The officials at my workplace persecuted me psychologically and financially after my release from the labour camp for the second time, paying me only about 100 yuan1 salary in a whole year. When I went through the retirement procedure in 2004, the officials attempted to coerce me to give up Dafa, but I firmly refused. The officials reduced my pension. Up to this day I only receive a portion of my regular retirement pension.
I began practising Falun Dafa in late April 1997 at the age of 57. All of my illnesses disappeared through cultivation of my character and doing the exercises. I benefited physically and mentally from the practice.
I wanted to speak up for Dafa after the persecution started, so I went to Beijing on December 18th, 1999, with some fellow practitioners. I was sentenced to one year of forced labour. I went to Beijing again on December 29th, 2000, and was held at Lianhuacun Detention Centre for one month after I returned to Chengdu City. Officials from the Wuhou District sentenced me to 18 months of forced labour a few days after I went back to work. I refused to sign their fabricated documents.
Persecution from the police and my workplace
I went to the provincial government on September 22nd, 1999, to speak to people about the facts of Falun Dafa. Officers from Jiangxi Street Police Station in Chengdu City interrogated me. They forced me to write down information about my workplace and all the members of my family. They told officials from the Security Division at my workplace to come pick me up after 2:00 a.m. The officials were angry with me and said I was bringing shame on my workplace. From then on, the police and agents from the security division of my work unit frequently called me to ask questions, and the officers called me over to the Security Division every few days. They always told me to come over immediately, even if it was pouring outside. When I arrived, they would not say anything and simply told me to leave.
A few practitioners and I went to Beijing to appeal at the end of 1999. The police and workplace security officers handcuffed us and took us back to Chengdu City. They sent us immediately to a drug rehabilitation centre. The police forced the other practitioners' and my family members to attend a three-day brainwashing session at work for going to Beijing. They also took all of my Dafa books and extorted more than 3,000 yuan from me, calling it a "fine." My family was traumatised. I was forbidden to work after I was released from the labour camp for the first time. The police and security officers constantly harassed me and compelled my family to watch me.
I went to Beijing to appeal again, along with some other practitioners at the end of 2000. Right after we got off the train the police tried to coerce us into cursing Dafa. We firmly refused. We were sent to the train station police division. When we got there, I heard the police hitting fellow practitioners with batons. More and more people were brought into the station, and the police stopped their atrocities. Police and security officers from my workplace arrived and recognised me. They took me back to Chengdu City, where they held me in a small room at the police station. There was nothing in the room besides an old rag. They gave us a bowl of leftover food in the evening and interrogated us the next day. I was transferred to Lianhuacun Detention Centre after the interrogation. Security officers from my workplace picked me up after one month of detention. My family was fined another 3,000 yuan. Several days later, I was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour.
As stated above, people from my workplace continued to persecute me mentally and financially. When I went through the retirement procedure in 2004, my supervisors again attempted to coerce me to give up Dafa, but I firmly refused. My salary has since been reduced. I only receive a portion of my rightful retirement earnings to this day.
Security officers at my workplace confiscated my ID in 1999 and gave it to the police. I have repeatedly asked for it back, but they have refused to return it to me.
Persecution at a detention centre and labour camp
I went to appeal for Dafa at the end of 1999. When we arrived at Tiananmen Square, a man dressed all in black asked us if we practised Falun Gong. We answered, "Yes" and were taken to the Tiananmen Detention Centre by car. The police took our Dafa books and put us in a room with metal bars. The room was already filled with fellow practitioners from all over the country. Some practitioners were being regularly transferred. We were held there until around 6:00 p.m. Then officials from the Sichuan Province Liaison Office in Beijing took us to another location. We were immediately stripped naked and body-searched and were individually interrogated in the evening. The police and security officers from my workplace arrived and took me back to Chengdu City by train.
I was immediately taken to Qingyanggong Drug Rehabilitation Centre after I got off the train. The police questioned us one by one, asking if we would continue to practise Falun Gong. We were slapped across the face for answering "Yes." They forced us to kneel in the wet dirt with our backs straight. Those whose backs were not straight were beaten. Our knees hurt terribly after kneeling for several hours. They handcuffed us behind our backs and hung us from a metal door by our handcuffs. They let us down at around 4:00 p.m. and made us stand in a row. They ordered drug addict inmates to sit across from us and to curse Dafa. I cried and told them that they absolutely could not insult Dafa. They said in a small voice, "There is nothing we can do; if you say that you won’t practise [Falun Gong] anymore, they’ll let us stop." Their voices grew weaker and indistinguishable after a while, and the police let them stop.
Before leaving the drug rehab centre after 48 hours, the police talked to us individually and said that our families and careers would be affected if we continued to practise Falun Gong. An overweight police officer screamed at us for a while. We were then transferred to a detention centre. They again removed all of our clothes, searched us and our bags, and cut all our belts and the strings on our clothes and pants. They forced us to recite prison policies, leave our fingerprints, and wear a black sign to have our photo taken. They often took us to a small metal hut to interrogate us and told us to read Dafa-slandering newspapers. We firmly resisted the persecution. The police dragged us outside and beat and cursed us.
Persecution at Nanmusi Women’s Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong
I was held at Nanmusi Women’s Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong the second time. They searched my bags and me right after I arrived. They took whatever they liked from me and cut our hair messily to humiliate us. One practitioner obtained a copy of a Falun Dafa book after much difficulty. We cherished the book more than our lives. The guards took the book, and we went on a hunger strike in protest. The guards and "civil control group" people tightened control and beat and kicked us. Once, the guards kicked my head several times with hard boots. I saw stars and was unable to get up for a long time. Three practitioners including myself were doing the sitting meditation when people from the "civil control group" poured a bucket of water down our necks and completely soaked our clothes. One evening a practitioner was sent to a solitary confinement cell. We ran into the cell and demanded the persecution immediately stop. All of the guards surrounded us and brutally beat us. After the beating they dragged us back to the storage room, one by one.
The guards divided all of the detained Falun Gong practitioners into two groups on June 20th, 2000. Two practitioners whom the guards thought to be "leaders" were transferred to the then Group 5. The rest of the practitioners had to listen to official Wu. Wu said, "We are a totalitarian agency within the country, and we have high voltage electric batons here!" They body-searched us again and sent us to the newly established Group 7, where the officials watched us 24 hours a day. They violently assaulted us whenever they saw us reciting Dafa articles or doing the exercises.
I recited Falun Dafa teachings with another practitioner on the day of my arrival, and someone from the "civil control group" slapped our faces. They gathered us together and made us sit down and call out numbers. We did the sitting meditation instead. The guards jumped on us and beat us. They used fists and feet in the first few days and later resorted to numerous electric batons. The electric sparks flew from the practitioners’ bodies. My wrists, abdomen, neck and other body parts were shocked. Several batons were broken right away. The guards gathered us together again and told us to do roll call and eat. Many practitioners refused to count off and were forced to remain standing for long periods of time. One practitioner lost consciousness. The guards changed their tactics again and patrolled every 30 minutes at night. They savagely beat and electrically shocked practitioners they saw doing the Falun Gong exercises. The practitioner also had to stand and endure sleep deprivation. They made us stand and sit in military postures in the daytime. People from the civil control group read Dafa-slandering books to us and tortured us in various other ways.
I did nothing wrong by being a good person. I demand that the regime restore my right to practise my belief, restore my right to be a good person, and restore our environment to practise cultivation.
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.ca/mh/articles/2006/8/14/135505.html
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