(Clearwisdom.net)
Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/11/11/54425.html
Resisting the Persecution with Righteous Thoughts; Leaving Prison as a Group
In February 2000 I planned to go to Beijing with fellow practitioners the next day to validate Dafa. Nevertheless, since I was afraid of being arrested and suffering persecution again, the evil in other dimensions took advantage of my omission. At about 11:00 p.m., officers from a local police station broke into my home and took me and several fellow practitioners to the police station. Three days later we were sent to the Shisanli Detention Center where about twenty Dafa practitioners were imprisoned.
One of the practitioners had brought a copy of Zhuan Falun (1). We studied the Fa together. The detention center supervisor ordered us to turn in the book. We refused. A guard jumped onto bed with a leather belt in his hand trying to take the book away. We covered the book with our bodies, telling him we would not turn in the book unless they took our lives! We recited from Hongyin [the collection of Master's poems] together,
"To live with no pursuits;
To die with no regrets;
All excessive thoughts extinguished,
Cultivating Buddha-hood is not difficult."("Non-existence", Provisional Translation)
Our pure righteous thoughts and the power of Dafa shocked the police. They never again stopped us from studying the Fa or practicing the exercises since then.
Fifteen days later I was transferred to the Xuanhua Prison for indefinite criminal detention. The police body searched me as soon as I arrived and found a piece of paper on me with the table of contents for Hongyin. The police officer took the paper away, though I tried to get it back from him. Later, when I was sent to another room, I saw the table of contents on the desk as soon as I went into the room. I quickly grabbed the paper, put it into my mouth and ate it. The police asked me why I ate it. I told him, "Our Master's Fa is holy and no one should be allowed to desecrate it! I am saving you from committing a terrible sin."
I was imprisoned with 12 fellow practitioners. I shared my understandings with them and decided we should not cooperate with the evildoers. We decided to go on a hunger strike and thus leave the prison as a group. We studied the Fa together and convinced the practitioners who at first disagreed with our hunger strike. The next day, Deputy Supervisor Sun and several guards inspected our cell and tried to force us to recite the prison regulations. We refused. Sun slapped our faces, kicked us and attempted to force us to recite each of the regulations. Sun handcuffed practitioner Zhang Yonghui for refusing to recite the regulations and threatened us, saying that anyone who refused to recite the rules tomorrow would be handcuffed and shackled. Several fellow practitioners who had come out to appeal for Dafa for the first time were afraid. We studied the Fa and recited Hongyin together, and shared our understanding that we should not cooperate with the evildoers under any circumstances; in this way we were able to create a good environment for all practitioners.
Sun came with a group of guards the following day. He asked, "Who dares to refuse to recite the prison regulations today? Step forward and I will handcuff her." All thirteen of us stepped forward and said, "We all refuse." Sun was extremely upset and handcuffed all of us; yet, our righteous deed shocked them!
Two days after we were handcuffed, the detention center head and his assistant told us, "We will remove the handcuffs as long as you agree to eat." We told them, "It is illegal to imprison us good people here. We request the right to appeal. We request that you return our Master's and Dafa's good reputation." Our strong righteous thoughts overwhelmed the head of the detention center. He provided us with paper and pens to write the appeal letter as we requested. We told them if we did not hear any response from the central government in three days we would continue our hunger strike. When we finished the appeals letter, the city police department chief visited the center. We handed him our written petition. Three days later we had not heard any response, so we continued our hunger strike. One morning when I sat with my legs crossed to do the exercises, I saw an open gap in the ceiling and a red light covered me. I realized it was our Master encouraging me. Because of our strong righteous thoughts as a group, not only were the thirteen of us released within a month, but three other practitioners who had been imprisoned there for half a year waiting to be sentenced were also released.
The Cruel Abuses I Suffered at the Yanqing Detention Center
On December 24, 2000, thirteen fellow practitioners and I went to Beijing again to validate Dafa. We brought doves, Dafa banners and truth clarification materials with us. We were arrested by the Zhangjiakou City police at Xiahuayuan and sent back to the local police station. Police officer Li interrogated me for a whole night. The next day the police department's assistant chief took me to the police station's criminal division. They claimed that I was the organizer of the appeal. With instructions from city police department Chief Li Jingyun, the police station's administrator, the assistant administrator and the chairman and other police officers interrogated me for nine days and nine nights continuously, to force me to give them information about fellow practitioners.
They did not allow me to sleep at all during that whole period. I also suffered other cruel tortures such as the "Tiger Bench." During the interrogation I could feel the power from the Fa and Master protecting my steadfast mind, and nothing could move my heart.
My 82-year-old mother was then in critical condition due to the persecution, and I was the only one available to take care of her. The police tried to persuade me with human sentiment, saying, "As long as you tell us who the organizer was, we will let you go home and see your mother before she passes away." I told myself that nothing is more important than validating the Fa. I made an oath when I started distributing truth clarifying materials that no matter what happened, I would never leak any information about fellow practitioners and Dafa materials sources. Though others revealed information and I was thus made out to be the organizer and source of truth-clarification materials, I did not leak any information. The evildoers were shocked by my firm belief in Dafa and Master. They gave up interrogating me. I realized that as long as I was firm, Master would not allow the evil to disrupt me.
On the eighth day of my incarceration, police officer Li Quanfu and others sent me to the Third City Hospital where they tied me to a bed and force-fed me and injected me with unknown drugs. Nine days later I was transferred to the Shisanli Detention Center. During my 49 days of hunger strike, police and medical personnel in the hospital force-fed me nine times. Each time six strong men immobilized my head, arms and feet, pinched my nostrils shut and later inserted a tube the size of a finger into my stomach through the nose. This caused terrible bleeding and chest pain. When I was extremely weak after 49 days of suffering this way, Li Quanfu announced they would transfer me to the Xuanhua Detention Center.
The people in the prosecutor's office requested I fill out a form. I filled in each item with truth clarifying contents. A fellow practitioner pointed out to me, "You are a Dafa practitioner. Why are you waiting for them to sentence you?" I realized that Dafa practitioners are the greatest! The evildoers have no power whatsoever to sentence me, and a detention center is not the right place for a Dafa practitioner, either. I asked Master in my mind to help me leave there, to validate Dafa. As soon as I had this righteous thought Master let me know the date that I would be released! The next day a dozen people came to deal with my case. After seeing my physical condition, none of them wanted to take me. As a result, I left prison with Master's help. My brother took me home that afternoon. By contrast, those who had disclosed information about fellow practitioners were all sentenced to a labor camp. Some even went over to the other side and embraced an evil path. This incident further affirmed my confidence to assist Master in rectifying the Fa, according to my own original vow.
Ten days after I went home, before I had fully recovered, I started Dafa work again. On April 25, 2001, I went to Tiananmen Square with fellow practitioners and unfurled a Dafa banner once more. The police dragged me to the Tiananmen Police Station and later sent 21 fellow practitioners and me to Yanqing. The police pulled my hair and kicked and beat me on the trip. Yanqing Police Department officers took turns to interrogate me. They deprived me of sleep day and night, trying to force me tell them where I came from. When I refused, they beat me more, forced me to stand still for long time and even burned my face with cigarettes.
The next day, a large man came to brainwash me. He did not even allow me to close my eyes, and hit me with a baton as soon as I closed my eyes. The following day I still refused to cooperate. He slapped my face so hard that I almost passed out, leaving bloody bruises on my face. He also hit my face with a broom handle until the broom handle broke. My face swelled immediately. After torturing me for a whole morning he was almost hit by a car on his way to pick up his child at noon. I knew this was retribution. Later another police officer arrived. He started to burn my face with a lighter as soon as he came. My eyelashes and eyebrows were burned. My mind was not changed, no matter how they tortured me. I did not even feel the pain. When the police tried to burn me again, the lighter would not light anymore. I knew it was Master who protected me. Soon I was sent to the Yanqing Detention Center.
At midnight, police took the 21 fellow practitioners and me to Yanqing Hospital for force-feeding. I was immobilized on a bed with handcuffs and ropes for the forced infusion and force-feeding. Internal Medicine Division Director Zhang aided the police to abuse us. That night I was in critical condition twice, yet they did not care about our lives at all. On April 30, they called a dozen male criminals from the detention center to help with force-feeding. They held my head and feet; one even sat on my chest, making my breathing difficult. They tied me up with rope. Director Zhang and a female medical staff person inserted the tube into my body. The tube was inserted into my lung several times, which almost cost me my life. I was bleeding terribly.
Later they sent me back to the detention center and kept the rubber tube in my stomach for over ten days. It was extremely painful. Every day, the police had inmates force-feed me seven to eight times, filling my stomach so full that I felt my stomach would burst. I discussed with fellow practitioners that we should not endure this passively; rather, we should pull the tube out. As soon as we pulled the tube out, more than ten police officers jumped at us and tied us onto a bench. The ropes were tied so tightly that I could not even breathe. The police also shocked Dafa practitioners with electric batons; inmates gagged us with smelly socks. They did not pull the tube out until the tube stuck together with the flesh in my throat and caused a fever. Yanqing County Police Department enforcers kept interrogating me during that time, to find out my address. They tortured me continually for 23 days, and I kept up the hunger strike to protest during the whole period. I was finally released when I was so weak that I was in critical condition.
(To be continued)
October 13, 2004
Notes (1) The book, Zhuan Falun, comprises the principal teachings of Falun Dafa.
(2) Fa: Law and principles; the teachings of Falun Dafa.