Testimony of the mother of Miss Chen Ying: I know better than anyone else about my daughter

From Jia-mu-shi City, Hei-long-jiang Province

February 19, 2000

On August 19 of 1999, the CCTV (Chinese Central TV, government-controlled TV station) reported that Chen Ying, a student from the Shu-ren Middle School of Jia-mu-shi City, Hei-long-jiang Province, got killed after jumping out of the train on her way back from Beijing, because she was "mentally unstable" from practicing Falun Gong.

As the mother of Chen Ying, I know better than anybody else about my daughter and whether she had any illness. As a Falun Gong practitioner, my daughter was an excellent student with a noble moral character. Feeling indignant by the slanders against her spiritual belief, she exercised her constitutional right by going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. However, she was arrested just because she wanted to tell the truth from her purest heart.

On August 16, on her way of being escorted back from Beijing by the police officers from Jia-mu-shi City, my dearest daughter jumped out of the train because she could not stand the verbal abuses and threats by "people's police". A young and beautiful life thus floated away.

Although I am not a Falun Gong practitioner, I feel proud for my daughter, who was able to maintain her pure and glory belief with her young life. The lies fabricated by the Chinese official media will never cover up the truth. As her mother, I have the obligation to tell the world the fact, for my daughter and also for her belief.