My dear fellow practitioner, twenty-five year old Zhai Yanlai, was admitted to the Department of Energy Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1995 with excellent entrance examination scores. He read Zhuan Falun [the main text of Falun Dafa] before July 20, 1999 and he knew that Dafa was good, even though he did not actually practise it. On July 22, 1999, the state-run CCTV started an all-out attack against Dafa. Since then, he started to clarify the truth to people around him, including his classmates, friends and people he travelled with on buses and trains. In April 2001 he suddenly felt that he wanted to read Zhuan Falun, and after reading the book he truly started practising Falun Dafa.
He was very diligent and made rapid progress in his cultivation. At that time, he would go to work during the day and read Zhuan Falun throughout the night, and on average he only slept for two hours. Deceived by the slanderous propaganda, almost all his colleagues took a hostile attitude towards Dafa at the beginning. Yet, through his words and deeds, he demonstrated to them the goodness of Dafa and the sincerity and kindness of Dafa practitioners. His colleagues liked to spend time with him, listening to him clarifying the truth about Dafa. Gradually not only did his colleagues learn about the truth; even the ladies working in the canteen also learned the truth, and they, too, told others about the truth of Falun Gong.
In August 2001, the authorities illegally arrested Zhai Yanlai and sent him to Nan'gang District Detention Centre in Harbin City, which was well known for having the worst conditions amongst prisons in Harbin City. When he was first sent there, criminals in the same cell beat and cursed him. However, no matter what they did to him, he was always cheerful and never took any offence. He kindly told them about the truth of the persecution against Dafa and asked them to remember that Falun Dafa is good. The criminals admired him and called him "Falun Gong" out of respect. They found out the truth and some even took up the practice themselves. After over 40 days of detention, he was unconditionally released, although his family was extorted out of 7,000 Yuan by those in charge of his case. [The average monthly income for an urban worker in China is about 500 Yuan.]
At the end of October, 2001 he went to Tiananmen Square, and in a situation where there were uniformed and plain-clothes police everywhere, he unfurled and held high a yellow banner with the words in red, "Falun Dafa is Good." With his firm righteous belief and his compassion, he shouted out, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is a righteous practice..." In a frantic rush, the police carried him into the police van and viciously beat him. Later he was sent to a detention centre in the suburbs of Beijing. He refused to cooperate with the evildoers and rejected all of their demands.
The police started a vicious campaign of torture against him, by hanging him up in order to find out his name and address; but all their attempts were in vain. He kindly told the police the truth about Falun Dafa, and in the end, almost all the police in the detention centre came to listen to him clarify the truth. In the cell, he told all the inmates about Falun Dafa and the truth of the persecution. Later he was sent to the Beijing No. 7 Division, a place dealing with major cases from all over China. He was tortured severely and mercilessly; his body was covered with cuts and bruises and he was bleeding everywhere. One of his legs was broken from the beating and he was barely breathing. When he was carried to a detention centre, the police and the cell supervisor did not dare to accept him, for fear that he would die in their jurisdiction. He had only one thought in his mind, "I'm a Dafa practitioner." After being detained for over 30 days, he was unconditionally released again. A few days after he got back home, he recovered his health.
His selflessness, kindness and benevolence affected everyone around him. He always thought of others first in everything he did, and his fellow practitioners enjoyed sharing their thoughts with him. After sharing with him, some who had gone astray came back to practising Falun Dafa; those who had not been diligent in the past began to earnestly catch up. When the evil police came to arrest Dafa practitioners, he always was concerned for others' safety first.
In August 2002 he came to work in Shanghai. Just past 11:00 p.m. on the night of September 30, the police broke into the dormitory of his workplace and kidnapped him. With absolutely no evidence, the police accused him of being the person in charge of the Dafa assistance centre in Shanghai, and they tried to force him, under torture, to tell them about other practitioners in Shanghai. They did not get anything from him. The police tightly blocked any news about him, and nobody was allowed to visit him. From the scarce information we have obtained, we know that he is on a hunger strike, and he is being handcuffed and shackled, as well as denied sleep. Right now he is in a pitiful state, too weak to even walk as a result of torture. His case is being treated as the most serious case in Shanghai since July 20, 1999 and it was reported to the National Security Ministry. Presently, the authorities are planning to put him on trial.
We hope that overseas practitioners, especially those who graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will do everything they can to urgently rescue Zhai Yanlai. The rescue campaign by overseas practitioners has effectively frightened the evildoers and has to a large degree reduced the persecution against Dafa practitioners in China.
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/1/3/30489.htm
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