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The Relentless Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Li Xinglian
Written by a Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Li Xinglian, 66 years old, is a
retired worker. She lived in the dormitory of the Communist Party Committee and
the city government of Suining City, Sichuan Province (Yucai Road #26). Since
the Communist regime launched the cruel persecution against Falun Gong on July
20, 1999, Ms. Li has suffered from relentless persecution. Before Ms. Li started to practice Falun Gong, she suffered
from many diseases such as nephritis, hypertension, stomach illness, serious
rheumatism, intestinal illness, Menill's syndrome and depression. In addition,
her husband Mr. Chen Shenggen, a former governmental official, died in 1994. The
mental trauma resulting from her husband's death caused Ms. Li's condition to
further deteriorate. As a result, she became unable to support herself and lost
her interest in living. Fortunately, in 1996, Ms. Li discovered Falun Dafa and
started to conduct herself according to the principle of "Truthfulness,
Compassion and Forbearance" taught by the Teacher of Falun Gong.
Miraculously, all of her diseases disappeared in less than two months and she
could walk so comfortably that even some young persons could not keep up with
her. Ms. Li was targeted when the persecution against Falun Gong
started on July 20, 1999. On June 25, 2000, Li Xinglian went to Chuanshan Park to
practice the Falun Gong exercises, for which the police illegally
arrested her and detained her for two days. Later they extorted 10 yuan
from her as a fee for her living in custody. On July 24 of the same year, Ms. Li went to the Baique Temple
to practice Falun Gong. There, police officers Xiao, Duan and Yang Renfang from
the National Security Group arrested her. Ms. Li was sent to the Wujiawan
Detention Center, where she was detained for 11 days and forced to pay 100-yuan
as a fee for her living expenses there. She was also pressured to write a
guarantee statement declaring that she would give up Falun Gong, but
she refused to do so because she felt that Falun Gong had saved her life. On September 26, 2002, the head of the Chengxi Police
Station, Hu Shuangqing, along with policemen Tan Youyun and Tian Guilin, went to
Ms. Li's home to arrest her. Without any legal documentation, they ransacked her
home. During the arrest, the policemen handcuffed Ms. Li so violently that her
hands were seriously injured and started to bleed. The scars remain to this day.
The police tried to cover her mouth to stop her from speaking, and she suffered
serious internal injury. The policemen threatened Li Xinglian openly,
"Let's kill her, once and for all." The head of the police station, Hu
Shuangqing, died in a traffic accident in October 2003, as a result of karmic
retribution. This time, the policemen took away Ms. Li's Falun Gong books
and 6 audiotapes of music for the Falun Gong exercises. They also took 200 yuan
that Ms. Li had left on a desk. During the whole process, they did not present
any legal documents. They then sent Ms. Li to the Linquansi Detention Center,
where she was held for one month. During the detention, Ms. Li was cruelly
beaten and was not allowed to sleep. After she was released, the local
residential committee demanded that she write a guarantee statement to denounce
Falun Gong, but she refused. Then they dispatched some people to monitor her
activities. In the past five years, more than 100 people have been dispatched to
do this job. In June 2003, Hu Shuangqing managed to arrest Ms. Li, by
forcing her son Chen Hong to lead them to the homes of her parents, her
parents-in-law and other relatives in order to locate and arrest her. They also
slandered Ms. Li as an "anti-revolutionary," and threatened that her
relatives and friends had to report to them as soon as they saw her. Otherwise,
they would be implicated. Her friends and relatives were very distressed as a
result of suffering through this ordeal. On November 5, 2003, policemen Zhou Jian and Xu Xingming from
the Chengxi Police Station and another person, Tian Guilin, went to Ms. Li's
home to arrest her. They forced her to open her door, ransacked her home and
carried her into their vehicle. Then they detained Ms. Li in the Linquansi
Detention Center for 20 days and forced her family members to give them 2,000
yuan as a fine. They threatened that she would be sentenced to 2 years in
prison. To prevent this from happening, her family members made a concession by
inviting the policemen to dinner and giving them some money. Then Ms. Li was
released home. On February 17, 2004, the policemen once again tried to break
into Li Xinglian's home, but Ms. Li refused to open the door. However, they
never gave up their efforts to arrest her and went to her home to harass her on
numerous occasions. Seeing no other options available to her, Ms. Li left home
and became homeless so that she could not be located and arrested. She has not
returned even to this day. During this time, the police and persons from the
local residential committee have often tried to coax her into returning home, so
they could arrest her again. Later, Wen Shiping, the director of the Gaosheng
Street office of the local residential committee, threatened Ms. Li, saying that
they would cancel her pension if she continued to stay away from home. Ms. Li
knew that they were trying to trick her, so she did not dare go home. The
authorities cancelled Ms. Li's pension in December 2004. |