Liu Guifu Shares His Experience of Being Persecuted

(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Liu Guifu. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jiqing Village, Yihantong Town, Fangzheng County in Heilongjiang Province. I am 56 years old, and I am suffering persecution at the No. 4 District of Daqing Prison.

I was fortunate enough to begin practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. Because of my cultivation practice , I gained a healthy body, a pure mind and improved morals. More importantly, I came to realize the true meaning of life and the purpose of being a human. Therefore, I am determined to stay on the path of cultivation under Master's guidance to the end. During the tribulation caused by evil, I have conformed to the Fa-rectification requirements, stepped forward, clarified the truth and exposed the persecution. However, I was illegally sentenced to six years' imprisonment by the Fangzheng County Court under a fabricated crime and thrown into prison where I have been forcefully subjected to brainwashing tactics and persecution in an attempt by the prison to "transform" me.

On October 16, 2003, I was working in my home when the National Security Division Manager by the last name of Chou from Fangzheng County brought four people with him and came to ask me to go with them to the County offices. They said that they had something they needed to check with me. I knew that they were setting me up, so I said to them, "I didn't do anything against the law. Why should I go with you?" I ignored their threats and refused to go with them. Local villagers and people in charge came out one by one and blocked their vehicle. They all condemned the county officials for arresting me for no reason. They said, "Mr. Liu is a good person. You shouldn't treat him like that." Divisional Manager Chou then took out his handgun and pointed it at those villagers.

After they took me away, they asked me where my truth clarification flyers had come from. I told them that I had found them somewhere. Then they began to beat me. At that time, Divisional Manager Chou, the son-in-law of President Bai and a thug by the last name of Chen were beating me. There were also four female police officers. They held me to the ground and beat me very hard with leather belts and plastic tubes as thick as fingers. After I fainted, they poured cold water on my body to wake me up. Then they beat me again. Seeing that I still didn't give in, they heated a needle with a lighter until it turned red and used it to prick my arm. They planned to hammer bamboo sticks into my fingers, but they couldn't find any, so I was exempted from this cruel punishment. During the time when I was being tortured, they kept threatening and terrifying me with words such as, "There are other places where people have been beaten to death. This kind of thing hasn't happened in our Fangzheng County yet, and now we are going to use you as an experiment."

The wife of one of the persecutors called, wanting him to rush home. The pitiful thing is that the husband said to his wife over the phone, "We are 'interrogating' a Falun Gong practitioner and he won't give in. If you don't believe it, listen." Then he turned his cell phone in order for his wife to listen to my horrifying cries. They committed evil deeds and they wanted to have their family members involved. They treated the horrifying cries of Dafa practitioners as beautiful music. The more pitiful thing is that the female police officers, who didn't have any sympathy, said in a sarcastic way, "Everyone says that Falun Gong practitioners are not afraid of death. Today we have truly seen that. It is so true."

Eventually, these thugs became tired and hungry from beating me. When they were having their meals and taking their breaks, I clarified the truth to them. I told them not to commit evil deeds. They said to me, "We know that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] is evil and Jiang Zemin is evil, but the CCP pays us, not you." They pointed at the table full of delicious food and said, "Look, we have delicious meals every day." The person who had talked to his wife on the phone earlier said that he knew that Chen and Divisional Manager Chou were listed on the "Evil People Board" and that today he had passed the "test" and was granted the same "special honor" as them. While beating me, he said, "Do you think I am qualified to be on the Top 10 list?"

The beating lasted from about 8:00 a.m. To 8:00 p.m.; however, they didn't get anything out of me. Then they sent me to Fangzheng County No. 2 Detention Center. On the following day, they brought me back to interrogate me again. They tied me to an iron chair and handcuffed my arms behind my back. They lifted both my legs and then hit me on my feet and the insides of my legs with a "Little White Dragon." One of them even stood on the handcuffs and tried to press them down. It was extremely painful!

Later, police officers sent me to "Monster No. 5" a ward in Fangzheng County No. 1 Detention Center. It is famous for having beaten up two people to the point of losing consciousness. The two were sent to the hospital, where they later died. The police officers involved lied to the families and said that the two had died of heart disease.

Under the instigation of police officers, the prisoners immediately began their long-term torture of me. They poured several barrels of hot water over my head, and I was choked. Sometimes, I couldn't squat any longer and ended up falling on the floor. At the detention center, inmates Sun Defang, Zhao Xiaofei, Zhou Penglong and others had been humiliating me and tortured me in all kinds of ways for a long time. There were three times when I was beaten so badly that I could barely crawl onto my bed. I was deprived of sleep at night. They flicked my eyeballs with their fingers and my eyes became so swollen that I could hardly open them. Divisional Manager Liu, who was in charge of the administration in the prison, didn't intervene. Instead, he even connived with the prisoners and said, "Falun Gong (prisoners) deserve to be beaten."

Prisoners and police officers ganged up on newly-arrived practitioners. If the newcomers wanted to have a better environment, and in order to have less pressure and beatings, they had to get money and merchandise from their families for the police. Otherwise, they would be beaten and tortured for a long time. On January 29, seeing that my family didn't send any money, Sun Defang began to beat me again. They purposefully beat my chest, abdomen and ribs, and said; "If I beat your ribs, you will end up losing your voice. If I beat your belly, you can't eat. If I beat your chest until you die, we will say that you died of heart disease." He also forced me to sweep the floor and bed non-stop, 50 to 100 times. He tortured me non-stop.

As a matter of fact, all this torture is only part of what I have suffered. There were many other ways of torturing people that are hard to describe. There were practitioners from Gaoleng and Shaohezi who were suffering the same torture as me. One practitioner couldn't endure their torture. She jumped head first from the 3^rd floor. Luckily, she landed on the patio of the second floor, and so her life was saved.

Six months after I was "illegally detained" at Fangzheng County No. 1 Detention Center, I was forcefully thrown into the newly-built Prison Concentration Team. Later, I was transferred to Harbin Prison, one of the most notorious places for persecuting Dafa practitioners. All practitioners suffered mental and physical torture to differing degrees. Their methods were very cruel and frightening. As to the details of the persecution, the Minghui/Clearwisdom website has full coverage.

In April 2004, practitioner Mr. Wang Dayuan was persecuted at the No. 2 Ward in Harbin Prison. Because he refused to write the so-called "Five Statements" (similar to the Three Statements), he was beaten to death by inmates under the instigation of police officers. In order to cover up the facts of the persecution, and out of fear of the practitioners who witnessed the crime, on July 1, 2004, they transferred 108 practitioners who were detained in the prison to Mudanjiang, Tailai and Daqing Prisons.

I was transferred to the No. 4 Ward in Daqing Prison where practitioners were persecuted. This prison was also notorious for persecuting practitioners. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began, there were four practitioners persecuted to death. I also experienced brutal persecution when I was at Fangzheng County National Security Division and Detention Center. In order to force me to sign the "Five Statements" which they had prepared before-hand, they forced me to sit on a piece of metal, deprived me of sleep, forced me to stand on cold bricks barefoot, and beat me with a club. When they hit my bottom, the blood soaked through my clothes, and blisters as big as egg yolks developed on my buttocks. When one of the cadres was checking the cells, he asked me what happened. I said that it was caused by an inmate. That inmate quickly replied, "He is Falun Gong." That cadre then said, "We don't care about Falun Gong."

In order to resist the persecution, some practitioners went on hunger strikes for a long time. Some swallowed scissors, knives, nails, needles or pieces of glass, some cut their wrists and some knocked their heads against the wall. Of course, those extreme behaviors are against Dafa's requirements. But, on the other hand, the fact that they were so desperate fully displays the cruelty of the evil.

The persecution has escalated to the highest degree; however, the end of the persecution will surely be Dafa practitioners' consummation and the disintegration of the evil. Now, the situation here is getting better and less tense. Everyone is working diligently on studying the Fa, doing the exercises and doing the Three Things. The reason I am writing this out is to say that Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioners have withstood such a cruel and base evil persecution and repressed the evil and they have walked steadily through the red terror. They were not frightened by the evil, nor did they fall in front of the persecution. Today, this persecution can't go on any further. The rampant evil, swollen with arrogance, has disappeared. The environment is more relaxed, and we encounter less difficulty in clarifying the truth and helping people quit the Communist Party and its related organizations.

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