defeat the illness karma, but the young woman died several months later.
An elderly Falun Dafa practitioner's illness symptoms completely disappeared after she began Falun Gong practice. She has been firm in her practice for the past several years, and has used different ways to clarify the truth and validate Dafa. At the end of 2003, she experienced frequent urination, a symptom of diabetes. Although she made great efforts to study the Fa, practice the exercises, and send forth righteous thoughts every day, her illness symptoms did not improve. She realized that she should not acknowledge the old forces' arrangements, but she began to attempt to manage her "diabetes" by eliminating food with sugar. She lost weight and gradually became very thin. In the end, she felt sleepy while studying the Fa, had difficulty practicing the exercises, and could not concentrate while sending forth righteous thoughts. Her cultivation situation became worse and worse, and eventually she could not even leave her room. She lost her life as a result of illness karma.
Illegal detention is also an arrangement of the old forces
A very steadfast Falun Dafa practitioner was arrested many times and held in custody in detention centers and forced labor camps. He firmly validated Dafa in all environments. He often had the wrong notion in his mind, that being arrested and detained many times was validating the Fa. He endured much vicious persecution in breaking through tribulations, and felt he also improved himself and accumulated mighty virtue. He was arrested nine times and escaped each time with righteous thoughts. After he came out, he did not calm down to study the Fa and find the deeper reason for encountering persecution by the evil. Instead, "overcoming tribulations nine times" became his main topic to share with others. In June 2004, he was once again arrested in another area. The evil convicted him, forged much so-called evidence, and sentenced him to 12 years of imprisonment.
Sometimes the arrest and detainment of Falun Dafa practitioners can be a result of their own attachments and gaps, which the evil use as an excuse for the persecution. We should clearly realize that even if practitioners have attachments or gaps, it should not become an excuse for the persecution. Most importantly, we should first cultivate ourselves solidly in the Fa. Being arrested and detained is absolutely not the path that Teacher arranged. The old forces used our attachments and our wrong thoughts of improving and accumulating mighty virtue through ordeals to persecute us.
The old forces' ultimate aim is to destroy sentient beings. Every practitioner can save many sentient beings, but the old forces are watching each practitioner and waiting for every chance to persecute us. If they find an opportunity, they will put us into jail. Without freedom, we can't save sentient beings, so the old forces would have achieved their goal.
Consistent thoughts and actions in Fa-rectification cultivation can thoroughly oppose the old forces' arrangements
At the final stage of Fa-rectification, some practitioners around us have been persecuted to death, deprived of life by "serious illness," and some are still confused by illness karma and unable to help themselves. Fellow practitioners who face these tribulations are superficially aware of the Fa principles. They understand this is evil persecution, and righteous thoughts should be sent to clear it away and negate the imposed persecution. However, their actions sometimes run counter to practitioners' standards. After the appearance of illness karma, some practitioners seek medical treatment at the hospital, even while sending forth righteous thoughts. How can this be the behavior of a Falun Dafa practitioner?
A Falun Dafa practitioner who escaped from jail at the end of 2003 became very emaciated afterwards and lost the ability to take care of herself. However, she did not give in to the "serious illness." She first wrote about the brutal persecution she had suffered in prison and exposed it on the Minghui web site. She insisted on walking on her own, and eating and putting on clothes by herself. She once took three to four hours to eat a small amount of noodles, several hours to dress, half a day to walk just a few meters, and more than half an hour to get up from bed. She tried hard to go to her workplace and tell her colleagues and everyone else about the persecution. Six months later she completely recovered.
In 2004, another practitioner was critically ill as a result of persecution in a jail in Jilin Province. The doctor diagnosed him with nephritic syndrome, but he recovered with righteous thoughts and efforts from fellow practitioners. His body was swollen, seeped water, and he had difficulty breathing and could not walk. On the way from jail to home, drivers were too scared to take this man when they saw his physical condition, fearing he might die while in the car.
After he got home, his physical condition worsened, and his life was in danger. His family prepared to take him to the hospital for treatment, but he still firmly believed in Teacher and Dafa. He described on the Minghui website the persecution and torture that he and other practitioners endured in jail. He also improved his Fa study, practiced the exercises, and sent forth righteous thoughts, as well as sharing experiences with other practitioners. He was clear about the mission of Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples, and he clarified the truth to people in any way he could. One month later, he was almost fully recovered. His family was very surprised, and people around him became more interested in Dafa after seeing his amazing recovery.
We should understand from the Fa the real purpose of coming to the human world.
That purpose is to save sentient beings through promoting Dafa and explaining the facts. We should clearly understand in our minds that Falun Dafa practitioners shouldn't just expose the brutal persecution.
If we are persecuted by the evil during Fa-rectification cultivation, it is the result of the old forces' interference. When we are in an incorrect situation, such as imprisonment, illness karma, or other forms of ordeals, we should regard the Fa as Teacher and completely negate the old forces' arrangements. Regardless of what the old forces may have arranged over the course of history, in Fa-rectification cultivation today, we must believe in Teacher and Dafa at all times. We must clearly see the evil nature of the old forces, continuously validate Dafa, and steadfastly walk on the path of Fa-rectification arranged by Teacher.
(Clearwidsom.net) I am 40 years old, and I work in a city bureau in central China. After more than 30 years of tribulations, I became aware of Falun Dafa in 1997. The fortuity and coincidence of my obtaining the Fa made me understand Teacher's watching over us. One of my primary school classmates, whom I had not seen for more than 10 years, had a dream in which Teacher appeared, causing her to send the precious book Zhuan Falun to my workplace. This is how I obtained the Fa. I read the book repeatedly for three months and did not want to put it down.
During my cultivation process, I have deeply realized that Teacher is taking care of me and guiding my path to enlightenment step by step. Even though it was snowing, when I sat in the meditation position with my hands joined, they were sweating. While I was doing the wheel holding postures of the Falun Standing Stance exercise, my fingers went from cold and hard to warm and soft. The miracles of Falun Dafa were also displayed around me. Previously illiterate old ladies can now read Zhuan Falun. My husband accompanied me to the practice site in a cart because it was too painful for him to even stand, and then walked back home with a spring in his step. When I held my daughter with a high fever to my chest and read the Fa to her, she suddenly got up, looked at the book and told me, "Mama, many Falun are floating above the book, and the characters for Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are beneath the Falun."
Teacher also gave me many hints to aid in my xinxing improvement and understanding of the Fa. I was quite excited since I had just obtained the Fa. I spent all my extra time outside of work spreading the Fa in the rural areas, teaching older practitioners to read, studying the Fa, practicing exercises, and instructing young practitioners. As a result, I spent less time with my husband. In a dream, I saw my daughter with a dirty face, crying, and my home a mess. I realized that I was not walking a righteous path in cultivation and had failed to follow Teacher's direction to cultivate while conforming to society. I quickly adjusted my behavior and began to take my daughter to piano class, go shopping, and take walks with my husband. I would also bring my daughter to the practice site for young practitioners and advise my husband to cherish this precious chance. One day he spent the afternoon reading Zhuan Falun and finished the whole book. After reading the book, he practiced the exercises for one week, but stopped because he got too busy with business.
In July 1999 I learned that some Falun Gong practitioners had been arrested. On July 19, the day the suppression started, I went for the first time to support Falun Dafa with my fellow practitioners. Consequently I was detained for 15 days and illegally fined 200 yuan.
On October 25, 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. Witnessing a sea of practitioners, we all cried, not out of sadness, but for our Teacher's immense, benevolent compassion. Practitioners converged like particles and went to Beijing with the same thought of restoring the reputation of our Teacher and Falun Dafa. When detained, we recited "Hongyin" and Lunyu together. We shared the same feelings as if we were of one heart and one mind. As for me, this was a trial of letting go of life and death.
The police separated us, and I was sent to the Mentougou District Detention Center. The guards took turns interrogating me around the clock. At 3 a.m., one guard asked, "Will you still persist in cultivating Falun Gong?" I responded, "Sure. Why can't you understand? It's only because we have benefited from Falun Gong that we have managed to find the time to appeal and report the facts to the authorities. Falun Gong can improve both people's mental and physical health. Why on earth are the authorities persecuting Falun Gong?" Several other guards in the interrogation room surrounded me. I told them loudly, "Falun Gong is really good."
Before I left for Beijing to appeal, I told my husband and daughter my plan. When they came to see me, my husband slapped me in the face. I had made a decision and tried to persuade him, saying, "If your brothers and sisters were detained for trying to be better people, could you still sleep soundly?" He said nothing but called my classmate who had helped me to obtain the Fa and took his anger out on her.
In the detention center, many practitioners studied the Fa and practiced the exercises together. Some even counted heads and questioned why certain individuals did not go to practice. It seemed that being detained meant we were validating the Fa. (After Teacher published "Rationality" in Essentials for Further Advancement II, we realized that this idea was not right). With this unrighteous idea in my mind, which led to further tribulations, I was sentenced to forced labor and sent to the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City for three months and the Shayang Forced Labor Camp for one year.
The environment in the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp was very evil. Some practitioners took an evil path and brought down many practitioners. I went there with the idea that I would rectify all unrighteous things, so my mind was broad and level. Moreover, I had some experience, so I was able to initiate a cultivation environment in the detention center. I clarified the facts of Falun Dafa very wisely. When Section Chief Yang Baishu was giving a lecture, I pondered how to clarify the facts to him. I wrote a letter to him in my own hand to discuss some of the mysteries in life. After class I submitted my letter. Later I learned from inmates that the guards circulated my letter for others to read.
Commissar Mao in the labor camp conversed with me from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. He gave me the "transformation" material made up by the TV station and told me to read it. After reading it, I told him, "This person graduated from a university. From 1995 to 1999, she had four years to reconsider cultivating Falun Gong, and she never changed her mind. So why was she 'transformed' within a year of being sent to a labor camp? Do you think it was a reasonable and sober choice?" The so-called transformation was just a matter of coercing someone to conform under the pressure of Jiang's regime. That's why thousands of transformed practitioners published solemn statements and cultivated again after they were released. He responded, "We did not try to transform you. We just asked you to talk about your understanding." Then I tried to clarify the facts about Falun Dafa to him. During roll call time next morning, Commissar Mao asked if I had slept well the night before. Director Yang said, "Commissar Mao talked with you for three hours, and I will talk with you for six." I answered, "I am glad to do that. But only fair talk based on mutual trust is meaningful." Later Party Secretary Zhu prepared to talk with me. However, the Shizishan Forced Labor Camp authorities suddenly sent forty of us who were firm in the practice to the Shayang Forced Labor Camp. On the way, practitioner Zhou Qi from Xishui County recited "Towards Consummation" and "Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)" from Essentials for Further Advancement II. Afterwards we recited Hong Yin together. The guards told us we were not allowed to recite Teacher's words, but we continued.
In the Shayang Forced Labor Camp we were tortured both mentally and physically by being overloaded with labor, isolated from others and brainwashed . Some practitioners, led by Liu Haiou from Laohekou City, chose an evil path, became collaborators, and persecuted other practitioners. I exchanged information with newly admitted Liu Yanqiong and Hu Jihong and learned the formulas and postures for sending forth righteous thoughts. We recited the Fa to each other and remained steadfast. Later I was moved to team No. 7, which only had seven members. Among them, three were firm cultivators, two were collaborators, and two were drug addicts. I communicated with them extensively and told them the formulas for sending forth righteous thoughts. Once when one of the drug addicts was preparing materials to slander Dafa, I tore it up without hesitation.
My sentence was due to end in two months. The guards kept on talking with me and asked if I would continue cultivation. I answered, "Definitely." I also told them, "I will be released in two months for sure." My daughter mailed me many things that she had written, as well as merit certificates that she had received. Everyone wished me well, except for the collaborators. Then I had a dream. In the dream I scored 100 points in an exam, but the person from the 610 Office said with a smile, "You will not be released even after getting a perfect score." I answered, "I must go home. Your words do not count." I believed that this was the time for me to resist the persecution completely. I made the decision that I would launch a hunger strike if my term were extended. Soon afterwards the No. 2 Brigade introduced an assembly line to produce small loudspeakers. The production quota went higher and higher. We had to work until midnight and get up at 6 a.m. to catch up. We worked for 18 hours each day in a sitting position. Some peoples' eyes, like Wu Yanwen from Xishui County, were blinded by chemicals that were used. The tips of my toes became swollen and painful, so I asked to leave work and went back to the dormitory to send forth righteous thoughts. Usually, as long as I did not speak, they thought I was sending forth righteous thoughts. When I did speak, I was viewed as going against the transformation process. Whenever other practitioners spoke to me, the drug addicts would attack them. Whenever I witnessed that, in front of the guards I would say, "Did the guards incite you to do this?" Generally they would stop. Some of the collaborators tried hard to threaten firm practitioners under the encouragement of guards, and they eventually suffered karmic retribution for their actions.
On the last day of my detention, I was assigned to work as usual. That night I was still preparing to work, when Doctor Yan from the clinic came on duty and told me to stop work and prepare to go home.
After I went home, I found that my daughter was living with her grandmother, and my husband had moved out to live with another woman. When I asked my daughter why she wrote to me, she answered, "I just wanted to let others see that a Falun Gong practitioner's daughter was doing well."
After being released in June 2002, I have learned to use the computer and soon had read all the Falun Dafa books from the Internet. I have merged into the mighty current of Fa-rectification and clarifying the facts of Falun Dafa.
(Clearwisdom.net) On February 21, 2005 the science society of Zhoukou City held a photo exhibition to promote scientific advancement in front of city hall. Unfortunately, ten display boards slandering Falun Dafa and its founder were added, which had nothing to do with scientific advancement.
Falun Dafa practitioners found this out in the afternoon, and they told each other right away. Very soon the practitioners in and around the city knew about this. They gathered in front of the city hall to send forth righteous thoughts, and eliminate the evils that tried to poison sentient beings in Zhoukou City and damage Dafa through the photo exhibition.
Some practitioners went there to send forth strong righteous thoughts and eliminate the evil factors behind this. In order to clear away the dark minions and rotten demons, some practitioners clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to the visitors to expose the lies. Some found out the phone numbers of related officials at the science society of Zhoukou City and sent them to the Minghui website. Some clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to the leaders of the scientific community and asked them to take down those display boards. Everyone had a pure heart and cooperated well. With the effect of the strong righteous thoughts, the ten display boards all fell down, while the other display boards were fine. When those boards were set up again, they fell again. The visitors were very surprised and could not figure out the reason.
Falun Dafa practitioners exposed lies such as the staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation and told the visitors about the beauty of Falun Dafa through personal experiences. The practitioners answered the visitors' questions and gave them homemade greeting cards. The visitors were very pleased.
Through the truth clarification, the personnel who were in charge of taking care of the exhibit said, "We are just following orders. After hearing your explanation, we know this is not a good thing. Today we will take those boards down earlier."
In the afternoon the event was exposed on the Minghui website, and practitioners from outside China made phone calls to Zhoukou City right away.
The practitioners who went to clarify the truth to the science society of Zhoukou City requested that they take down those display boards. The reply was, "We do not have a choice. It's an order by our superiors, and the contents are all provided by them."
In the afternoon of the following day, the display boards slandering Dafa were taken down.
(Clearwisdom.net)
I'm thirty-eight years old this year and began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. Before becoming a practitioner, I had lots of illnesses related to my kidneys, heart, and legs. My hands even lost all feeling. I got headaches and had gynecological problems. You could say that from top to bottom, nothing was in good condition. Furthermore, from 1995 I frequently went to the hospital for treatment, but my illnesses did not improve, and I also got some new diseases. I also practiced some other type of Qigong, but it did not help me. I was very discouraged, until I learned Dafa.
After learning the exercises and reading the book, I continually strove to improve myself according to the Falun Gong teachings, and my health became better with each passing day. My legs and hands used to lose feeling in the cold, so I had to wear wool pants and cotton shoes in cool weather, but after practicing Falun Gong, my legs and hands became warm all the time. During the winter, even if I did not wear gloves, I would not feel the cold. My other illnesses also soon disappeared. I'm very thankful to Teacher, who gave me a second life.
I tell everyone I meet about the goodness of Dafa, and many people from my village that saw me recovering from my illnesses came to practice Dafa. But not long after this, the persecution began. Facing the brutal persecution, I remained determined to continually practice Dafa. The police and public security officers came to my house again and again to ask me to give up practicing Dafa, but every time, I clarified the truth to them. I told them why Dafa is good and how Dafa teaches me to become a good person, rendering them speechless. Sometimes they were not very reasonable and said that if I continued to practice Dafa, then they would take me away. As I had already come to the realization that my life is nothing without Dafa and had given up my attachment to the fear of death, I did not really care about their threats against my life. They spoke to me loudly, but I replied to them with an even louder voice. I told them, "Dafa is so wonderful, why would you want to forbid people to practice it? I will not give up practicing Dafa. Even if you put a knife to my neck, I'll still practice it." When they saw that they could not convince me, they left. Later on when they came back, I continued to clarify the truth to them.
I would take different approaches to clarify the truth to them. Some public security officers would say things like, "Aunt (a term of respect and endearment for women older than the speaker in China), you are well spoken and actually we all know Dafa is good, but our upper management has given us an order. We just came here in order to fulfill the formality only."
I used to be a chairwoman of a local women's association and worked there for several years. Now my illnesses have all been cured and it is a real life story, so people have gradually come back to learn Falun Gong with me. Presently there are more than thirty people practicing Dafa with me in the village.
(Clearwisdom.net)
[Heilongjiang Province] Mr. Xu Linshan Tortured to the Brink of Death at the Tailai Labor Camp
[Hebei Province] Lao Peng and Zhao Gongli Arrested by the Police
[Dingxing County, Hebei Province] Ms. Lu Yuhui and Zhai Fengju Arrested and Taken to the Detention Center
[Bangbu City, Anhui Province] Ma Jun Arrested in Shanghai
[Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Wang Yuqing and Two Other Practitioners from Xinqu
[Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province] Mr. Feng Bingkun Arrested by the Police
[Chuzhou City, Anhui Province] The Situation of Practitioners from Fengyang County Who Were Arrested During the July Period
[Yitong County, Jilin Province] Ms. Zhang Yanhui Arrested by the Police from the National Security Team
[Hejian City, Hebei Province] Mr. Wang Fulin Still Detained
[Jinan City, Shandong Province] Mother and Daughter Arrested; 6-Month-Old Baby Left Unattended
[Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province] Bai Junjie Sentenced to Seven Years
[Haicheng City, Liaoning Province] Police from Wenxiang County Arrest a Practitioner
[Shahe City, Hebei Province] Ms. Ji Yanjing Arrested and His Whereabouts Are Unknown
1. [Heilongjiang Province] Mr. Xu Linshan Tortured to the Brink of Death at the Tailai Labor Camp
Mr. Xu Linshan, over 50 years old, is a resident from Nianzishan District, Qiqihar City. Since July 20, 1999, he has been arrested and detained as he believes firmly in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." After he was released, he continued to practice Falun Dafa and clarified the truth. As a result, he was again arrested and has been detained at the Tailai Labor Camp of Heilongjiang Province for over three years. Mr. Xu Linshan has been force-fed with water laced with hot pepper, and he is still being tortured even though he is on the verge of death..
2. [Hebei Province] Lao Peng and Zhao Gongli Arrested by the Police
Lao Peng and Ms. Zhao Gongli from Jingzhou, Hebei Province were reported and arrested by the police when they were giving out truth-clarifying materials. Now, they are being detained at the Ximen Detention Center.
3. [Dingxing County, Hebei Province] Ms. Lu Yuhui and Zhai Fengju Arrested and Taken to the Detention Center
On the evening of February 12, 2005, Ms. Lu Yuhui and Ms. Zhai Fengju were seen giving out truth-clarifying materials by the village officials of the Longhua Village and reported to the Police Substation. The Police Substation later reported them to the National Security Team of the county and on the same night, their homes were searched. They were arrested and taken to the detention center.
The relevant phone numbers:
Jia Qingchuan, of the National Security Team: 86-13932213836 (Cell)
Li Jinfu, of the Detention Center: 86-13703368592 (Cell)
4. [Bangbu City, Anhui Province] Ma Jun Arrested in Shanghai
Around July 20, 2004, Ma Jun was arrested by a policeman named Zhong Yongxiang from Longzhihu District and taken to a brainwashing class. Later Ma Jun escaped due to her righteous thoughts. Since then Ma Jun has been homeless to avoid persecution. On January 14, 2005, Ma Jun was once again arrested by the police in Shanghai and is now detained at the Bangbu City No. 1 Detention Center.
5. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Police Arrest Wang Yuqing and Two Other Practitioners from Xinqu
Wang Yuqing, Wang Shuqing (to be further verified) and another older man, whose name is unknown, from Xinqu, Huludao City, Liaoning Province were arrested by the police from the Police Substation at Yuhuang Mall, where they were clarifying the truth at 11:00 a.m.. Currently they are being held at the Huludao City Detention Center and their families are prohibited from visiting them.
The relevant phone numbers:
Huludao City Detention Center: 86-429-3171916 (Office)
Police Substation of the Yuhuang Mall of Huludao City: 86-429-3171752 (Office)
Huludao City Public Security Bureau: 86-429-3170036 (Office)
The Political and Judicial Committee of Huludao City: 86-429-3113497 (Office)
6. [Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province] Mr. Feng Bingkun Arrested by the Police
At 9:00 p.m. on February 21, 2005, Mr. Feng Bingkun from Zengcheng City,Guangdong Province was followed and arrested by the police from Zhenlong Police Substation when he was giving out the truth-clarifying materials in the countryside. He had some Falun Dafa materials, including some truth-clarifying VCDs, on him. On the same night, the police searched his home, but they did not find any truth-clarifying materials, so the police planted some flyers in his room and claimed that they found them there. The police also confiscated his cell phone, his ID and his employment ID. A reliable source said that Feng Bingkun has been sent to the Zengcheng Labor Camp, and his wife and their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter have been rendered homeless.
7. [Chuzhou City, Anhui Province] The Situation of Practitioners from Fengyang County Who Were Arrested During the July 20, 2004 Period
Mr. Shen Xue'an, an employee of Fengyang County Agricultural Bank, was arrested on July 19, 2004 and taken to the Fengyang Detention Center. He has been detained there to this day. Since this practitioner is determined in practicing Falun Dafa, he was sentenced to forced labor for one year in 2002.
Mr. Shao Qing, the security guard of the Linhuaiguan Rubber Factory of Fengyang City, was arrested on July 20, 2004 and taken to the Fengyang County Detention Center, where he has been severely tortured.
Mr. Zhang Decan, a farmer from the Dashandi Production Team of Caodian Village, Fengyang County was sent to the Nanhu Labor Camp at the end of December 2004, and has been brutally tortured.
8. [Yitong County, Jilin Province] Ms. Zhang Yanhui Arrested by the Police from the National Security Team
At around 8:00 p.m. on January 31, 2004, Yang Dong, Fu Lijun, Sun Shuping, and others broke into Ms. Zhang Yanhui's home. Without finding any evidence, they forcefully arrested and took Zhang Yanhui to the Yitong County Detention Center, claiming that some other practitioners said that they had contact with her. Zhang's relatives and friends tried everything to rescue her. The Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau, Zong Guo, who was mainly in charge of persecuting Falun Gong, initially promised to release her, but later she was transferred to the Yitong Detention Center for further torture. Mr. Zong demanded a large sum of money for her release.
The relevant phone numbers:
The National Security Team of Yitong County Public Security Bureau: 86-434-4228071
Yang Dong, the policeman from the National Security Team: 86-434-4226299 (Home), 86-13944491188 (Cell)
Fu Lijun, the policeman from the National Security Team: 86-434-4228071(Office), 86-434-4228116 (Home), 86-13843481199 (Cell)
Zhao Yuan, the director of the Zhengyang Street Police Substation, Yitong County: 86-434-4222301
Yang Zhongcheng, the director of the Yitong Detention Center: 86-434-4228600
9. [Hejian City, Hebei Province] Mr. Wang Fulin Still Detained
On January 14, 2004, Mr. Wang Fulin (over 40 years old), from Nanshicao Village, Hejian City, Hebei Province was arrested along with his wife Ms. Mo Junhua and Sun Dawen. Local police arrested them while they were giving out the truth-clarifying materials. They were detained at the Detention Center of the Hejian City Public Security Bureau. When their home was searched, a large amount of truth-clarifying materials, Falun Dafa books, tapes and copy machines were confiscated.
Since Sun Dawen's family paid the Public Security Bureau almost ten thousand yuan, and they also pledged twenty thousand yuan, after five days Sun Dawen was released and went home. Mo Junhua had high-blood pressure (200/160) after she was tortured. The labor camp released her because they did not want to be held accountable for her condition.
Wang Fuling started cultivating in 1996, and he recovered from a stubborn skin disease without any medication. His practice also resulted in significant improvements in his mind, body and his relationships with his neighbors. During the five years that Falun Gong has been subjected to wrongful persecution, he has been detained five times for clarifying the truth.
The relevant phone numbers:
Zhu Zhimin, the Secretary General of the City Political and Judicial Committee: 86-317-3665566, 86-13903171818 (Cell)
Song Hejing, the Deputy Director of the City Public Security Bureau: 86-317-3661827, 86-13703272185 (Cell)
Zhao Tieqiao, the Section Chief of the Political and Security Section, of the Public Security Bureau: 86-317-3222090, 86-13603277626 (Cell)
10.[Jinan City, Shandong Province] Mother and Daughter Arrested; 6-Month-Old Baby Left Unattended
On the morning on February 22, 2005, Ms. Jia Jun was arrested and taken to the Beiquanfu Police Substation in Jinan City when she was seen by someone giving out truth-clarifying VCDs. Her mother Jia Xiuying was arrested from her home and taken to the Beiquanfu Police Substation by the officers from the Licheng District Public Security Bureau. Ms. Jia Jun's 6-month-old baby was left at the grandmother's home unattended.
11.[Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province] Bai Junjie Sentenced to Seven Years
Mr. Bai Junjie, from Zhangjiakou City, Hebei City was arrested by the Qiaodong Wuyi Road Police Substation on January 28. On February 17, the Qiaodong District Court had a hearing for Bai Junjie. Since Bai Junjie could not make it to court due to having been tortured unconscious in the detention center, they sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment in his absence. Bai Junjie has been on a hunger strike for over 20 days. He has appealed to the Zhangjiakou Intermediate People's Court.
The relevant phone numbers:
No.2 Section of the Zhangjiakou City Intermediate People's Court:
Xu Feng: 86-313-2055911
Hao Shoukan: 86-313-2055910
Wang Xiaodong: 86-313-2055909
Chen Yangqing, the Director of the Qiaodong Court: 86-313-4082135
Li Wushen, the Judge of the Qiaodong Court: 86-313-4082113
12. [Haicheng City, Liaoning Province] Police from Wenxiang County Arrest a Practitioner
A Falun Dafa practitioner was arrested by the Wenxiang County Police Substation, Haicheng City, Liaoning Province, and has been detained at the Haicheng City Administrative Detention Center for over 20 days now. He has been on hunger strike, and he did not give up his name and address.
The relevant phone numbers:
Wenxiang County Police Substation, Haicheng City: 86-412-3650110
The director: Tian Yutao
The police chief: Yu Rongzhi: 86-412-3650420
The Haicheng City Administrative Detention Center: 86-412-3120263
13. [Shahe City, Hebei Province] Ms. Ji Yanjing Arrested and His Whereabouts Are Unknown
At noon on February 21, Ms. Ji Yanjing from Baita Town, Shahe City was arrested by the police from Jicun Police Substation. Her current whereabouts are unknown.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Solemn Announcement
I am a nine-year-old student. My school organized an anti-Falun Gong signature collection activity. I saw that all of my classmates had signed their names. I didn't want to stand out so I gave my signature against my conscience. They are truly evil and would not even spare young children. I really regret that I insulted Falun Dafa. Here I solemnly announce that my signature is void.
Zengge Kaixi
February 23, 2005
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/7/96782.html
Solemn Announcement
In April 2004 a police officer came to my home. He wanted my mother to write a guarantee statement, but my mother was at work. He said to me, "I just need a few words to turn in to my supervisor. Where is your mother's work unit? I'll go find her...better yet, why don't you write one?" I was afraid the police would again persecute my mother and separate us, so I wrote a guarantee statement as he orally dictated. I realize that I made a mistake. Hereby I solemnly announce the guarantee statement is void. I want to use this opportunity to tell people Falun Dafa is great in order to make up for my mistake.
Wang Meiling
March 3, 2005
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/9/96907.html
Solemn Announcement
During the time a member of my family was being illegally held at a labor camp for appealing in Beijing, my daughter Bai Yin and I signed a document that stated, "Falun Gong is an (slanderous words deleted)" at the front office of the labor camp in order to meet with our family member. Here we announce that our signatures are completely void. We want to use this opportunity to tell people that Dafa is great to make up for our mistakes.
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/3/11/97032.html
(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."
Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:
Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.
(Clearwisdom.net)
Facts of the Persecution
Ms. Zhan Lianrong Arrested and Her Family Deceived in Harbin City
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhan Lianrong from Harbin City was abducted on February 27, 2005. Police lied to her husband, saying that she was in serious condition from a traffic accident. They asked him to go to the hospital, and then followed him home and ransacked their house.
Ms. Zhan Lianrong, 56, went to visit her older brother Zhan Lianke at the Xinhua Senior Citizen's Home in Pingfang Town on February 27, 2005. She was abducted soon after leaving the Senior Center, and no family visits were allowed.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/8/96867.html
Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured in Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp, Shaanxi Province
All male Falun Dafa practitioners who were sentenced to forced labor in Shaanxi Province were locked up in Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp. The Section Director Feng Xiyao (male) won a Second Level Award and the Section won "Group Third Level Award" for their contribution in the persecution. On May 30, 2001, uniformed guards, Feng Xiyao, Liu Zhiqi (male), Hou Beicheng (male), and Zhang Weilong (male) chose inmates who smoked, and had been criminals since their youth, to be in charge of torturing practitioners. Among them, Luo Xinmin, Ge Zhengui, Wang Junwa, Zhang Youli, and Liu Yingzhe (all male) were the cruelest.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/8/96846.html
Crimes Committed by Guards Zhang Guimei, Wang Zhufeng, and Zhang Shuhua in Heizuizi Labor Camp
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Jin Min, 38, lives in Tonghua City. In the summer of 2004, she started serving a three-year term in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. This was her third time in a labor camp. Seven of her relatives, including her mother, mother-in-law, aunts, and older sisters were also detained there at the same time. Currently, Ms. Jin is under strict monitoring and not allowed to leave her cell, talk to anyone, receive visitors, or even buy daily necessities.
In November 2004, most practitioners refused to fill out the labor camp questionnaire. Division Head Zhang Guimei (female) and the guards shocked practitioners with electric batons. Before January 1, 2005, almost all of the practitioners declared solemnly that their statements made under duress to stop practicing were null and void. On the morning of New Year's Day, practitioners loudly expressed their New Year's greetings to Master. Guards put steadfast practitioners and newly admitted practitioners in the Fourth Section for brainwashing and torture. Wang Zhufeng (female) and Zhang Shuhua (female) beat and cursed practitioners in the Fourth Section at will. They slapped their faces, kicked them, and shocked them with electric batons. Fifty-two year-old practitioner Ms. Zhu Xiyu was slapped by Wang Zhufeng, and kicked three feet away. She lost two front teeth instantly, and blood gushed from her mouth. Ms. Zhu was released after she had a mental collapse.
Female guard Zhang Guimei often slandered Falun Dafa, shocked practitioners with an electric baton, slapped their faces, kicked them with leather boots, and force-fed them with food or unknown drugs. Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuxiang, 41, is from Siping City. The guards often shocked her with an electric baton during her four-month detention. One side of her body was consequently paralyzed, and she was left emaciated.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/8/96855.html
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Su Shunrong Abducted from Chuanying District, Jilin City
Ms. Su Shunrong, who is in her 50s, lives near Deshengmen Muslim Temple located in Chuanynig District, Jilin City, Jilin Province. She went to Beijing to appeal after July 20, 1999, and was detained. At 9:00 p.m. on March 1, 2005, several police officers from Zhihe Substation ransacked her fruit stand in the market, forced her husband to tell where she was, and abducted her while she was attending to her 85-year-old sick mother. Badly shaken by the abduction of Ms. Su, her mother is now in critical condition and no one is taking care of her.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/8/96868.html