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[Minghui 8/1/2000]
At present, for every disciple both inside and outside of China, clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to people around the world is the most important task in "assisting the teacher in the human world". Information Provided by Practitioners
Arrested with Zhao Xin (7/15/00) On June19, some practitioners who were arrested with Zhao Xin while doing Falun Gong exercises were released. The following are their stories. From them, people can gain a better understanding about how firmly Zhao Xin has cultivated Falun Dafa and how the police have mistreated Falun Dafa practitioners. 1.
"I will not
cooperate with anything that slanders Falun
Dafa" -
Bits of information about Zhao Xin's efforts to safeguard
Falun Dafa with her life: On the evening of June 19, 2000,
Zhao Xin and I were arrested together while doing the exercises at Peony
Pavilion in Zizhu Garden Park. From
the practice site to the police station and then to the detention center, Zhao Xin refused to cooperate with the police.
At Peony Pavilion, she had
to be hauled to the police car by four policemen.
When being interrogated at
the police station, she was also
dragged into the office. The
policemen tried all means to obtain the addresses and names
of the last five practitioners.
They gave various excuses for this treatment, explaining what we did was wrong.
Zhao Xin insisted that we should not go along with anything that
defames Falun Dafa.
On the evening of June 20, the
local police station
of the Park wanted
to move us to another
place. Zhao Xin responded,
"Unless you release us,
we won't go anywhere else.” Zhao Xin, another girl and I then
held together tightly.
Four or five policemen forcefully separated
us, put handcuffs on us,
and then hauled us into the
police cars. Zhao Xin and I
were in different cars.
When I arrived at the detention
center, Zhao Xin and another girl were
there already. Zhao
Xin sat on floor in the lotus position.
She smiled with determination on her face.
The police moved her
to the cell using a tricycle, and then dragged her
into a medical clinic
for a checkup. The last time I saw her was at about 10:30 AM on June 22 while coming back from my second interrogation. She sat on the aisle of the jail, dirty and tired, but her physical condition seemed well. 2. My experience of
being arrested I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. On the evening of June 19, some practitioners and I were
practicing at Peony Pavilion in Zizhu Garden Park. At about 8:00
PM, when we were doing meditation, the
police came. They shouted,
"Everybody get up! No
more practice! Get into the
car!" They turned
off the exercise music. Some
practitioners got up and went with the police.
I kept doing the
exercise. Some police came
over and kicked me and tried to stop me from practicing.
They pulled my legs
out from the lotus
position and I resumed the
position. At that
moment, I remembered the words from the article "Big
Exposure, "some
disciples said, 'what to
fear? My body would still be
sitting there in practice even with my head off.'"
They could not move me, so they waited for
more policemen to come. Some
other practitioners also did not pay attention to these policemen.
They waited for a while until they felt they had enough people to take us
away. They began to pull our
hands from conjoined-hand gesture (Jieyin).
Two policemen grabbed my arms and
dragged me into a police
car. Several tourists witnessed the whole scene.
I did not know what they would feel. The
other practitioners were probably dragged into the car the same
way. The
police brought us to a big room.
There was a ping-pong table in the middle of the room.
About 20
practitioners of different ages were there
already. We sat along
the wall and began to recite "Lunyu" and "Hongyin." At the
beginning, the police tried to stop us but failed.
After that, they interrogated us one by one, asking our names and addresses. Those who answered were sent somewhere else.
The six of us that did not give the information were kept there.
They slapped me on
the face and pulled my hair, giving up after a while. At
that time, some practitioners realized that we had not
offended the law and that we should not cooperate with them to do
wrong deeds. Two female
practitioners (one of which was Zhao
Xin) were dragged out for more interrogation, because they had refused to answer any
questions. After
coming back from the interrogation, I saw a practitioner meditating
and then I did too. A policeman
came and shouted, "You
can't do the exercises here."
I did not listen to him.
Repeating himself several times and seeing that I would not move, the policeman pulled my two legs
apart. He slapped my face, and pushed
me down to the ground. When
I sat back up again, he struck me angrily.
I came to realize that I must
still have the mentality of competitiveness. I then stopped
practicing. No policeman came to interfere with our practice afterwards. We stayed in that room for about 24 hours. At about
6:00 PM on June 21,
one practitioner suggested
that we should ask the police to release us.
We cleaned the room and were about to go to
ask the police while they came
over. They told us
that we would be moved to somewhere else.
Zhao Xin said, "We can not let them move us, because we did
not break the law.
We all agreed.
Therefore, when the police called us, we did not move.
The policemen then dragged us forcibly.
Zhao Xin and the two other female practitioners held together
tightly. They were handcuffed and hauled to the police car. Zhao
Xin and I were in the same
car. Three policemen were
watching us. She was still
handcuffed. At the
beginning, because
she was so brave, she did not move her handcuffs and did not show any feelings
of pain. I did not notice
that she was handcuffed
very tightly until we
arrived. There were deep
handcuff marks on her wrists. I
asked the police to loosen Zhao Xin's handcuffs, but he refused.
Her handcuffs
were finally loosened after we arrived at the Haidian
detention center. At
the place where they searched us, I saw Zhao
Xin's legs were still double-crossed.
I heard from the police
that she was probably dragged
all the way like that. That
night, without any legal procedure,
I was detained in Haidian detention center. My prison life began.
On the first night, a prisoner asked me to stand there and do the so-called "on
duty", which was
actually a kind of sleep
deprivation torture. .
That night, a prisoner told me that some Falun
Dafa practitioners had been detained there before.
They told him about Falun Dafa,
and he thought it sounded good and wanted to learn.
But they had no chance to practice in jail. At that time, I
wanted to create a good
environment for cultivation and
practice. Since I did not sleep nor eat for two days. On the
third day, I felt sleepy and
tired, it seemed that I had no strength to
sustain my life. I
thought, "How could I pass this tribulation if I was not allowed to
sleep." I thought of the
Teacher's words, "What is difficult to endure, you can endure it.
When it's impossible to do, you can do it."
Suddenly a thought
came into my mind that isn't it a chance to
get rid of my attachment to sleeping?
Upon having this thought, my strength came back and the feeling
of tiresomeness was suddenly gone. I
recalled the Teacher’s words
that "Cultivation practice itself is not difficult, and
neither is upgrading one's level itself difficult. It is because they
cannot give up the human mind that they call it difficult."
(page 383-384 of the book
"Zhuan Falun") It was really like that. In those ten or more days, I only
slept one night. For the rest
of the time, I stood nights and sat days, just because I did not want to
say my name and where I lived. The
head of the cell asked two prisoners
to watch me and did not
allow me to sleep. If I
closed my eyes, they would slap my
face and hit my head, pull
my hair and pour cold-water on my head.
Once, after having cold-water poured on me, I shivered and felt
like I was in a
refrigerator. It took me a
while to recover. Of course,
as a practitioner, I could
basically smile through all those
ordeals. I had no hatred
towards those who had hurt me. In
jail, because I tried to do the exercises, the
prisoners could hit me at will every
once and a while. Teacher Li said, "Human has
no humanity, Gods have no virtue of God; secular world has no Tao,
righteous mentality no longer exists." While in jail, the
head of the cell did not allow me to talk about Falun Gong with the
other prisoners, so people who were interested in Falun Dafa would not
dare to talk to me. I could
only talk to them secretly. I
began to recite "Hongyin" loudly
under such circumstances. Upon
seeing me reciting,
two prisoners who were
watching me came to hit me
in the mouth. They pushed me
to the ground and stuffed my mouth with a towel until I could not utter a
sound, and said, "Let's see how you can recite that now." They even
held my nose so that I almost could not breathe.
They tied a towel around my mouth to prevent me from speaking and
my lower lip swelled and bled. A
policeman saw that some
prisoners were torturing
me and asked what happened. They
told him I was a Falun
Dafa practitioner and he simply walked
away. When I told the guard that I did not sleep for many days, he said that it
was my own fault. I
asked myself, "What
a society?"
We are decent Falun Gong practitioners and did
not do anything wrong or
violate the law. We were detained, sent to labor camps, and sentenced to prison only
because we wanted to practice. In prison, the police allowed other prisoners to torture and curse us at will and
we became "special prisoners" who were not prisoners. I
know what I suffered was not
comparable with what other practitioners
had. Later,
I learned that Zhao Xin was brutally
beaten so that her
4th, 5th, and 6th neck
vertebra were fractured. She
was hospitalized in the Haidian
Hospital. The doctor said
that even if she could recover, she would be
paralyzed. However, at
the time when she was arrested, she was a perfectly healthy person! Writing
this is not to say how much I have suffered.
As a practitioner,
I did not feel I had suffered,
but I only felt sorry that I could not let those prisoners have a
better understanding of Falun Dafa. I hope
more and more kindhearted people
will know the truth of Falun
Gong. I also hope that more
kind people can raise concerns about Zhao Xin, because her family appealed
to the judicial office in Haidian
and was refused.
The reason for being refused was that "The
accused, Beijing Haidian District
Police Department, was
a unit not a person”. They
said “You should have the name of the individual who did it; otherwise,
we will not accept your appeal."
I do not believe this is the real reason they
were refused. Although
I know little about the law, I do know that the accused can be a unit.
I simply hope our government can punish the criminals and protect
the innocent, instead of
doing the opposite -- punishing the good and decent ones
and protecting the bad and evil
ones. Falun Dafa Practitioner in Beijing (Translated from edited version of http://minghui.ca/gb/0001/Jul/16/zhaoxin_gongyou.html) |