September 2000

My father is a middle school teacher who graduated from the Department of Chinese Language at XX University. He is well known as a good teacher in his school and he worked diligently. All of his students and colleagues think highly of him. In the family he is my grandfather's good son, my mother's good husband and my good father. But all of these come from my father's practice of Falun Dafa. It is Teacher Li's Falun Dafa that saved my father and brought hope and happiness to my family.

Before practicing Falun Dafa, my father's health was far from good and he had various kinds of illnesses. He was tormented by the pain, to the point of even wishing he was dead. I remembered that once in 1997 my father nearly terminated his life when tormented by illness. Because he was suffering and in pain, our family went everywhere to seek good doctors and medicines, but with little result. His illness always made my father depressed and unhappy. My family bore a heavy burden both financially and mentally. It also greatly affected my father's work. All of this made our family feel as though we lived in darkness, and everything felt hopeless and helpless.

However, everything changed since my father started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998: My father's persistent ailments disappeared quickly. He could put more effort into his work because his health was completely recovered and he had become energetic. Happiness, which my family had not experienced in many years, returned. I attended school without worrying about my father's health. My whole family was glad to see his change. As he cultivated himself, he became broad-minded, behaved calmly and worked even harder with great earnestness. He required himself to be a good person at all times and all places. And he earned deep respect from his students and colleagues. I am very proud of my father.

But the good times did not last long: from July 1999 when Jiang Zemin began to crack down on Falun Dafa, darkness covered my family. Policemen, residential committee members and school supervisors paid my father frequent visits. He used every chance to tell them the facts about Falun Dafa with compassion, telling them how he and our family benefited from Dafa and how Falun Dafa teaches people to be kind and return to the pure land. But Falun Dafa underwent even greater slander, smear and damage. My father firmly went to Beijing to appeal on January 1, 2000. He wanted to use his sincere heart to tell the government that Falun Dafa is great and Teacher Li is great, and that the current persecution of Falun Dafa is absolutely wrong. Before his trip, my father told me: "My good daughter, listen to your mother and read more of Teacher Li's books, father will return soon". But I did not expect that he would not yet have returned nine months after his departure. Mom told me that since there was no communication channel through which to appeal, father went to Tiananmen Square and raised a banner. He was then arrested by Beijing police security and sent to a labor camp. I miss my father, my dear father! I do not know when my father will be allowed to come back home; his students also miss their good teacher. Please release my father!

I cannot believe that good people like my father have been arrested, tortured and sentenced to labor camp. My mom told me that there are more and more good people like my father who are tortured and sentenced to labor camps. Some kind and innocent Falun Dafa practitioners were even tortured to death. I do not want to believe that all of this is real, but it is the truth of the current situation. I dare not think even deeper, as to why those policemen are actually this cruel and vicious? Don't they have family, children and relatives? They are representing the Communist Party and government! All of their activities leave nothing but the impression of terror and evil in the heart of a child who begins to understand the society. Mom also told me that they are driven mad by some evil high-ranking officers and incited to continue doing bad deeds. I dare not imagine what kind of inhumane torment will be inflicted upon people in prison, like my father, who persist in upholding the truth. When are they going to stop doing evil deeds? How many people like my father who are kind and dare to uphold the truth have been put in jail? How many other sad children like me are there in China who have lost their fathers to prisons? A broken family is the result of upholding the truth, telling the truth and being a good person in the current society. Is there really no justice or conscience in my community?

My father is but a humble teacher. His great courage, looking down upon the evil and upholding the truth, has made me respect him from the bottom of my heart. I deeply knew that all of these virtues came from Teacher Li's extraordinary Falun Dafa. What made me happy is that, via my father, I have also begun to cultivate, and I am going to be a genuine practitioner.

It is almost a year that I have not seen my father's familiar face. Is father well in prison? Can he study Falun Dafa and practice the exercises? Even now I still do not understand why being good people should be considered wrong. Why is it also wrong for my father to try to be a good person? How many families like mine have become broken under the persecution? Who upholds justice? Please help us stop these crimes!!!

I miss my father!

A young Dafa practitioner