I Suffered Four Years of Persecution in Tiebei Prison in Changchun City
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) After fellow practitioners and I were illegally
sentenced in 2001, I suffered all sorts of physical and mental persecution
in Tiebei Prison, such as being locked up in a small cell that was like a steam
box, being hung up in the air by hand cuffs, and continuously forced to undergo
brainwashing. We also underwent suspicious and very detailed physical check-ups,
but were not aware of the real purpose for this. On November 22, 2000, I went to Beijing to validate the Fa. Four fellow
practitioners and I unfurled a banner five meters long in Tiananmen Square. I
shouted from my heart: "Falun Dafa is great!" "Restore the
innocence of my Teacher, restore the innocence of Falun Dafa!" Then a group
of policemen swarmed in to arrest us, and I was sent to Qianmen Sub-bureau for
interrogation. Because I refused to tell my name and address, I was transferred
to Daxing County Detention Center. Many Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested
at that time. Because I again refused to tell my name, I was transferred to
Dahongmen Police Station. I was cuffed and hung up naked outdoors for the whole night, while it was
snowing. The next morning, several policemen (the temporary guards always served
as hatchet men) practiced boxing and kicking me in turn. A police officer
surnamed Wang who claimed to be an instructor and another unknown police officer
beat me black and blue with a club and then brought one big and one small
electric baton to shock the sensitive parts on my body, until the power ran out. Because I still refused to give my name, I was taken back to Daxing County
Detention Center, 24 hours later. A police officer surnamed Zhang who claimed to
be a member of the party, threatened us saying: "The people detained with
you are the same as you, a message was sent down from my superiors that we
should keep you all separate so that you can't talk to one another." Later, due to being interrogated day after day and suffering from cruel
beatings, my mind became unclear and I was taken advantage by the evil. At the
office of Jilin Province in Beijing, 17 practitioners from Jilin and I were
locked up in a room. At night, practitioners in the opposite room pried open the
door and rescued me. After escaping, I stayed in Beijing where I produced and
posted up truth-clarification material with local and other area practitioners. The Small Cell is Smelly and as Hot as a Steam Box On the night of December 8, I was again arrested. I was first detained at
Tongzhou District Vice Squad Detention Center, and then transferred to Beijing
No. 7 Detention Center. In March 2001, I was sentenced with 11 other
practitioners, and locked up in Beijing City Prison, and then transferred to
Tiebei Prison in Changchun on May 25. Prison politics section chief Mou Zhanfu, vice chief He Dan and Da Miao took
us from the station to the prison. The first question was: "Are you still
practicing?" I said: "Yes!" They asked me whether I acknowledged
my guilt, and I said "not guilty!" Officer Mou Zhanfu then said:
"Lock up!" He Dan also ceaselessly scolded me. I was sent into a dark
room that was all but airless. There was only one vent, about the size of a
fist, in a five square meter space where eight prisoners were detained. It was June and very hot, the people in the cell were all naked. When the
head on duty patrolled, he put his hand into the intake, and if it was too hot,
he would reluctantly open the iron door for a few minutes in fear of any
accident. After he opened the lock, he would move away from the door, and then
tell us to open it, then he would swear because the inside was so hot and
smelly, and he feared he might fall down from the fumes. I was detained for 35
days in that hellish environment. My body and mind suffered a great deal. Sentenced for Telling the Truth, While Criminals Manage the Innocent In August, I was transferred to the 4th Squad of the Capital Construction
Team, Prison Area 7 to have the so-called prison initiation. The guards were the
most notoriously evil in the entire prison. The most ruthless in beating people
was Zhang Shuhuai. His father was a former warden and his second eldest brother
was the secretary in charge of the prison politics section. Guard Zhang claimed
the vice warden was his buddy. He said: "Even I beat you half to death, the
prison won't care." Guard Zhang Shuhuai personally chose six prisoners to form a team to take
turns watching me, even when I went to the toilet. They recorded every move I
made, and reported everything to Zhang the following day. They carried out
"level one strict discipline" on me, did not allow me to practice the
exercises, did not allow me to talk to fellow practitioners, and did not allow
me to mention the persecution of Falun Gong to prisoners. I was frequently
admonished, they told me to write a "thought report," but I did not
write one word. At that time, the tortures led to bitterness in my heart. I
thought, "What kind of world is it, where one is sentenced for telling the
truth, while the criminals are in charge of the innocent?" Seeing through the Staged "Tiananmen Self-immolation Incident" As soon as the "Tiananmen Self-immolation Incident" happened in
2001, it caused a stir among the prisoners. Prisoners who did not know the truth
asked whether it was true. Some accused and verbally attacked practitioners.
Practitioners in the same team found me and asked me whether I had seen it on
TV. I said I only watched it once, but I believed genuine Falun Dafa
practitioners definitely would not commit suicide. The next day, the prison convened a meeting with all practitioners, asking
our thoughts after seeing it on TV. They told us to write a report and hand it
in. After a short sharing with fellow practitioners, we unanimously considered
it had to be a plot to defame and frame Falun Gong. Although we could not point
out the fake parts, we believed that Falun Dafa is the most righteous, that
Teacher is innocent, and that Falun Dafa practitioners wouldn't violate the
principles Dafa by setting themselves on fire. It was a plot for sure. The head of prisoners who supervised me accompanied me to the education
section to hand in my report. Team leader Chen Fang punished me by forcing me to
stand for a long time. Police officer Zhang Shuhuai stomped around with fury,
dismissed and replaced the head of supervising prisoners, and deducted two
points each from other prisoners who supervised me. He tortured me in the yard,
ordered the prisoners to put pressure on me, and prohibited my family visits for
three months, depriving me of my right to see my family. The Evil Seizes Every Opportunity The head of the 610 Office in the prison, chief Jun (chief of the
so called assaulting fortified people office), arranged a new round of
persecution; everyone had to write the "Four Statements" (this relates
to the promotion of brigade administration cadre and the evil's economic
interest), they took turns talking to me for the whole day, and only allowed me
to sleep a very little at night. Later, for several days, they completely
deprived me of sleep. Taking advantage of my tiredness, they called on
"transformed" Pan Zhaorui and Mu Richun to "assist in
teaching" me many times. They also called fellow villager Wang Yufu from
Jilin City to try and convince me. Because five people in the whole prison did not write the "Four
Statements", the prison warned the brigade. Brigade Head Chen Fang
personally harassed my family at night, trying to make them convince me. They
talked to me on the phone for 40 minutes. Police officer Zhang Shuhuai also
tried to bring my son in to talk to me, threatening to fire him from his job. Because of my loophole and attachment to qing, the evil
took advantage of me. I was not allowed to sleep for five days straight, and I
was forced to stand every day. While I was muddle-headed, I agreed to let the
head of the supervision team, Zhang Zhemin, casually write a few sentences on my
behalf. I slept for 24 hours, and then, when I became clear-headed, I wept aloud
and I did not eat for two days. Police officer Zhang Shuhuai feigned kindness
and bought some food, fruit and cooked meat for me (a total of seven times),
which I accepted. Afterwards I realized it was wrong, so I paid him for all the
food he brought me. I realized the meaning of "living worse than dying." I felt I did
not deserve Teacher's merciful salvation. Teacher endured everything for me,
how am I worthy of being Teacher's disciple, worthy of being a Fa-rectification
period Dafa disciple? I became depressed. After about a month, guards gave me
stories from Buddhism to read. When I met fellow practitioners later, they
encouraged me to continue practicing, and not give up. So I wrote a solemn
declaration to void all my words and acts that did not comply with Dafa, and
immediately handed it to the brigade to forward it to the warden. I again pulled
myself together. Suspicious Physical Exams From 2001 to 2004, the prison conducted complete body checks on all detained
Falun Gong practitioners, and recorded the details of height, weight, skin,
heart, blood pressure and X rays. We underwent two physical exams and one blood
test. We did not know the CCP was so cruel that it would remove internal organs
from live practitioners and then cremate the bodies to destroy the evidence. We
just thought the prison treated Falun Gong practitioners differently from other
prisoners. Conducting a Hunger Strike to Protest Persecution Yin Lizhu, a newly detained fellow practitioner, was beaten up by police
officer Li Jun twice for practicing the exercises. I met several practitioners
during lunchtime, we all understood that Falun Dafa practitioners are one body.
We are not guilty, we are innocent. Hence on the next morning, while the iron
doors of every prison area were opened up for us to get food, all practitioners
protested at the prison politics section, requesting to speak with prison
officials, to see that they seriously punish guards who beat practitioners, and
to demand they allow us to study the Fa and practice the exercises. The police locked up five of us in a small cell. Practitioner Liu Ziwei
refused to enter. The police cuffed him to a tree at the entrance gate with both
his feet lifted off the ground. With his body in the air, the handcuffs deeply
cut into his flesh, covering him with blood. He did not recover even after six
months. Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Hongwei was dragged to the criminal law
execution section and brutally tortured for shouting, "Don't beat
people!" and "Falun Dafa is good!" Other practitioners were taken
back by each brigade. We all conducted a hunger strike to protest the
persecution. The Capital Construction Brigade twice sent instructors and guards to bring
me out of the small cell, but I refused to leave. I put forward my conditions to
the prison; I would not eat or leave the small cell without a reply. At night, police officer Zhang Shuhuai led five tall and strong prisoners to
drag me out of the cell. On the third day of the hunger strike, practitioners in
other areas of the prison told me that the prison had basically agreed to all
our conditions; police officers who beat people would be transferred from the
post and internally punished, and they would let us study Fa and practice the
exercises. I lost my senses and believed in this lie so I began to eat and other
practitioners also began to take food. Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Hongwei in another prison area was quite
righteous, saw through the evil plot, and continued the hunger strike. On the
8th day, he was force-fed in the hospital. He had been on a hunger strike for 31
days, and his life was in danger, so he was forced to have a transfusion. The
police notified his family, and his mother came from Tonghua and cried by his
bed. However the police still did not let him go free, and transferred him to
Jilin No. 2 Prison for further persecution. Police Meet with Karmic Retribution I was unconditionally released on June 7, 2005. I refused to sign the release
notice because Falun Dafa practitioners are good people and innocent, and we are
persecuted for no reason. I heard police officers Mou Zhanfu and Zhang Shuhuai suffered karmic
retribution for their evildoings. Mou Zhanfu was transferred out from the post,
divorced, and some prisoner said he is also addicted to drugs. Zhang Shuhuai had
kidney stones and had a major operation in 2003. All the money he collected for
looking after the prisoners in recent years was all spent at the hospital and he
nearly lost his life. This reflects the heavenly principle that good is rewarded
and evil is met with karmic retribution.
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