Please Help Rescue My Younger Sister Tao Yuefen (Photo)

Written by an Australian Practitioner

Yuefen is my quiet, gentle bright young sister. As adults, we both worked in the Beijing Radio Instrument Plant. Since I am fourteen years older than she is, I have often played the role as a mother for her. After Yuefen was married, she and her husband did not get along and they were on the verge of getting divorced.

In 1994, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend Teacher Li's classes. Upon learning Dafa, the first person I wanted to introduce Falun Gong to was my sister Yuefen. I told her: "Yuefen, let's attend the Falun Gong class. The Teacher is a good person!" Yuefen and other members of my family all saw the changes that took place in me shortly after I began practising Dafa. In their words: "You’ve completely changed into another person." In 1995, Yuefen also started practising Falun Gong, and just like that, seven or eight people from my family started the path of cultivation.

Since she began her practice, Yuefen has been strict with herself and followed Dafa's principles [Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance]. Her xinxing (mind heart nature/moral character) drastically improved and she now got along with her husband very well. Our whole family was full of happiness and joy. She respected our parents and her in-laws and was always ready to help her siblings and others. She gave a hand no matter who needed help. She also found time to take care of her in-laws who live in the rural areas, and took good care of her mother-in-law who has cancer. In the summer, she installed an air-conditioner for them. All the villagers gave her compliments, saying she was such a kind daughter-in-law. Her husband was touched the most as it is Dafa that saved his family. He deeply understands that Dafa is good. When Yuefen has been persecuted because of her practice, he has always been very supportive.

Ever since the beginning of Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong, Yuefen had been firmly stood up for Dafa, along with thousands of other practitioners. She went to appeal on April 25th, and July 20th, and on many other occasions. She has been arrested five times. Her cultivation in Dafa has led this gentle woman to become very courageous.

In March 2000, Yuefen was arrested and detained in Changping Detention Centre for 15 days because she practised the exercises in a park. She said: "Dafa is good. Why can't we practise it? There is nothing wrong with practising Falun Dafa." In June, when she was visiting another practitioner, she was arrested again by the evil police and the practitioners were charged with having an "illegal gathering." She was illegally detained for one month.

One day before the Spring Festival of 2001, she was deceived into going to the local police station and was detained there for ten days. She was finally released after her husband's strong protest. In October, Yuefen once again went to Tiananmen and shouted out from her heart: "Falun Dafa is good!" "Restore the innocence of Teacher and Falun Gong!" She was once again arrested and suffered brutal torture. She insisted on not telling the police her name for two months, but later she was deceived into telling her address. In the middle of December, she was sent to a brainwashing class and was only released at the end of December, 2001. Since then, the street committee and the local police have continued to harass her.

Under these circumstances, in April 2002, Yuefen was forced to leave her fourteen-year-old child, her husband, and her warm home and chose a life of homelessness to avoid harassment and arrest for herself and her family. It is such a sad situation. Dafa made a shattered family become harmonious and happy, but the evil Jiang's persecution forced her to leave home. The authorities do not even leave her in-laws alone. When she went to her in-law's house, there were groups of police who came to arrest her. Because every villager knows that Yuefen is a good person, they told her about the situation in advance so that she was safely transferred to another place.

On May 17, 2002, Yuefen was arrested while she was posting truth-clarification materials along with other practitioners. After having been detained for one month, she was unjustly sentenced to one and half years in a labour camp by Beijing Public Security Bureau Chaoyang division (the address is: Changyin Xili Jia #1, Chaoyang District, Beijing. Zip code: 10024) without any legitimate trial. She is presently detained at the Third Team of the Xin'an Female Labour Camp in Beijing. In the written judgment, it explicitly writes that Yuefen was sentenced to one and half years in prison because she pasted three truth clarification flyers.

According to convention, the sentence date normally starts from the date of detention. But on the written judgment, Yuefen's sentence is scheduled to commence one month after her detention. It is absurd and ridiculous. Only because of three flyers, one good person has to suffer a nineteen-month long prison sentence. How does this conform to heavenly principles?

They also extended the persecution to Yuefen's husband. He was not allowed to work for as long as two months. Lately, he has been working at a different workplace. In addition, he did not receive any pay for one month. What worried us the most is that they do not allow family to visit her. We do not know what Yuefen's situation is.

I miss my dear sister. Whenever I see her picture and look at her beautiful face, I cannot stop my tears. I know that in China there are thousands of practitioners like Yuefen who have been tortured by the evidoers, and thousands of Falun Gong practitioners' families were shattered. Let all join together to expose and stop this evil torture so that our family members will be rescued soon.

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