The Town of Dancheng
Dong Antai, male, age thirty, went to Beijing to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa with his wife in November 1999. They were arrested and illegally detained for two months by the local authorities at the Detention Center in Shuangcheng City. They were then sent to a transformation class. To bail both of them out, Dong's family had to pay 6000 Yuan.
On December 14, 2000, Dong's wife again went to Beijing to clarify the truth of Dafa. On her way home, she was arrested and detained at the 2nd Detention Center in Shuangcheng City. Then she was sentenced to one year forced labor education at the Wanjia Labor Camp. Dong was also illegally arrested while at home . After five days of hunger strike, he was released. Twenty days later, five plainclothes police, led by the village Chief Chen Fubin, forced their way into Dong's home and dragged him away. His elderly mother in her eighties and his five-year-old daughter were home at the time. Dong's mother begged the police not to take Dong away saying, "You can't take my son away! I need him to take care of me!" Chief Chen and the police didn't care about what she said at all. They dragged Dong into a police van and sent him to the transformation class without any warrant of arrest. On January 23, Dong was transferred to the 2nd Detention Center in Shuangcheng. As nobody was home to look after her, Dong's mother died ten days after the Chinese New Year. His five-year-old daughter was then taken away and cared for by her aunt. Until now, Dong still hasn't been released.
Zhao Haijun, a man in his 30s, went to Beijing to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa with his wife in November 1999, and they were arrested and detained at the Shuangcheng Detention Center for three months afterwards. One year later, they were arrested again and have not been heard from since. After arresting the couple, the local police went to their home and stole their TV set. Ten other people came after that trying to rob them of their harvest of corn, worth about 20,000 Yuan RMB. Zhao's father stood up against them and saved the harvest of corn.
Yan Shenzhu and his wife Chen Xiuhua were arrested and detained at the 2nd Detention Center in Shuangcheng for appealing in Beijing in January 2000. Fifteen days later, the authorities demanded a bail of 6,000 Yuan for their release. Twelve months after that, they went to Beijing to appeal again. This time, Yan was detained at the Shuangcheng Detention Center and sentenced to one year forced labor education at the Changlinzi Labor Camp in Harbin City. In December, while Chen Xiuhua was at home with her aged mother, 6 or 7 people barged in to take Chen away. Chen's mother was very sick in bed. She asked, "What crime has my daughter committed that you should take her away?" They answered, "She is not allowed to practice what the government does not allow people to practice." While saying that, they dragged her into a police van, and wouldn't even let her put her overcoat on before leaving. She was then taken into an interrogation room where she was beaten. They then showed her the self-immolation video and asked her what she thought. Chen answered, "Falun Dafa teaches people to be kind. Falun Dafa does not teach people to kill themselves." Before she could finish, the police punched her in the face. They said, "As long as you practice Falun Dafa, you will be beaten. I will let you carry on with your practice, but I would like to see you try and crawl out of this room with bruises all over your face."
Ten days later, another officer named Chen Shaowu came and asked Chen Xiuhua if she still wanted to practice. She replied firmly, "Yes." He said, "If you continue to practice, I will beat you to death." While saying this, he tookoff his coat and began punching her in the face. He didn't stop until he was tired. Fifteen minutes after he stopped to rest, he continued again with the beating. An elderly kitchen hand couldn't bear to watch her being beaten any longer and went to help her up from the floor. It was only then that the officer stopped beating her.
Reported by practitioners in China
May 2001
The Ordeal of Our Family
I came from a small village in the province of Heilongjiang and have been practicing Falun Dafa since 1996. Through practicing Falun Dafa, I have made great improvements, both physically and mentally. Something worth mentioning is that I have helped to save the country's Health Care Fund 10,000 Yuan because of my health improvement. On July 22, 1999, when Jiang Zemin and his gang began to suppress Falun Dafa, a few of our colleagues went to the provincial government to lodge an appeal. Upon returning to our village, we were arrested without any legal papers, and were detained in a local detention center. We were forced to sign a statement of renouncement of Falun Dafa as a condition of release.
From mid 1999 to August 2000, I was often summoned to the local police station where I was interrogated and beaten at the same time. On August 18, 2000, I went to Beijing again to lodge an appeal. This time, I was detained for 19 days at the local police station at Tiananmen Square. That evening, I was transferred to the Harbin Administration Office in Beijing and then to the Shuangcheng Administration Office in Beijing. I was handcuffed the entire time. The village representative, Wu Zhongge, and the Council Secretary, Na Zhenkuan, flew out to Beijing to take me back. During the return trip on a train, they had me handcuffed to the luggage compartment. When we arrived in the village they chained me to the heating pipe and left me on a chair the whole night at the local police station. The following day, the village Chief and a police officer came to my farm and tried to take our cows away. My family members stood up against them and didn't allow our cows to be taken away. So instead, they ransacked everything in our house to see if there was anything else worth taking. They took my motorbike and lied to my wife afterwards, saying that they required 7,000 Yuan as travel expenses for taking me back from Beijing, and that the motorbike would be kept at the local station as a bond until she paid for the travel expenses. If she did not pay, they would take the money from the other villagers. To avoid getting others in trouble, she signed the agreement. Later, these officers demanded 16,000 Yuan from me personally. Because I refused to pay, they detained me at the detention center for another 15 days. I was handcuffed for over one hundred hours as I was taken from Beijing back to the local police station. When I went to get my motorbike, which was damaged quite badly, they demanded another 500 Yuan from me. Altogether, they had extorted a total of 8,500 Yuan from me.
Again, on July 17, 2001, while taking my mother to the hospital, the local police and the security officer from our village came to the hospital to arrest me after I told them that I would still practice Falun Dafa. They charged me with a criminal offence, and put me under detention for a further 65 days at the Shuangcheng Detention Center. During this period, they kept showing me the video of the self-immolation incident in Beijing, trying hard to reform my thoughts. Whatever methods they used, I was not affected at all.
When I returned to Xiqin village, I was forced to attend a 10-day transformation class. During this time, the village Chief kept pestering us. Later he returned and took me away again saying, "If you slander your Teacher, they will let you go back to celebrate the New Year." I refused to cooperate with them. Later, they charged me 700 Yuan as bail and for the cost of supervision. While I was under detention, they tried to talk my family into paying 2,000 Yuan as a guarantee, so I would not be sentenced to the labor camp. By simply saying, "Dafa is good," my wife, also a practitioner, was detained for 23 days by the local police station during the Spring Festival. In the end, they demanded 1,000 Yuan from us, and took away our farm license as insurance before releasing her. Meanwhile, my seventy-year old parent who had suffered from a stroke, our two young children, and our ten cows had no one to look after them.
Jiang Zemin claims that Falun Dafa practitioners have deserted their homes, families and relatives. But isn't he the one who has forced us to desert our homes and live miserably? We don't care what nasty means those scoundrels use because they will never change our minds towards Dafa. We will give everything to stand up for this true and orthodox Dafa and to restore our Teacher's reputation. Because of offering a means to save people, our teacher is now subject to slander, which is something we cannot accept. Whatever price we pay to defend Dafa, it is still worth our effort.
A practitioner in China
May 2001
Incriminated for Speaking Out the True Facts
I am a Dafa practitioner from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang province. On December 21, 1999, three of us set out to Beijing to lodge an appeal for the unjust treatment of Falun Dafa practitioners. We were arrested at the Shuangcheng train station when the police checked our I.D. They confiscated our I.D., and tried to force us to slander Dafa and our Teacher, but we refused. After taking us back, the local police searched our bags and confiscated all of our money, abusing us while they did so. They grabbed our heads and bashed them against the concrete wall, and then slapped and kicked us. One attacker was a police officer named Li Yunzhong. The other two were Wu Zhongge, Chief of Xiqin Village, and the council secretary, Wang Jiwen. They took turns beating us. After beating us for a while, they handcuffed us to the heating pipe and made us sit there for the rest of the night and the following five days. They released us only when we went on a hunger strike to protest. They made up excuses to justify themselves and swindled 500 Yuan from my family as well.
They said, "There is no way you can make an appeal for justice, because no one cares or dares to interfere with us."
A Dafa Practitioner in China
May, 2001
They Paid for Their Wrong Deeds
Abusing his power, Sun Qingxiu, the former assistant manager of a tobacco company in Shuangcheng City, had been slandering Falun Dafa and preventing practitioners from going to work. His wife also slandered Falun Dafa. In April of this year, while travelling in a car, they got in an accident. The husband died instantly, and the wife's spine was injured, paralyzing her from the waist down.
A Dafa Practitioner in China
May 2001