(Clearwisdom.net) I used to know a fellow practitioner named Li Zhen (psuedonym). She has been illegally sentenced to a forced labor camp because she didn't yield to the evil and firmly continued her practice of Falun Dafa.
One day in the twelfth lunar month of 2000, she went to Beijing by bicycle to appeal. During the day, when she was hungry, she would eat some food she had brought with her; when she was thirsty, she would ask for some water. At night, when she was tired and cold, she would take a rest against some firewood. However, she did not expect a sandstorm that night, which hindered her progress. Her righteous thoughts were very firm. "Teacher and the Fa are here. No one can block my path of validating the Fa." She then left the bicycle by the roadside and proceeded on foot. At this time, a vehicle came. She stopped the vehicle, got in and went to Beijing. When daytime arrived, she went to Tiananmen Square. She was sent to Chaoyang Detention Center after she was arrested.
In order to validate Dafa, Li Zhen, along with many other practitioners, started a hunger strike. Three days later, policemen forced them to hold their heads with both hands and squat in a posture from which they were forbidden to move. If they moved from the pain that would set in, or anything else, the prisoners that guarded them would kick them. The prisoners said, "Don't resent me. If we don't beat you, the warden will punish us." For two days she went through this torture. While in Chaoyang Detention Center, Li Zhen discerned that many fellow practitioners were stripped of their clothes by police and then were affixed to cross-shaped wooden planks. It was in the middle of winter; the doors and windows were opened. An elderly practitioner was tied to wooden planks for seventeen hours and was forbidden to close her eyes, or the police would beat her. They called it "the cross." Those policemen have truly lost their humanity.
After being force fed, Li Zhen and others were sent to different rooms and assigned numbers. The evil forces were terrified by their righteous thoughts. One guard said, uncomfortably, "Guard them intensively. I don't believe that they won't be sick if they don't practice." Li Zhen replied with smile, "While we are not practicing, the Fa is cultivating us." While they were in Chaoyang Detention Center, Li Zhen and the others followed the Fa all the time and created an environment of studying, practicing and spreading the Fa. She used to say, "My cultivation path should be stainless. If I have a chance to get out, I will expose Jiang's vicious behavior on Clearwisdom.net." However, she is still being illegally detained. I have told her story, and hope that she will escape from the evil's hands and returns to the current of Fa-rectification.
