Remembering Fellow Practitioner Ms Chen Guijun

While I was detained in the No.1 Detention Centre in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, I had contact with Falun Dafa practitioner Chen Guijun for a short period of time.

Ms. Chen Guijun, 62, previously lived in a house owned by the Food Department in Chengdu City. Five out of six of her family members are Falun Dafa practitioners. They have used all their business income to tell people about Falun Dafa, let people know about the persecution and show them how they were being deceived by the government. Many people they spoke with have come to understand Dafa and have walked through the door of cultivation.

One of Chen Guijun's daughters was among the first practitioners detained in the Zizhong Women's Labour Camp in Sichuan when Jiang Zemin's persecution began. In that hell in the human world, policemen used violence to force practitioners to give up their beliefs, and brutally tortured them if they resisted. While dragging her by the hair, a policeman ordered a criminal inmate to drag her from the third floor to the first floor in order to badly abuse her. That night, they dragged her by the legs to the third floor.

After her daughter was detained for a short period of time, Chen Guijun was also put into this same prison. She went on a hunger strike and died as a result. In order to absolve themselves from any responsibility, the labour camp asked the local police station to carry her out of the prison and take her home.

In 2003, many practitioners were arrested from the group exercise site that Chen Guijun frequented. The head of the 610 Office (1) in Chengdu interrogated her through the use of violence and said, "You are very difficult when you see me, so I promise you will be miserable after seeing me!"

Chen Guijun was detained in the No.1 Detention Centre. She told the truth of the persecution, as well as her own cultivation experiences to the prisoners and the guards. Many of them woke up from being deceived and gave moral support, and began to treat Dafa and Dafa practitioners with respect. They began to truly admire the spirits of practitioners, who would rather die than give up, in order to uphold the truth with dignity.

Chen Guijun had been on hunger strike for over a month. She was so emaciated that only her bone frame was left and she could not be transfused. Chen Guijun told me, "If they release me to go home, I will ask my husband to hold me and go out to expose the persecution, and let those deceived people understand the true nature of this persecution. If I could tell one person per day, I could tell 30 people in a month." However, the authorities did not take Chen Guijun's dire situation into consideration, and even disregarded her appeal letter. The court sentenced her to nine more years in a forced labour camp!

They also forced the criminal inmates to hold Chen Guijun on a bench, leaning against the wall, while pretending to feed her soymilk, while they videotaped the scene. Chen Guijun did not actually eat anything at all. They fabricated the story. After they finished videotaping, they took Chen Guijun by car to the notorious People's Hospital in Qingyang District in Chengdu. This hospital is the den used to specifically persecute hunger-striking practitioners. Many practitioners died there. The practitioners who were sent there were all on extended hunger strikes, they could no longer be transfused, and were prohibited from being released back to their homes. At this place every single practitioner's life was in danger. However, after they were sent there, they were forced to wear iron shackles and lay restrained on an iron bed, with one hand and one foot shackled.

Armed policemen secure the Qingyang District "hospital" entry doors around the clock. After I got out of the prison on hunger strike, I learned that Chen Guijun was persecuted to death in the Qingyang District "hospital." Before she died, her husband and children had sent clothes and goods to the prison many times, but they were never delivered. They also learned that Chen Guijun died in the Qingyang District "hospital." The police station took her body to be immediately cremated. They prohibited her family members from seeing her body and refused to give the family her ashes.

Note:

(1) "The 610 office" is 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.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/3/18/97581.html