(Clearwisdom.net) One day, a truck full of stolen timber sped toward a police checkpoint. All the policemen on duty yielded to the side, but one officer ran out and stood in the middle of the road. The driver was shocked and stopped the truck. The driver gave him a thumbs up and praised him, "I really admire you, such a brave man. I will no longer do such bad things in the future."
This courageous officer was Mr. Lu Zhiyong, a forest ranger from the Heishui County Police Department in A'ou, Sichuan Province. This man had the courage to do the right thing at a critical moment. As such, he was recognized as a "most excellent police officer" and became a candidate for the deputy director of the Heishui County Police Department.
Mr. Lu Zhiyong and his mother
Lu Zhiyong has the courage to risk his life to protect the country and the property of others. He is also a firm Falun Gong practitioner. When the persecution began, in order to demonstrate to people that Falun Gong is righteous, Mr. Lu dressed in his police uniform, and he and his wife and daughter went to practice the exercises with over thirty practitioners at Heishui County Square. When his superior questioned him, "Do you want Falun Gong or the police?" Lu firmly answered, "I want Falun Gong." His work was immediately taken away. Later, he was officially fired and sent to work on a farm.
In June 2000, as the persecution of Falun Gong continued to escalate, Mr. Lu and his wife, Ms. Rao Qun, went with their daughter to Beijing to make an appeal for Falun Gong. They were beaten in Tiananmen Square and held at the Beijing Liaison Office for Sichuan Province.
In June 2001, the chief of Section One at the Heishui County Public Security Department went to the farm where Mr. Lu worked to promote the staged Tiananmen self-immolation propaganda program as fabricated by CCTV. Mr. Lu debunked all the lies in the program and for doing this, he was severely beaten. He decided to go to Beijing again to make another appeal for Falun Gong. Without any means of transportation or money, and with only the beans and pancakes he had prepared, Lu walked for seven days through thick forest. But before he got beyond the Heishui County line, he was arrested by the police who had been searching for him.
One day, forest rangers Zhou Bin and Chen Aiguo and officer Chen from Section One of the County public security department went to talk to Mr. Lu. Zhou Bin told him that the security department had decided to send him away for advanced education for a few months, but in fact they sent him to the Xinhua Forced Labor Camp in Mianyang City for an 18-month sentence.
Mr. Lu was tortured many different ways in the forced labor camp. He was forced to stand still from 6:00 a.m. to midnight. Once his chest was beaten so brutally that he was unable to talk or even move without a great deal of pain. He was tied up with very thin ropes eight times within a period of ten days; he was shocked with one to four electric batons at a time; and he was beaten with a club with spikes, which tore his flesh.
Lu was once beaten with the spiked club for over 40 minutes. His body was covered with injuries. Through his pain, Lu sang "Falun Dafa is Good" loudly, and the other Falun Gong practitioners who were detained at the forced labor camp sang along with him. Many practitioners who had been "transformed" declared that their "transformation" statement was invalid and that they would continue to practice Falun Gong. In another incident, Lu was forced to stand for 15 straight days.
As a result of the long-term torture, Lu had an accumulation of fluid in his lungs and serious cramping in his limbs. It was very difficult for him to get out of bed. Under police orders, the hospital diagnosed him with tuberculous pleurisy. On February 2, 2002 he was released on medical parole as he was on the verge of death.
On the afternoon of April 16, 2002, while he was at home alone, officers from the Xinhua Forced Labor Camp broke into his home to take him away. Since Lu resisted, several officers grabbed him and dragged him more than 60 meters. As he was dragged along, he lost his shoes, but he continued to shout, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Gong is righteous!"
After being detained at the forced labor camp for a total of 21 months, he was released in February 2003. After resuming Fa study and exercises, Mr. Lu regained his health. He kept telling people about Falun Dafa and sang the song "Falun Dafa is Good" to them.
On December 17, 2004, Lu was arrested again, and sentenced to three years of forced labor. In the Xinhua Labor Camp, he was physically tortured and forced to ingest drugs. They put drugs in his cup and in his rice bowl. On May 24, 2006, the camp guards took Lu to the hospital. Doctor Yu said, "Lu Zhiyong, you have the flu. We need to give you medicine." He said, "No! I am not sick. You are looking for excuses to torture me!" In the afternoon, the female head nurse (also the Section Captain) Yu and female nurse Rong injected him, against his will, with what they claimed to be Azithromycin. He was held down on the bed by his arms so that they could inject him. They injected him like this for a few days. After the injections, his lower back felt sore and weak, he had discomfort in his heart, his limbs were weak, he had painful bowel movements, fever, and his memory worsened. His speech and movements slowed. Two weeks later he was transferred to the Third Section under the Sixth Ward. At that time, he suffered from dizziness, blurred vision, and drowsiness. He had difficulty walking, reacted slowly and his memory was poor. The symptoms lasted for a month. People from the labor camp said, "Lu Zhiyong's face is so pale he looks dead."
Around January 10, 2007, Lu was carried to the hospital and forced into a strait jacket. He couldn't move his body or limbs. It didn't take long before every muscle ached and was numb, his limbs shivered, and his heartbeat became irregular. He was tortured like this for a few days. Once while he was in the strait jacket, Section Captain Yu and Nurse Rong stuck a feeding tube into his nose and down into his stomach. He was in such pain that tears rolled down his cheeks.
After a few years of torture, Mr. Lu was left emaciated. His hair had turned completely white.
His daughter's name is Lu Yinghao. Before she took college entrance examinations, county officials talked to her and threatened not to let her take the exams if she did not cut off her relationship with her father. Yinghao firmly told them, "I have a good father who believes in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and he was detained for this!"
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