The Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Gao Deyu, in Her 60's, from Sichuan Province

My name is Gao Deyu, and I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from Xichang City, Sichuan Province. I have been persecuted many times over the past several years by the local police, lawless officials and colleagues from my work unit.

I was doing the meditation exercise with several other practitioners in my backyard one day in May 2000 when Zhou Shuzhen, a colleague of mine, reported us to the police. I was detained at the National Security Division of Xichang City Police Department for seven days, during which time the police took pictures of me and broadcast the pictures throughout the city. Li Yuxu, head of the National Security Division, directly persecuted me.

Another colleague Dai Wenyi led Li Yuxu, Zhou Xin, Wang Yongrong and others from the National Security Division broke into my home less than ten days after my release. They shouted at my family and asked if I had gone to Beijing, and my family said I went to Chongqing, not Beijing. The officials refused to believe my family, and they demanded that my family pay for their plane tickets so they could go to Beijing and look for me. My family refused, and the officials made my family call me, as they would not believe my family unless they heard my voice over the phone. My family made about eight phone calls that night but the line was busy, so the authorities made my youngest son immediately go to Chongqing and pick up my phone within the time frame they dictated. It cost my son nearly 1,000 yuan¹ to travel round-trip between Xichang and Chongqing.

Seven people including Wang Yongrong, Zhou Xin, Hu Zhongjun, Zhen Qiyou and others from the National Security Division, officer Ma from Xicheng Police Department, and Dai Wenyi from my work unit ransacked my home at 11:00 p.m. on January 19th, 2001, without presenting a search warrant. They took Dafa books, and audio cassettes. They subsequently took me to Xicheng Police Department, and it was 2:00 a.m. when we arrived there. Two other practitioners were also held at the police department. They transferred the three of us to Mapingba Detention Centre at 2:30 a.m. on Chinese New Year’s Eve.

Three days later, Li Yuxu and others took me and another practitioner to Butuo Detention Centre to further persecute us. It was snowing and raining, and the temperature was quite low. We had no blankets or cushions, so we sat on the icy floor for seven days. We held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Li Yuxu brought doctors and nurses on the seventh day and they tried to force-feed us but they failed. When we left the detention centre, the head of the detention centre said to Li Yuxu, "Don’t bring any more Falun Gong practitioners here, we won’t take them." They sent me to the city detention centre after taking me back to Xichang, and they held me there for eighteen days. Li Yuxu, Wang Yongrong, Zhou Xin, Hu Zhongjun, officer Ma from Xicheng Police Department, my colleague Dai Wenyi and section head Xu directly persecuted me.

Attempted Brainwashing

After I was detained at various places for about a month, the city 610 Office² launched another round of persecution in February 2001. Li Yuxu transferred me from the city detention centre to Mapingba Detention Centre to "reform³" me. Song, secretary of Xichang City Party Committee, ordered officers from the National Security Division to brutally beat us. They made us write statements attacking Dafa on the first day, and none of us complied with them. Zhang Xiaobin, a National Security agent, cursed Teacher, Dafa and us, and we explained the beauty of cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to all people present. Li Yuxu said we were not allowed to study the Fa or do the exercises. One time, we practised the exercises as a group, and guard Zhang detained practitioner Guo Bin in solitary confinement for several days. He also ordered the person in charge of food to sneak into our cell at night and see if we were doing the exercises.

When our families visited us, they extorted 200 yuan per month from each of our families. They also used corporal punishment by forcing us to stand for five hours each time. Guard Zhang once talked about the self-immolation in Tiananman Square, and we immediately said that it was staged to frame and defame Falun Gong. Practitioner Fang Zhengping said something, and guard Zhang ordered several inmates to come to the monitoring room and beat Fang Zhengping. We all stepped forward and shouted, "You can’t hit people!" The next day, Li Yuxu led all of the National Security agents to barge in, and they told us to stand in line. Guards Zhou Xin and Zheng Qiyou grabbed practitioner He Bingji and beat and kicked him. He Bingji fell to the ground and when he got back up, he was immediately struck down again. They beat him throughout the whole drilling ground, which is about 100 metres [328 ft.] long. We kept shouting, "The guards are not allowed to hit people!"

Guard Hu Zhongjun grabbed the hair of practitioner Lu Qizhen who was in her 70s, and he yanked her hair. He also pinched her back until a large area turned black and blue. He then cuffed her to the monkey bar to expose her to the sweltering heat. Guards Chen Li, Wang Yongrong and Hu Zhongjun hogtied practitioner Lu Yuancui, who was sleeping in her underwear. They tied her barefoot to a pear tree and kept her there for four hours. Her face turned dark red.

Twenty one practitioners were still held at the brainwashing centre after two sessions of brainwashing, each lasting three months. Those who did not write a guarantee statement were held for three more months. The city 610 Office ordered the National Security Division to send a "reform team" to brainwash us at Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp. Some practitioners were intimidated and deceived by the "reform team" and the National Security agents, and only a few of us remained determined. We were detained in solitary confinement cells around the clock. Several of us moved our blankets and personal belongings out of the cells on the last day of March, and guard Hu Zhongjun vehemently slapped practitioner Shi Ying’s face, which caused her entire cheek to turn bright red. The five of us were forced to stand outside for four hours, and they refused to release us. We decided to go on a hunger strike to protest the unlawful persecution. They had no choice but to release us after twelve days of hunger strike, seeing that we were determined in our belief.

The city 610 Office and National Security Division used extremely base means to persecute us during the several months of brainwashing. The day before my release, my colleague Dai Wenyi told my family that I would be released only if they paid 5,000 yuan. My family said they didn’t have the money. Li Yuxu told my family to pay 2,000 yuan "guarantee fee." He said to my family, "Don’t tell Gao Deyu [author of this article] about it. She wouldn’t come out if she knows about it."

This time, Wang Zaokang, the former head of Xichang City Police Department who participated in brainwashing, Du Xichuan at the city 610 Office and all National Security agents directly persecuted twenty two Dafa practitioners including myself.

Frequent Arrest and Extortion

I was buying vegetables on April 2nd, 2003 when Zhou Xin and Wang Yongrong from the National Security Division arrested me. Many people shouted at them, "What are you doing arresting this little old lady?" They hastily took me to the National Security Division and tried to extort 1,000 yuan from me. My husband and I both told them that we don’t have the money, and we left after saying these words. They ransacked my home later on the same day, and they took two copies of a Falun Dafa book. My husband and I managed to get one back.

Several practitioners and I were reported to the police on June 29th, 2003, by someone deceived by government propaganda when we were speaking to people about the facts of Falun Dafa. Li Chonghua, Fu Daoju, Liu Dexiang, Mai Wuxiang, Tang Yonghui and Fei Jifu, officers from Yanjing Police Department in Yanyuan County forcibly put us in a car and took us to the police department. They searched our clothes and bags and interrogated us. We did not cooperate with them and we only clarified the truth about the persecution to them. The police took us to a detention centre the next afternoon, and several of us held a hunger strike. We were released six days later. They extorted 2,000 yuan from my family before my release and they have not returned the money.

This time, Xiong Qinglong from Yanyuan County Police Department, Zhao Benshan, head of the National Security Division, and Li Chonghua, Fu Daoju, Liu Dexiang, Mai Wuxiang, Tang Yonghui and Fei Jifu from Yanjing Police Department directly persecuted us.

National Security Division, the Procuratorate, and the court jointly persecute Dafa practitioners

Luo Yi, deputy head of the National Security Division led eight agents and my colleague Dai Wenyi as they broke into my home at 4:00 p.m. on February 13th, 2004. Two female agents watched me and didn’t allow me to move, speak or use the toilet. They turned my home upside-down. They took me to the city detention centre at around 5:30 p.m. I shouted all the way from my home to the detention centre, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance is good!" They came to interrogate me but I refused to cooperate with them. I only said, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good!" The interrogator wrote down things that filled an entire sheet of paper, and Luo Yi said to me, "You’ll go to prison for sure." I answered, "Luo Yi, you will certainly go to prison in the future."

I held a hunger strike the following day to protest the persecution. The National Security Division called over a doctor from the city hospital on the fifth day and told the doctor to force-feed me. I refused to cooperate with them and they didn’t succeed the first time. During the second attempt, agent Liu called the city 610 Office and said, "We can’t force-feed Gao Deyu. She may be dying!" Zhang at the 610 Office said, "Go ahead and force-feed her! I’ll back you up if she dies from it." Agent Liu received the order and told the doctor to carry me outside. About five people pinned me down and a finger-thick tube was inserted into my left nostril. Piercing pain shot throughout my body, and blood gushed from my right nostril and sprayed all over the doctor’s face. The doctor looked at agent Liu and said, "I may have injured her internal organs." Agent Liu pointed at my right nostril and said, "Insert the tube there." The tube went into my right nostril, and I lost consciousness from the pain. I faintly recall them feeding me with something, and it smelled like drugs. After the feeding, they pulled out the tube, and the 2.2 ft. tube was dripping blood.

I drifted in and out of consciousness for seven days. During this period, my chest and stomach hurt terribly, and I threw up whatever was put in my mouth. I defecated blood that smelled of drugs. Blood came out of my nose and mouth, and I was bedridden and incontinent. The inmates who were in the same cell as me washed my clothes and took turns taking care of me. They reported my condition daily to detention centre authorities. The head of the detention centre called the National Security Division every day and said, "Look, you’ve completely wrecked her. Human life is a big deal, come and take her away."

Luo Yi, deputy head of the National Security Division, led my husband to come see me on March 18th. My husband cried and confronted the guards, saying, "My wife Gao Deyu was arrested and brought here only a month ago, and she was robust and healthy before the arrest. Now look at her! Do you call yourselves human beings?" The guards didn’t say anything.

Yang Bin, the public prosecutor at Xichang City Procuratorate asked me where I got the flyers during the first interrogation, and I answered, "We, the Falun Gong practitioners have no place to appeal, so we can only tell people about the true cause for this persecution against us and rescue people deceived by lies so they can be saved. That’s the importance of the flyers. I won’t tell you where they come from."

Xichang City Court tried me twice. The first trial took place at the big trial room of Xichang City Court. Gong Yahong was the head judge, Yang Bin was the public prosecutor, and Chen Zhu was the defender. They told me to state my issues and probed the source of the truth clarification materials. I said, "Those materials are used to rescue people." They tried to coax and intimidate me into giving them information, and I asked, "Do you have the courage to read out loud those pamphlets [truth clarification materials] for everyone here? They are the ‘incriminating evidence’ the Xichang City National Security Division uses to persecute Falun Gong practitioners!" The first trial ended without any verdict.

During the second trial, they cited "using evil cult organisation to disrupt administration of law," and Article 300 of the Criminal Law. I said, "What is an evil cult? What is ‘disrupting the administration of law’? Think about it, the ‘Tiananmen self-immolation’ was truly interfering with the administration of law, and the Communist Party is an authentic evil cult who tries to frame Falun Gong. Do you dare to play the VCD exposing the persecution here and now? We did nothing wrong by cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, the law of the universe. You are legal workers, and you know this better than anyone. All Dafa practitioners including myself did not commit any crimes, and we only told people about the fundamental reason for this persecution so people would no longer follow the wicked Chinese Communist Party. We are awakening people’s conscience and helping them quit the Communist Party, an evil organisation, so they will have a bright future."

Note

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

2. "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.

3. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/10/137517.html