Weifang Police Use Threats and Violence to Try to Force Practitioner to Give Up His Beliefs

Sixty-year-old Li Xiujiang, his wife, and his daughter are residents of Weifang City, Shandong Province. They were cruelly persecuted by the Liuhe Township government and the local police because the whole family diligently practises "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance."

One day in May 2000, a group of local police, led by their supervisor, broke into Li Xiujiang's house and arrested him. They took him to the police station and hung him from a basketball backboard. One officer, Lin Zhiyuan, slapped Li's face and peppered him with punches and kicks. After leaving him hanging all day, Lin brought Li to his office, and together with some other policemen, Wang Min, Tang, and others, he tried to force Li to write a "guarantee statement" to renounce Falun Gong. Mr. Li refused. Officer Tang then held a container of boiling water above Li's head, threatening to scald him if he did not comply. The other policemen then pushed down on Li's neck to force Li to kowtow to Lin Zhiyuan, who was threatening to cut Li with the eight-inch long knife he held.

After Mr. Li was tortured for the entire night by this group of vicious policemen, he was handcuffed and hung from a metal bed. He refused and went on a hunger strike to protest. The police then force-fed him with alcohol, knowing that Falun Gong practitioners do not drink. Afterwards, the police brought Li's wife and daughter to the police station and forced them to sit on the floor with their legs and arms stretched out. Policeman Wang Min stomped on Mrs. Li's legs and slapped her face with a rolled-up magazine. He then dragged her outdoors and left her in the hot sun.

During the National Day holiday (October 1st) in 2000, police arrested Li Xiujiang and his family, and imprisoned them in the police station. The police tried very hard to force Li and his family to curse our Teacher and to slander Dafa, but their efforts were in vain. Later, the Li family was forced to pay four hundred Yuan (1) each as a bail to be released, and they were not given a receipt.

(1) Yuan is the Chinese unit of currency. The average income of an urban worker in China is around 500 Yuan.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/10/72041.html