Jilin Dafa Practitioner Wang Minli Appeals to U.S. Court Against the Atrocities Committed by Jiang's Regime

February 10, 2002

(Clearwisdom.net)

Respected U.S. District Court:

I'm glad to hear that your court has accepted the Genocide civil suit against Jiang Zemin filed by Falun Dafa practitioners and their relatives. Since July 22^nd of 1999, Jiang's regime has been persecuting Falun Dafa. My family and I, who live in Mainland China, have suffered both physical and psychological torture. Soon such unprecedented injustice will end and the truth will be exposed. The following statement is the true story of the brutal tortures my family and I have suffered, and I hope it can serve as part of the evidence for Jiang's crimes.

On July 20^th 1999, under Jiang's order to ban Falun Gong, police in every area started arresting Falun Dafa assistants (volunteer contact persons) nationwide. All of the media outlets nationwide then began to fill the newspapers, radio waves, and television screens with fabricated propaganda attacking and defaming Falun Dafa and our Teacher, Mr. Li Hongzhi. On July 20^th 1999, my eleven-year-old son and I peacefully appealed in Changchun city, where the Jilin Provincial government is located. We requested the release of all illegally detained practitioners, the restoration of our Teacher's reputation and a legal and fair environment for practicing Falun Gong. There were several thousand practitioners from different areas who went to appeal. During July 20^th and 21^st, in order to disperse the crowds of practitioners, police used high-pressure water hoses to drench the appealers with cold water. Both my son and I were soaked and trembled from the chill. Even a woman with her one-month-old baby was hit by the hose. Even a cold-hearted person would shed tears upon seeing that scene. After that, the provincial government dispatched a large group of soldiers and policemen. They dragged, kicked and beat up all of the peacefully appealing practitioners until all several thousand of us were forced into detention in the courtyard in the Jilin Police Academy. They forced us to watch a movie attacking Falun Dafa. We were prohibited to walk around and to use the restroom. Other Falun Gong practitioners and I protested, only to be met with punches and kicks.

In late 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal for the first time. Upon arriving at Tiananmen Square, the evil police from the Qianmen Police Station in Beijing and the Jilin Public Security Bureau illegally arrested me and detained me at the Jilin liaison office in Beijing. There the wicked police from Jilin City forcefully body-searched me, took away all my money, 300 Yuan, and put it into their own pockets. I was later sent back to Jilin City and detained at the Yushu Street Police Station in Longtan District, Jilin City. I was finally released after being illegally detained there for seven days.

On February 18, 2001, I was once again kidnapped by the Public Security Bureau of Longtan District and the Yushu Street Police Station and illegally detained at the Jilin City First Detention Center for over 50 days. During my detention there, I suffered brutal torture. One wicked policeman, surnamed Xing, incited other inmates to monitor practitioners and to not allow them to talk amongst themselves. During the cold winter days, whenever a practitioners were sent in to the cell, Policeman Xing ordered the inmates to strip them off their clothes, pour several buckets of cold water on them and beat them viciously. One time he forced me to squat for over six hours without moving a bit. He would beat me up if I moved a little. Other inmates, encouraged by him, also ruthlessly beat me. Xing has always been notorious for his viciousness in the Jilin police department. Another time I insisted on practicing the Falun Gong exercises, so he continuously beat me to the point that both of my eardrums were broken. My hearing has still not recovered from his abuse.

I was later sentenced to forced labor "education" for one year at the Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Here I suffered even more inhumane treatment and torture. The wicked police there tried to brainwash me with slanderous propaganda and incited other inmates to beat my face with bamboo sticks and to strike my whole body with leather belts and batons. Very often I was black and blue all over. During the cold winter months, they stripped me and forced me to stand in the hallway with all the windows wide open for over five hours until my whole body was frozen. They forced me into the position of "backing up an airplane" (please see http://www.faluninfo.net/torturemethods/2001-11-22-kx-1-1.jpg for an illustration) without moving and put me under a wood case. One wicked policeman from the seventh team surnamed Hou repeatedly shocked me with an electric baton for over one hour until I fell unconscious. Later, I decided to carry out a hunger strike to protest the persecution against me. On the third day into my hunger strike, they force-fed me with salt and corn flour gruel. They tied me up on a bed so that my arms and legs could not move. They used an iron support just for force-feeding to hold my mouth open and fed me food without allowing me time to swallow. I was choked; tears flowed out of my eyes and I spit corn gruel all over. Their torture did not end there. They again used a metal bar to slide my teeth back and forth. My teeth were loosened and then dislocated. I have not been able to chew food since then. We were also forced to do intensive labor. Very often we had to get up at three or four in the morning and work until midnight. For those practitioners who refused to give up their belief in Falun Dafa, the police tortured them with even crueler methods. I was once healthy and strong. After being tortured so brutally and for such a long period of time, I became extremely weak and my life was in danger. Fearing responsibility for my death, the labor camp released me.

On December 24, 2002, I went to Beijing to appeal for the second time. I unfurled a banner printed "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance" in Tiananmen Square. A dozen policemen immediately rushed towards me. I shouted: "Falun Dafa is good. Falun Dafa is the righteous way. Restore the reputation of Falun Dafa and of our Teacher!" I ran while holding up the banner with several dozen police chasing me from behind. A police van drove toward me very quickly and knocked me down. The police van drove over my body and I fell unconscious immediately. The wicked policemen took me to the Qianmen Police Station. They placed me in a quiet place at midnight and ran away so as to shirk responsibility for my death. Because I insisted on practicing Falun Gong, the local Yushu Street Police Station in Longtan District, Jilin City held my identification card and repeatedly attempted to arrest me. As a result, my now fourteen-year-old son and I were forced to leave home and move from place to place.

The above is my experience, which I have provided to the United States District Court. I hope that you will thoroughly investigate the evidence and uphold justice so that Jiang's criminal group will be punished according to the law.

My address:

# 104, 2^nd building, 4^th group, 2^nd committee

Yushu Street, Longtan District, Jilin City, Jilin Province, China

Zip code: 132000