[Clearwisdom.net] My name is Li Dan (pseudonym). I am a female Falun Gong practitioner from Linhe City, Neimengu Province [Inner Mongolia]. Below is an account my experience while being detained and persecuted after I went to Tiananmen Square to validate Dafa [great law and universal principle] in February 2000.

  1. The Linhe City policemen took me back to Linhe City after I validated Dafa on February 19, 2000 in Beijing. They interrogated me one by one for an entire night, then three of them took turns beating me. One policeman, named Yang, slapped my face over a dozen times.
  2. They shackled me and forcibly sent me to the Hohhot City Female Labor Camp without any legal procedures. They held me there from February 19 untill July 30, 2000. Around July 10, while doing heavy labor work, I felt a severe pain in my stomach. An exam showed that I had been pregnant for a few months. I had suffered tremendously during that time. Nine of us had to unload 30 tons of coal per day. I loaded and unloaded bull dung and tilled the soil. When there was no farming work, I had to wrap more than 10,000 pairs of chopsticks each day.
  3. In the labor camp I kept on doing the Falun Gong exercises. Every morning I was handcuffed to the stair rail and was forced to squat for a long time. Because I practiced the Falun Gong exercises, Captain Liu of the No. 3 Team in the labor camp shocked me with an electric baton. Later, Deputy Captain Hong ordered them to hang me by my handcuffs without letting my feet touch the ground. After two hours of hanging, my arms became black, cold, and numb. They hung me there for an entire day.
  4. Knowing I was pregnant, they still did not allow me to leave. They held me for 10 more days before sending me home with my hands cuffed.
  5. The Linhe City Police Station had ordered me to abort my eight-month pregnancy. Fortunately, the forced abortion did not succeed. Soon after I gave birth, the police came and asked for my repentance letter. If I did not obey, they would fine me 30,000 Yuan [about US$3,600, $60 is the average monthly wage in China]. I did not have the money so they threatened to take my house. When my child was 3 months old, they sent five or six policemen to my house to harass me everyday.

I have lost the right to live freely and I was under surveillance 24 hours a day. I had to leave my house and have become homeless.

I sincerely ask the Inner Mongolia police: Please treat Dafa and Dafa practitioners kindly.

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Category: Accounts of Persecution