Persecutions in Lin-yi City: Practitioners Tortured, Fined, and Detained in Mental Hospital

February 21, 2000

Since last December, over 100 practitioners have been arrested and detained for having gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. We were from all walks of life, including aged people in 70s and some teenagers.

We walked into the jail in a peaceful mind. In jail, we introduced the principle of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" to those convicted criminals and guards. Many criminals said that they would practice Falun Dafa upon getting out of jail. Some even learned Falun Dafa together with us in the jail.

We had suffered many types of tortures for continuing our study of Falun Dafa's teachings and practicing Falun Dafa exercises in the jail.

Yang Xin, 60 years old, was put on shackles weighting over 48 pounds for studying Falun Dafa.

Song Shi-long, 26 years old, had been put on the heavy shackles for more than 20 days ever since he entered the jail until he was baited out by his workplace to work on a technical job.

On January 1, because of practicing Falun Gong exercises, seven practitioners in the cell 5 were each given 20 beats by the guards using the leather belts (very painful); two other practitioners were given 30 and 42 beats respectively. Afterwards, Zhao Fu-ming and Zhao Xiu-xiu were hung up for over 5 hours. During that time, they two still recited articles and poems in "Hong Yin" (collection of poems of Teacher Li) together. Even the criminals admired their courage.

Sun Qing-hong was put on "Bao Liao" (heavy shackles for convicted criminals t receive death penalty) and denied food for 3 days.

On January 27, Chu Yan-qu, Zhao Xiu-xiu, Pei, Lin-ying were beaten up and then put on "Bao Liao" and denied food for 5 days for practicing Falun Gong.

At the beginning of January, 9 practitioners in the cell 9 including Zhou Yong-ling, Zhu Guo-cai and Wang Yu-nan were given a dozen of beatings and were put on "Bao Liao" and denied food for 3 days. Li Xiu-mei, Li Cheng-zhen and Sun Ming in the cell 9 were also beaten up for reciting "Hong Yin" together. The police asked them whether they would continue to practice Falun Gong as they beat them, and stopped beating them until they got tired. Three of them always insisted that they would continue to practice Falun Gong.

The Lin-yi City government persecuted practitioners by depriving their political and economic rights. For example, the children of practitioners were not allowed to join the army, or to be promoted etc. The son of Zhu Guo-ling applied to join the army but got refused because Ms. Zhu practices Falun Gong. Some practitioners were removed from their posts, denied salaries, and had their apartments confiscated etc. Upon getting released, each of them were demanded to pay 3,000 Yuan as a deposit. The workplace of each of them were demanded to pay another 5,000 Yuan in addition. Sometimes, the practitioners had to cover this deposit of 5,000 Yuan by themselves too. For example, the department of health asked Li Xiu-mei's fianc to pay the deposit of 5,000 Yuan.

Such tortures and punishments did not intimidate us at all. Instead, our determination about Falun Dafa has become stronger and stronger.

Zhang Xiu-xin had been on hunger strike for 11 days in order to have the right of learning and practicing Falun Gong in the jail.

Not being afraid of being jailed, practitioners have gone to Beijing to defend Falun Dafa. Zhao Fu-ming had gone to Beijing for 3 times and her sister had gone to Beijing for 4 times. The whole family of Zhen Yan-bin, several couples including Zhao Qun and Li Hong-sheng, and Qiao Xiang-ying and her son went to Beijing to appeal. Zhu Guo-cai and her sister Zhu Guo-ling took 6 days to go to Beijing by bicycle etc. We could sacrifice everything to defend Falun Dafa.

On February 1, practitioners Zhu Guo-ling, Sun Mao-lan, Du Guang-jun, and Zhang Jian-ming went to detention center to visit other fellow practitioners in the regulated time; however, they got arrested and detained in the same detention center. (News on February 5, 2000)

The Lin-yi Common University detained practitioners Zhang Xiu-xin, Ma Yan-ming, Qiao Xiang-ying, Yang Xin, Wang Yu-nan and Sun Xian-liang etc separately in different rooms of the hotel owned by the university. The authorities do not allow their family members to visit them. They were denied salaries and each of them was required to pay 28 Yuan of living expense to the university per day. Up to now, some of them have been detained for two months. The university authorities said that they would release these practitioners upon receiving order from the high authorities.

Liu Xiu-nan, a practitioner from the Goods and Materials Bureau of Lin-yi City, was detained in the guesthouse of her workplace after she got released from the detention center on last December 27. She has been there for 50 days, and there is no sign for her to get released in the near future.

Ma Xin-yuan has been under home arrest under the surveillance of his workplace, the TV station of Lin-yi City, for over 60 days. He is guarded 24 hours a day and not allowed to contact the outside.

Sun Wei-dong, a practitioner from Lin-shu County, was sent to the Lin-yi mental hospital by his local police officers to accept "treatments" because he refused to give up Falun Gong. Whenever Mr. Sun said that he was not a mentally ill patient, he would be tortured by hospital staff members using electrical clubs or other means. His wife had gone to the hospital to appeal for his release. However, he is still detained in the hospital. (News on February 9, 2000)