(Clearwisdom.net) Since 1999, I have experienced and witnessed the brutality of the persecution against Falun Gong.

1. Illegal arrests and sentences

In November 1999, other practitioners and I went to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in Beijing. We could not find the Appeals Office, so we went to Tiananmen Square instead. Police stopped us outside the square and asked if we practiced Falun Gong. We replied "Yes." We were immediately arrested and taken to the Qianmen Police Station.

One day in January 2000, two officials from the Town Hall forcibly took me from my farm to their office. They said they only had a few questions and would let me go home afterwards. When I went into the office, however, they asked me nothing, and several police officers took directly me to the county detention center. I was detained there for nine months. I was then imprisoned in a labor camp for a couple of years. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used insidious means to persecute practitioners.

2. Police use rifle butt to torture practitioners

I witnessed this torture. On the Chinese New Year in 2000, other practitioners and I again went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong and planned to say, "Falun Dafa is Good" there. As soon as we arrived, two soldiers stopped us and asked a few questions. They then took us to the police station. We refused to tell them our names or address. Police officers wearing heavy boots repeatedly kicked us.

Two hours later, a practitioner of about twenty came in to the station. He also refused to give his name and address. Four policemen pinned him face-down onto a bench. Another officer forcefully struck the practitioner with the butt of a rifle. The practitioner was beaten over ten times on the head and buttocks. The rifle's butt broke in two, and the practitioner's head bled severely.

This beating terrified me. I spoke up, "You should not beat him like this." Before I even finished the sentence, one of the policemen grasped my hair and struck my head against the wall. My forehead swelled instantly. At the same time, policemen behind me murmured amongst themselves and then carried away the beaten practitioner. A big pool of blood covered the ground I do not know if that practitioner survived the torture.

3. The evil Zhang Xiaofang and Nanmusi Labor Camp

Nanmusi Labor Camp is a living hell. Extreme tortures are inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners here every day. Zhang Xiaofang, the camp director, uses many torture methods. If physical torture does not make practitioners submissive, Zhang would switch to psychological torture. For example, Zhang allots very steadfast practitioners only one mouthful of food and much water. Zhang prohibits them from using the toilet. When practitioners finally urinate in their pants, Zhang orders the inmates to strip off the practitioners' clothing and mop the floor with it. Zhang then forces the practitioners to buy new clothes.

One time, she made practitioners sit with their legs crossed in the lotus position and tied them in this position for a whole day. Another time Zhang made the inmates act like drill sergeants. They forced practitioners to run until they could no longer move. The inmates then dragged the practitioners across the ground until their bodies started bleeding.

The labor camp tramples practitioners like dirt. Practitioners are casually beaten to death or disability. Camp guards once goaded an inmate to beat a fifty-year-old female practitioner to death. This inmate assaulted the practitioner in a locked bathroom. The practitioner was taken out when she had only one breath left. The camp guard ordered me to get medicine from the clinic and said that the situation was very serious. I was told to go back to my cell when I returned with the medicine. No practitioners were allowed to leave their cells. Two hours later, two former practitioners carried away a stretcher. I never saw that female practitioner again. A few days later, an inmate told me that she died from the beating.

On another occasion, inmates tortured a practitioner to the brink of death. Zhang felt that the situation was too serious and wanted to find a scapegoat. She then verbally and physically attacked a "transformed" person, who had participated in torturing the practitioner.

My experience testifies to the cruelty and brutality of the CCP.