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Human Rights Violation of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Anshan, Liaoning Province

April 03, 2001 |   Cheng Guifeng, a Citizen of Anshan City in China

My name is Cheng Guifeng. I live on Jiupu Street, Qianshan District, in the City of Anshan City in Liaoning Province. I am 46 years old and attained the Fa in 1996. Through cultivation, the pain that had tormented me for many years has disappeared. I had severe headaches since childhood. Sometimes they got so painful that I almost passed out. In order to cure this disease, I had sought help from many doctors and had taken many different kinds of folk remedies; poured countless herb drinks (folk medicines from herbs) down my throat. I had also tried acupuncture; however all these had no effect on me. There was no noticeable effect even when I went to some famous hospitals. Finally, I was diagnosed as having neuropathy headaches. The doctor told me that a neuropathy headache was an incurable disease in the world presently. Additionally, when my child was born I got rheumatoid arthritis, which made all my joints extremely painful. My hands could not touch cold water. My legs below my knees were always cold. In the early spring and early fall my joints were too painful to bear. When the pains became so acute, sometimes I just wanted to kill myself. At this critical time when I would rather die than live, I began to cultivate Falun Dafa. Through cultivation, all of these difficult and complicated illnesses disappeared. This supernormal phenomenon that occurred within my body cannot be explained in the modern scientific medical research. This experience established a solid foundation for my cultivation of Falun Dafa. It is only because I practiced Falun Dafa that my body got purified and I regained my health, and that my mind improved and sublimated. All these helped me make up my mind to firmly cultivate Falun Dafa.

However, on July 22nd, 1999, something unexpected happened. Jiang Zemin and his followers began the vicious slandering and brutal crackdown of Falun Gong that has helped millions of people improve their moral standard and return to their true origin.

My husband and I embarked on the road to Beijing on October 22nd, 1999 to relate to the government the real story of people benefiting through practicing Falun Dafa. When we came to the Xinhua Gate of Zhongnanhai, one young uniformed officer in his thirties came out and interrogated us. We told him that the crackdown on Falun Gong is against the public's will. The contents of media reports were not true, lacked investigation and were incongruous with reality. We also told him in detail our experiences of the benefits from practicing Falun Gong and mind nature improvement. Upon hearing what we said, he realized that what we said was true and believable. He showed sympathy for us and said, "I can see that you two are not young. What you said is true, yet we cannot solve the situation because it is the decision from the high level. We don't have any way to change it. You have to leave now, or you will be arrested. If you were arrested, who would take care of your child?" we said, "Thank you for your kindness. But we come here to relate the real situation."

Soon after, a police car came and we were taken to the Fuyou Street Police Station of Tiananmen. There were already more than 20 arrested Falun Dafa practitioners there from all over the country. In the evening we were escorted to the Xicheng Detention Center of Beijing. When I entered the detention center, I felt that I had entered hell in the human world. Firstly, they humiliated the dignity of Falun Dafa practitioners. They forced all female practitioners to take off all of their clothes and to have a careful and complete body search. They also cursed us with all kinds of profanities. One wicked policeman cursed us while we were forced to pose for photos. After the photos, he didn't allow us to put on our shoes, and forced us to walk back to the cells in bare feet. We stayed there under such a situation for 6 days. Then the police from the police department of Anshan City, Liaonin Province took seven of us to their Beijing temporary office where they kept Anshan practitioners arrested in Beijing.

As soon as we got there, they first did a through body search and confiscated all of the money we had, 1,500 Yuan (Chinese currency) just from my husband and me alone. Two days later, seven of us from Jiupu Street were escorted to Jiupu Street Police Precinct. There we were interrogated. Since we all refused to give up Falun Dafa, all of us were sentenced to a 15-day public security detention term and were locked up in the Third Anshan Detention Center (originally used for drug rehab). Every day, we only had vegetable soup that was mostly water, and fermented corn bread. We were forced to sit on a wooden board holding one posture during the daytime and were not allowed to walk; we had to relieve our bowels in the cell. On November 15 after we were released from the 15-day detention, I was not permitted to go home. Three other practitioners and I were forced to take a 3-day class that cost us 300 Yuan. Only after we signed the guarantee letters written by other people could we go home.

On June 30, 2000, because I distributed Dafa materials in my home and was found by the government, I was sent to the Third Anshan City Detention Center again. Even though I was supposed to be detained for 15 days according to the law, the government could prolong the detention term at will, even double or triple the detention times just because we are Falun Dafa practitioners. They did not offer me any reason why they detained me for an additional 15 days. They never gave me any explanation and they did not follow the legal process to handle the case. They just did whatever they wanted. The government not only tried to suppress and torture Falun Dafa practitioners' souls and bodies, but also levied severe financial punishment. My detention fee was always doubled.

While I was detained in the third detention center, I was forced to sit on a wood board every day, not allowed to move. During these 30 days, I was locked up in the cell without any chance to go out for fresh air. I completely lost my personal freedom. The food ration was not enough already but the ration for our Falun Dafa practitioners was even more meager. Those criminals in the detention center always bought the additional food made by the detention house (the price for the food is several times higher than it is outside). If you buy more of their food, the detention center will earn more profit; if you do not buy their food, they cannot take your money. They will thus hate you. Because Falun Dafa practitioners all lead simple lives nobody bought their additional food. So they hated practitioners. We were supposed to get one small bowl of vegetable soup, but actually we only got the soup without any vegetable left. I had to live in such a situation for 30 days.

I was released home this time after I wrote the guarantee letter. But in my heart, I never changed my firm belief in Falun Dafa. After studying Fa more, I realized that what I did was wrong.

Now the suppression and crackdown of Falun Going by Jiang Zemin and his followers has gradually escalated. You can be arrested just because you do the exercises or read the books in your own house. Under such severe circumstances, I had to leave my house and my career behind and live on the street. I would like to take this opportunity to share my personal encounters with the United Nation Human Rights Organizations and sincerely plead with them and other countries and organizations and anyone who support human rights to come to China to investigate. I am willing to testify. I hope through your efforts, we can urge the Chinese government to stop the illegal attacks and brutal crackdown on Master Li and Falun Gong practitioners.

01/20/2001