My Experience of Going Safeguarding the Fa in Beijing

I am a female Dafa practitioner from Sichuan province, and I have cultivated Dafa for four years. I simply want to tell you about my personal experience in Beijing and some other places during the nine days from January 29th, 2001 to February 6th.

I arrived at the front gate at about 10am on January 29th, 2001. An armed policeman stopped and questioned me. He asked me to show my ID card, and I said that I forgot to take it with me. I was then forcibly taken to Tiananmen Police Station and locked up in an iron cage, in which more than 10 Dafa practitioners were held. I leaned against the iron bars and started to recite the Teacher's articles. Suddenly somebody seized my hair and violently threw my head against the iron bars, while continuously cursing me using dirty language. Many practitioners were taken here successively, and among them, there was a blind female practitioner. We started to recite the Teacher's articles together. A young vicious guard seized another female practitioner's clothes and humiliated her with other policemen looking on while laughing. The fellow practitioners shouted together, "suffocate the evil, eradicate the evil." Those vile police then poured water into the iron cage.

At about 6 o'clock at night, all of us were pushed into police vans. Right after getting into the van, I opened the window and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good; Falun Dafa is an orthodox Fa; Restore the reputation of our Teacher." The other practitioners also joined me in shouting. A practitioner beside me passed me a banner. I unfurled the banner outside the window, and the fellow practitioners continued shouting together. I had only one thought in my mind, "Let more people see the truth, and let more people hear the truth." As a result, the police vehicle became a moving advertisement for Dafa.

When arriving at the gate of Beijing Shinyei Detention Center, the fellow practitioners were then sent to different police stations. At about 8 o'clock, I was taken to Beishicao County Police Station in Shunyi. A vicious policeman whose last name is Liu started to interrogate me. He tried every means to cheat me in an attempt to get me to confess my name and address. Right after I pointed out his lies, he started to swear at our Teacher. I stopped him sternly, and then he stopped. He took off my coat and sweater, asked me to hold a tree and tightly cuffed my both hands. He rolled up my sleeves to expose my arms. Another short and fat policeman put the clothes under my throat, with the result that I could only move my head backwards. After a while, my neck became spastic. I would not recognize the evil persecution, and thus put all my efforts into remove the clothes bit by bit with my mouth. They then wanted to take my shoes off, yet they didn't get what they wanted because I prevented them from doing so. They started to stuff snow down my back, and then drove a car in front of me. They turned on the air conditioner, and I was exposed to the frigid air.

My whole body became numb when they released me. They pulled me into the room and immediately put my hands on the extremely hot heating pipes. After that, a vice-director of the police station whose last name is Liu started to interrogate me. He said I was the 35th practitioner there. Except one, all of the others left after giving out their names. He also threatened me, "If you still refuse to tell me your name, I have plenty of methods for torturing you." In order to look for a clue for where I come from, they took off my clothes, shoes and socks and carefully examined them, yet they found nothing in the end. They only allowed me to wear my cotton winter undergarments. My two hands and right foot were cuffed to the heating pipes. I stood on one foot. Suddenly they pulled violently on my left leg, and I was completely hanging in the air. It seems that my hands were broken, and my whole body soon became numb. Even now both sides of my hands are still numb. After a while, he pulled me up and threw my head against the wall. He asked me whether I would tell my name or not. I shook my head and said to him, "Don't commit wrong deeds any more." He however venomously said," It is you who force me to commit wrong deeds." After repeatedly torturing me like this several times, he said he would raise the quota. He wantonly shocked the sensitive part of my thighs, navel, neck etc. with an electric stun baton while saying, "I am not afraid that you accuse me because the injuries cannot be examined." They didn't stop their brutal crimes until I lost control of my urine. Because I was in my menstrual period at that time, menstrual blood rushed out. Consequently, urine and menstrual blood were everywhere on the ground. They asked me to dry my clothes and put them on. It was already after 6 o'clock the next morning. Then they cuffed me on the heating pipes with three pairs of handcuffs, and didn't allow me to sleep.

That morning, a policeman wearing a pair of glasses, whose family name is Zheng, interrogated me until noon. When other people took a break, he brought three willow twigs, one thick, one thin, one with an egg-sized knot on its one end. He cuffed me on the heating pipes, drew back the curtain and closed the door. He whipped my legs; especially my thighs with the three twigs one after another. While beating, he shouted, "If you still don't tell me, I'll keep beating you until you cannot crawl." He used chopsticks to hold my mouth to prevent me from shouting. Even after the willow twigs were broken, In a frenzy, he still beat me until I lost consciousness. He seized my hands and had them burnt on the heating pipes. After I regained consciousness, the vice-director whose last name is Zheng interrogated me until they had dinner after 5 o'clock. They asked me to hold a tree on the snowy ground and cuffed me. After dinner, the Policeman Zheng XX came over to ask me once again whether I would tell or not, yet I refused. He brutally kicked my thighs, and another policeman looking on took pleasure in my torture while picking his teeth. I loudly shouted and drew many people's attention. Zheng XX thus stopped beating me and went into the room. One policeman said, "You still obstinately stick to it. I'll let you watch Falun Gong practitioners set fire on themselves in Tiananmen tonight." I didn't know how long time had passed; they pulled me into the room and forced me to watch the so-called "self-immolation in Tiananmen" event. After that, the director of Beishicao Police Station Liu XX personally interrogated me. He threatened to strip me and cuff me outside. He said," Don't imagine you can leave here if you don't give out your name." A policeman Shi XX threatened me again 48 hours later; they would take me back and continue to interrogate me after going through formalities. They once again cuffed me outside to make me suffer in the freezing temperatures. (The temperature in Beijing at night was about minus 8 or 9 degrees Celsius - equivalent to 13 degrees Fahrenheit). After a period of time, Zheng XX came out carrying a twig with a knot and continued to whip me until I lost control of my urine. Later on, they sent me to Shuyi County Detention Center, treating me as someone who had come from Chongqing. It was here that for the first time, I could clearly see my leg, which was as black as charcoal. Even now the bruises and swelling on my legs are still quite clear. I have difficulty in walking and my legs frequently become numb.

Later on, a person who knew the details told me that I was lucky for what I had suffered. One female practitioner from Dalian was stripped naked in Shunyi Banqiao Police Station, and cuffed that way to a tree to freeze her. Then the vicious police poured water on her. Finally these vicious people even put the Teacher's portrait on her chest.

Beijing police whom I saw this time, either wore plainclothes or didn't pin police numbers on their police clothes. They were afraid of being exposed.

The vicious person Huang XX from the comprehensive office of Guanyin Bridge Neighborhood Center of JiangBei District, Chongqing City came to escort me back. He beat me under the excuse that I was not obedient, and openly claimed that it doesn't matter even if I was beaten to death. Later on they learned I was from Chengdu and then informed the Chengdu Authorities to take me back. The policemen Liu Chuan and Zeng Jianmin and an internal policewoman from Qingyangzheng Street Police Station of Chengdu came to escort me back. Until then, I had been on hunger strike for seven days since January 29, and I was very weak. Under the strong request from my relatives, they sent me to a hospital. Doctors testified that I needed to go home to recover my health. However, they didn't allow my relatives to take me back until they extorted 8,000 Yuan RMB from my relatives and also demanded that my relatives guarantee to monitor me. I must be available at any time they summon me. I need to ask for permission when I go out of town. It was the evening of February 6 at that time. After that, some vicious police harassed my relatives at their work units. At present, I have to wander about on the street, and cannot go back home.

A Dafa practitioner from Mainland China

February 9, 2001