(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999, Falun Gong practitioners, including my mother Li Hua and my step-father Huang Shengjie, have been subject to various forms of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
My mother and I started practicing Falun Gong in Beijing in 1996. After obtaining the Fa, she was able to quit smoking, which she found difficult to do before. Every day we did the exercises and studied the Fa together with fellow practitioners. In 1998, my mother met my step-father while spreading the Fa. They later got married.
On April 25, 1999, mother went to the Appeals Office in Zhongnanhai in Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was detained. She was later released on bail provided by her employer. On July 20, 1999, she went to Tiananmen again to unfurl a truth-clarifying banner but was sent to a labor camp illegally for one year. Unclear about Fa principles at that time, mother wrote the guarantee statement. She was released three months early but was forced to attend several brainwashing classes. Later, after reading Master's articles, she realized her mistakes and regretted being "transformed," so she wrote a solemn statement on the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) declaring that she had again started practicing Falun Gong.
In February 2006, the police took my mother and my step-father away from their home. The police charged my mother in court and requested a two and a half year prison sentence. But the court didn't accept the case, as my mom's conduct was not serious enough to receive a sentence. Nonetheless my mom is still illegally incarcerated at the Qinghe Forced Labor Camp in Beijing. At the same time, my step-father is also unlawfully detained at an unknown place.
