(Clearwisdom.net)
Dear residents of Shenyang City:
Did you know that there is a family near you that has suffered persecution and separation during the Chinese New Year holiday for the past six years? It is all because they want to be good people.
The family lives at the No.2 Apartment, on the sixth floor of Unit 8, Building No. 4, Wusan Residential Community, (Ningshan Rd. No. 66-1), the Huanggu District, Shenyang City. The male head of the household is Mr. Mr. Zhang Liansheng who is very diligent and likes to help others. His wife Ms. Ning Yuying is a virtuous woman and is widely respected by her colleagues and neighbors. Mr. Zhang Ming is their only son. He is a handsome boy who gets excellent grades in school and displays virtuous behavior. The family is really well admired.
The wife, Ms. Ning used to have neurasthenia, which caused insomnia. She was becoming thinner and thinner. Her condition greatly affected her daily life and work. She also suffered from other illnesses including a protrusion of her cervical vertebra, arthritis and severe gastric ulcers. In 1994, she was told during a routine medical examination that she had cysticercosis (tapeworms), a chronic and stubborn disease caused by eating pork infected with these minute parasites. It gets into and affects one's blood stream and muscles. The eggs of these parasitic worms can travel all through one's body along the blood vessels. After an uncertain incubation period, they start to grow. The only way to treat the disease is to undergo continuous operations to remove these parasites one by one. Cysticercus (the larval stage) has a strong tendency to propagate and is difficult to bring under control. When they proliferate in the brain, one's life will be in danger. After suffering through two surgeries, a CAT scan revealed that Ms. Ning's brain had several mature cysticercus and there were many eggs in her brain. As a result, she often had headaches.
Ms. Ning's family experienced great unhappiness because of her ailments. She suffered so much that she had a very bad temper. She would throw hot food in her son's face because of a minor matter. The sensible child would hide in the restroom to cry after such unfair treatment. She often regretted her own behavior and despaired more and more, since neither Western medicine nor Chinese medical skills provided any effective treatment.
August 15, 1995, was a day Ms. Ning's family will never forget. That day, Ms. Ning stood quietly in the residential community yard, saw a banner with the words, "Free Teaching of Falun Dafa" and listened to beautiful music. A harmonious and wonderful feeling arose in her. She had not had such a feeling for a long time. She put down the vegetables she just bought at the farmer's market and joined the serene crowd. That day, an assistant told Ms. Ning that Falun Gong taught people to be kind and good, which deeply moved her. Starting at that moment, a miracle occurred.
Within four days of practicing the exercises, after suffering extreme pain for several hours, the severe gastric ulcer that she had from for years disappeared forever. One month later, her other illnesses, neurasthenia, the cervical vertebra protrusion and arthritis were cured as well. Several months passed. One day she seemed to wake up from a dream and realized the cysticercosis was gone, without her even realizing it. The smile that had been absent from her face for years returned. That smile returned because of the unbelievable miracles that happened to her after she started practicing Falun Gong.
"Haven't I said that with one person practicing, the whole family benefits?" (Lecture at the Australia Fa Conference, Sydney, May 2-3, 1999) Falun Gong founder Mr. Li Hongzhi's words are indeed true in Ms. Ning's family. After she started practicing Falun Gong, her son, Mr. Zhang, followed her to study the Fa and practice the exercises every day as well. The principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" benefited the young man's mind. He not only had excellent grades in high school but also home-studied five to eight college and university courses every year. He had a good reputation among his schoolmates and was honored as the head of the class as well as the chairman of the student association. He was awarded many honors.
On April 23, 1999, the police in Tianjin beat and arrested forty-five practitioners, which drew the attention of practitioners across the whole country. Some government officials in Tianjin advised them that, "the solution to this matter depended on the CCP Central Committee." Expecting fairness from the government, many practitioners volunteered to travel to Beijing to appeal. Mr. Zhang had just finished an exam in school and had more exams in the following days. Fifteen minutes after hearing the news, however, carrying his school bag, he left home and went to Beijing. After the "April 25" appeal incident was properly resolved, he quietly came back home. When the classmates felt pity for him because he missed the exams, what he said left some of them speechless, "If one is not permitted to be a good person, what is the use of studying well?"
On July 22, 1999, Falun Dafa was outlawed. The news was like inserting a knife into the hearts of millions and millions of practitioners. Ms. Ning and his son Mr. Zhang went to the provincial Party committee to appeal, however they were arrested and detained in the Wulihe Stadium in Shenyang City.
In October 1999, because the persecution was deepening, Ms. Ning and several other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested and sent back to Shenyang. The handcuffs she was forced to wear left deep marks on her wrists. The police demanded that her husband, Mr. Zhang Liansheng, pay them for their "travel expenses." Two officers from the city police department showed them a piece of paper and told Mr. Zhang that his wife had borrowed money from them and he had to pay them back. Mr. Zhang gave them the money they demanded. Later he found out that this was a lie; his wife had never borrowed any money from them. When officers from the local police station heard the story, even they felt ashamed.
Ms. Ning was detained in the Shenyang Women's Detention Center and was forced to work for long hours every day. Mr. Zhang Liansheng and his son came to the detention center to visit her but the police refused to let them see her and told them, "No visitors for her. Just leave the money and go." Her son stood in the deep snow outside of the gate and called loudly toward the inside, "Mom, Dad and I come to see you. It is not wrong to practice Falun Gong. You will get out of there soon!"
That year, the father and son spent the Chinese New Year together in silence. Five months later Ms. Ning came back home. She had suffered a lot and had become very thin. She shared with the family about what life was like in the detention center. Besides the heavy labor each day, she didn't have warm bed covers during the cold winter days. The police confiscated all of the money that the family sent. She was not allowed to talk to people and not allowed to brush her teeth or wash her face.
The mother and the son started to clarify the truth to their relatives, neighbors, classmates and colleagues. Many people resolved their doubts about Falun Gong, stopped having the hatred that the propaganda had stirred up and were therefore saved.
On November 20, 2000, officers from the Taishan Police Station in the Huanggu District in Shenyang City arrested 18-year-old Mr. Zhang because he was "clarifying the truth"
to people. He was detained in the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City. The police searched Ms. Ning's home and left a big mess. They drank and ate; played poker and watched TV in her home. Before they left, using the excuse of "taking evidence," they took personal belongings worth 10,000 yuan without giving any receipts. When they were walking downstairs they complained, "This family is not as rich as the other one. In that family, we took things worth at least 20,000 yuan or more."
In April 2001, the police from the Taishan Police Station came again and sent Ms. Ning to the Longshan Forced Labor Camp. Both the wife and the son were taken away from home and the shock to Mr. Zhang Liansheng was so devastating that his hair turned white overnight.
At the end of 2001, Ms. Ning was sent back home from the Longshan Forced Labor camp, having been bailed out for medical treatment. The abuse there caused total body edema. Mr. Zhang Ming was later released as well, after serving his "prison term." The whole family finally was able to be together. The neighbors came to visit one after another and felt the injustice that had been done to them.
Because of instructions from the 610 Office, the local police kept coming to their home to harass them and order them to sign a guarantee statement. Not wanting to cooperate with them, and to avoid another arrest, on that year's Chinese New Year holiday, Ms. Ning and her son went into temporary exile, living in other places, so they could not be found.
In the year 2002, before the opening of the "16th National Congress of the CCP," while only Mr. Zhang Ming was at home, Yang Min and several other police officers from the Longshen Forced Labor Camp pounded on the door and yelled, "Open the door quick. Otherwise we will break in!" The police went to Ms. Ning's work unit and arrested her there once again.
On May 8, 2003, personnel from the Zhujianlu Police Station, the Shenhe District in Shenyang City came to Ms. Ning's home. She had by then come out of the Longshan Forced Labor Camp. Several policemen dragged the only 4.9-feet-tall woman from the sixth floor to the police car downstairs. She loudly yelled out, "A good person is being arrested! What have I done for you to arrest me?" Since the police couldn't find any reason, they had to release her the next day.
Nevertheless, a few days later, several officers from the Shenyang Police Department and from the municipal "610 Office," led by Li Gang from the Chongshen Police Station in the Huanggu District broke into Ms. Ning's home. Fortunately, Ms. Ning and her son received a warning from neighbors and had already left the home.
The New Years holiday came again but Mr. Zhang Liansheng was the only one left at home, and he had to spend the holiday by himself. A news item on the Internet deeply hurt Mr. Zhang: "On December 16, 2004, Ning Yuying, the practitioner from Shenyang City, was arrested by people from the Tongle Police Station, Tongzhou District of Beijing. So far, her condition is unknown. No one knows her son's whereabouts."
Information emerged that the Beijing police had brutally tortured Ms. Ning. She was deprived of sleep and the right to use the toilet; she held a hunger strike to protest and was in very poor health. The Shenyang Police Department and Ningshan Police Station personnel had been informed of her situation; however, they did not inform the family. They wished to take over the case after Ms. Ning's sentencing in Beijing.
The list of persons and work units that were/are involved in the persecution of Ms. Ning Yuying:
Beijing:
The Tonglixincun Residential Committee, Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou District, zip code 101118, Phone, 86-10-89599012
The Tonglixincun Police Station, Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou District, zip code 101118
Phone, 86-10-69590859
The No.5 Detective Team, Pre-interrogation Division, Tongzhou District Police Department, Phone, 86-10-81591328
The Chaoyang District Police Precinct in Beijing, 86-10-65524936
The Criminal and Detective Team, the Chaoyang District Police Precinct, 86-10-85953570 or 86-10-64237407
Shenyang City:
The Congshan Police Station, the Huanggu District, Shenyang City, zip code 110036,
Phone, 86-24- 86842821
The Congshan Residential Committee, the Huanggu District, Shenyang City, zip code 110036
The Taishan Police Station personnel that has robbed and arrested dozens of practitioners, 86-24-86808152