(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Che Hongfei is from Fayuquan, Hongqi Village. After learning Falun Dafa in 1997 he experienced tremendous health improvements, both physically and mentally. He quit smoking and gambling, and his chronic stomach illness disappeared without any medication. Mr. Che is an English teacher. He uses the standards of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" in his own life and his good reputation is well known locally. However, even though he is well known and has a good reputation, he was illegally arrested and detained five times, and lost his job eight times. Now, he is homeless and is having financial difficulties.
In 2001, Hongqi High School, where Mr. Che was teaching, forced every teacher and student to sign their name against Falun Dafa. Mr. Che refused to sign and clarified the truth to the principal, his colleagues and his students. Some of them refused to sign right on the spot. The students in one class even applauded warmly after learning the truth. However, Principal Wu Xiaying, his wife Ms. Ma and Mr. Deman, continued to persecute Falun Dafa. Practitioner Ms. Shi Yuejiao was also persecuted and forced to leave the school. She has no income.
Local police arrested Mr. Che and sentenced him to one year in a forced labor camp. He was also sent to a brainwashing session. At Gaizhou City Detention Center, persecutors tried to use his feelings for his family, brutal beatings and other tortures, such as burning his chin with a lighter, in a vain attempt to force him to give up his belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. At Yingkou Correction Center, Wang Shouyin a Chinese Communist party (CCP) member and a professor, tried to persuade Dafa practitioners to give up practicing Dafa. After Dafa practitioners awakened to the truth, personnel from the center showed their true colors by monitoring practitioners, forcing them to stay in small cells and beating them.
Mr. Che has been illegally arrested and detained four times: in July 2004, June 2005, September 2005 and March 2006. During those times, Mr. Wang Honghui from Fayuquan National Guard Team extorted 4,000 yuan from Mr. Che (Mr. Wang Honghui is vicious. He said that he does this because the CCP gives him money. He extorted money from Dafa practitioners and persecuted them many times). During one of the illegal arrests, the gate guard from Xiongyue High School, under instruction from the school leaders, strained Mr. Che’s arms and took off his belt. The guard did this in front of the school chairman Li X, an office staff member and a group of students. He did not even care when Mr. Che’s underpants were exposed. Finally, a student who could not watch it any longer went forward and helped Mr. Che to pull up his pants. Before this incident, Mr. Che held the position of official teacher at this school. His teaching was outstanding and recognized by the school. However, school principal Li was deeply poisoned by the CCP and was afraid of being punished because of Mr. Che practicing Falun Gong. He was also threatened by the Education Bureau (Chairman Li Lianjun), so he dismissed Mr. Che. At that time Mr. Che became homeless and led a rough life. (Another outstanding English teacher at this school, Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Fengmei, was illegally sentenced to four years in prison. She is currently being held at Shenyang Women’s Prison.)
At Xiongyue Police Department, policemen searched Mr. Che without any legal permission. They took 500 yuan from him, ransacked his home, and took away his computer, printer, Dafa materials and diploma. They even took away his electric heating bar. Mr. Che was cuffed to a metal chair, and he could not move a bit. He was forced to stay awake for 24 hours. They interrogated him again and again, but could not get any information out of him. A policeman slapped Mr. Che’s face, hit him with shoes and soaked him with cold water. At Detention Center No. 3, the police used electric batons to shock him, and they used hand cuffs to hit Mr. Che’s face and mouth. They had prisoners beat and kick Mr. Che until he had bruises all over his body. One prisoner used his palm, fist and shoes to slap Mr. Che’s face almost 100 times. As a result, Mr. Che’s face swelled up. The persecutors were afraid of being exposed, so they would not let his family visit him. They also tied up a bunch of toothbrushes and hit Mr. Che’s fingers with them until his fingers turned black. There was one occasion when Mr. Che passed out several times from the beatings while the head of the detention center bragged, "There will be no justice if you are beaten to death. It will just count as a suicide."
Mr. Che clarified the truth to them. Some of them regretted what they had done after learning the truth. After learning the truth, some of them had sympathy for Mr. Che. When he was on hunger strike, they took the initiative to help him walk and to offer assistance. Some of them secretly recited, "Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good." Some of them said that they would practice Falun Gong when they get out. After Mr. Che went on two different hunger strikes (one for thirteen days and the other for seven days), he came out with righteous thoughts.
In March 2006, without due legal process, Fayuquan Procuratorate and the court had a few policemen and prisoners force Mr. Che to press his fingerprint onto a document. After that, they sentenced him to seven years in prison.
Mr. Che refused food and water to protest. The police tied Mr. Che’s hands and feet to the bed and force fed him intravenously. The District hospital third floor doctors and nurses also cooperated with the persecution. Two policemen took Mr. Che to the hospital in the morning and him back at night. Mr. Che was given IV fluid for more than ten hours at a time. The average was ten bottles a day. He stayed in bed and could not move. The Third Station prison physician said: "We will certainly send you back to prison." Under the instructions of the hospital superior, they could not pay the cost of the IV. They could not force feed Mr. Che, so they relied on medication to support his life. At the same time, every day there were people using insincere logic trying to persuade him to eat. Their only purpose was to have him regain his physical strength so that they could quickly return him to the prison.
They continued torturing Mr. Che. In the end, they allowed his family to visit him. They intended to have his family persuade him to eat, but they did not succeed. After Mr. Che had refused food and water for 32 days, they let Mr. Che’s family take him home.
However, on the second day, evil individuals started to monitor him around the clock. They even stayed in his home. There were also police cars parked outside. They threatened his main caretaker into signing a document saying that if he let Mr. Che leave, he would have to serve two years in prison. One night, Mr. Che escaped with righteous thoughts when the watch person and his family were sleeping. With help from his fellow practitioners, he is now homeless and has a very difficult life. He often sleeps outside and does not have enough to eat. Sometimes he only drinks water for his meals.
