Non-Practitioner: Stop the Persecution So My Family Member Can Return Home

Since the Chinese Communist regime's head Jiang Zemin started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, my family has lived in misery. Every day has felt like a year to us and we haven't been able to reunite. However, what we have suffered is only one example of the suffering endured by millions of families in China. It is only the tip of the iceberg of the crimes that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed against Falun Gong practitioners.

My family member Zeng Lan is a Falun Gong practitioner in Yongchuan City, Chongqing. She was weak and had many diseases when she was young. She was very picky and easily lost her temper with family members. After she began to practise Falun Gong, she became very healthy and did not even get colds anymore. She improved her temper and became very open and kind to others. However, after July 20th, 1999, she suffered from persecution numerous times because she insisted on her belief in the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. The leaders at her workplace ordered her to hand over her Falun Gong books by a certain deadline and to make a verbal guarantee statement to give up Falun Gong. The leaders also threatened that she would be fired if she did not follow the order.

In November 2000, while Zeng Lan was informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong, she was arrested by Deng Guangqi and others from the First Section of Yongchuan Police Department. She was detained at Yongchuan City Detention Centre. Her employers immediately cancelled her work contract, and her family lost their income. At that time, her child was only one year old. Her elderly parents looked for help every day, and every night their tears wet their pillows. They endured the hardships and had to take care of the little baby in the meantime. Zeng Lan was detained for over a year in the detention centre, and she suffered tremendously both physically and mentally. She was then sentenced to three years at Yongchuan City Women's Prison. She suffered the following types of persecution at the prison: she was forced to recite the prison rules and wear the prison uniform; she was subjected to brainwashing and "reform¹" tactics; she was monitored 24 hours a day by three shifts of the monitoring team; her every word and action was recorded and then reported to the prison authorities; she was not allowed to talk to other jailed practitioners and her right of free speech was deprived. When Zeng Lan and other practitioners protested this, a guard in the Second Division whose surname is Tang said, "This is what the higher authorities asked us to do. Even if it is wrong, we have to follow it." Sometimes the guards pretended to be kind. For example, they brought some gifts to the practitioners during holidays. Later on it was found that the guards would get a bonus if they "reformed" a practitioner, so their actions were connected with their profit. That was the reason why they worked so hard to "reform" practitioners.

In 2003, after Zeng Lan was released from the prison, she had to look for a job in order to make a living. Leaders from the Political and Judicial Committee and the street administration offices did not help to resolve this difficulty. In contrast, they came to our home very often to disturb our daily life. On March 8th, 2005, at around 11 p.m., four policemen from Xuanhua Road Police Station came to our home and knocked on the door. It was very late when they came to disturb us. Later on, I learned that their actions were part of a united action in the entire city. All Falun Gong practitioners were disturbed to different degrees. Even though we refused to open the door, it still hurt our whole family greatly. On October 23rd, 2005, Deng Guanqi and other policemen from the First Section of the City Police Department came to search our home again, but they did not find anything. Zeng Lan could not tolerate this kind of life so she left home to avoid persecution. She did not have a home to live in, clothing to wear, or food to eat. We have not heard from her ever since. Our whole family wishes to live together. We call on the CCP to stop the persecution and let our loved one return home.

We completely deny this persecution because belief is a human right that gods give us. The evil deeds of the CCP have brought incurable wounds to our family. We advise those who follow the CCP's command and who commit evil deeds to please think about your family and yourself. Whatever you do is for yourself. You will destroy your own future if you continue to persecute Falun Gong and practitioners. The universe's principle measures all living beings. We sincerely hope that you realise what is right and what is wrong, and who is kind and who is evil.

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")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/6/26/157614.html