My name is Yang Guihua. I live in Yingli Town of Shouguang City, Shandong Province. I had severe headaches several years ago because of the frustrations and misfortunes in my life. Although I took medicines every day, they didn't have any effect. The headache affected my work and my life and I felt very painful and tired. In February 1998, I fortunately got to know Falun Dafa. I have benefited a lot from studying Dafa and practicing the exercises. I became cheerful and optimistic. My disease disappeared without any medical treatment.
In October 2000, my sisters and I went to Beijing to legally appeal for Falun Dafa. We were arrested in Tiananmen Square and put into a police van. The policemen beat and cursed us in the van. We were detained in the Tiananmen branch police station. We all refused to cooperate with the police by not telling our names. The next day, policemen from our hometown recognized us and sent us back under escort to our hometown.
On the way back, Liu Jiaxiang, the director of the Yingli Town police station, beat and kicked my second eldest sister. He pulled her hair and banged her head against the car window causing some of her hair to be pulled out. He rudely yelled at her 4-year-old son to stop crying and even threw away the boy's food. He yelled, "You caused me suffering by my need to escort you. I will make you suffer ten times more after going back. I'll peel your skin off." The driver, Cheng Xianlin, also brutally beat me in order to please his boss.
We got back at about 9:00pm. Zhang Xintian, the secretary of the town administration and law committee, and Wang Haizhong, the vice director of the police station, took turns brutally beating us. They viciously kicked our arms, waist, legs, and back. They intensely slapped our face and beat our heads. Our bodies were covered with black bruises and we had injuries everywhere. I lost my hearing for about a month. Later they searched my house; broke my desk and took away my audiotape player. The next day we were illegally detained. On the way to the detention center, Liu Jiaxiang cursed the Teacher. My third eldest sister tried to reason with him not to insult people. However, instead, he brutally beat her. Her face was covered with bruises, the handcuffs deeply cut into her flesh, and a bunch of her hair was pulled off.
After we were sent to the detention center, they arrested other people in town who had practiced Falun Dafa before. They forced them to write "guarantee" [not to practice] statements and to curse the Teacher. These people would not be released until they had paid a fine of 2,000 Yuan [about US$250, average monthly wage in rural China is about $25]. Some of them had stopped practicing Falun Dafa a long time ago and some stopped before they learned all the exercises. The policemen just wanted to use their power to extort more money out of the people.
After we served the term of the detention, they still didn't want to release us. We were told that if we didn't obey them, we would be detained forever. Seeing no hope to be released, my third eldest sister and I got a chance to escape from the detention center. Unfortunately, we were soon arrested again. I was tied to an iron pole in the yard. Several people around me handcuffed and started to kick me until they were tired. My third eldest sister was locked in a room. Several people surrounded and beat her. They used electric rods to shock her and her whole body was covered with bruises. Again and again, Liu Shuxiang held her face and said, "Are you still unperturbed?" and then ferociously slapped her face for a while. They handcuffed us on the iron chair to freeze us. Wang Haizhong cursed the Teacher under the influence of alcohol. I tried to stop him and he slapped me more than ten times. We were handcuffed to the table legs at night and couldn't sleep at all. On the third day, my family was first informed to deliver food to us. To protest the tortures, we started a hunger strike. While I was detained, the shop I owned got robbed. My family called the police number "110" to report the robbery, but they didn't take any action.
The period of "Two Conferences" (the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) was regarded by the police as "sensitive periods." The town government required everyone to sign a statement not to appeal otherwise they would be detained. My second eldest sister stayed in a relative's home because her child was so scared. They thought that she went to Beijing again. They were looking for her everywhere and even sent people to Beijing to look for her. My youngest sister was going to get married. They wanted to use her as a hostage until they found my second eldest sister. She was eventually not detained since they finally found my sister at a relative's home. However, my nearly 70-year-old father was arrested and was framed for spreading Dafa (great law and universal principle) materials. They even tortured him. He was detained for half a month. My second eldest sister was arrested as well as her twin children. She suffered a lot of torture inside police custody. Wang Xiuming, the Deputy Town Mayor, Liu Shuxiang, a vicious policeman and Wu Anhua, the leader of the armed force unit, brutally tortured her. She was severely beaten, with bruises all over her body. Her eyes were so swollen that she could not open them for several days. Li, the newly assigned head of the police station said, "If she goes to Beijing, we would just bury her alive on the way to kill the witness." The younger of the twin boys was so scared of the police that his whole body trembled when he saw a policeman. He has seen so many cruel and ferocious beatings.
The local police station cheated my third eldest sister and promised her family that they would not make trouble for her if she signed the statement. However, she was still arrested. A neighbor came for a visit; they even beat the neighbor. My sister had been detained for half a month. My brother-in-law asked them to release her and accused them of not having kept their word. He was beaten badly by more than ten people from the town government office and local police station.
To avoid further persecution, I had to leave home. My two sisters have been fined and have large debts. They have difficulty supporting their children in going to school and affording fertilizers and other farm chemicals. However those who extort money and property from people stop at nothing in doing evil, eating, drinking, gambling and calling prostitutes. Those policemen openly gamble and have prostitutes in the police station.
I have just stated some facts that my family and I have experienced in the persecution of Falun Dafa. There are so many Dafa practitioners who have suffered persecution in different degrees of severity. Those criminals owe so many debts. The Heavenly Law will manifest in this world. Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil. What is waiting for them is the punishment they deserve.
Criminal List:
Wang Xiuming, Assistant Mayor of Yingli Town
Yang Bingsheng, Party Committee Secretary of Yingli Town (Now he was demoted, in charge of the Aquatic Product Bureau)
Zhang Xintian, Secretary of Administration and Law Committee of Yingli Town
Wu Anhua, Head of the Armed Force department of Yingli Town
Liu Jiaxiang, Former head of the Yingli Town police station (now he is a guard of the dentenion center)
Wang Haizhong, deputy head of the Yingli Town police station
Liu Shuxiang, a policeman in the Yingli Town police station
Cheng Xianlin, a driver of the Yingli Town police station (now has been fired)
A Practitioner in China
April 14, 2001
