Bitter Experiences of Dafa Practitioners in Luanping County, Hebei Province

[Minghui Net]

I am a Dafa practitioner in Luanping County, Hebei Province. Due to the Jiang Zemin gang's repressive crackdown on Falun Gong, I had to quit my job. My wife, who used to work as an accountant at a certain company, also lost her job. All three of us in the family are Falun Gong practitioners. We have been healthy and have never had any illnesses since we started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. It is commonly known in our neighborhood that ours is a harmonious family. I have also quit the bad habits of smoking cigarettes and consuming alcohol. Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance is the highest truth that I am seeking in life. However, such a happy family has been relentlessly persecuted since December 24, 2000.

On December 24, 2000, the county's National Security Team leader Jiang Xueyong and policeman Gao Yongjie arrested me in my home with the pretext that they wanted to learn more about Falun Gong. They forced me into the county bureau without cause. When I refused to give up my faith, they handcuffed me to a bed in Xiangyang hotel for a day and a night without any explanation before they released me.

At around 9pm on the evening of December 30, 2000, Gao Yongjie, Mao xx and another policewoman tricked us into opening the door and conned us into going to the detention center, with the pretense that a supervisor wanted to talk to us. We were then administratively detained for 15 days, charged with Jeopardizing the Management of Social Order. That night, we were forced to put our child in the custody of a friend. Another 14 people were also detained. After 15 days, they reneged, refusing to release us. They extracted 3,000 Yuan RMB (the Chinese currency; average monthly salary of a city worker is approximately 500 Yuan) from us without giving us any receipt. They released my wife just before the Chinese New Year.

During the extended illegal detention, the county police and Nation Security Team gathered nine of the Dafa practitioners to view the Tiananmen Self-Immolation farce on tape. When we exposed the flaws in the contrived plot, they immediately transferred us to criminal detention. We asked the police to show us their legal authority. They responded, We have orders from above that apprehending Falun Gong practitioners does not require any legal formalities. During our detention, they had the county TV station video-taping us and then had it televised (I was told after my release that the TV station had concocted that we were arrested because we had been planning to go to Beijing to cause trouble. They used the media to openly spread a vicious lie).

On February 9, 2000, I wrote a Statement of Promise (to give up Falun Dafa) against my will. I was released on 5,000 Yuan bail. I thought that I would finally be allowed to live a normal life. However, much to our dismay, Zhang Fude, Zhang Hong et al, the town council Politics and Law secretary and persons from 610 Office came to our home repeatedly to harass us incessantly. They forced me to attend the so-called Transformation Class, and extracted another 50 Yuan from me to pay for the class, once again without giving me a receipt. On April 15, I could not put up with their constant pestering and left home. I did not return until one month later. But at 10pm on May 27, the county Nation Security Team headed by Ma Haidong, together with four others came to my home again to arrest me. I had no choice but to leave home a second time. They became exasperated and took it out on my wife, arresting her.

Following the succession of brutal mistreatments, I cannot help but ask: what is wrong with believing in Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance? Is the freedom of belief granted by the constitution just written on a meaningless piece of paper? What do they want to transform me into? Do they want me to be like them, deceiving people (False), extorting money from people (Vice), and physically abusing people (Violent)? Pillaging 8,000 Yuan from a family that has no income and tearing it apart -- who is in fact violating the law? And who is enforcing the law?

I hereby solemnly declare: my wife did not suffer from any medical illnesses or sustain any injuries before she was arrested. She is of impeccable moral character and she treasures life. If anything untoward should happen to her, it could only be the result of iniquitous abuse! During the Chinese New Year, the vicious brutes in Kuancheng county and Weichang county persecuted two Dafa practitioners to death, one in each county. Under orders from the undisputed czar of the Human Rights Scoundrel--Jiang Zemin, the vices claimed that the two victims committed suicide. My family's current situation is that my parents-in-law are very ill and have no one to take care of them. They weep all day long. No one is minding our child. The school and the police may interrogate him again, for the third time.

By the way, when I left home the first time, even distant relatives whom I have never met were harassed by the police's phone calls. The police misrepresented themselves as Dafa practitioners or my classmates; and dared not admit that they were the police.

Lastly, I sincerely hope that all friends and kindhearted hometown people will get to know the truth. Please read the book Zhuan Falun and distinguish between right and wrong. I will continue to practice Falun Dafa firmly to the end. I would like to tell the vicious brutes: I hope for your sake, do not accompany Jiang Zemin to the grave, as retribution is imminent.

(Please note: Currently Sun Jingkun and Sun Xiuhua, whose terms have long expired, are still being held at the county detention center illegally. Sun Xiuhua is going on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. I call upon all people to pay particular attention to their situation).

May 31, 2001