The story Li Xiumei, Killed under the Persecution

Li Xiumei was an acquaintance of mine. Years ago, it was widely known that she suffered from many diseases. Upon obtaining Dafa in 1995, she strictly improved herself according to the (moral) requirements of Falun Dafa and soon became completely free of illness. Since she benefited so much from Falun Dafa, she wanted to spread and promote Falun Dafa using her own experiences. Over the years, she carried a cassette player to her practice site daily, taught many new practitioners, and organized group study of the Falun Dafa books, therefore providing a very good environment for all who came to practice.

After the evil people started persecuting Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999, she decided to go to appeal in Beijing in April 2000 to demand justice for Falun Dafa. On her way to Beijing she was arrested at the Dalian railway station and detained in a drug rehabilitation centre for over 40 days. During her detention, she continued to study the Fa (the principles of Falun Dafa) and practice the exercises. Refusing to comply with the evil persecutor's demands, she spent 12 days on a hunger strike. In the end, they could do nothing but release her. Since then, she actively engaged in distributing materials revealing the truth about Falun Dafa, making banners, spraying characters on the wall, writing mini-slogans, and many other things. She would do whatever was good for Faun Dafa and other people.

Once, she went to distribute truth-clarifying materials at a bus station. After finishing distribution on four buses, she was approached by a woman who asked: "How dare you still distribute this?" Xiumei peacefully explained the truth to her and continued distributing the materials for the rest of the morning.

One evening, after she finished distributing truth-clarifying materials on the fourth floor of a building, a man passed by her and went upstairs. After he found the truth-clarifying materials at his door, he ran down immediately and asked her: "Did you do this? It's so late in the night and you are so old already! Even if you do not care about your own safety, you should think of others." She said, "I'm doing this for your sake and for the sake of all people who still have righteous thoughts. I've taken the risk of being arrested, beaten, and sentenced to prison in order to bring you these truth-clarifying materials so that you can tell good from bad and choose a good future for yourself." The man was very moved by her words and said: "You should be careful in doing this in the future. Take care!"

Once when she was distributing truth-clarifying materials in a high-rise building, two women went after her and threatened to dial 110 and report her to the police. Whenever she encountered such situations, she would clarify the truth to the people and tell them about "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance." After they learned that what was played on TV was false propaganda, they naturally understood good from bad and could distinguish the righteous from the evil.

Whenever a "sensitive date" arrived, the evil people would try to harass her without fail. They said they did so because she was a leader and was blacklisted by the "610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems). This past March, her local police station and residential committee attempted to brainwash her. Instead, she stayed firm in her belief and refused to write a "guarantee" letter, refused to comply with the evil people's demands, and escaped to her home. Several days later, she tried to go back to fetch something. On her way home she was arrested by the police and illegally jailed for 39 days.

This July, the police from her local police station arrived at her home and violently took her away. At that time, she was suffering from diarrhoea and looked very bad. When she was taken down and out of the building, all her neighbours on the site said, "She looks so sick. Don't you have any conscience, treating people like that?" Seeing that everyone was talking like that, the wicked police felt at a loss as to what to do but asked for instructions from the director. They then lied to the neighbours, saying they were taking her to the doctor, when in reality they brought her to the police station. She courageously walked out of the police station twice. On the evening of December 3, Li Xiumei was seized and taken away by the wickedl police while she was distributing materials clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. She was illegally imprisoned in the Dalian Yaojia Detention Center. She steadfastly refused to cooperate with the evil persecution, and was recently persecuted to death.

Posting date: 1/1/2002

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/1/17333.html
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/12/25/21995.html