(Clearwisdom.net)
I used to have serious illnesses. I went to many doctors and tried various kinds of medicines. I suffered so much because of my illnesses. After I practiced Falun Dafa, I regained my health and I benefited very much from practicing it both mentally and physically.
On New Year’s Day of 2000, I took the train to Beijing to appeal to the higher authorities for Falun Gong. On February 1, the Huilongguan Police Station of the Changping District in Beijing illegally arrested me together with about fifty other fellow practitioners. The police mistreated us. They beat us and gave us physical penalties and didn’t allow us to go to the restroom.
Some of us started to recite Lunyu together. The police got mad at us and pulled us out one by one. They stripped off our coats and shirts and forced us to hold a big chunk of ice. It was cold winter at that time and the wind was blowing very hard. They forced us to stand outside and said that we wouldn’t be allowed to go back in until the all of the ice melted off. One police said to another police, "Don’t stand over there. You are blocking the wind. Let them suffer more."
They came up with this vicious torture, trying to make us give up our belief. Yet they underestimated us. I remember seven or eight of us were out there holding ice, including Ji Ping, Lan Zhou, and Li Mingyi from Shanghai as well as Guo Xingbo from Gansu Province. Those police finally realized that none of us would give in and eventually, they allowed us back in the room without achieving their original goal.
Later, we were sent to the Changping District Detention Center. The life there wasn’t for human beings. Horror was everywhere and I can still clearly remember those days.
At 3 A.M. on March 13, police took me back to my hometown and illegally detained me at the Diaobinshan Detention Center of Tieling City in Liaoning Province. At 8 A.M, policeman Yan Wu from the Municipal Public Security Bureau came. He started to curse me the second he saw me and took me to a two-story building outside of the south gate of the detention center. He cursed me all the way there. When we went into a room on the second floor, he beat me up and maliciously ordered me to kneel down. I said, "It’s not good for you to treat me like this."
Policeman Li Wei used his soles to slap me on my face. When he got tired from beating me up, he left to take a rest. Yan Wu then continued to slap me on my face. My teeth became loose and blood came out of my mouth. My whole face swelled and deformed. Yan Wu forced me to take off my pants and used a shovel to hit my buttocks. Later the head of the shovel went loose and fell off when he beat me. He then used the handle of the shovel to hit my lower legs and my knees. He also kicked and beat me. My buttocks got all bruised and I had cuts all over my body. It was so painful that I rolled over on the ground. Several months later when they illegally sent me to the court, it still hurt too much to touch my buttocks. That horrible pain made me unable to sit , stand, or sleep. The pain gradually got better two years later.
The police brutally tortured me for the whole morning. I didn’t cooperate with them and didn’t tell them anything they wanted to know. During that time, I kept reciting Teacher’s poem "A great Arhat in the world,/ Spirits and ghosts fear the most." ("Mighty Virtue" from Hong Yin) The Fa in my heart actually reduced the pain, which made it possible for me to break through.
