The Police Beat and Injured Me Because I Read a Brochure

I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Shatuozi Township, Pingquan County, Hebei Province. The following is my experience at the hands of the local police.

At about 8 a.m. on March 3rd, 2004, Li Jianbo and Tong Yanhui from the Shatuozi Police Station with two other policemen rushed into my home. I was reading a brochure at the time. Seeing they were coming I put the brochure into my pocket. They said, "What were you reading? Let's see it!" They took the brochure from my pocket and demanded to know where it came from. I told them that I picked it up outside. They ordered me to go with them. I told them I had done nothing illegal and questioned why I should go with them. Right then and there all four of them became violent. Two of them caught me by my arms, one grabbed my hair, and the other one started to slap my face. They also searched my house. Without finding any incriminating evidence they forced me into their vehicle.

After I arrived at the local police station, they handcuffed me to a radiator pipe, beat me with their hands, and even used folded newspaper to hit my face. My face and hands were bleeding from the beatings. One of them, I can't remember which one, then wiped his hand with my blood, went out and lied to the people outside saying that I bit him. The police not only beat me again but also turned around and charged me, the victim, with a crime. The Communist Party regime is really so evil! The excruciating chest pain caused by the beating I had been subjected to lasted more than 40 days.

That day my relatives and other townspeople went to the local police station to plead with them for me. They praised and flattered them and also and found some influential people to persuade the police, but they still refused to let me go. After that we entrusted Li Fu, a man of influence in the county, with pleading for me. Communist regime agitator Li Jianbo not only slandered Li Fu but also took off his own coat and rushed toward Li Fu, intending to beat him. There were a lot of people around. Someone grabbed Li Jianbo around his waist and stopped him.

The local police telephoned the county police to resolve the incident. I had then been handcuffed for over seven hours, with a serious internal injury, obvious other trauma and a bloody face. Tong Yanhui released my handcuffs and ordered me to wash the blood off my face, for fear others would discover what had been done to me. When they arrived, the county police wanted to fine me 3,000 Yuan¹. They also stated that if we didn't give them enough money, they wouldn't release me and wanted to send Wang Shuying and me to their police department.

Once the local police noticed the county police department taking over, they realised the local police would not get the money. Then Li Jianbo told me, "1,500 Yuan is also OK." Wang Shuying and I were thus detained for a whole day and they extorted 3,000 Yuan in total from us. As a peasant, I only have several hundred Yuan income for a whole year!

Because of the beating I cannot move freely. The second day they also ordered my daughter-in-law to go to the police station, fill out this or that paper, sign documents and leave fingerprints.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/1/17/118831.html