(Minghui.org) I was illegally arrested for making informational materials explaining the facts about Falun Gong. Although I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and hyperglycemia, I was held in a forced labor camp for a year and four months. I was injected with poisonous substances, subjected to brainwashing, had to do forced labor, and was tortured in many ways.
After my release, the persecution did not stop. Three Hongyun District residential committee members forced their way into my home in early March 2013. They asked my family where I was and said their superiors had ordered them to visit me twice a month to make me give up my belief.
The following are details of what I endured.
Arrested on April 19, 2008
Police officer Ma Bin and a dozen others ransacked my home. They confiscated a portrait of the founder of Falun Gong, two computers, a printer, Falun Gong materials, and other belongings. I suffered a financial loss of around 20,000 yuan.
They took me to the Majia Police Station at around 7 p.m., had a photo taken of me against my will, and then took me to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical College. I was thoroughly examined for several hours, then taken to Wuhua Detention Center, where they tested my blood again. My blood pressure was 240 and blood sugar 24.7. Ma Bin made the detention center accept me.
Illustration: Handcuffs and shackles
The police took me back to the hospital on April 21. I was handcuffed to a bed for 24 hours with two officers watching me. I was not given anything to eat until I became dizzy from hunger. I was then allowed to eat an apple.
In the hospital, police officers made me walk around with my hands and legs shackled for an hour to humiliate me. I was paraded around three times in two days. When I asked why they did this, they said they were acting on orders from above.
I was taken to the Yunnan Province Prison Bureau Central Hospital on April 23 and stayed for a week. I was forced to take medication to bring down my blood pressure as well as put on a drip. My hands were handcuffed behind my back to a bed rail above my head for several hours while I was on the drip. My hands hurt unbearably and quickly swelled up. They did this to me once a day for a week. Consequently my hands became swollen and my legs were chaffed and the skin torn by the shackles.
After a week, I was sent back to the detention center until May 17. During this time, the guards pressured me to reveal the names of practitioners I contacted. They made things difficult for me by not letting my family send me any clothes or cash. The things my family did send me were confiscated.
I had to do slave labor making paper boxes and folding textbooks and examination papers. I worked from 8:00 a.m. for 10 hours every day. Lunchtime was our only break.
I was taken to Yunnan Women's Forced Labor Camp on May 17. The camp refused to accept me due to my high blood pressure.
The next morning, officer Luo Lin from Hongyun Police Station attempted to get me into the labor camp again, but I was turned away because of my poor health.
Labor Camp Forced to Accept Me on May 19
I was taken to a small nearby hospital on May 19 and given an injection to bring down my blood pressure and sugar levels so that I could pass the physical and be accepted by the labor camp. I was in the hospital for two or three hours before I was taken to the third division in Yunnan Province Women's Forced Labor Camp.
In the camp, I had to watch the programs that slandered Falun Gong beginning at 8:00 a.m. I was often told to write thought reports. I worked from the afternoon until nighttime.
For two months I had to to move bricks and remove weeds. For six months I made mats for tea cups that left my hands chaffed and bleeding. I was then sent to the biscuit factory to work for another six months.
We were given moldy rice to eat and could only call home once a month. When we could call and speak to family, the guards turned the phone volume so low the person at the other end of the line could hardly hear what we said. Five guards stood on guard nearby. Our family members were allowed to visit us only twice a month for an hour each time.
I often felt giddy and became very emaciated due to long periods of lack of sleep and poor food. I was so weak that I fell down one day and four of my front teeth were knocked out. All of my fingers were injured and I was bleeding. Yet the labor camp refused to send me for medical treatment. I asked guard Wang Siwen to allow me to rest for one day but was turned down. After this accident, I had difficulty eating and could not chew my food properly.
A superior from my workplace came to see me in the labor camp on September 10 and 14, 2009. He tried to make me give up my belief, but I refused to cooperate. That night, I was called to the office and reprimanded. On the 19th, I was summoned again and ordered to reveal the whereabouts of practitioners, tell who else in my family practiced Falun Gong, and so on. I refused to give them any information.
On September 21, 2009, after being detained for over a year, I was finally released.
