My Experience of Being Arrested, Imprisoned and Force-fed: Written in a Detention Center by Practitioner Liu Yu from Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Liu Yu is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shenzhen City in Guangdong Province. She is around 30 years old and a graduate from the University of Science and Technology in Beijing. She worked as a news reporter for Wei Hui Newspaper and later as a trainer at a school in Shenzhen City. She was illegally arrested in Shenzhen on the morning of March 30, 2005. This is the fourth time she has been arrested.

Ms. Liu Yu went through two illegal court trials after being arrested this time. She kept her thoughts and actions righteous during the court trials. In the second trial at the Longgang Court in Shenzhen City on March 20, 2006, the female judge, Jia Yu, who was infamous for persecuting Dafa practitioners, did not allow Ms. Liu Yu's relatives or friends to attend, nor did she allow Ms. Liu Yu to defend herself. Ms. Liu Yu was sentenced to four years in prison. Ms. Liu Yu appealed her case to the Shenzhen City Intermediate People's Court, but there has not been any answer yet. Ms. Liu Yu's situation was very difficult, but she remained firmly committed to protecting Dafa. The following is her own statement about the torture to which she was subjected, written in the detention center.

My Experience of Being Arrested, Imprisoned and Force-fed

Location of abduction: My home in Buji District, Shenzhen City

Date: March 30, 2005

Details: I went home for lunch that day. When I climbed up the stairs to the fourth floor, I saw many pieces of what appeared to be my furniture piled in the corridor. When I got closer, security guard Che told me, "Your home has been broken-into." I rushed to my apartment and saw that both the security door and the inner door of my apartment were broken. Many security guards and policemen, uniformed and plain-clothed, stood in both the corridor and in my apartment. My things were strewn everywhere. Clearly, my home had been ransacked. Two policemen arrested my friend who was visiting me. He was on the sofa with both hands tied behind his back and his feet cuffed.

I asked them, "What are you doing here?" A voice shouted back, "Who are you?" I answered, "I am the owner of the apartment. What are you doing here?" Another crazy voice shouted, "We are here to arrest you." Two big men attempted to arrest me, but failed. Two more men jumped in. They tied my hands behind my back with thick black electrical cord and kept threatening and insulting me. My hands turned dark purple as the circulation had been cut off by the tight knots. A male plainclothes policeman, Liu, from the Shenzhen City 610 Office, who was in his forties, and around five feet seven inches tall, with a square face and very short hair, and with a Northeast accent, was the most vicious among them.

I asked him, "What's your name? Where do you work? Why did you come to my home?" I also told them, "If you keep saying bad things I will sue you for libel." I then asked them, "Did I kill anyone?" They answered, "No." I continued, "Did I set a fire somewhere?" They answered, "No." I then asked policeman Liu, "Did I hurt you?" He answered, "No." I asked, "Then why are you abducting me?" He could not answer. I continued asking, "What's your name? Where do you work?" No answer. "Are you afraid of telling me your name?" Only silence. They did not dare to answer me, nor did they show any certificate or legal document proving their identity or the legality of their conduct.

I said, "You have a wife, brothers and sisters. If they were treated the way I have been today, what would you do?" That evildoer Liu was afraid of me repeating this question. He threatened me and beat me, shouting, "Doesn't Falun Gong teach you not to hit back when hit and not to curse back when cursed? I am hitting you!"

He beat me in front of a dozen people. I said calmly, "Everyone here has his family, wife, brothers and sisters. What would you do if your relatives were beaten? If you didn't come into my home in this intrusive way, I would treat you as nicely as I treat my relatives. You are wrong in treating me like this. You are wrong in being utilized by others to persecute me. A cultivator will not hit back when hit or curse back when cursed. I can forgive you and forget everything. But you all have your own consciences. And there are gods a few feet above you watching the crime that you committed here. You will be punished by gods. How pitiful you are."

Another policemen (around 38 years old, five feet seven inches tall, with pale yellow skin, big eyes, a wide face, and wearing a light yellow striped jacket) insulted me and my friend, too. He and the evildoer Liu took away my valuables, just like gangsters. They tried to threaten me with vicious stares. I looked back at them with courage and justice, and continued to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil forces behind them. They did not dare to look at me any longer.

Also present was policeman Luo in plain clothes, policeman Li Zhiwei (around 26, five feet six inches tall, with small eyes and in plain clothes) from Luogang Police Station in Shenzhen City, another policeman (five feet seven inches tall, with a long white face, in a gray shirt), a policeman whose police ID number is 064534 (or 064354) (in his forties, dark and overweight, from Guangdong Province), a policewoman whose police ID number started with 064 (five feet one inch tall, short and thin, with short hair and glasses), two policewomen in plain clothes, policeman Qiu in plain clothes, four patrolling policemen and two security guards.

Policeman Liu in black plain clothes was scared when he heard that they would be punished. He asked me immediately, "When will I be punished? When do you think I will be punished?"

They took my friend and I to the Luogang Police Station and interrogated us. Policeman Li Zhiwei insulted me again during the interrogation and shouted, "I am insulting you, slandering you. What can you do?" I stared at him forcefully. Gradually he was no longer that crazy and did not dare to look at me any longer. Their interrogation received only silence in return.

The next morning, my friend and I were taken to the Longgang People's Hospital for a physical examination. Later we were put in the Huanggekeng Detention Center in Longgang District, Shenzhen City. I was put into the Fourteenth Division where I met practitioner Xiao Ajiao. I continued to protest the arrest. I was separated from Xiao Ajiao and sent to the Fifteenth Division on March 31, 2005. Two of us started a hunger strike in protest of our detention. Guard Xiao who was in charge of the Fifteenth Division met me every day for three days to ask me to eat.

The Detention Center deputy director Zeng met me on April 1 and April 2. He also brought Doctor He, whose police ID number was 064224 to meet me again on the morning of April 3. Doctor He showed me a list of practitioners whom they force-fed when they were on hunger strike at the detention center. Doctor He threatened to force-feed me. In the afternoon of April 3, deputy director Zeng and Doctor He met me again. I pointed out to Doctor He that he had committed a lot of sins at his job in persecuting cultivators and would be punished later. I suggested that he change his job. His face turned blue and purple and he left from the meeting. I then clarified the truth to deputy director Zeng, talking about those facts that have been discovered but are not explainable by the scientific community, including the fact that cultivation can make a person free from illness where the doctors cannot. Deputy director Zeng could not explain these things either. He said that he believed that qigong had its own scientific foundation. He also expressed clearly that he would not allow anyone to force-feed me when I was conscious.

The political instructor of the detention center talked to me on April 4, trying to persuade me to eat. I clarified the truth to him and told him that the police department just kept making more trouble for detention centers by arresting Falun Gong practitioners and sending them to detention centers. He had nothing to say.

Policemen Qiu and Luo and another person whose police ID number was 064227 interrogated me on the evening of April 5, 2005. They did not get anything from me, and the interrogation ended with no recording at all.

On Wednesday April 6, 2005, policeman He, whose police ID number was 064224, threatened me with an evil attitude. He said they would start force-feeding me. I did not talk to him.

On April 7, Doctor Li warned me that they might start force-feeding me on April 8.

On the morning of April 8, 2005, policewoman Xu took me to the health clinic. I turned back and tried to leave, but she and another policeman whose police ID number was 064224, forcibly dragged me from the door to a separate room inside and pushed me onto the bed. Then came another five policemen. Two held my feet and two held my hands to tie me to the bed. A thin male doctor, around twenty-five, and five feet six inches tall, held my head. A doctor in white clothes, over fifty, with a lot of wrinkles on his face, used ropes to tie my four limbs. He also shouted, "I want to hear the pig cries when we slaughter it." I used all my strength to resist, but I was not able to deal with so many people. I was then savagely force-fed. Two nurses inserted a plastic tube into my nose. The tube touched my throat and I shook violently from the discomfort. Both my throat and stomach were in great pain from the tube insertion. I felt humiliated and injured. All of my limbs were numb, as I was not able to move at all. They kept moving the tube up and down inside my stomach.

Right after the force-feeding, Officer Peng from the Longgang Police Station, along with policemen Qiu and Luo came to interrogate me. My four limbs were numb, convulsing and immobile. I could not think clearly either. But they kept asking me to cooperate with them, "Liu Yu, you must cooperate with us." I asked him, "What's your name." "My last name is Peng. I am responsible for your case. You can call me policeman Peng." I asked him again, "What's your whole name?" He did not answer. Instead, he asked me, "Do you have anything to say to me?" I said, "Release me immediately!" They saw that my whole body was in convulsions and the interrogation could not be continued. So they sent me back to the health clinic and left.

When I recovered a little bit, under police officer Peng's insistence, deputy director Zeng threatened me to cooperate with them. I answered in silence. He yelled, "Do you have anything to say to me?" I answered, "Release me immediately!"

I was sent back to the Fifteenth Division. I bit my lips in sorrow to the point of bleeding and they swelled quite a bit. Tears kept coming from my eyes. I repeatedly visualized the scenes from their savage force-feeding and continuous interrogations. I decided to eat. I continued doing the exercises, but the inmates did not allow me to do so. I looked straight at them and continued my exercises. Then they said nothing. When I sat in lotus position, looking back on my short journey in the human world, I did not regret a bit my decisions on what to choose and what to give up. I understand the real meaning of life is to return to my true home.

Note: During the past several years, the Longgang Detention Center in Shenzhen City has repeatedly force-fed and tortured Falun Gong practitioners who go on hunger strike to protest the persecution. The old doctor who force-fed Ms. Liu Yu received retribution and died around October 1, 2005.

Written at the Longgang Detention Center

By July 23, 2005

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/10/4/139320.html

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