(Clearwisdom.net) For my determination to cultivate in Falun Dafa, I was illegally arrested and detained for three years. I have never entertained a thought to accept "reform."
I had gone to Beijing in 2001 to appeal and was then illegally held in the Xuanwu District Detention Center in Beijing. One policeman punched me in the chest over ten times. A few days later I was sent to Jiangxi Province for illegal detention. The so-called Tiananmen Square "Self-Immolation" incident had just happened. My determined faith in Dafa was not shaken, nor had I been fooled by the staged incident. Later I was transferred to Hunan Province for detention. In that year I was successively detained in seven locations in three provinces.
In the first half of 2003, police officers arrested me when I distributed truth-clarification materials. I was incarcerated in the Changsha City's Railroad Detention Center, where I staged a hunger strike for 47 days to resist the cruel persecution. I shouted frequently, "Falun Dafa is great!" The police knocked me down many times, beat me with leather whips, and fiercely threatened to "destroy" me. Although they knocked me down, they did not defeat me.
In the second half of 2003, I was sentenced to three years of forced labor in the Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp in Changsha City. The guards had mobilized more than one hundred inmates to monitor me in shifts to force me to "reform," but they all failed.
Because I was determined to deny the evil and not write the so-called three statements, the guards repeatedly threatened to beat me to death. Some guards even threatened me by saying that unless I accept the brainwashing, I would have only two ways to get out of the labor camp: becoming mentally deranged or physically disabled. They also boasted that they just wanted to "gamble with the gods."
In the forced labor camp I had heard people shouting, "Falun Dafa is great" numerous times. Sometimes, people would whisper into my ears, "Falun Dafa is great." Once during a mealtime one person passed me saying, "Falun Dafa is great. You should be firm to the end!" This person was not even a Dafa practitioner! I was deeply moved.
Another time, to force me to accept the brainwashing, the guards did not let me sleep for two days straight. They forced me to stand the whole time, making my feet swell badly.
At the end of September of 2005, I suddenly lost any sense of feeling in my feet. Someone needed to hold me steady while I walked. The guards said that if this condition would not get better I would be released for medical treatment. I then thought that I did not have illnesses at all, so I did not need treatment. I just wanted to stand up by relying on my righteous thoughts, so as to let the guards understand the goodness of Dafa and thus awaken to the truth.
While trying to walk on my own every day, I silently recited Master’s poem, "Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions" (Hong Yin II):
"A Great Enlightened One fears no hardship
Having forged an adamantine will
Free of attachment to living or dying
He walks the path of Fa-rectification
confident and poised ."
Then one day a miracle happened. I felt a little pain in my legs. Thereafter, my sense of feeling was restored. My feet became normal again.
I was an eyewitness to crimes the guards had committed in that camp against Dafa practitioners. When Chenzhou City Dafa practitioner Yu Shaoqi went to use the toilet, even his hands were tied up with rope and cloth strips. Hengyang City Dafa practitioner Nie Feiyue was tied on a bed, with hands and feet tied up. To force Xiao Siqian, a Dafa practitioner from Jiahe County of Chenzhou City, to accept the brainwashing, the guards and the inmates threatened to persecute his wife. Later I heard that his wife was tortured to death in the Beimalong Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province.
I noticed one thing during my incarceration in that labor camp - in that special environment, some Dafa practitioners had not memorized Master’s Fa. Some practitioners could not recite even one poem in Hong Yin, and the evildoers had capitalized on this loophole. Some practitioners had the notion of being unable to study the Fa and practice the exercises in the camp. But actually that was not the case. During my three years of detention, I witnessed a practitioner who was still completing the five sets of exercises while he was monitored around the clock. Those inmates who watched him seemed to have seen nothing. It was also in the labor camp that I had memorized Hong Yin and some of Master’s new articles.
