(Clearwisdom.net) My mother and I went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in October 1999. We were detained in the local detention center for an entire year after coming back. We were both tortured to various degrees during that time. In the first month, officers fabricated materials to have us formally arrested, and told our lawyer that he was not allowed to enter a plea of innocence for us. We had solid faith in Falun Dafa and totally believed with righteous thoughts that we were innocent. In the end, we were declared innocent by the court.
Unfortunately, we were still detained by the local police department. The local Procurator and lawyer said to us, "You are free." But the police said only if we wrote "guarantee statements" to stop practicing Falun Dafa could we go, otherwise we would not be released.
Because we kept doing the Falun Dafa exercises, I was handcuffed and shackled onto a wooden board for four months, and I was only let loose twice when they interrogated me. One would be disabled if prevented from moving for such a long period of time, but I was fine after they put me down from the board, which manifested our Master's might and the divine power of Falun Dafa. Even the guards were amazed. The first time they interrogated me, I was fixed on the board for more than 20 days. They assigned people to support me while I was walking, but even with the biggest ankle shackles (for male prisoners) on, I felt that my body was very light and energetic.
My mother was fixed on a wooden board for seven whole days, and she was punched and kicked just because she kept doing the Falun Dafa exercises and reciting Master's scriptures. They did not let up on her, even though she is over 60 years old.
