Since July 21, 1999, like other Dafa practitioners in China, we have also experienced persecution from evildoers. Here in Beijing's Huairou County, more than 390 practitioners have been illegally arrested or detained. Twenty-three of them were sentenced to "re-education by hard labor." One practitioner was sentenced to prison.
To validate that Dafa is virtuous we had no choice but to show our true conscience in Tiananmen Square. We must let people in this world know that Falun Gong is not an evil cult. For doing so, we were illegally arrested and detained over and over again.
In the detention station, the station chief and guards beat and cursed Dafa practitioners. They forced practitioners to squat down or to stand with hands held over the head. Other types of brutality with handcuffs and foot shackles were common. Some were cuffed over the shoulder to the back for several days at a time. Sometimes two practitioners were shackled together by the ankles. Some practitioners were handcuffed to a basketball hoop, and then guards would slap their faces 40 times with the soles of their shoes. The guards would stop only after they got tired. During the middle of winter some practitioners were forced to stand barefoot in the snow for several hours. Others were stripped off their coats and handcuffed in rooms without heating for hours. The bathrooms were often used as holding cells.
The guards would come up with all sorts of ways of torturing Dafa practitioners. They tortured practitioners in ways that would be too cruel even for death row prisoners. The guards would encourage inmates to beat practitioners. They even lured inmates to do so by promising them reduced jail terms. Practitioners who were arrested during January were stripped off their clothes by inmates, and then cold water was poured on top of their heads. Fifty pots of cold water were poured on them each day for 3 days in a row. Once, 200 pots of cold water were poured over a practitioner, and afterwards he was forced to drink a couple of pots. Then he was not allowed to put his clothes back on. He could not go to sleep in a bed either. He could only sleep on the cold concrete floor in the bathroom. During the day inmates beat him to near death. He was twice beaten unconscious. Another practitioner was stripped down to his underwear and forced to stand outside in the freezing cold for several hours. After he got back in, cold water was again poured on him. He was then shocked with electrical shock probes. The guards would even stick a probe into his mouth to administer shocks.
Two female practitioners were shocked because they refused to recite the prison rules and regulations. They were handcuffed over the back and forced to stand for 5 days and nights without sleep. Another female practitioner was dragged outside by the guard and beaten. The guard dragged her around by pulling on her hair. The guard would step on her face and squash it with his boot. Then inmates were asked to spit on her face. Another group of practitioners were put in handcuffs and shackles after refusing have their finger-prints taken. During the middle of January, all detained practitioners were not allowed to receive any family support such as blankets. Instead, they were forced to buy thin and dirty blankets from the prison for outrageous prices. Neither clothes nor other personal belongings were allowed to be delivered by family members. Again, these had to be purchased from the prison for high prices.
Practitioners who were arrested around April 17-18, 2000 started a hunger strike and asked to be released and have all charges against them dropped. On the third day they were force-fed by guards. Five guards held the head, arms and legs of one practitioner. They used corn chowder with high concentration salt water for the force-feeding. They then used hot pepper oil or other stinging oils to lubricate the tube. They repeatedly pushed and pulled the feeding tube in one nostril, then another, just to make the practitioner suffer more. When it was done, the senior guard, Li Hongxia, force-fed the practitioner another bag of saturated salt water. That caused the practitioner to start throwing up and having a stomach flu. The guard then forced the practitioner to vomit onto his own clothes instead of on the floor. To clean up, the practitioner was forced to wipe the floor with his own clothes. Afterwards, the practitioner was forced to stand outside from morning until late afternoon when the day shift guards went off duty. During the whole day he could not go to the restroom, but had to urinate and discharge into his own pants. He could only go back to his cell bathroom after promising not to hunger strike. While he was standing outside, we observed the guards wrapping large wide tape around his head, arms and all the way down to his waist so that he was forced to couch down. His chest was wrapped very tight and breathing became real difficult. He could only gasp for air through his mouth. He would receive a round of beating if he tried to straighten his back just a little. Some practitioners' noses were bleeding heavily from being poked with the feeding tubes. To punish them more, the guards applied cloth soaked with pepper oil to cover practitioners' mouths during force-feeding. Some practitioners were beaten until blue bruises covered their thighs. They could only go back to their cell after promising not to hunger strike.
One female practitioner was handcuffed behind her head. Then the guards used steel wires to hang her from clothes lines, with one end of the steel wire tied to the handcuffs and the other end tied to her pants. Since there was no way to stay still, her body just swung back and forth until her pants were torn and she was taken down. Several other practitioners who were not force-fed had to eat their meals in the force-feeding cell. Several dozen guards watched them eat. The cold noodle tasted funny. During that night, quite a few of them had a stomach flu. Yet the guards kept on saying, "it is for your own good." They have really lost all their human decency. Who is the one violating the law while enforcing the law? Who is trampling on our nation's constitution?
Police and public security members, are you doing this because of pressure from your superiors or on your own? Acting as cohorts of Jiang Zemin, suppressing benevolence and spreading malevolence, losing all human respectability, carrying out evil deeds that cause damage to our nation and community, you torment others as well as yourselves. Be forewarned that all acts carried out by you are recorded. There will be inevitable consequences to your deeds, good or bad. The judgment day for Jiang Zemin is fast approaching. Even though you have committed the most atrocious crimes, it is still not too late. Our benevolent Teacher is still providing another chance for you. The reason why we Dafa practitioners are distributing information and clarifying the truth is clear: It is to awaken the compassion hiding deep in people's heart, including you. Do treasure this once in a millenium opportunity. It will be too late to repent when the law of the universe reveals itself to our world.
Provided by practitioners in China
December 13, 2000
