Falun Dafa Practitioner Bai Jianjun Recounts Persecution Experience at Shanghai First Detention Centre

The following is the brutal persecution I suffered while in Shanghai First Detention Centre during July 2000. While meditating in Tiananmen Square, I was arrested by police and taken to Beijing Xicheng District Detention Centre. A few days later, I was transferred to the Shanghai government's liaison office in Beijing. Then, I was detained for one month at the Shanghai Police Department and jailed at the Shanghai First Detention Centre.

I resisted the unjust persecution by not signing my name on the "repentance statement" (1). Additionally, I went on hunger strike to protest the persecution at Shanghai First Detention Centre. The lead guard in charge of my floor tried to persuade me to eat. When I refused to cooperate, he incited prisoners to brutally torment me into complying with his wishes. The group of inmates who were led by the guard slapped my face and beat my chest with their fists. A few inmates surrounded me and kicked me.

They forced my head into the toilet; and, after three times of being held under, my will was broken and I gave up my hunger strike. Now, I really have experienced how brutal this persecution is and why this persecution has cast such a huge shadow of terror. It has taken months for me to gradually eliminate the terror I have experienced.

Note:

(1) Repentance Statement: In this statement the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/3/28/98301.html