[Clearwisdom Net]
I had the chance to get to know a female practitioner from another part of China. She told me about her experiences at the Detention Center of Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province and the police brutality there. The following is her story.
"In January 2001, I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, asking the government to deal with the Falun Gong issue reasonably and to restore the good reputation of Falun Gong. I was arrested for exercising every citizen's right of appealing to the government, the right that is granted by the Chinese Constitution. I went on a hunger strike with other practitioners to protest such an unjustifiable act and requested our unconditional release. Six days later, they sent me and dozens of fellow practitioners to Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, and then detained us in different counties, with 25 practitioners in each county. I was sent to the detention center of the Lingyuan Police Station.
The police there often beat and cursed detained Dafa practitioners. Since we had not eaten for six or seven days and still firmly refused to eat anything, the police started force-feeding us through various brutal means. They knew that practitioners never drink alcohol, so they deliberately force-fed alcohol to some practitioners. Thinking that we should not yield to the evil nor disregard the suffering of these fellow practitioners, we used our righteous thoughts to stop such a vicious act. They soon gave this up.
Since we all still kept up our hunger strike and demands for unconditional release, the guards began to force-feed us individually. During my twenty-two day hunger strike, I was force-fed once in Beijing and once in Lingyuan. Each time when they force-fed me, I refused to cooperate and told them firmly, "I don't need your force-feeding! Release me! Return my freedom!" Seeing this, several guards came to hold me down and beat me. Then they pried my mouth open with an iron bar. As a result, I bled freely from my mouth, lips, and throat, and several teeth were knocked loose. I vomited all of the force-fed food mixed with blood twice, never yielding to them. Although I had been on hunger strike for more than twenty days, I was still strong and energetic. I always felt that our Teacher was with me.
During my stay at this detention center, the police tried everything to coerce, threaten, beat and humiliate me, so that I would be forced to cooperate with them. I firmly refused. As a Dafa practitioner, I am a person who is frank, openhearted, honorable, broad-minded and not guilty of anything. How could I listen to them and abide by their deeds? Seeing my steadfastness, the police said that they would strip me naked and leave me outside to freeze if I did not do as they asked. When I still did not yield to them, one cold night they forced me to stand outside barefoot, wearing only a shirt and underpants. Even under these circumstances, I never cooperated with them.
One night at midnight, a policeman took me alone to his office. Seeing me young and pretty, his vicious thoughts were aroused. Many disgusting, obscene words flowed out of his mouth. He used various despicable, shameless means to force me to submit. It turned out that underneath the police uniform with our national emblem on it, was actually a base and obscene person. I firmly refused to submit and was not afraid of his brutality at all. At this moment I deeply realized that Falun Dafa is solemn, dignified and inviolable. Seeing me full of upright and righteous thoughts, he started to madly hit my hands, neck, face and lips with an electric prod. While using a set of handcuffs to beat me, he carelessly hit a policeman who suddenly came into the office. Then they beat me more ferociously together and even burned my hands with a cigarette lighter. Facing this, I still steadfastly upheld my belief in Dafa, regarding them as nothing more than bugs. They finally gave up, as they saw that they could not deal with me. He held the lighter in his hand, looking at me with a twisted and ugly expression. Shortly after, the lighter suddenly broke apart in a small explosion.
After the hunger strike had continued for more than twenty days, a fellow practitioner and I were taken to a hospital affiliated with the Lingyuan Labor Camp for a forced infusion. The doctors, nurses, other staff members and inmates could not believe that we had already been on the hunger strike for more than twenty days. We still looked energetic and quite healthy, without any signs of sickness. They were surprised and could not understand. They even guessed that we might have been eating secretly. I told them that this is the power of Falun Dafa and that we cultivate ourselves in accordance with "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance." We would never lie to them.
The 52-year-old fellow practitioner and I firmly refused the treatment. She strongly requested our release with a declaration of our innocence. She was handcuffed and shackled, with her hands and feet tied to the bed. Four or five sturdy guards attempted to hold her down so that they could inject her. They tried many times, but all they managed to do was to prick her. Eventually, they gave up. Although she was an over fifty-year old lady and had not eaten anything for more than twenty days, she was so strong that nobody could hold her down and give her an infusion. Every person in sight was moved and shocked.
In the end, the police told us that they would free us if we told them our names and addresses. However, as soon as we told them, they contacted the local police and had them take us away."
After she finished her story, I cried until my face was bathed in tears and felt as if a knife was piercing through my heart. How could these so-called "people's police" inhumanely and deliberately perform such heinous deeds? How could they treat practitioners so brutally, just to find out their names and addresses? How could a so-called "people's government" commit such crimes openly? Won't anyone stop Jiang Zemin and his followers from continuing to trample on the rights of the common people?
