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How I Lost my Eyesight at Jilin Prison Due to Persecution
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin
(Clearwisdom.net) I was sentenced to four years of imprisonment on
December 1, 2003 and detained at the Jilin Prison. The prison guards tried to
force me to give up practicing Truth, Compassion, Forbearance. During the cold
winter, they would force me to sit on a bench for the entire night wearing only
a shirt and long johns. The next day, they would continue to force me to sit on
a bench. They made me sit straight and look straight ahead. I wasn't allowed to
use the bathroom or move. The guards told the criminals in my cell to beat me
when I moved my body even a little. Some fellow practitioners refused to stop practicing Falun Gong. The prison
guards then sent them to the "highly disciplined team." Anyone who was
sent there would have a criminal record that contained the start and end dates
of their term on that team. They didn't dare to record the torture they
inflicted on practitioners. In order to brainwash practitioners, they
transferred two people who had "enlightened" along an evil path from
the Heizuizi Prison and Changchun Prison to the prison where I was illegally
detained. The practitioners in the "highly disciplined team" had to
get up at 5:30 in the morning and sit on a bench until 9:00 at night. The most inhumane torture is called the death bed. The
"bed" can be raised up. A person's four limbs would be tied to the
bed. No one can stand it for ten minutes. Generally they would hang a
practitioner on the "bed" for two to three minutes. They then asked
the practitioner whether he or she would still practice Falun Gong. If the
answer was a yes, they would hang him or her up again for another three to four
minutes. Sometimes they repeated the torture four or more times. The person's
muscles would be injured and he or she would become paralyzed and lose the
ability to walk. I suffered unbearable physical and mental tortures. On the day I was sent to
the Jilin Prison, I wasn't able to see clearly. There is a rule saying a
prisoner could receive parole for medical treatments if his or her eyesight is
lower than 0.04. Four months after I was illegally detained, the prison clinic
checked my eyesight and found that it was lower than 0.04. However, the Jilin
Prison refused to report my situation to the related departments for my parole. Later, I managed to write a letter to my family and told them my situation.
My family then went to Jilin Prison and asked them to have me released on
parole. However, the Jilin Prison refused to do so. They lied and said, "We
have submitted his case to the Jilin Procuratorate. It has nothing
to do with us as to whether they will allow it or not." When my family went
to the Jilin Procuratorate, they found that the officers there didn't have my
case at all. The officers said they would allow me to be released after getting
my case and verifying it. My family went back to Jilin Prison. However, they
said, "The eyesight checking results have expired. We need to arrange
another check." They caused a delay until I completely lost my eyesight. My
family went to appeal to the Jilin Politics and Law Committee and wrote letters
to the Secretary of that committee. Eventually, that committee sent a notice to
the Forced Labor Camp Administration Bureau which ordered Jilin Prison to
release me. I was illegally imprisoned for over one year before I was released. August 3, 2005 |