[Clearwisdom.net] I was arrested and detained three times by the police, although I was innocent. The first time, I was arrested for appealing in Beijing in October 1999. The second time was in July 2000. I was detained for nearly a month on both occasions.
Below is my experience during my third incarceration:
Around 6 a.m. on October 24, 2000, Ding Jinming (deputy head of Chaoyang District Police Station) and Song Xuejun came to my home and took me to an office located on the sixth floor in the police station. Three people, including Ding Jinming and Zheng Dongping, handcuffed one of my hands over my shoulder to the other one brought up behind my back for over 3 hours (this corporal punishment is called "sword on the shoulder"). Ding Jinming twisted my hands behind my back, pushed me down to the ground, and kneeled on my back. I felt suffocated and could not breathe, as if my ribs were going to break. Afterward, I was handcuffed to the heater until they got back to work in the afternoon. During dinnertime, these thugs hung me on the window by my handcuffs, with the tips of my feet barely touching the ground. They constantly attempted to extort a "confession" from me.
At midnight, Ding Jinming used an electric baton to shock me all over the back of my neck, my face and hands, and later he beat me with a police club. During this time I was forbidden to use the restroom and given no food or water. I was also prohibited from sleeping during the night, and was hung there for a long time. Whenever my eyes closed slightly, they would immediately wake me up. They also opened the window to let the cold wind blow in on me. I was released on the evening of October 26, 2000. There were many other Dafa practitioners who were beaten at the Chaoyang District Police Station. Among them, Wang Chuanqin had a deep dent about 5 cm [about 2 inches] in diameter at the upper right side of her head, the result of being beaten with a stun baton. Even after several months, she has not recovered.
On October 29, Song Xuejun and Ding Jinming transferred me to the No. 1 Detention Center, but I refused to sign the detention warrant. In order to validate Dafa, thirteen female Dafa practitioners including myself, Sun Yongmei, Lin Yuying, Liang Hongmin and Lu Kehua kept doing group exercises. One day at noon, when we were doing the exercises, a dozen of us were punished by being placed in the solitary confinement cells.
During their imprisonment, some practitioners, like Liu Lan, did group exercises and were handcuffed and put into the solitary confinement cell after they were found out. They kept shouting loudly, "Falun Dafa is good, there is nothing wrong with doing exercises, suffocate the evil, eliminate the evil" etc. when they were been putting into shackles in the hallway.
On Dec. 24, 2000, the city government directed a large-scale arrest all over the city, and many practitioners were arrested. They held a group hunger strike to protest such persecution. As a result, Zhao Jialian, Huo Guangjun and Wei Likun etc. were sent to solitary confinement cells. During the hunger strike, practitioners were force-fed salt water and flour porridge by the detention center officials and prison guards. Among them, Liu Lan was force-fed through a tube after holding a hunger strike for 28 days, and was later sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. Zhu Zhiyuan was force-fed salt water on the 7th day of the hunger strike. Wei Likun had food forced into her lungs when she was force-fed and was sent to a hospital. To remove the food, her trachea had to be cut open.
Hui Yuan and Sun Yongmei didn't cooperate with the force-feeding and were beaten until their legs and buttocks were black and blue. Sun's face was bruised. The thugs then chained them with shackles that weigh dozens of pounds. The shackles went through their handcuffs, so all four limbs were locked together, and their bodies were forced to be like bows which crawled on the cement floor. Because they were extremely weak from the hunger strike and didn't stand up to answer the roll call, right then the policeman Guan Xinguo cursed them. Together with Yang XX and Li Peihua, Guan Xinguo arranged to have three bowls of highly concentrated salt water made with one jin [about 1.1 pounds] of salt, and threatened to force-feed them to death. They said to a prisoner named Cheng, "You killed so many pigs, and you can't even handle them [the practitioners]? Show your strength like when you were killing the pigs!" They used other vulgar language as well.
Guan Xinguo asked the outer prison guards to cuff us to the stairs by all four limbs, and to tie our waists with black electric cords, after which they force-fed us with salt water. He even asked the outer prison guards to take off our socks and jam our mouths with them. If that failed to work, they were to take off our panties and pants to fill our mouths with, which was inhuman. When the salt water went down my throat, I felt as if my throat was burning with fire. After the force-feeding, the brutes put socks in our mouths, blocked our noses, grabbed our hair and used their knees to press our heads so that we could not move on the ground. Because we couldn't breathe, the salt water went down into our lungs.
Two of the outer prison guards cuffed both of my hands, dragged me back to my cell and threw me on the ground. I felt severe chest oppression and back pain, and I had great difficulty breathing. I coughed up a great amount of salt water and a pink bubbly fluid. Later, Doctor Liu came and I was released from the handcuffs. They sent me to the emergency room at a hospital. I continued to spew out blood, and my pulse and blood pressure could hardly be detected. My heartbeat was as high as over 160 per minute. My blood vessel couldn't be found when an injection was needed. I was diagnosed with acute left-ventricle heart failure and heavy shock.
Once the practitioners in No. 42 cell, including me, Sun Yongmei and Wang Jiuhong (both are female) did group exercises. After Cui [probably a guard] came and stopped us, he handcuffed me to a cement pole next to the bathroom for 24 hours.
Zhang Yongxia (female) was severely beaten by the police at Renmin Road Police Station. Because she went to Beijing to appeal, she was handcuffed behind her back and hung up. The thugs even put Teacher's portrait beneath her feet. Five to six people surrounded her and beat her up. They even forbade her to cry out. If she made a sound, they would stuff her mouth with the bathroom mop. They even spit phlegm on the floor and forced her to kneel down and lick it up. She would receive brutal beatings if she disobeyed. The criminals include the head of the Renmin Road Police Station Hu Zhuangfei and Gao, and a vicious policeman named Cui. Zhang Yongxia was unable to walk after she was taken down. With her hands cuffed behind her back, she was kicked by Hu Zhuangfei and rolled down the stairs to the first floor. When she was picked out by a vicious policeman to interrogate, Zhang Yongxia was severely beaten by him. Another policeman at the detention center stopped the beating. Then Zhang Zhuangfei was taken to the captain's office, and was dropkicked by a malicious policeman. Her body hit the couch and bounced back. When she returned to her cell, her whole face was swollen and covered with black and blue marks.
Liu Mingzhi (female) was escorted back after her appeal in Beijing, and was handcuffed behind her back and hung up, after which she was beaten by thugs. She also received the "sword on the shoulder" punishment, but was asked nothing. After she returned to the cell, she could not feel her arm at all.
Yu Fen (female) was put in the detention center for her appeal in Beijing. When being interrogated, she was taken to Renmin Road Police Station. The heads Gao and Hu gave her the "sword on the shoulder" treatment and hung her up on the window with her toe tips barely touching the ground. They also put Teacher's portrait beneath her feet and beat her whenever she didn't answer their questions. They also swung her back and forth to increase her pain. She was hung this way for seven and a half hours. After she was released, her arms were diagnosed with having severe muscle damage, and she could no longer take care of herself.
Another two practitioners were sent into the detention center after appealing, and their husbands brought them divorce papers.
Practitioner Li Tianfen (female) was sent to a mental hospital to receive cruel torture.