(Clearwisdom.net) I have been illegally arrested and held in detention centers, prisons, and forced labor camps because of my practice of Falun Gong. I have witnessed many depraved people persecute Falun Gong practitioners. However, I also found that many of the staff started to learn the truth and were moved by the power of Dafa. They began to realize that they should treat Dafa practitioners well, so that they could have a bright future.
Sometime during the early half of 2000, I was arrested when I went to Tiananmen Square to raise a banner to validate Falun Dafa. People were sent from my work unit and the security office, together with local police, to take me back to my hometown. My hometown province had an office in Beijing, and one police officer from there came to talk with my child alone. He wanted to know why there were so many practitioners from all over the country coming to Beijing and risking their lives to appeal for Falun Gong. As my child started to talk about a few things, the young policeman was moved to tears. The security guards from that office who were in charge of watching over practitioners completely understood the truth of Falun Gong and treated practitioners very well. As a result of their kindness towards Dafa practitioners, they received rebukes from other staff.
The communist party General Secretary at my work unit also came to gradually learn the truth about Dafa. We have been colleagues for many years, and he already knew that we were good people. Nevertheless, officials like him started to develop negative feelings towards Dafa because of pressure from upper-level management and the influence of media propaganda and lies. During the Spring Festival of 2003, my work unit gave each employee a New Year's present; I was the only one that was skipped. Since I am a cultivator, I didn't pay any special attention to this. Later, the manager of my work unit went to Canada to visit his family, and he personally witnessed the wide spread of Dafa there. The manager called the party secretary at 12:00 a.m. and told him, "Falun Dafa is really good!" The manager also asked him to take care of me. The general secretary was so surprised. Early the next morning, he stood in front of the entrance of a supermarket. As soon as the door was opened, he rushed inside and bought rice and cakes. He brought them to me for the celebration of the New Year festival.
A certain director from the community office of comprehensive security management once dealt with the Falun Gong issue. At first, he mistakenly believed the Communist Party lies against Falun Gong. He would ask us not to go outside and to just do the exercises at home. After he attended a training session to learn how to persecute Falun Gong, he completely realized how wicked this persecution is. This director once privately visited my home and hinted to me that I should be cautious about my safety. Officials who visited Falun Gong practitioners were required to take officials from different departments with them so that they could monitor each other. The director gave us a day's advance warning when he learned that we were about to be sent to brainwashing centers. This made it possible for every one of us to escape. Later on, I met him several times again, and he appeared full of good spirits.
The 610 Office director made numerous slanderous statements about Falun Gong. There was another director of the same security office who was a conscientious person. We learned that he had tried to help practitioners under his jurisdiction many times. He once said to the 610 Office director, "This Falun Gong practitioner's parents are now in their seventies, and they need to be taken care of. You people just go ahead and arrest the practitioner. Don't you realize how people will regard us once they know what we have done?" This same director had also been instrumental in having several illegally detained practitioners returned home. When certain depraved officials planned to arrest me again and send me to the brainwashing center, he publicly defended me in a meeting. He said many good things about me. The 610 Office director shouted loudly at the scene, "I've known for a long time that you are a traitor to the Communist Party!" As a matter of fact, the Communist Party lost its public appeal a long time ago.
When I was detained in a forced labor camp, I wrote a letter to the same director mentioned in the above paragraph. I told him about the truth of Falun Gong, and, under protection from our Teacher, that letter successfully got through the censorship of the labor camp. After I was released from the camp, I learned that the director did receive the letter. Not only did he read through the letter very carefully, but he also passed it to all of his staff members. Many of his staff members began to have a much clearer understanding of Falun Dafa. They were very friendly to me.
Prior to my illegal prison sentencing, I was held in a detention center. Two young officers from the local police station came to interrogate me. They were very friendly to me. One of them was extremely angry when he learned that I had been persecuted so inhumanly. He asked me if I wanted to contact a lawyer and said he could help me do that. He even left me with his name and said to contact him if I needed to.
After my prison term ended, I was illegally detained in a brainwashing center. The other police officer, who had interrogated me before, came to visit me during my detention. He told the guards that he happened to come across the center during his patrol duty. From his words, I learned that the other officer, who had left his name with me, had already quit his police job. He just couldn't put up with such treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. The officer also told me, in a voice of deep regret, that it was the 610 Office that had initiated my arrest. He said that the 610 Office was on a completely different path from him.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those people in China who have learned the truth about Dafa and have even gone forth to actively protect and help Falun Gong practitioners. I wish them all the best. Springtime is really not far away. Falun Dafa will eventually show to the whole world all the most beautiful scenes. Every kind, righteous and brave living being will gain perpetual happiness because of Dafa. You are also included, my awakening friend!
