(Clearwisdom.net)
Mrs. C started cultivation in Falun Dafa in August 1995. Because of her determination to continue practicing Falun Gong, she was fined and detained. In March 2000 she went to Beijing in an effort to meet with the People's Congress representatives and tell them the facts about Falun Gong. Instead she was arrested and threatened with jail. Under intense pressure, she was forced to write a "guarantee letter" and was finally sentenced illegally to one year of forced labor (she was allowed to serve her term outside the labor camp). She was jailed for over 70 days before being released and sent home. At home, as she studied the Fa and cultivated her xinxing (heart or mind nature), she came to understand that one has to keep righteous thoughts when facing even the most difficult situations. Treating tribulations like everyday people can only open up loopholes, while diamond-like righteous thoughts will terrify the evil.
On the morning of June 6, 2001, she went again to Tiananmen Square to unfurl a banner proclaiming "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and to validate Dafa. Military and civilian police immediately confronted her, grabbed her by her collar, and took away the banner. Several policemen seized her and threw her into the police van, where seven or eight policemen beat her up. One young policeman used a bottle to repeatedly pound her arm that was holding onto the van. Her arm turned red and then purple. As they beat her, the police laughed and cursed at her viciously. When the van reached the Tiananmen Police Substation, hardly had the door of the van opened when the policemen pushed her out onto the ground with no warning at all. Her knees slammed into the ground. Immediately they seized her and pushed her through the gate. Most of the policemen there were very vicious. She saw a middle-aged male practitioner handcuffed to metal rails, with his legs stretched out in front of him. He was half sitting and half lying with bloody stains all over his body. A group of policemen were beating him up, and he was screaming out in pain.
She was taken to an empty room. When the police asked her name and address, she refused to answer. After a young policeman struck her forcefully in the chest several times, she turned ghastly pale. Then one of the policemen took out a lighter and a sheet of white paper. Right in front of her he used the lighter to ignite the paper, which was quickly consumed. The policeman said, "How about if I burned your face this way?" As he pushed the lighter closer to her face, he said to another policeman, "Take off her clothes and put her in a male jail cell." At that moment, they brought in a tall practitioner. The police sprang upon him, handcuffing him to a chair in the corridor. Another young male practitioner was handcuffed to a different chair. He was also beaten black and blue, and there was blood all over his nose, ears and mouth. From the room she just left came the sounds of beatings and cries of misery. The middle-age man, who had been handcuffed, was dragged out unconscious and cuffed to a chair. The police used smelling salts to wake him up. All the police then went to lunch.
In the afternoon, a middle-aged officer who looked like a supervisor entered the room with a police baton. Once again he asked the three of them their names and addresses. When they did not answer, he poured water over the tops of their heads. Water kept pouring down over their mouths and noses, making it difficult for them to breathe. After that, the police used batons to beat them relentlessly. They would repeatedly hammer on the same spot on their legs and then use the batons to stab their chests and lower abdomens--even today there remains a baton-shaped hollow on one of her legs. They were handcuffed to the chairs all night, with no food or water, and were not allowed to close their eyes or go to the washroom. Whenever the policemen passed, they would kick the practitioners on their faces and chests while cursing at them.
The next day, the police arrested several more practitioners and took them to the labor camp. Mrs. C started a hunger strike to protest the unfair treatment. Several days later, at nine o'clock in the morning, two policemen dragged her to the restroom and used two electric batons to shock the back of her neck, shins, knees, and ankles. The places that were shocked turned red right away, and she was left with over one hundred brands. They tortured her like this until lunchtime. In the afternoon, she was again dragged to the restroom, where the police tried to use even more brutal means to force her to reveal her name and address. Since she had been on a hunger strike for several days and had been electrically shocked, she was very weak and fainted in the restroom. The police dared not torture her further, so she was handcuffed and shackled, and shut in a prison cell. At night, she could hardly get to sleep. Both of her ankles were blistered and bleeding, her arms handcuffed behind her back. The pain almost went beyond what she could bear. Her beaten and bruised legs caused her fits of agony. The weather at that time was terribly hot, and the whole night she suffered miserably. Two days in handcuffs made her lose consciousness. In addition, she was having her menstrual period and could not properly take care of herself. One week in shackles made her legs swell up badly. After she went on a hunger strike for ten days, the police started to put on her the "death-penalty handcuffs" (handcuffs normally used for death-row inmates) and gave her an intravenous drip. Even under such difficult conditions, she believed firmly in Teacher and Dafa, and did not give in to the evil. After fourteen days, she was unconditionally released.
At noon on July 19, 2001, police from the National Protection Team of the Public Security Bureau came to her home, trying to break down her door and arrest her. This was because in April 2001, she had declared to the relevant government officials and staff and also to the Minghui website that whatever she had said in the letters during the past year to give up cultivation was void, and she would forever believe firmly in Falun Dafa and be determined in her cultivation. The police came again, trying to arrest her. It roused the neighbors, who criticized the police for their evil deeds. As a result, the police were not successful.
In August 2001, when she was giving out truth-clarifying materials in the countryside, she was reported by a villager who was lured by the police reward. She was detained at the village police substation illegally for over one week and later transferred to the No. 1 Forced Labor Camp. One month later, she started a hunger strike that lasted over eight days, and she became seriously dehydrated. The authorities were afraid to shoulder the responsibility for her possible death and asked her family to take her home. At that time, she had been illegally sentenced to two years, but since she was not well physically, the labor camp did not accept her.
Near midnight on New Year's Eve 2001, police from the National Protection Team of the Public Security Bureau again came to her home to arrest her, but again they did not succeed.
While she was distributing truth-clarifying materials in the countryside in April of 2002, passersby who did not know the facts about Falun Gong reported her, and the local police arrested her. She escaped with righteous thoughts.
In the afternoon of September 27, 2002, a dozen officers from the local "610 Office"* came to her home, climbed over the wall, and broke in, intending to arrest her. When her husband condemned their lawlessness, they threatened to beat and arrest him as well, but were stopped by the neighbors. She was forced to leave home. At 6:00 am the next morning, the "610 Office" again directed the residence committee to go to her home to look for her. They threatened her husband that if they failed to find her, they would make her whole family jobless and suspend their pensions.
At the end of October 2002, before the 16th Congress began, the police director along with several policemen went to her home to search for her again. Although they failed to find her; they did not stop until they had completely ransacked her home.
Before the Spring Festival in 2003, over a dozen police from the National Protection Team of the Public Security Bureau came to her home to arrest her yet again. They did not succeed because her husband did everything he could to stop them.
During the two national conferences in March 2003, the police substation again tried to discover her whereabouts, which made it impossible for her to go home.
For the past several years, her experiences of being persecuted along with her own benevolent behavior as a practitioner have made her family and neighbors realize the greatness of Falun Gong practitioners. With the help of her family and neighbors, she has been able to successfully escape from danger.
*The 610 Office is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political or judicial systems.