My Mother Hu Qili's Story

My mother's name is Hu Qili. She is 48 years old. She formerly worked at the Shuangyashan Mining Bureau's First Construction Company Hospital (now Fangyuan Hospital) in Heilongjiang Province. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on November 21st, 1999, and was fired by the hospital director Mou Lingqin and Communist Party Secretary Li Qinghua two days later. During the last ten years, my mother has been detained three times and sent to a labour camp twice. She is again facing sentencing.

Hu Qili and her daughter

Beginning to practise

One day in 1996, my mother went to Yishoushan Park to exercise. She saw a board that read, "Falun Gong: Truth, Compassion, Forbearance." She was drawn to the principles and began practising.

She followed the principles of Falun Gong and strove to do well. Although she worked in a hospital and it was easy to prescribe medicine for herself, she has not done it since she started practising. Her excellent work ethics won praise from managers and co-workers alike.

Persecution

After the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, like millions of others, our family has suffered ten painful years. The persecution is continuing today.

My mother was arrested for the first time when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on November 21st, 1999. She was detained at the Xicheng Detention Centre for 17 days.

After she returned home, she was told that hospital director Mou Lingqin and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary Li Qinghua had fired her during her absence. Since then, she has worked hard to make ends meet.

The second time she was arrested, she was detained at the Shuangyashan Mining Bureau's Detention Center. I still remember vividly the day she returned home. She was extremely emaciated, and her hair had turned white. Her eyes became deeply set, and her lips were purple. She hardly had the strength to speak.

Sh was detained for the third time in September 2001. She was in detention for 58 days at the Shuangyashan Municipal Detention Centre, from September 6th to November 3rd, 2001.

She has also been sent to the Jiamusi Labour Camp twice. The first time was when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on July 2nd, 2000. She was arrested and sent to the labour camp for one year by police from the Shuangyashan Public Security Bureau.

The second time happened on my birthday. It was February 20th, 2002. My mother was preparing for a birthday celebration for me when four policemen came and took her away by force. She was sent away for two years in labour camp. During these two years, she was tortured by guards and criminals. Everyday, she was forced to sit on a round stool with three bumps for 17 to 18 hours. She was also forced to watch videos slandering Falun Gong. Because she refused to give up her faith, she was handcuffed from behind for several days and suffered a great deal.

Currently she is again faced with a new sentence. At approximately 8 p.m. on July 20th, 2009, four or five policemen led by Director Li Hongbo and Zhuo Aimin of Shuangyashan Public Security Bureau's Lixin Police Station tricked us into opening the door by saying they were there to collect a fee. After we opened the door, they told us to freeze and ransacked our home without showing a warrant or any identification. We were not even allowed to go to the toilet. They took our personal property including jewellery, a cell phone, and more than 400 yuan¹ in cash. They also took away my mother, and has held her at the Shuangyashan Municipal Detention Centre. She has been officially arrested and will be sentenced soon.

I am sharing her story because I wish to tell people that the persecution against Falun Gong is actually a persecution against the nation's conscience. The spirit and future of the nation are being destroyed!

I cannot fully describe my mother's suffering. The type of physical and mental torture can only be understood by those who have personally experienced it. My mother's story is only the tip of an iceberg of all the suffering by the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners.

Related article:

Ms. Hu Qili Arrested and Sent to Forced Labour Camp for the Second Time

http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/8/10/109929.html

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/2009/9/10/208066.html