A Practitioner in Her 70s Arrested Six Times in Six Years for Exposing the Persecution

I'm 75 years old and live in Daying County, Sichuan Province. I began to practise Falun Gong in June 1998. Many illnesses that I used to have disappeared without a trace.

Since July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been relentless in persecuting Falun Gong. I've been distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong for the past eight years. Almost every year they have come to ransack my house and arrest me.

On October 27th, 2001, while I was out explaining the truth in public, six people arrived at my house but I wasn't there. They then went out to the street, found me, and told me to go with them. They pushed me into a police car and drove to a detention centre. They also ransacked my house and confiscated Falun Gong books. At the detention centre, Domestic Security Squad leader Yao Jianchun waved his hands and cursed me: "How dare you go against the CCP! We will beat you to death." He continued to curse at me. They detained me for 12 days and extorted 1,500 yuan¹ from me.

About 9 p.m. on the evening of November 9th, 2003, eight people broke into my house and arrested me and two business associates who had come to visit me. They took us to Daying Detention Centre. The police ransacked my house, took away two Falun Gong books, a big radio tape recorder, and two Falun Gong audiotapes. They also took my grandson's English study audiotapes. The police questioned the two business associates that night but didn't get any information. Around 11 p.m. they released one of them. The other one was released the next day. One policewoman from the Domestic Security Squad cursed me and said, "You're dead old woman! If you do not tell the resource of these materials, you'll be detained until you die." She also said other bad words. I was detained for 23 days and released after my family paid the bail.

April 13th, 2005, another practitioner and I went to Pengxi County to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. We were reported and arrested. A young policeman asked me where my leaflets had come from. When I didn't tell him, he slapped my face hard and cursed me. Finally the police sentenced me to one year of forced labour (to be served at home) and detained me for 15 days.

In October 2005, some CCP members went to see my son. They wanted to arrest me and send me to a brainwashing centre in Xiuning City. I didn't cooperate and left home. They went to see my son four times, demanding that he turn me in.

In the middle of January 2006, I was distributing leaflets in public during the day. Someone reported me. I was arrested and detained for more than an hour. The person said, "It's you again. Where did you get the materials?" I offered to let him look at the materials. He took them and told me to go home immediately.

On February 22nd, 2006, I went to the countryside with four other practitioners to distribute leaflets and we were reported. The police from Domestic Security and No. 2 Police Station arrested us and sent us to a detention centre in Daying County. One official cursed me, "You horrible old woman! You have brought us so much trouble. We'll beat you to death." He cursed me many more times. I was released 25 days later.

For the past eight years, CCP members have come to my house and harassed me whenever there are so-called "sensitive days." In August 2007, a group of people came banging on my door. They pretended to be from my son's place of work, saying they wanted to see whether I needed any help in my old age. I told them that I knew they were lying to me. They left.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/12/7/167875.html