(Clearwisdom.net) My mother Liu Xiaoju started practicing Falun Dafa in late 1998. She not only became healthy, but she often went out to tell people about the practice and helped many neighbors to learn Falun Dafa. She passed away in December 2004 due to the persecution she faced; threats, coercion and harassment.
After the persecution began in 1999, her work unit held a brainwashing class and ordered her to turn in Dafa books. Her superiors also demanded her to sign a document to promise not to practice any more or she would be fired. My mother turned in two books of experience-sharing articles, a few broken exercise audiocassettes and signed the document. Her work unit also sent an official to monitor her. He came to our home almost on a daily basis and told my mother to find someone to play cards with him. My mother soon returned to her old lifestyle she had before she practiced Falun Gong, as she again picked up drinking, smoking and gambling. She stopped looking inward as she had done when practicing Dafa and her temper grew worse.
In November 2003 mother coughed constantly. She went to a hospital, and the doctor said it was lung cancer. Her morale declined by the day. Within one month she stopped talking, was afraid of people and didn't want to leave home. We all felt terrible for her. All of our family had practiced Dafa before and my aunt persisted in the practice. Mother herself knew that Dafa is great, so she again started doing the exercises. She slowly recovered. She started clarifying the truth and wrote a solemn announcement to void the guarantee statement she wrote.
Within six months her lung cancer was completely gone. The doctor was stunned. She did the exercises, sent forth righteous thoughts, studied the Fa and clarified the truth on a daily basis.
Three months later, one day an official from her work unit came and said someone wrote to her work unit and reported that she was doing the Falun Gong exercises. He said the work unit was conducting an investigation to see if the letter was telling the facts. If they verified the letter, they would cut off her salary and not pay her hospital bills. She suffered another blow. Several days later, after waking up from taking a nap she had lost her memory. She had difficulty speaking and felt dizzy and had a headache. She kept sending forth righteous thoughts, studying the Fa and doing the exercises. After one week, one day she suddenly passed out from pain. After a discussion we decided to send her to a hospital. She came to right after she arrived at the hospital. She asked to go home and was soon discharged from the hospital.
One day a fellow practitioner and I went to different towns to distribute truth clarification materials. We were reported and were abducted by local police, who sent us to a local police station. Mother heard the information from another practitioner. She went to the police station and insisted on taking me home. With Teacher's benevolent protection and fellow practitioners' righteous thoughts I was temporarily released. The police demanded that mother and I write a guarantee statement and report to the police station several days later. Because we didn't study the Fa well, mother and I each wrote a guarantee statement.
Later the same day mother began to feel unwell. After we got home, mother told me to leave home to avoid being abducted by police. Three days after I left, mother went back to the hospital. During the following two months the police went to the hospital to threaten her and followed her to the factory clinic. They told her to write down my whereabouts but she refused and rebuked the police. The police then went to my father and said they would fine him for letting me leave town. My mother firmly refused to give them money and the police left.
Due to harassment, threats and intimidation from the police, mother suffered great pressure and passed away on December 8, 2004 at the age of 48.
