June 2000

I am a Falun Dafa practitioner, a 62-year-old lady. Because of my appeal to the higher government administration, I was jailed for 15 days by the police, who claimed that I had interfered with public order. I was arrested and brought to Niubaotun police station at 11:00pm on February 4. The policemen (Liu, Wang, and Ma) slapped, punched, and kicked me until my entire body was bruised. They also grabbed my hair and smashed my head against the wall, all the while shouting filthy curses at me. What they did was beyond description. After this, they handcuffed me to a post with my hands behind my back, one coming down from over my head, the other coming up from my lower back. This type of torture caused extreme pain. I was handcuffed this way for one whole night and I was not even allowed to use a toilet. This torture lasted until 7:00 am, a full eight hours later. I was then sent to the detention center with my hands cuffed behind me; other policemen in the detention center witnessed this torture. When I was being transferred to the detention center, they tried to stuff me between the driver's and the passenger's seats; but I would not fit. They kicked me and forced me into this tiny space. I felt extreme pain in my legs halfway to our destination. After arriving, I saw two big blisters appeared on my legs, and those areas are still purple as I write.

After I reached the detention center, I was informed of the "rules", as well as the punishment of being beaten with the heel of a shoe. One time, a policeman came to teach me the rules. He let four prisoners beat me in turns, two rounds for each prisoner. I was beaten about 80 times. My buttocks were purple until I left the detention center.

Another time, the policemen arrested me and seven other practitioners. The three policemen (Liu, Wang, and Ma; one of them was the associate head of the police station) kept kicking and cursing us. The policemen also grabbed our hair and slammed our heads against the wall. After that, we were told to stand bent over with our heads facing the ground. We were not allowed to raise our heads higher than the windowsill. The policemen kept pushing our heads down. We dropped our heads this way for more than two hours. Between six and seven pm, seven of us were stacked one on top of the other and not allowed to sit down. We all felt severe nausea. Afterward, I was brought to the detention center, where a policeman slapped me more than twenty times with his hat. In the detention center, I was beaten with the sole of a shoe and I was also taught the "rules and regulations". After fifteen days in the detention center, I was brought back to the Niubaotun police station. A clandestine court was set up and I was held there for four days during which I was denied food, even food brought by my family. Someone offered me food, but the policemen did not allow me to eat it. I had not been allowed to sleep for those four days, either. During the fourth night, they handcuffed me a full eight hours. The policemen told me that they were afraid that I might kill them. I am a defenseless old lady. Wasn't it a violation of the law for them to treat me like this?

Policeman Ma said: "I beat you and you could go to appeal but nobody will accept your case." How arrogant he was!

On June 2, the policemen came to my home and arrested me for no reason. They asked me where I had been out of my home. I asked them if it was a violation of law to leave one's home temporarily. The policemen said that I was lying, and they would hang me up. Then they handcuffed one of my hands to the windowsill and I was tortured this way for more than three hours. My wrist was swollen. I was forced to stand on tiptoe; otherwise I would be hanging by my wrist. My wrist is still swollen now. I was not allowed to eat from 10:00am the first day to 10:00am the next day. I was forced to work by pulling weeds. I was illegally detained for two full days. They did not follow any laws. Although they are supposed to be respected officers of the People's Republic of China and work for national law enforcement, and have the national emblem on their hats, they are doing evil deeds that tarnish the image of our nation.

I want to sue Niubaotun local police station for the following:

1. The cruel tortures and beatings I suffered;

2. The illegal detention;

3. The illegal set-up of a clandestine "court";

4. The illegal administrative custody.

I want to sue the detention center [Tongzhou District] for the following:

1. The enforcement of illegal regulations in jail.

2. The policemen ordering the prisoners to beat others and myself.

I appeal to the procurators [of the investigation bureau] to investigate the crimes committed by the assailants in Niubaotun local police station and Tongzhou District Detention Center, and bring them to justice. Please give me an explanation and uphold justice. Thank you.