(Clearwisdom.net) I am Ms. Jia Yanzhi, 38, and reside in Xituan Village, East Chengfang Town, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. On November 24, 2005, Ms. Liu Yanxia from my village and I went to Ms. Liu Jizhi's home at 8 p.m. Ms. Liu Yanxia and I raised more than 100 sheep and Ms. Liu Jizhi wanted to buy some. Therefore, we went to her home to ask her to come and select the sheep the next morning. Shortly after we sat down, we heard someone battering at the door. We were frightened, because only we three ladies were at her home. Ms. Liu Yanxia and I turned off the lights and stayed inside the room. Ms. Liu Jizhi went to open the door. Before she got to the door, a person climbed over the wall and jumped into her courtyard (he identified himself as He Xuejian at the Police Station later). Then six or seven people, more vicious than bandits, burst into her house. They ransacked the entire house and found a few books and three tape recorders. They asked Ms. Liu Yanxia and me what we were doing there. We told them that we were just visiting. They didn't believe us. Instead, they arrested all of us. At the main door, a person asked Ms. Liu Yanxia to stay there. Others asked him why. He said, "No reason. I said she stays here." Therefore Ms. Liu Yanxia stayed there.
Ms. Liu Jizhi and I were taken to the Group Office of our village. Mr. Wang Helin, Mr. Wei Baoliang and Ms. Han Yuzhi from our village were there too. Mr. Chai Yuqiao was watching them. After a short while, Ms. Qu Wenting was also taken to the office in a car. They asked her to remain outside the car and told Ms. Liu Jizhi, Ms. Han Yuzhi and I to get into the car. We four ladies, plus He Xuejian and a driver rode in a red car, Mr. Wei Baoliang and Mr. Wang Helin rode in a white minivan to the East Chengfang Township police station.
At the police station, they took the six of us to the on-duty office and began to interrogate us. Ms. Liu Jizhi and Ms. Qu Wenting were interrogated first and then taken out of the room. Ms. Han Yuzhi and Mr. Wei Baoliang were interrogated next. After they were taken out of the room, Ms. Liu Jizhi and Ms. Qu Wenting were taken back to the room, after being severely beaten. A tall thin policeman Li, in his twenties, wearing a pair of glasses, came in. He took me to his dormitory room and asked me to squat facing the wall, with both hands extended horizontally. Then he went out. I did that for more than ten minutes and felt very uncomfortable because of fear and exhaustion. So I started to shake and could not remain in this position. He came back and saw that. He kicked me and slapped my face with the notepad. He asked me to stand straight. Then he read a few regulations and warned me to "confess."
Policeman Li asked me whether I practiced Falun Gong. I said no and that I only had heard of it. He asked me who told me that. I told him that one day I had a back pain so I went out to buy medicine. I met Ms. Qu Wenting and told her that I had back pain. She said that she was paralyzed for several years before and tried numerous doctors and remedies, but was not cured. Since she practiced Falun Dafa, without even spending a penny, she was cured. She could even go back to work. She asked me to practice Falun Gong, too. Policeman Li asked me how long we had been in touch with each other. I answered him four or five days. He took me to another policeman who was interrogating Ms. Han Yuzhi. Policeman Li gave him my records. He read it after Ms. Han Yuzhi left the room, and then asked me, "How long have you been practicing Falun Gong?" I said, "No, I don't practice it. I just heard other people mention it." He asked me who told me about it. I told him Ms. Qu Wenting. He asked me if I knew anyone else. I said that I did not know any other people. Policeman Li then took me back to the on-duty office around 2 a.m..
At that time, other people from our village except Mr. Wang Helin and Mr. Wei Baoliang were in the room. After a while, policeman He Xuejian took Ms. Liu Jizhi away. When Mr. Wei Baoliang came back, Policeman Li took me to his dormitory room again. He left and later he returned with Chai Yuqiao. He was playing with his computer and Chai Yuqiao started to scold me. Chai Yuqiao said, "Why on earth did you learn this [Falun Gong]? Didn't you know that our government forbids people to learn it? If your husband (Mr. Yan Fengzhong) knew this, he would be so angry that he would beat you cruelly. How could you live for the rest of your life? You don't need to see a doctor when you are sick, how can Falun Gong be so miraculous? Stop studying it. Stop practicing it. " I asked Chai Yuqiao, "Can I go home now?" He answered, "Not yet." I asked, "Then where should I go?" Chai Yuqiao said, "Go back to the room where you were." I went back to the on-duty office. The other five people were also there. Later Policeman Li took Mr. Wang Helin out.
Mr. Wang Helin returned to the room twenty minutes later. At 2:30 a.m., police locked the on-duty office from outside and used a big stick to block the door from being opened. They kept the room's lights on and left one policeman to watch us. The rest of them went to sleep. There was only a single bed, a desk and two chairs in the room. We four ladies sat next to each other on the bed. Ms. Liu Jizhi was beaten most severely, so she lay on the bed for a while. Mr. Wang Helin and Mr. Wei Baoliang sat on the chair for the whole night.
When other policemen came back the next morning, He Xuejian asked me and Ms. Han Yuzhi to clean the ashes from the furnace and then take the trash out. He asked us to clean the courtyard, wipe the floors of each room and wash their cars. Afterwards, we were asked to go back to the on-duty office. The policemen ate their breakfast and went out in their cars. Policeman Li stayed behind to watch us. We heard from our villagers that they went to our village to talk to other people who practiced Falun Gong before. They also had lunch at the restaurant at the entrance of the village. My husband, Yan Fengzhong, came to see me and then brought breakfasts for the six of us.
Around 2:30 pm, the policemen returned. He Xuejian came to the on-duty office. He told Ms. Liu Jizhi, "You come with me!" We thought he was going to interrogate her. After half hour, she came back and sat down on the bed crying. Then He Xuejian took Ms. Han Yuzhi with him. Ms. Qu Wenting asked Ms. Liu Jizhi, "What happened to you? What did they ask you?" While crying, Ms. Liu Jizhi said that He Xuejian asked her whether Ms. Jia Yanzhi and Ms. Liu Yanxia practiced Falun Gong. She told him no. Then He Xuejian pushed her on the bed, tore her clothes and shocked her nipples with an electronic baton. He Xuejian kept asking her three times and she always said they did not practice. There was another policeman in the room lying on the bed, but he used a newspaper to cover his head, pretending to be asleep. She said that He Xuejian raped her in front of that policeman. He Xuejian put his fingers inside her vagina and kept moving them. Then he used a towel to wipe his fingers. She begged He Xuejian not to do it, telling him that she was even older than his mother. She said, "I said so many things, but he did not listen. He is a bastard." Then she said, "I don't want to live any more. I can't face people." She was about to knock her head against a table. Ms. Qu Wenting held her tightly in her arms. We were all shocked and cried. We asked her to take it easy. Ms. Liu Jizhi and Ms. Qu Wenting asked Mr. Wang Helin and Mr. Wei Baoliang to check about Ms. Han Yuzhi, to see that she was not in danger.
Ms. Qu Wenting held Ms. Liu Yuzhi until she calmed down. I went to the bathroom and policeman Li stood outside watching. There I met Ms. Han Yuzhi. I asked her what He Xuejian asked her. She said, "He did not ask me anything. He started to tear off my clothes and tried to put his fingers into my vagina. I kept telling him not to do it, but he did not stop." At that time, somebody shouted to have us work in the courtyard, so she went to the courtyard. He Xuejian then told Ms. Liu Jizhi to clean the courtyard and wipe the windows; the police station Political Instructor Xing ordered Ms. Han Yuzhi to wash his clothes; they also told Mr. Wang Helin to clean the floor and Mr. Wei Baoliang to wash their cars. After the courtyard was cleaned, we were told to clean the rooms of the entire building.
After four o'clock in the afternoon, when we were cleaning the police station, Chai Yuqiao came back. He told us that we would be OK. He talked to the party secretary of our Group, Yang Shun, and he agreed to let us go. Our families would pick us up soon. Chai Yuqiao asked Ms. Qu Wenting why he did not find anyone at her home. She said that her husband worked in Beijing. Chai Yuqiao took me to a separate room. The Political Instructor Xing was there. Xing asked me why I went to Ms. Liu Jizhi's home. I told him that we were selling her our sheep. He did not believe me. He asked me why Ms. Liu Yanxia was there. I told him that Ms. Liu Yanxia was her husband's aunt. He asked me whether Ms. Liu Yanxia practiced Falun Gong. I said that I did not know. He then asked me the name of Ms. Liu Jizhi's husband. I said I did not know (I really did not know). He was irritated, "If you kept saying 'I don't know' I will send you to the Mancheng City Forced Labor Camp!" Chai Yuqiao helped me by saying, "OK, OK, go home. Don't practice any more. Go home!"
I left the police station and bumped into a friend on the street. He took me home on his motorcycle. When I arrived at my home, I was told that the police were coming to my house. I was so frightened that I went into hiding and did not return home that evening. The police ransacked my house but did not find anything. I did not dare to return home until 11:30 a.m. the next day.
Later, several groups of people came to my house to interrogate me four times. I told them honestly what I knew.
1. At 9 p.m. on November 27, 2005, two policemen from the Third Team of the Zhuozhou City Criminal Investigation Group came to my home. They were about mid-size. One was fat and in his forties or fifties. The other was in his thirties. They interrogated me for half hour.
2. At 6 or 7 p.m. on November 29, 2005, two people from Zhuozhou City came. One fat person was Director Ma and the other was a thin tall person in his twenties. They also interrogated me for half hour.
3. At 9 a.m., four or five days after the second interrogation, Director Ma came to my home again. He said that something was not clear and interrogated and recorded my replies again.
4. A week (less than ten days) later, Director Ma brought two members of a "special investigations group" from Hebei Province Baoding City to my home. They both were short guys. One thin guy had an oval face and was in his thirties, carrying a black brief case. One fat guy had a round face. They asked me the details for about three hours. They left after noon, but returned within ten minutes with a camcorder. They told my husband, "We can video tape her statements so that we do not need to bother you any more." My husband said, "OK, if that's what you want." I did not agree. I said that they had written down what I had said so there was no need for video taping. They kept pestering me and I eventually gave in. I spoke about the event to the camcorder for more than half an hour. The thin guy did the recording. When they left, they told me that they would not bother me again and that I did not need to go to court because they could use the tape. Nobody came to my house since. After the first court trial, Mr. Liu Jianzeng came to my home and told me, "Your testimony (video tape) was presented to the court."
I am a timid person by nature. After this incident that came out of nowhere, I had a severe abnormal health condition. I was afraid of meeting new people and my heart would jump really fast when I heard the noise of a car. I was very annoyed to see a telephone or cell phone. My mind would become blank periodically and I would keep worrying about things. I am not able to let go of my present mental state.
