(Clearwisdom.net)
I am 53 years old. I started to practice Falun Gong in June 1997. Before practicing Falun Gong, I had many health problems including stomachaches, arthritis, rheumatism and headaches. There was a tumor that was 2.3 inches in diameter in a blood vessel on the top of my left foot. After I practiced Falun Gong, all these health problems disappeared. I am very grateful for what Teacher has done. From then on, I have believed 100% in Falun Dafa and Teacher. I have always been strict with myself in accordance with Teacher's instruction, and the criteria of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I quit smoking, drinking, and other bad habits. My way of thinking is also elevating.
After Jiang's regime started to persecute Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal in 2000. After being escorted back, I was illegally detained in the Women's Detention Center for 55 days. In July 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal once again. I was arrested and was illegally held in the detention center for 49 days. One night on January 12, 2001, the director of the police station and leader from my working unit abducted me and sent me to a detention center, where I was illegally held for three months.
On May 26, 2002, a group of policemen from the police station took iron clubs, forcibly broke open my door, and illegally ransacked my home. They confiscated Teacher's portrait, Dafa books and articles. I was abducted and illegally held in the Women's Detention Center for fifteen days. On the afternoon of December 27, 2002, policemen abducted me and sent me to the police station for interrogation. I refused to cooperate with them, and I was put together with drug-addicts. I clarified the truth in the ward. I told them the fact that Falun Dafa is good, and how we have been persecuted. I also shouted aloud, "Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Dafa is a righteous way." That night, they sent me to the detention center.
The head of the ward asked me to pay 500 Yuan [the average monthly salary for urban workers is 500 Yuan], saying that this is the detention center's rule, because every month, they have to buy five packs of cigarettes or other such things for the guards of the ward. I didn't comply with her. On December 30, a policeman called my name and said that they wanted to interrogate me. The head of the ward asked me to wear a prison uniform, but I firmly resisted. The guard and several prisoners beat me up, and then pulled me into the interrogation room. In the interrogation room, no matter what they asked, I refused to cooperate with them. So they became utterly irritated. They grabbed me by the hair and threw my head against a wall. They punched my head violently. To resist the persecution, I went on a hunger strike. The guards in the detention center cuffed my hands from behind, and put shackles on me. I was unable to sleep for eight days and nights. I clarified the truth to the criminals in the ward, and told them that I had benefited from practicing Falun Dafa. I asked them to keep "Falun Dafa is good" firmly in mind. They said, "We have been watched Falun Dafa practitioners for a long period of time, and we know Falun Gong practitioners are all good people. You are not like what was shown on TV. Even Jiang fears your Teacher." In the ward, practitioners' actions and words deeply moved them. Everyday they would say "Falun Dafa is good." The mighty power of Falun Dafa has also manifested before them.
In the ward, I also did the three things that our Teacher told us to do. There was no book, so I recited Teacher's articles. I told the truth to each and every prisoner. On March 19, 2003, I was enlightened that I should not endure passively in the ward. I never yielded to the vicious people, but I was inadvertently cooperating with evil because I had been detained for a long period of time. So I went on a hunger strike to protest once again. On the afternoon of March 20, a policeman talked to me and asked me why I refused to eat. I said, "I was abducted on my way back home, and I have been held for almost three months. The food in the ward is for criminals. I cultivate Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in order to be a good person, so I cannot eat the food in the ward." He threatened me, "If you refuse to eat, I'll cuff you on a board." I told him out of good intention, "handcuffs and shackles are used for bad people, not for Dafa practitioners. You cannot cuff me." He said that he had no choice because it's the detention center's rule. I once again told him seriously that good will be rewarded with good and evil is met with evil. I said," If you still want to do so, you will definitely have to pay for what you have done." They transferred me to another ward to cuff me to a large board. The next day, another policeman saw that I still refused to eat, so he angrily took several criminals to put me on a board, and cuff my hands and feet, and then put the board upright against a wall. All my body weight was pressing against the shackles on my feet. The shackles cut into my ankles since my feet could not touch the floor, and the blood could not flow. This is the cruelest torture in the detention center. I still firmly held to my hunger strike and asked for release. I shouted aloud, "Falun Dafa is good. Restore the reputation of Teacher. Restore the reputation of Dafa." My voice was loud and clear. Each and every word was frightening the evil.
In the afternoon, the policemen carried me out for force-feeding. I asked Teacher for help, and they failed to force-feed me. Then they wanted to give me injections, yet they were still unsuccessful. Several days later, the police in the detention center saw that I was on the verge of death and they feared that I would die in the detention center. In order to avoid responsibility, they released me on the night of March 24.
