The Persecution of Ms. Li Xiuling, a Practitioner from Shulan City, Jilin Province

Ms. Li Xiuling is a practitioner from Shulan City, Jilin Province. On July 20th, 2006, Beicheng Street official Qi Ming and others from Shulan City forcibly arrested Ms. Li and sent her to the Xiangshui Water Bank for "transformation¹." She was detained there for one week. Below is the account of Ms. Li’s persecution.

My name is Li Xiuling, and I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shulan City, Jilin Province. In September 1999, I went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. Officers from the Beijing Suburb Police Station arrested me and kept me in the Daxing County Detention Centre. Four days later the Shulan City Office in Beijing sent me to a local detention centre and detained me there for fifteen days. I had 1,100 yuan² with me, all of which was taken away by officials at the Shulan City Office in Beijing.

In the following several years, a few people persecuted me, including Beicheng Street Party Secretary Ren Dongzhou, Qi Ming, Officer Gao, and Officer Kuang. They used various excuses to restrict my freedom. I am a small business owner, and they took turns at harassing me every day at my shop — for a total more than 60 times. When politically sensitive dates approached, they forcibly arrested me and detained me in the street office. They once arrested five practitioners, including myself, and kept us in the street office all day. They tried to force us to write guarantees not to go to Beijing to appeal, but we did not yield. Five days later I was able to return home.

In late 2000, when it was almost the New Year, the street official took me to the street office, planning to keep me there until after the New Year. On one occasion I went out to purchase merchandise. The street official was afraid I would go to Beijing to appeal, so they called my home at midnight. Because of this, my father, who was in his seventies, was shocked and his heart problems recurred.

On March 1st, street official Officer Chen and Officer Gao suddenly came to my shop. They forcibly took me to the street office and detained me there for fifteen days. I was not released until two Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conferences were over.

One day in June 2000, several practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. Officers from the Beicheng Police Station stopped them on the way and sent them back. The police were afraid that I would also go to Beijing, so they arrested me and kept me in the detention centre. I was not released until midnight.

On December 7th, 2000, police station assistant director Du Yuzhuo, along with five other people, searched my vending stall. They took away a Dafa book and sent me to the Heizuizi Labour Camp in Changchun City, where I was held for one year. In the labour camp, I experienced inhuman torture. Every day I was forced to do hard labour for 16 hours. Because of that, my eyesight became drastically worse.

In the labour camp, I witnessed the police torturing Li Shixia, a determined Falun Dafa practitioner from Baiqi Town in Shulan City. Police used several electric batons to shock Li Shixia simultaneously. As a result, her neck was swollen to become as thick as her head was round, and later had severe ulcers. To this day there are still scars on Li Shixia’s neck due to this torture.

In mid-September 2005, when I was caring for my father in the hospital, Beicheng Street official Qi Ming and others came and attempted to arrest me. I was able to get away.

On July 20th, 2006, Qi Ming and others took me to the Xiangshui Water Bank Brainwashing Centre. I was detained there for one week.

Note

1. "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")

2. "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/2007/1/1/145887.html