(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings to Mother and Father! Greetings to the kids! Are you all fine? I received your letter on July 2nd and wrote back to you that night, but it seems that you did not receive my letter. Let me describe my situation here:

My room is about 48 square feet and is occupied by 21 people. Each person has less than three feet of space to live in. We work 12 hours a day carrying equipment which weighs tens of kilograms for printing woolen blankets. We walk wherever we need to go, and we will be beaten if our work is not done well. Each day our three meals are the same: steamed buns and salted water with a few pieces of vegetable. We cannot eat enough to fill us up and thus, we are constantly hungry. Over 200 people have been detained outside in a 12 by 48-foot space. A few days ago, some people passed out due to the hot weather, poor nutrition, long working hours and a lack of rest. Many people got diarrhea, and even they were not allowed to take a rest.

Last year, over 100 of the jailers made moneyáin the amount of over 600,000 Yuan (Chinese currency) for the jail. I mention this because I hope that you do not believe the disgraceful political propaganda, which uses lies to describe the truth and can make up something from nothing. At the end of May in 1999, I remember someone selling materials with slogans slandering the Master and Falun Dafa in front of a park, so I spent 500 Yuan buying all of them in order to destroy them. But later, when the newspaper reported this event, they distorted the facts, saying that I "snatched away all those [materials with] slogans." Therefore, do not believe this propaganda, for those who make it will be thrown into hell after the truth comes out. Please don't have any resistant thoughts towards Dafa; I don't want to see my family members or any kindhearted people believing these evil lies. Of course, the choice is up to you. I can only tell you the principles. Believe me, I am cultivating "Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance."

I could go back home early if I would write the "three letters." This includes a guarantee [not to practice], a letter of repentance, and a letter of exposition; but that would be against my conscience. To write these letters you would need to refer to the lies as truth, you would need to slander the Master and to abuse Dafa. "To be a teacher for one day is being a father for a lifetime," states a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. My Master teaches me the principles of how to be a good person, and I will do better and better in being a genuine cultivator. I will not slander the Master or slander Dafa for the sake of my own comfort. Just as in the Cultural Revolution, when someone struggled against his own parents in order to pursue personal interest, would his parents be wrong to have given birth to him and nurtured him? No one wants their child to be so selfish as to denounce their parents for the sake of their own comfort.

I am not able to write any more now. Please pass this letter on to the whole family.

Greetings!

Jiangbo

On the evening of July 21, 2001

Editors note: This Dafa disciple used to be a local tyrant who dared to beat the police before he became a Falun Dafa practitioner. It is Dafa that changed him totally and made him a new person. In July 1999, after the persecution against Dafa began, he led his wife and their son who was only 10 years old to Beijing to safeguard Dafa. On October 28, 1999, they were arrested in Tiananmen Square as they were validating the Fa. During his 50 days in the detention center, he refused to give up practicing Falun Gong and insisted on reciting "Hong Yin." He was given the "large board" (a cruel form of torture) for 7 or 8 days. For the rest of the 40 days he was handcuffed to the edge of a bed. Later, he was sent to a labor camp. In the beginning, because he refused to write the "guarantee letter," he was forced to work for more than 19 hours a day sewing footballs by hand. In trying to assert his legal right to practice the exercises in the labor camp, he was beaten black and blue by the guards. In order to protect "Zhuan Falun" he went on a hunger strike for more than 20 days. During this period, he was force-fed many times. His persistence finally wore down the resolve of the guards, who could do nothing but return the book to him. In the labor camp, he is the only one allowed to study the Fa and practice the exercises publicly. Because he does not cooperate with the brainwashing classes in the labor camp, he is regarded having performed poorly and thus, is not allowed to meet with his family members. For over a year we have not received any word as to his situation. Until we saw this letter, we did not know his whereabouts. From his letter we can see that he still possess a rock-solid heart for Dafa and the compassion for sentient beings, even after more than 600 days of painful suffering.

July 21, 2001