(Clearwisdom.net)

Since July 22, 1999, I was illegally detained, sent to a labor camp, and tortured by the authorities there following the directives of Jiang's regime. Currently, I have been forced to leave home in order to avoid further persecution and illegal arrest. While taken by the police, they struck me with electric batons, tied me up with ropes, and constrained me to a tiger bench [an instrument of torture, one is forced to sit on a small iron bench with knees are tightly tied on the bench and hands tied on the back. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the lower legs to make it even harder to bear the pain, see illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html]. I was also hung up by my handcuffs, deprived of sleep, stripped of my clothing, and blown with cold air from electric fans for entire nights; They suffocated me with a plastic bag, soaked my genitals with the tincture of iodine to cause irritation, and force-fed me until I fainted, etc. The various tortures pushed me to a critical situation.

I am a 69 years old, retired teacher from a school in Hebei, and the descendant of a martyr of the Chinese communist party. In July 20, 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal according to the Chinese constitution, but was illegally detained. My work unit deceived me and gave me up to authorities, who in turn, forced me into a brainwashing center. Later I was illegally detained many times, and suffered a lot both mentally and physically. My pension had also been suspended. In January 2001, the guard in the detention center changed my age on the record from 67 to 65 in order to illegally send me to a forced labor camp for two years. I was only released because of high blood pressure. Now, I am forced to leave home in order to avoid further persecution and unlawful arrest.

Dafa practitioner Li Guanghong appealed for Falun Gong in December 1999, and was illegally detained for one month, then fired. She was forced to leave home because police officers harassed her frequently. In May 2001, she was abducted by police officers into a brainwashing center. She managed to escape on July 9, 2001 using righteous thoughts. In early August 2001, she was abducted again to the first detention center and was imprisoned for over four months, until January 2002; she almost died. In July 2002, she was once again forced into a brainwashing center for two months.

They tricked Dafa practitioners by saying 99% practitioners in the society have given up their practice, and that "the overseas clearwisdom.net (Minghui)"has closed down. Some evil police officers threatened Dafa practitioners by saying they would be sent to the forced labor camp in the northeast China, be sentenced for many years, or even be shot. Whenever Dafa practitioners reported the true situation in the camp to visitors or family members, or when the upper level managements investigated the situations in the camp, the police officers would bear false witness to each other. In the Tuanhe, any so called "evidence" used to punish Dafa practitioners is all lies.

Days ago, the "Wen Wei Po" published an article written by Liang Si, in which the author advocated that, because around 800 Falun Gong practitioners paraded and assembled in Hong Kong on February 23, 2003, so should Falun Gong be 'prohibited' or 'outlawed'. Under the guise of protecting 'national security', such lies were produced. A nation is constituted by the people, when people have lost its safety, where is the safety of the nation? A nation is safe only when its people's benefits are guaranteed. Falun Gong practitioners resisted the Article 23 legislation, because they felt their safety was being threatened. Their behavior is a protection of their safety according to the law, and also a protection to the safety of the nation. The real 'national safety' in Liang's article referred to the safety of the dictator, not the people of the nation. We should act together to stop this kind of shameless behavior which abuses the name of "national safety".

Formosa Television News (Taiwan): Among the students of the Qinghua University and Beijing University in Beijing, there are many Falun Gong practitioners who are suffering the persecution by the Beijing government. Today, over 30 university students in Taiwan launched a joint rescue campaign. They called on all people in the society to condemn the savage human rights violation against Falun Gong practitioners in China. Zhao Ming, a graduate student in Ireland, said only because he is a Falun Gong practitioner, he was illegally detained for almost two years in China. He suffered from various tortures which included prolonged sleep deprivation, lasting for two weeks, being shocked over his entire body simultaneously by electric batons, etc. He said Jiang Zemin's regime actually used much crueler and more extreme methods, to torture Falun Gong practitioners in secret, all of which violate human rights. He hoped that all people could know the truth, and give a hand to stop the persecution.