I am Liu Gairong. I began practising Falun Dafa in 1998. On July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the brutal persecution of Falun Gong. On September 9th, 1999, three practitioners and I went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. However, there were a lot of plainclothes police officers all over the city, and we were unable to find a place to appeal. That same morning a person approached us and asked if we were Falun Gong practitioners. We said nothing. After a while, a police car came and took us to the Tiananmen Square Police Department. We were held in a metal cage where a lot of practitioners had already been detained. Not long after that, Zhou Qiulai from the Fuping County Police Department in Hebei Province and a driver took us to the Fuping County Detention Centre. We arrived there after 10:00 p.m.
The next day they began to interrogate me. Li Keqiang and Di Xueyong interrogated me for three days. In the afternoon of the fourth day they took me to the interrogation room and tried to force me to write the three statements1. I refused. They asked me if I would continue my practice of Falun Gong. I replied that I would. As a result, Li Keqiang and Di Xueyong began to torture me. They shocked my hands with electronic batons. Because they noticed I did not react, they began to shock my face with electric batons. I saw sparks in front of my eyes. I held firm to the thought that it was not wrong to cultivate Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. As a matter of fact, the abuser himself got shocked. He had to stop using the electric baton and permitted me to go back to the ward. When I returned to the ward, the inmates had already had supper.
In order to extort money from me, Ma Baozhong and Zhou Qiulai threatened my family, saying that they planned to sentence me to forced labour. My family had to ask other people to help deliver things to them. In addition, my family members had to pay for the police officers' dinner. These people extorted 15,000 yuan2 from my family and detained me for 38 days. After my release, I have lived these past several years in a horrific environment.
Since 2000, during holidays and festivals, the authorities always came to my home to find out if I was at home and harass me.
On April 14th, 2001, six or seven people including a woman broke into my home. They did not show any papers and began to take me away. Some people dragged me by my hands, some pulled my hair, and some pulled on my clothes. They tried to force me to go to the police department. Because I refused to comply, they tried to drag me out of my home. I was shoved to the ground. My ten-year-old daughter cried and said she needed her mother. However, they also dragged my daughter out of my home. My fourteen-year-old son also cried and did not let me go. They kicked him down, making his knees bleed. Despite this, they still held onto me tightly. My short-sleeved shirt was torn up, and my shoes were lost. Finally, I was taken out of my home. I cried out and told the people who had gathered to watch that these persecutors were arresting me simply because I practise Falun Gong, and that they also prevented me from doing business. Faced with this, I asked, who on earth was the evil one? The police immediately covered my mouth and prevented me from speaking. My daughter and I were pushed into a vehicle. Covered with sweat, with his legs bleeding, my son groveled on the ground, crying for me.
My daughter and I were taken to the Hekou Brainwashing Centre where we met seven or eight practitioners already detained there. My daughter gripped me tightly and did not want to leave for school because she was afraid that she would no longer see her mother. I persuaded her to go to school and told her that I would not stay there and would soon get out. We tried to explain the facts of Dafa to the head of the 610 Office3, a man named Qi Guiliang. He did not listen at all and savagely abused us. That night, another practitioner and I escaped from the brainwashing centre. However, I could not return to my home and had no income, and there was no one to take care of my two children.
I went back home later. At around 9:00 p.m. on March 1st, 2002, when my children and I were at home, seven or eight people knocked on my door. I did not open the door, so they violently kicked the door. After a while they broke into my house. My children were afraid. They trembled and cried and pleaded, "Don't arrest my mother! We cannot live without our mother!" The persecutors then began to ransack my home, ignoring my children's plea. Although they found nothing in my house, they tried to force me to sign a document. I questioned them sternly. They said nothing and left, disregarding the broken door lock.
At 7:00 a.m. one day in 2002, just after my children had gone to school, I opened the door and saw several vehicles outside. Several police officers got out of the vehicles and told me that Ma Baozhong and Qi Guiliang wanted me to go to the police department. My heart began to race. Then I let them come into my home and spoke to them for half an hour. I really wanted them to know the truth. The head of the police group told me he would ask for instructions to see if it was permitted that I not go to the police department. Then he and the others left.
At around 10:00 p.m. on October 18th, 2003, soon after we had gone to bed, someone knocked on the door. My husband opened the door. The police came close to my bed and ordered me to go with them. I did not obey their orders. They called for back-up, including Liu Shenghe, Bei Xiuhai and Du Jianwei. They pulled me out of bed and dragged me by my hair, and then forcibly took me to a vehicle. By then it was already midnight. My two children cried, and I cried and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! It is not wrong to learn Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The police beat me continuously and took me to the police department. I was unable to speak when I got there. They then took me to the detention centre.
The next day I suffered a relapse of an old illness. I vomited and suffered headaches and dizziness, and could not eat anything. The third day, 610 Office head Qi Guiliang began to savagely force-feed me when they found that I could not eat and had vomited. They ordered five or six male criminal inmates to torture me. Police officer Zhanhong held my legs, and prison doctor Li Xinbo urged the criminals to hold my arms and press on my chest. In addition, several criminals grabbed my hair and choked me so that I nearly died from suffocation. The doctors who were ordered to force-feed me were interns from the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. They obeyed the policemen's orders and inserted the half-inch-wide tube through my nose into my lung. I could not breathe, my compressed lung suddenly filled with air and a mouthful blood came out. When they saw me bleeding, they had to release me from their grip. The doctors removed the bloody tube and said it did not matter. Prison doctor Li Xinbo said that I was pretending.
On the fourth day they force-fed me again. Because my nose was swollen they could not insert the tube into my nose. They shouted that even if they could not insert the tube they would still force-feed me. Policewoman Yan Li forced me to drink salted milk. I drank a little and then vomited what I had drunk. They savagely beat me and ordered me to clean it up. (Other practitioners helped me clean it up.) I suffered this torture for six days in the prison. On the morning of the seventh day they said they would release another practitioner and me. However, we were taken to Baoding City Brainwashing Centre.
On the way to Baoding City, I vomited a black blood clot and could barely breathe. I was pale and emaciated. At the Baoding Brainwashing Centre the doctor asked me why I had vomited. The 610 Office head, Qi Guiliang, replied that I had been car-sick. The doctor refused to accept me because of my extreme weakness. Qi Guiliang tried to persuade them to accept me and the other practitioner. After a while they carried me out of the room and then put me on the cold ground near a building. Several hours later, Qi Guiliang said that they had to take me back because the brainwashing centre would not accept me.
They took me back to Fuping County and then informed my family to take me home. My family noticed that my mouth was full of black bloody foam and I was close to death. They condemned the police, saying, "Why was a healthy person tortured to this extent within only six or seven days? It is not wrong to become healthy and be a good person through practising Falun Gong. Your numerous arrests and break-ins have made her unable to live a normal life!" My family took me back home. Not long after my release, when I had not yet fully recovered, the authorities began to harass me again. My family protested their crude behaviour.
One morning in November 2005 when I opened the door, planning to start making clothes for customers, dozens of policemen broke into my home. They ordered me to go to a brainwashing centre with them. I replied, "I practise Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. What else do you want me to study?" Someone said they would force me to study the things that were the worst. In one word, they would not let me study Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Meanwhile, one person grabbed my hands and another grabbed my hair. Then they carried me into a vehicle. I found that another practitioner was already in the vehicle. They took us to Baoding City.
On the way to Baoding City, we explained the facts of Falun Gong to them, but they did not listen. After a while, I suffered a relapse of my old illness and my hands, feet and mouth began to convulse. I spat out foam, had a fever and my chest felt congested. Disregarding my weak condition, the policemen took me to the Baoding Brainwashing Centre where the guards dared not accept me when they saw my condition. Therefore, they had to take me to a hospital. The doctors gave me an unknown injection, which resulted in a higher fever, dizziness and convulsions. I lay on the floor of the room and did not know when they took me home.
When I returned home my daughter cried. She had not eaten anything all day. At noon that same day, when she went home she could not find me. She heard later that I was arrested. Although she was hungry, my daughter went to the police department and the detention centre to look for me, but in vain. When she found that I was cruelly tortured, she cried out and condemned the perpetrators, telling them that they had lost their conscience. They said nothing, and quickly left.
The persecution that I suffered led to a loss of several hundred thousand yuan. The police arrested me numerous times, broke my door lock and tore up my clothes. My son was deeply traumatised. As a result, my son could not go to school and suspended his schooling for one year. My daughter was terrified many times. At present, she trembles when she encounters even insignificant incidents.
Note
1. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
3. "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.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/7/13/158761.html
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