My Experience of Being Arrested and Persecuted by the Dehui City Police Department

In early March, a practitioner and I were arrested in our temporary home by policemen from the Political and Security Section of the Xinhui Police Station (part of the Dehui City Police Department and Number One Section of Changchun City Police Department). At the time, we had just finished having our dinner in our room and we heard rapid knocking at our door. I heard one policeman answering our neighbour, "We are the police!" I knew we were surrounded by police.

My fellow practitioner and I grabbed some Falun Dafa leaflets exposing the persecution in a hurry, but at this point the police had already broken into the apartment. We locked the door to our room from the inside. The policemen could not push open the door, so they kicked the glass on the door into pieces, forced their way into the room and seven to eight policemen came in and arrested us.

The other practitioner opened the window and jumped out from the 4th floor. She suffered broken bones in her back and feet, as well as injuries to her face. On the second day, this practitioner was released.

After they broke into the room, one policeman held up a gun and shouted, "Don't move!" Several policemen pushed me down to the ground, and I shouted, "What are you doing?" I refused to cooperate with them and did not let them tie me up. However, in the end they overpowered me and tied me up. They were afraid that I would cry out for help, so they shoved a towel into my mouth and pulled me downstairs. They pushed me into a police car and took me to the Dehui Hotel, which was really a place that people from the Dehui City 610 Office¹, Political and Security Section and National Security Team of Dehui Police Department used to persecute Dafa practitioners.

Several policemen forcibly pulled me to the third floor and threw me into a room with the windows blocked out. At this time, policeman Guo Xuquan from the Political and Security Section came in and said, "Do you still want to live? If not, we can open the window and let you jump out or I can push you out the window." After a while, policemen took another woman into the room and I heard that woman arguing with them, "I went there to deliver the newspaper and knocked at the wrong door. Why are you taking me here?" The policemen did not believe her and that woman asked them to call her boss to confirm. The police asked her to curse people and say bad words about Dafa. Later on, this woman was taken away by her family and colleagues.

In the evening, several policemen took turns to watch me and I lay on the ground for the whole evening with handcuffs on. On the second day, a person from the 610 Office and National Security team, Mao Chunsheng, hypocritically said to me, "Can we have a good talk?" I did not answer.

At around 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., the policemen started to torture me, attempting to force a confession out of me. At first, the team leader of the National Security team and Deputy Chief of the Political and Security Section of the Dehui Police Department, Zhang Qingchun, came into the room. Because they found the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party ² at my home, Zhang Qingchun imposed groundless charges against me, claimed that I was "anti Communist Party" and said he wanted to talk to me. I did not answer, and he started to kick me in the head and blew cigarette smoke into my nostrils. His body was very weak and he could not stand for long after he tortured me for some time. He then lay down on the bed in the room and started to take some medicine. His face was dark and thin. Zhang Qingchun had participated in or plotted the persecution against almost every Dafa practitioner in Dehui City.

Next, several policemen led by Guo Xuquan started to torture me. They pulled me up from the ground, pushed me into a big chair and handcuffed my hands behind the back of the chair. I refused to cooperate with them and they started to pour water into my mouth. Two of them used a hard object to forcibly pry open my mouth. One person made an effort to pull my handcuffs downward and pulled my hair, and one person poured water into my mouth and claimed that they would pour 80 bottles of water into my mouth. Due to extreme pain, I started to stamp my feet, and then they tied my feet to a chair and continued persecuting me. During this period, they would pause for a while when they felt tired. Meanwhile, policeman Lou Xingyan wrote down a list of false charges against me.

They continued torturing me until late into the night and at that time, my whole body was soaked and my teeth were injured, with blood filling up my mouth. Those who participated in the persecution included a policeman named Wang Tiejun, who was recently moved to the Political and Security Section, and some other policemen that I did not know the names of. During this period, the section chief of the Political and Security Section also appeared at the door. They did not stop until they found that they could not get anything out of me.

The police forcibly pulled me into a car and carried me to Dehui Detention Centre for detention. In the cell, a detainee asked me to take off my clothes, and they saw that my left pant leg was soaked in blood and a big wound in my left leg was bleeding. Due to severe injury, on the second day, the guards asked other people to carry me to Cell No. 5, which was the cell to detain medical patients. The detention centre was afraid to take responsibility for my condition and sent Doctor Li Yazhou and others to carry me to the Dehui Hospital for an examination. Afterward, I was sent back to the detention centre.

Because I was weak, I lay down on the bed every day. The detention centre asked detainees in my cell to take turns watching me. Because I refused to eat, they started to force-feed me. Detainee Liu Mairen was assigned to Cell No. 5 and was instigated by the guards to force-feed and persecute me. In order to get me to sit up, one afternoon the detainees in the cells, under the instigation of guard Yao, started to torture me. One detainee pricked my fingernails with a needle, some pulled my hair, and some beat my chest and caused two ribs to become bruised. After that, I could not move for a few days.

The guards then started to brutally force-feed me with a spoon and needle, and if I refused to eat, they would beat me. Later, a guard could not bear to see them torture me any more and stopped them. It was said that I was under tight surveillance by the detention centre.

One night, because I was extremely weak, the detention centre sent me to Dehui Hospital for "emergency rescue" in the evening so that they could continue persecuting me. That evening, many policemen went to my hospital ward, including the staff from the legal system section. Even though my condition was serious, they refused to release me and spent 5,000 yuan³ on the second day to send me to the Changchun Police Hospital to continue persecuting me.

In the Changchun Police Hospital, they conducted a check-up on me and injected drugs that were harmful to the heart. They said I had pulmonary tuberculosis, among other diseases, and sent me to the in-patient department. On the way, I felt so sick that I vomited in the car. They carried me to the infectious diseases section in the in-patient department. When we arrived there, detainees were the ones who received me. They took off my clothes, measured my blood pressure, hooked up a catheter in me, and set up a tube to force-feed me. In the evening due to unbearable pain, I kept crying out for help. One detainee finally relented and unhooked the catheter. That evening, I was injected with a large amount of unknown drugs. On the second day, I asked the doctor to stop using that medication when she came through the ward. The section chief said to me viciously, "Stay there obediently and cooperate!" The food they forced into me was soybean powder mixed with tap water. On the third day, they injected me with a large amount of unknown drugs again. I lost consciousness, fell, and hit my head against the radiator. My head was severely injured.

Since I was critically ill, in order to shirk their responsibility, the hospital informed the Political Security Section of the Dehui Police Department and then informed my family. My family members took me home that evening. On the way, due to my critical situation, my family had to send me to the Jiutai Hospital for emergency treatment. On the second day, after my condition stabilised, my family took me home.

Relevant responsible units and people:

National Security Team of Dehui City Police Department:

Team leader Zhang Qingchun: 86-431-7222053(Office), 86-431-7264567(Home),86-13756399333(Mobile)

Team instructor Zhao Yujie: 86-431-7222053(Office), 86-13630546668(Mobile)

Deputy team leader Sun Chengshan: 86-431-7222053(Office),

Director of 610 Office, Li Yuke: 86-431-7216610(Office), 86-431-7234600(Home), 86-13364633706(Mobile)

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.

2. Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com

3. "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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/21/130961.html