(Clearwisdom.net) My husband, parents and I are all Falun Dafa practitioners. Since July 1999, our entire family has been badly persecuted. We have had our homes searched, were fined, detained, put under house arrest and jailed. We suffered from family separation and serious financial difficulty. Having no money for our child's tuition and fees we had to rely upon our 60-year-old father-in-law who farmed and sold goods, accumulating the money penny by penny. I did not have money for food and had to depend upon my retired mother's pension to pay for living expenses.
At this moment, I could not help thinking of scenes that were painful to remember.
On August 2, 1999, at around 10:30 in the morning, a police officer and two accomplices ransacked my home, abducted my husband and took away all Dafa literature, saying they needed to get some information. The detained my husband for several days, and only after paying a 220Yuan fine and 40 Yuan for living expenses was my husband released.
At around 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon on July 18, 2000, because my husband and I refused to sign our names, four police officers plus two persons from my work place dragged me and my husband into a police vehicle. Both of us were held in a detention center for 32 days. When we were released, we had to pay a total of 950 Yuan to pay for so-called living expenses and a fine. They even counted in the food expense for the nine days we were on hunger strike.
On December 23, 2000, because we didn't have money to pay for our child's tuition, I planned to find a temporary job outside my hometown. Two of my coworkers heard about this and reported me to the police to stop me from going to work outside my hometown. If I did work away from my hometown, they threatened they would put me into a detention center.
In the afternoon of May 24, 2001, the chief of the Security Section from my work place wanted to abduct my husband and me to a detention center's brainwashing class and said, "If you don't go, I shall have trouble reporting to my superior." He would drag people into prison just in order to fulfill his duty. I strongly resisted and avoided the persecution. However, my husband was still taken to the detention center. I started a hunger strike until my husband was released, to prove that Dafa practitioners are not wrong and we are innocent.
On June 13, 2001, my husband was arrested for handing out Dafa flyers. He was detained in the local No. 2 Detention Center for 100 days. During that period, he went on hunger strikes several times to protest. The longest one lasted 28 days. Not only did the police not release him, they transferred him to the No. 1 Detention Center instead and detained him until July 3, 2002. On July 4, my husband was sentenced to a three-year term in prison.
Beginning in October 2001, I went to the district police department, the "610 Office," prosecutor and national security team to ask for my husband's release. Why didn't they release him? What crime had he committed? They blamed each other and gave me the run-around, taking over one month of negotiating back and forth. After several twists and turns the problem had not been resolved. On November 19, my father-in-law and I went to inquire about my husband's status at the National Security Team. The police even detained my father-in-law and me for one day just because of our inquiries.
Recollecting the time during the nearly past four years, it has been really heartbreaking.
A family of four peacefully studied Falun Dafa teachings, followed the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance and lived happily and harmoniously. Because my husband and I were targeted and attacked after the start of the persecution campaign, my father didn't dare to continue to practice Falun Dafa any more. My mother wanted to practice but didn't dare to practice either. Mother was afraid and worried for us each day. All the illnesses she had suffered from before she practiced Falun Dafa returned. In October 2001, my mother even suffered from a stroke and paralysis on one side of her body. Having not needed to take any medicine over the five years she practiced Falun Dafa, she finally picked up her "medicine pitcher" again. My mother's illnesses were brought on by the persecution since she was forced to stop practicing Falun Gong. Not only did she worry about us having no money to pay for living expenses and our child not having any money for tuition and fees, but also feared us being sent to a detention center. In four years, our home was searched four times. My husband was arrested and detained in the detention center four times and was even sentenced to three years in prison. I was put in a detention center once, was fined 1,120 Yuan. In addition, since my husband was sentenced and could not go to work, our family's source of income was cut off.
May 19, 2003
