A Practitioner in Xinjiang Province

October 18, 2000

One day in June of 2000, I went out to practice the exercises along with fellow practitioners in a garden of Wulumuqi City of Xinjiang Province. The policemen of Gangbei Police Station took us to Toutunhe District Detention Center. From 8:00am to 5:00pm at the Detention Center, I was handcuffed with my hands behind my back, and shackled together with two other practitioners, Cheng Qigang and Gao Xuelian. We were not given time or the chance to lodge an appeal. One guard said, "They do not accept the appeal of Falun Gong at all."

During detention, we had two meals per day. We ate corn gruel and steamed buns at 10 o'clock in the morning, and buns with vegetable soup in the afternoon. The daily cost for this was no more than 3 Yuan (less than half a dollar). However, we were asked to pay 30 Yuan for food per day. We slept on a big plank bed. The bedding was so worn-out from use by many prisoners, yet the police sold it for 90 Yuan RMB each time. It is unclear how much money they have earned by repeatedly selling this bedding. . I have practiced Falun Gong for over three years; we voluntarily learn and teach the exercises. We do not pursue fame or interest, and only accumulate virtue. However, the TV falsely accused Falun Gong of "accumulation of wealth through dishonest means". In fact, what the detention center did should really be called "accumulation of wealth through dishonest means".

I should have been given my personal freedom after I was released, yet my work unit got a strict order from the higher authorities, which stipulated that anyone like me cannot be allowed to leave the workplace, and needed to be placed under heavy surveillance 24 hours a day. From July 11, 2000 onward, sentries were outside my home. There were three people on each shift and they changed shifts every four hours. Whenever they changed shifts, they made sure to knock at my door to harass me for whatever reason.

In addition, as far as I know, there are 60 other practitioners of Xinjiang Province who are still being detained. One was a practitioner from the Eighth Steel Factory, Li Yuliang, who was sentenced to two years and six months of forced-labor education. She is currently detained in Wulabo Detention Center of Wulumuqi City, Xinjiang Province. During detention, her mother visited her many times and saw that her forehead had been bruised and swollen from severe beatings. It was said that the guards asked criminal inmates to beat her. Otherwise, the criminals' sentences wouldn't be reduced. Once she was handcuffed on a table in such a way that she could not completely stand up and could not completely squat down either. She also had nothing to eat for six days and six nights.

Li Yuliang has always conducted herself according to "Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance." She once donated 2,000 Yuan to an area that suffered a natural disaster, though she is just an average worker with a low income. At present she is detained in the labor camp and thus cannot stand on Tiananmen Square to express her wishes, but I still remember what she once said: "I will keep going to appeal until the reputation of Falun Dafa is restored." On her behalf, let's express her wishes on the Minghui Net (the Falun Dafa website in north America) to make her wish known to the people all over the world.