(Minghui.org) Greetings, Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
In the past 11 years of my cultivating Falun Dafa, Master Li (the founder of the practice) has been taking care of me along the way. I learned to let go of various attachments and human notions that are inconsistent with Dafa, and continually do better.
Over the course of the persecution, I was arrested three times. I was not intimidated but kept telling the authorities about what Falun Dafa is and why the persecution is wrong. I know it’s my mission to help people know the facts and be saved. Below are some of my experiences.
Arrest and Detention
When I distributed information about Falun Dafa in December 2022, someone reported me and I was kept in a detention center for a day. The officers there asked where I got the materials. I refused to tell them, but recounted the content of the materials and urged the officials not to participate in the persecution. Some officers understood and one of them agreed to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated youth organizations.
The police gave me a 12-day criminal detention. When I protested, one officer said to me, “It is not up to us, since this is an order from higher officials.”
Due to the quick rise of positive COVID-19 cases during that time, the local detention center couldn’t admit me and the police allowed me to go home. On February 8, 2023, about two weeks after the 2023 Chinese New Year, five police officers and several 610 Office agents showed up at my home. They ransacked my place and confiscated 46 Falun Dafa books.
I tried to stop them and said, “Falun Dafa teaches me to be a better person by following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. It benefits me and the people around me. Please do not blindly follow the CCP and harm the innocent. The CCP now has a policy saying that a government official will be held accountable even for unjust cases they handled decades ago. Justice will always prevail, and it is just a matter of time. I hope that you will make the right choice.”
The officers still arrested me and sent me to a detention center on February 10 after forcing me to go through a series of physical examinations.
In the detention center, I treated the inmates kindly. I told them about Falun Dafa and that one would receive blessings for following their conscience. They regretted the bad deeds they did in the past and said they would not do them again in the future. Some also quit the CCP, while others said they would always remember the phrases “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I was happy for them.
Several officers came to the detention center on February 17 to interrogate me, including a police chief, the Domestic Security Office director, and several other officers from the county police department. They demanded to know who made the Falun Dafa books and materials confiscated from me. They also brought letters written by my husband and son, which I suspected were written under pressure, to persuade me to quit practicing Falun Dafa. I refused to read them.
The county Domestic Security Office director threatened to give me a prison term of three to seven years if I did not tell them the source of the Falun Dafa books and materials.
“You are trying to frame me and ordering me to do the same. That is not possible. I am a Dafa practitioner who follows the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and I would not betray others,” I said. “You are committing crimes. It is you who should face a sentence of three to seven years, not me.” They did not know how to respond.
I continued, “If you use this as an excuse to harm other practitioners, it is even worse. I am not afraid of persecution. I was a late-stage breast cancer patient. Doctors said I could not live for more than three years. Now I’m still alive after 11.5 years of practicing Falun Dafa and I enjoy very good health.”
I also explained to them that by supporting the innocent, they would be blessed with safety and happiness. Throughout the process, the police chief did not say a word. Upon leaving, he specifically came over and said to me, “I want to wish you well.”
I smiled at him and said, “I also wish you and your family well.”
Four days later, on February 21, two officers from the county procuratorate came to interview me. “Your case is serious because this is the third time you have been arrested,” said one officer. They asked me to sign a document and I refused. Instead, I told them facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution.
After about 20 minutes, one of the officers said they were going to release me on bail. They demanded that I keep my cell phone on as they might contact me at any time.
I told them I didn’t do anything wrong and I urged them to treat Dafa practitioners well. I said that by protecting the innocent with conscience and kindness, they would be blessed.
Meeting the Lawyer
The police picked me up from the detention center on February 23 and took me to the police station. They also told me that my husband and son had been working hard to rescue me. They’d paid a 5,000-yuan bond for my bail.
Upon my return home, my husband told me he had hired a lawyer. Had I not been released that day, he would have come with the lawyer to the detention center to request my release.
After returning home, I took a shower and knelt down before the portrait of Master Li, thanking him for protecting me. My celestial eye saw that Master’s portrait was glittering with golden light. I felt grateful to be a Dafa practitioner and protected by Master.
My husband also told me that the police called him several times during my detention asking for information about other practitioners. They promised to give me a lighter term in exchange, but my husband also refused to answer.
He said to the police, “My wife has the freedom to do what she likes and to interact with the people she wants to. If she’d rather suffer detention herself rather than reveal information to you, then I won’t say anything, either. Whatever we say, it might result in the suffering of another family, and that’s something we don’t want to happen.”
I was very moved and thanked my husband. “We are indeed soul mates,” I said.
“You have endured so much. Do you regret it?” he asked.
“No, not at all. It is Master Li and Falun Dafa who gave me a new life and taught me to be a better person. I always feel so fortunate and thankful.”
When we met the lawyer on June 20, I realized that he was a former prosecutor whom I knew before. He took out the judicial interpretations from the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate for me to read. I said those were invalid since they contradicted the freedom of belief specified in the Constitution. I then spent two hours explaining to him how Falun Dafa has benefited society, why the suppression is wrong, and how badly practitioners have been mistreated for their belief.
I also said to him, “No matter which stage my case is, I can only accept a not-guilty plea. I hope you don’t have any negative thoughts about Dafa and you don’t try to plead guilty on my behalf in exchange for a lighter sentence. That’s not helping me, but harming me.”
Before the lawyer left, I emphasized to him, “If you don’t feel comfortable entering a not-guilty plea for me in court, you don’t have to talk. I will be testifying in my own defense. I take it as a process of clarifying the facts.” The lawyer nodded.
Standing My Ground
My husband and son told me on July 19 that my case had been transferred to the procuratorate of another city. The authorities demanded that I sign a statement to renounce Falun Dafa in front of the police and prosecutors from both places.
I knew this was a war between good and evil, so I sent forth righteous thoughts quietly. I said to them, “Both of you know Dafa is good and I am innocent. By signing the statement, I admit I am guilty of practicing Dafa and that would be a disgrace to Dafa. Cultivation is very serious and I can’t make such mistakes.”
I continued, “You have witnessed the positive changes in me after I took up Falun Dafa. In this chaotic world, Falun Dafa tells people to be good and is the only hope for mankind.”
After pausing for a few minutes, my son said, “You always talk about being considerate of others. Don’t you care about me?”
I said I also cared about them, and explained that it’s because of a predestined relationship that we became a family in this world.
My son said he and my husband knew Dafa is good and they were also grateful to Master Li, but they didn’t want to see me being persecuted. “You and Father have worked hard for over 30 years to start this family business, and it is going well. We know the hardship. The CCP is the ruling Party and we don’t have any other option but to follow it. As long as you sign the statement giving up your belief, things will be over and we can live a normal life. It is as if someone is holding a knife and trying to kill you, but you are still dashing forward. Why don’t you step to the side and dodge it?” He almost cried as he talked.
I asked my son not to worry about me. Then I said, “Standing up to safeguard the truth is not easy and I choose to endure all of this myself. If it is too much for you or your father, we can file for divorce and you can announce that you disown me as your mother. If we have to do that, it’s not your fault or my fault. It is the vicious CCP that has brought endless pain and suffering to countless families.”
“You will always be my mom,” my son said.
“Okay then,” I replied. “In that case, we are still a family and we should support each other through this difficult period together. Maybe you also have the responsibility of helping me in this tribulation.”
I sent forth righteous thoughts for an hour and decided to visit a local practitioner who had more experience in counteracting the persecution. She offered to submit my case to Minghui.org to expose the persecution. Another practitioner printed experience sharing articles for me to read as well as legal materials from Minghui.org, and articles that exposed the CCP’s past brutalities and lies.
The next day, my son gave me a ride to the procuratorate. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts and recited a poem from Master,
“If you have fear, they will grab youOnce your thought is righteous, evil will collapsePeople practicing cultivation, filled with FaSending righteous thoughts, exploding rotten ghostsGods are in the world, validating Fa”(“What’s There to Fear,” Hong Yin II)
After arriving at the procuratorate, I discovered that the police and the other prosecutor were also there. They quickly finished handing off the case without asking me to sign anything. A seemingly intense persecution was resolved.
My Husband Seeks Justice for Me
For many years, my husband and I have provided financial support to several students, poor families, and other organizations. In an effort to help me, my husband reached out to them. He explained the persecution I was facing and asked if they could provide affidavits to testify about my character.
“Because of practicing Falun Dafa to be a better person, my wife was persecuted and is facing a prison sentence. Please help her if you can,” he said.
“My wife often tells me, that no matter how society has changed, we cannot abandon our conscience. Following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is the best. Because of Falun Dafa, she has better health and became a better person. We have all witnessed this,” my husband added.
Many people and institutions sent us thank-you letters, and my husband forwarded them to the procuratorate to support me. Right now my case is not yet over. But as a Falun Dafa practitioner, I know Master is watching over me and I will make the best of these opportunities for people to know the facts and make the right choice for their future.
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