In June of 2001, while I was distributing truth-clarification materials in the countryside, someone reported me to the police, and I was arrested. Other practitioners who were arrested along with me include Ms. Yang Lixia, Mr. Meng, and Ms. Zhang. The driver of the police car and the person who reported us punched and kicked Mr. Meng as well as striking him on the head so hard that he became unconsciousness and lost his memory for quite some time. Mr. Meng was then illegally sentenced to one-year of forced labour and is currently imprisoned at the Dalian Detention Centre.
Yang Lixia, Ms. Zhang, and I were illegally sentenced to two years of "re-education through labour." Eventually I was sent home under house arrest due to illness, but Ms. Yang and Ms. Zhang were sent to the Masanjia Female Forced Labour Camp. On the way to Masanjia, Ms. Zhang managed to escape however injured herself in the process. She also lost consciousness temporarily. Ms. Yang is still being detained at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.
While I was detained in the labour camp, I met a Dafa practitioner with the last name of Tan, who was arrested while she was telling people about Falun Gong. She refused to write her name on the interrogation record and, for this two policewomen cruelly tortured her: Her feet and hands were handcuffed to a window and one officer used an electric baton to shock under her armpits while another used a dumbbell to hit her feet. Her feet turned purple and were so swollen that she was not able to walk. Her armpits were covered with over 40 bruises due to the electric shocks. Two police also dragged her and slammed her onto a table, causing a 10cm by 20cm bruise in the middle of her chest, right over her heart. Since that time she often experiences heart palpitations. Although her entire body would shake and she frequently spat out blood, the police just left her unattended in the cell. Dafa practitioners asked the police several times to send her to a hospital, but no attention was paid to the requests.
One day at midnight, the head of a village led over ten police officers to raid the home of Sun Lunxiang's, because she was a practitioner. They jumped over the wall around her yard, broke open the door, and forced Sun into a police car. Because they even didn't allow Sun to put on her clothes, she was dressed only in her underwear. Her husband was not at home that night, so her two young daughters were extremely frightened and cried while begging the police not to take their mother away.
Plainclothes police officers arrested Dafa practitioner Sun Ping while she was telling people the facts about Falun Dafa. Her husband works in another city, and her arrest left their sick child unattended. Sun Ping herself was tortured with an electric baton and was physically beaten.
Dafa practitioner Han Runzhi was arrested while she was handing out truth-clarification materials. In the detention centre, the police discovered that using an electric baton to shock her had no affect, so the police used the electric baton to ruthlessly beat her arms and legs instead, covering them with black and purple bruises.
In the detention centre, the guards forced practitioners to do labour, sometime for as long as 17 or 18 hours a day. If anyone refused to do the labour, they would use a special torture instrument, an iron frame 40cm long and 30cm wide to which our hands and feet would be handcuffed as a torture. Dafa practitioners Yin Baolan, Sun Lunxiang, and Han Guizhi were all tortured with this instrument.
To protest this illegal treatment, Yin Baolan, Sun Lunxiang, Han Guizhi, and I held a hunger strike. On the fifth day of the strike, a female guard named Liu Hong brought four or five policeman and two male criminals to our cell. Liu ordered the two criminals to drag me out to be force-fed. I warned them sternly, "Don't touch me!" They right away drew back their hands. Liu screamed at them to make them drag me out, but they didn't budge. When Liu then used a bamboo stick to strike me, other practitioners came forward to protect me. Some went forward to fend off the bamboo stick while others held on to me and wouldn't allow the police to take me out. I saw police beat Yin Baolan's face and head as well as kick her from a wooden bed to the floor. I used all my strength to resist them, but at last I was dragged to the detention centre clinic. Four thugs forced me onto a stool and broke one of my teeth while prying my mouth open. When the doctor inserted a rubber tube into my oesophagus, it pressed against my trachea so that I almost lost my breath. It took me a long time to be able to breathe normally. After the guards force-fed me, the two criminals dragged me back to the cell. Then in turn, they force-fed Yin Baolan, Sun Lunxiang, and Han Guizhi. We maintained our hunger strike for over two weeks. My health became very poor during that period. Three times I asked them to send me to a hospital for an examination, but they declined. Later, my family members sought out the head of the detention centre and demanded that I be sent to a hospital. They warned that the detention centre would bear full responsibility if anything happened to me. Under pressure from my family members, they had to send me to a hospital. The results of the examination showed that I had serious heart and kidney problems. The doctor said my life would have been in danger if the exam had been even slightly delayed and asked that I be immediately hospitalised. Later my family members managed to get me out due to my health problems, but only if I remained under house arrest.
After I left the detention centre, I returned to my job. However, because I insisted on practising Falun Gong my employer fired me.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/4/27/49196.html
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