September 26, 2000

More than fifty female Falun Dafa practitioners were detained in Qiaozhuan Detention center, Tongzhou District, a suburb of Beijing in July 2000. This group included honest and kindhearted middle-aged women, young girls, and elderly ladies with gray hair. They come from all walks of life. Some are housewives, some are professionals, some are just young students, and some are senior citizens and grandmothers. They were put into jail by their government just because they believe in Falun Dafa and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." In the face of the police who have lost their conscience and those brutal male criminals, these Chinese women have experienced the most brutal and inhumane torture in the history of the detention center.

(I)

Huang Xiuling, 59 years old, a farmer from Fuma village, Majuqiao town, Tongzhou District. On the afternoon of June 30, 2000, she was sent to Tongzhou's Qiaozhuan detention center, and was illegally detained in cell 9. She refused to recite the prison regulations, and kept practicing the Falun Gong exercises. Policemen brought three or four male criminals detained in the prison to the female cell to beat her up. She was handcuffed and chained. They used electric batons to shock her body and stomped on her feet. These insane criminals held up her breasts and pinched the tips of her nipples. Later, Huang said that it was so painful that she couldn't breathe. These thugs kicked her in her genital area. They only stopped beating her when they became tired. They tried to force her to give up her faith. She was so determined about her faith, that during the torture, she kept reciting a poem in Hongyin (the collection of poems of Teacher Li): "Crave for nothing while alive, miss nothing upon death. Let go of all the thoughts of delusion, it's not difficult to cultivate Buddhahood."

Facing the evil, Huang was not afraid at all and went on a hunger strike. On the afternoon of July 2, 2000, she was sent to cell 7, an even more terrible jail cell. At that time, Huang had already been wounded all over her body. Her face and knees had become dark purple, and her insteps were mutilated. The police started to force feed her with a tube -- the tube was inserted into her nose and down into her stomach; it was extremely painful. Police wanted her to pay 10 Yuan for the single-use disposable tube. Since Huang didn't have any money, the police left the tube in her body so that they could use it again. In the evening, the pain became unbearable and Huang pulled the tube out. The next day, when she was force fed again, the police put her hands behind her back and filled the tube. One end of the tube was left in her stomach, the other side came out from her nose. That evening, Huang developed a high fever. The police gave her some medicine. Huang's high fever didn't go away and she started vomiting. When the police realized that Huang's life was in danger, they were afraid she would die in the detention center, so they hastily sentenced her to the labor camp for one year. Later that evening, they sent Huang home and asked the village committee to watch her.

Within five days, a perfectly healthy person was almost tortured to death.

After four months of detention Huang Xiuling returned home and began to practice Falun Gong exercises. She recovered very quickly. Gradually, she was to swallow a bowl of rice porridge. However, the police didn't stop there. On July 13, only a few days later, they illegally took Huang away from her home and sent her to the fourth unit of Beijing Tiantanghe female labor camp for forced labor.

The next labor camp had a re-education program that was set up for the purpose of forcing determined practitioners to denounce Falun Dafa and denounce Teacher Li. They used all kinds of vicious methods to torture the practitioners. Huang Xiuling persisted in her belief in Falun Dafa and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance", and she went on another hunger strike. Her neck was beaten so badly that she could no longer hold it upright.

(II)

Liu Xuebin, 54 years old, lives in Binhe resident complex, Chengguan town, Tongzhou District of Beijing. She was an accountant in the Culture Department of Tongzhou District. She was arrested on September 4, 1999, as she practiced Falun Gong exercises at the Tongzhou club. Consequently, she was detained for three months without going through any legal procedure. Liu experienced all kinds of torture at the detention center. The guards stripped off all her clothes and used a wet towel with salt on it to thrash her which left row upon row of small bleeding sores all over her body. The salt stuck to the sores. On the second day, bloody pus oozed from her wounds and her clothes stuck to her body. It was too terrible to look at. In the face of the evil, Liu Xuebin's heart didn't waver at all. She endured suffering that one cannot even imagine. Later, because Liu Xuebin refused to cooperate during a police interrogation, she was labeled mentally ill. After being illegally detained for three months, she was sent to the mental hospital. Liu was placed with the most serious patients. Later, Liu said, "They forced me to take pills and receive injections. I wasn't able to refuse, I treated it as taking a meal." Liu said she bathed those patients who couldn't take bathe by themselves and cared for their daily needs. . Sometimes in the middle of the night, a patient would come and grab her neck. Liu said she treated these mentally ill people with compassion; she had no hatred, and no complaints. Liu Xuebin endured this with her strong faith. However, the medicine damaged her nervous system and she became slow to react, and black spots appeared on her face. During the Chinese New Year, Liu spent her days and nights in the mental institution. She was released three months later.

Liu regained her freedom. She went to visit her relatives and good friends. People saw her as a completely healthy person, both mentally and physically. Now the kind-hearted Liu can live a normal life, reunited with her family, and is able to meet with old friends.

However, Liu Xuebin made another decision that surprised everyone around her. In order to awaken people to the injustice that Falun Dafa has endured, she gave up her freedom and went to appeal to the government on April 25, 2000 -- a day that had shocked the world a year earlier. She used her personal experience to validate Falun Dafa. As a result, the police sent Liu back to the mental hospital. Five months have passed now. We haven't heard anything about her. We hope Liu Xuebin is safe.

We are calling on all kindhearted people in the world to extend your help, to let tens of thousands of good people like Liu Xuebin know that their sacrifice was not in vain, to let this country which has turned the righteous and evil upside down by Jiang Zemin see the light again.

(III)

Li Yaping, 26 years old, works in the stone factory in Tongzhou District. While illegally detained in Qiaozhuan detention center, she refused to denounce Falun Dafa. Her hands were handcuffed behind her back, and her feet chained. Inmates placed an electrified baton in her mouth to shock her. They laughed at her as her mouth bled. Ms. Li is a determined practitioner. She has been beaten many times and underwent much torture. She was sent to the fourth unit of Beijing Tiantanghe female labor camp without a trial.

Hu Shufang, 38 years old, lives in Jixiang resident complex, Tongzhou District. She appealed to the government on June 25, 2000. She was detained in the west room -- the most vicious part of Qiaozhuan detention center. Almost every day, Ms. Hu was beaten and shocked by electic batons which left wounds all over her body. She was handcuffed and chained. Hu was very determined in her belief of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance" and was sent to a labor camp without trial one month later. Her sister, Hu Shuwen, was illegally taken away from her home by the police. Now she is being detained in Daxing County's Tuanhe concentration camp in Beijing.

These Chinese women have endured the most brutal tortures. Some practitioners' faces have been injured by the electric baton and they are covered with scars. The police even shocked the most sensitive parts of these female practitioners with electric baton, such as the soles of the feet, armpits, and hips. They burned practitioners' bodies with cigarette lighters and tore off their nails.

We were shocked by such accounts. Recently, we heard that some determined practitioners received forced injections with damaging effects on their nervous system.

We hope that all kindhearted people of the world will extend their humanitarian support to rescue these Chinese women.