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A Beating in Tiananmen Square and Mistreatments in a Mental Hospital: A Personal Account

September 06, 2000 |  

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On February 5, 2000, áI brought a banner with me to Tiananmen Square where I planned to help raise it and then do the exercises to express my opinion and validate that Falun Dafa is righteous. There weren't many people in the Square since a police van had just left with a full load of practitioners.á While I was still taking out the banner and before I could even raise it, several plain-cloth policemen rushed at us, kicked us down to the ground and started to tear the banner.á When I managed to stand up, aá plain-cloth police lifted me from behind and then threw me up in the air. I fell to the ground a few meters away.á Then it became really difficult for me to stand up. My left hand was very painful and I couldn't move it.á I couldnt lift my left arm either; it just hung there by my side.á Walking was now difficult and slow.á Later, theá plain-cloth policemen rounded up our group along with a few other practitioners. They stood in a circle around us and told us to squat down inside the circle. We wanted to get out, but they immediately called a police van and pushed us into it. I was knocked down again before I could even try to stand up. As I was trying again, a policeman in the van pulled both my hands up in the van and pulled me in. I was lying on the floor of the van with my arms and legs under the seats.á I couldn't stand up no matter how hard I tried; meanwhile, the police kept pushing more practitioners in.

Later, I was transferred to the Caoyang Police Station. There, we wrote letters to higher authorities áto describe the situation. In order to alert the higher authorities to the situation so they could solve the problems, Iá went on a hunger strike for ten days.á I was forced to stand for long periods of time and I was not allowed to sleep at night; I could only sit. Twice I was force-fed with saline water. I was cuffed with both hands behind my back for three days. When I was released from the police station, I was very weak and exhausted. Dr. Ma (the police doctor there) even threatened my parents that he would kill me inside the station if I were brought in again. Even though he later asked somebody to express his apology, my parents were extremely concerned.á With the fear that I might appeal again and therefore lose my job, they forced me into the Mental Illness Department of the Fifth Hospital of Hebei province to prevent me from going to Beijing to appeal.

The hospital accepted me without any examination. Hospital president D said that I had no mental problems at all when he made the rounds of the wards . Dr. G asked me several times why my áparents had sent me to the mental hospital and I said that it was because I wouldn't agree to not to appeal. He tried to persuade me too.á The doctor in charge prescribed drugs for me. I said that the law protects citizens from violation against their personal freedom and I had an absolute right and requirement to be allowed to leave the hospital.á So I refused to take any medicines or food.á Later on, I sent a written report to the hospital, but nobody answered it. My husband learned that I was in áthe hospital at the beginning of last May and was very worried and surprised. He contacted the hospital to free me but the hospital refused. My husband was not allowed to see me even though he followed the hospital procedure every time.á Sometimes he was even expelled from the door so he couldn't even say hello, and his pockets and wallet were turned inside out only because his wife was illegally detained in the mental hospital for practicing Falun Dafa.

I was often tied to the bed and force-fed food and drugs for several hours until I vomited the last drop of bile. Eventually, they changed to infusions.á For a period of time, they force-fed drugs into my mouth every day and my teeth were bent in great pain. My lips were bruised. Sometimes male nurses would squeeze the sides of my chin and mouth so hard that flesh came out from between my teeth. The bed was wet all the time, my clothes were soaked with liquid drugs, and the force-feeding almost choked me to death. Later, they applied electroshock to me and my body became stiff from head to toe. After that, my knees went numb and I couldn't move around easily. Sometimes I almost couldnt even climb into the bed.á I had about seven courses of electroshock.á It lasted as long as a half an hour, and sometimes, after I had one in the evening,á I had another one the next morning. áThe medicines evidently made my memory fail and I often felt headache. Sometimes I felt great nerve pain all over my limbs. The doctors asked me if I hated them. I said I didn't hate them because I had learned compassion for others in Falun Dafa.á I only wished that they could know the truth of Falun Dafa objectively and not miss this extremely rare opportunity because they are ultimately responsible for themselves.á

I lived with all kinds of mental patients for more than four months. That was very difficult for a normal person.á I often helped the doctors and nurses take care of their patients, and tried to straighten out and console them.á Several times, after he knew my background, the nursing director sighed and said that I shouldn't have been there.á The nurses said to me that I could get out ifá I agreed not to appeal. I would always tell them the truth of Falun Dafa.á

On July 15, I was released from the hospital.á My heart was still very heavy since there were still too many practitioners being detained, arrested, sent to labor camps andá imprisoned.á They are tortured both bodily and mentally and locked up in places where good people don't deserve to be.á I wish that the Chinese government would immediately withdraw its wrong policy toward Falun Dafa.á I wish it would cancel the arrest warrant for Teacher Li Hongzhi, rehabilitate the reputation of Falun Dafa and its Teacher, immediately release all practitioners who have been illegally arrested, detained, sent to labor camps and imprisoned, stop the persecution of Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners, allow Falun Dafa books to be published freely and openly, and return the legal status to the cultivation of Falun Dafa.

Truth exists forever.á Justice prevails forever.

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A practitioner in Beijing (name is omitted by translator)

Aug. 24, 2000