(Minghui.org) A large number of police officers have been misled by the overwhelming tide of hate propaganda unleashed by the Party in China over the last 17 years. They and millions of other Chinese citizens have been unwittingly turned against Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa).
Through their persistent efforts, practitioners have helped many police officers (and regular citizens alike) to learn the truth about Falun Gong, and they have gradually become supportive. What follows is a story about one such police officer.
Severely Persecuted
I was forced to stay away from home to avoid persecution in late 2002. Nevertheless, the police found me, arrested me and held me at the local detention center. Officials assigned three shifts of people to take turns torturing me in attempts to force me to give up my beliefs.
After a year in detention, I had fainted many times. I was emaciated. The guards repeatedly reported my poor health condition to their superiors. Finally, the detention center director said, “He [me] was a volunteer coordinator for Falun Gong in our city and was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment. We cannot release him even if the prison refuses to admit him due to his health.”
My condition worsened daily. Several prison doctors came to check on me one day when I was barely conscious. An inmate asked them, “If he is released in this condition, would he be able to recover?”
“He looks like a late-stage cancer patient who could die at any minute. There is no hope,” one doctor said.
“If he could recover, then no one would die in this world,” another one added.
Officials from different government agencies came to witness my situation after that. A staff member from the Legislative Affairs Office saw me and gasped, “Oh, my gosh!”He dashed out of the room in shock.
Seeing that I had no apparent hope of recovery, officials released me on medical parole. I was taken home on a stretcher.
Both my parents and my wife are practitioners. They knew that Falun Dafa had made me healthy in the past and encouraged me to continue doing the exercises. I followed their advice and in about two weeks I regained my health.
All my family members were relieved. To express our gratitude, we submitted pictures of my emaciated body – when I weighed only a little over 30 kg – and my recovered self to the Minghui website.
Officials Visit
Two officials from the city Domestic Security Division, director A and political manager B, came to my home. They wanted to know who had taken the pictures of me, and who had submitted them to Minghui. They said they planned to take my wife away to be interrogated.
My wife and I greeted them and invited them to sit down. I explained to them that Falun Dafa practitioners should not be mistreated because we have committed no crime and that we simply follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to better ourselves.
Director A agreed. “The deputy head of the police department said he has known you since you were the head of a state-owned enterprise. He said you are a nice person and could have been promoted to a high rank if you did not practice Falun Gong.”
I explained to the director that I was a good person because Falun Gong had improved my physical health and moral level. I told the director and political manager that I hoped they would treat practitioners well.
The director asked why practitioners distributed materials in various places. I told him that practitioners are being persecuted for becoming better citizens, and the consequences of this are serious because traditional values and the common good are being suppressed.
“That is, the foundation of the society is at risk. That is why, despite the pressure and brutality, practitioners are doing their best to tell people what is right and what is wrong.”
I was in tears when I said these words. Director A's eyes were also wet. He wiped his eyes and nodded.
We answered other questions that they had about Falun Dafa and practitioners, and they eventually asked again who submitted my pictures to Minghui. My wife said she did, “Because I don't want government officials to continue to do bad things. It is not good for them or for practitioners.” She said another reason she the took pictures was to serve as evidence for the future when officials are brought to justice for their misdeeds.
As they left, Director A took 100 yuan from his wallet and handed it to us, “The situation has already become what it has, and there is not much I can do. My salary is not high, but I hope you can use the money to buy some nutritional supplements for your health.” We thanked them and said that because we are practitioners we would not accept the money.
Director A accepted some materials about Falun Dafa from us. No officials have come to my home to bother us since.
Epilogue
More than 10 years have passed. We heard that Director A was later promoted to the head of a police department in another county.
We also heard that when a practitioner was arrested by police in that county, members of the practitioner’s family wanted to give Director A some money, hoping he could help get their family member released. The director would not accept the family's money, but the practitioner was released a short time later.
I am very happy about the choice he made.
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