Niu Jingping, Beijing

November 1999

On October 28, my daughter and I went to the Great Hall of the People to appeal for Falun Gong. When we were approaching the Great Hall, the police stopped us. The police dragged my 17-year-old daughter by hair into the police car. The police brutally beat her because she refused to get in the police car. We were sent to a yard behind the Museum of History where about 700 hundred practitioners had already been detained. When we got in, they were reciting "Lun Yu" (the preface of Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Gong). I joined them. Suddenly, the police gave me a kick from the back. I turned around and said, "Thank you!" He said, "No. You are too loud. It is all right if your voice is lower." After they finished "Lun Yu", a 19-year-old girl said "Wu Chun" (a poem in Hong Yin, the collection of poems of Teacher Li). Therefore, everyone started to recite "Wu Chun". The police dragged this girl out by holding her neck. My daughter repeated "Wu Chun" loudly upon seeing that girl being dragged out. Therefore, she was also dragged out.

Later, we were all sent to a Stadium in Beijing by bus. On the bus, we recited the poems in Hong Yin (the collection of poems of Teacher Li). About 1,200 practitioners had been detained in the Stadium. Many policemen were watching us. When a practitioner recited the poems in Hong Yin, 3 to 4 policemen kicked and punched him. They also yelled at him, "If you recite, we will beat you. We will keep beating you until you stop reciting." However, the practitioner continued to recite. After the police got tired of beating him, they said, "We will beat you after you stop reciting." That practitioner continued to recite.

A practitioner wanted to go to restroom. A policeman gave him a kick and said, "You should stay home if you want to go to the restroom. Where are you from?" He said, "I am a graduate student of a university." The police continued to beat him up. My daughter spoke loudly, "Do not beat people!" The police then started to beat her. I said, "She is my daughter. Please beat me if you want to." Then the police started to beat me while asking, "How did you educate your daughter? Have you learned from the TV programs?" That graduate student said, "The TV programs are all lies."

An old lady in her 60s could not stand up after being beaten up. A practitioner told the police, "I have been a communist party member for 53 years, and I am a senior researcher. I am 71 years old. I had all kinds of illnesses before I practiced Falun Gong. I have not taken a pill for 5 years after I started to practice Falun Gong. My illnesses are all gone. We are all good people. What you have done is wrong."

When three policemen chatted together, we overheard them saying, "It is indeed true that fire cannot get rid of all the grass." About 2 o'clock on that afternoon, an officer came and said, "I feel really happy for you." We were allowed to use the toilets at about 5 o'clock. The old gentleman who was taking care of the restroom told us what happened on October 26. On that day, about 2,500 people were detained there. About 17 people did not want to tell the police where they came from. They only said that they were from heaven and they were Falun Dafa practitioners. They were brutally beaten by the police. At that time, it was lightning and storming. In the end, these 17 people did not disclose where they came from. The old gentleman sighed, "They are so courageous. It is Falun Dafa that makes them so courageous. I also want to learn Falun Dafa. But now it is too difficult to get a book." A practitioner thus gave him a book Zhuan Falun (the main text of Falun Gong).

At 11 o'clock that night, many practitioners had been picked up. About 50 practitioners including two children were still left in the Stadium. Most of them were from the Chaoyang District of Beijing. It became colder and colder at midnight. A police officer said, "It is so cold. They might die of cold. Let them practice Falun Gong after 12 o'clock." The practitioners thus started to do the meditation. Although it was about zero Centigrade, the practitioners did not feel cold at all. A police officer came over to ask what Falun Gong is about. The practitioners explained the principles of Falun Gong to him. The policeman kept nodding his head.

At one o'clock on the night of October 30, some practitioners and I were sent to the detention center. We were stripped of our clothes in the cold weather for one hour. The police ordered the criminals to beat us. I then introduced Falun Dafa to them. The criminals were all moved. They all wanted to sleep in the same cell with me. A criminal said, "If I had learned Falun Dafa earlier, I would not be here today." Later they started to learn the movements. In the past, the criminals would smoke when they sat together, now they learned to do the meditation. A criminal said, "I am not sure whether I can become good again since I am so bad now." I said, "Yes, you can. I was even worse than you before I started to learn Falun Dafa. In Beijing all gamblers knew me. I have become a good person by learning Falun Dafa, so will you."

A female practitioner who was sent into the detention center along with me also spread Falun Dafa to those criminals. A criminal (a prostitute) said, "I will tell the police that it is not they but Falun Dafa that has changed me."

The police asked me to write a pledge. I refused. I told him that I was ready to give up everything except Falun Dafa. The police said I would be detained as a criminal. I said, "I will practice Falun Dafa whatever you do to me, even if I am sentenced." I was released in two days.

On November 3, I went to work. The supervisors of my workplace started to work on me, "Do not be so foolish! You should understand the current situation..." I thus introduced them to Falun Dafa. They said, "Do you want to become a Buddha? You can wait for two years or just half a year to become a Buddha. Just avoid the immediate trouble! If you continue to practice, you will lose your job. How can you support yourself then?..." I said, "You can fire me. But I have to tell the truth. My teacher, Mr. Li Hongzhi has given me so much that I cannot betray him."

At 7:00am the next day when I was washing clothes, several people came to my home, claiming that they wanted to perform a medical examination on me. They thus brought me to the Huilongguan Hospital (a hospital for mental diseases). I was thrown into the special care ward for treatment. I was forced to take medicines three times a day. Also about 100 medical workers conducted a joint-examination for me. After half a day's examination, they concluded that I was "normal". During that period, I sincerely introduced Falun Dafa to them, telling them how Falun Dafa has brought me better health.

I was detained in the mental hospital for 7 days. When the supervisor of my workplace came to pick me up, I asked the hospital to give me a certificate of diagnosis. The hospital refused and told me, "We will detain you again if you go to appeal."

Since I started to practice Falun Dafa, I have always required myself to become a good person. I have become a much healthier person, and I have saved a lot of money for the country in medical expenses. I am healthy both mentally and physically. I have been arrested, beaten and detained. Moreover, I was forced to take medicine for 7 days in a mental hospital. The "medical expenses" were paid by my workplace, although they could have been saved.

I know that 4 more practitioners are still being detained in this mental hospital.