Liu Jinfang is exercising after her convert

I am Liu Jinfang, 46 years old, living in Yangzhai Village, Zhuji Town, Huaiyang County, Henan Province.

I'm a peasant born and bred. My family was poor and my parents had died when I was young. In addition, I had endured all kinds of frustration and hardship in life, because my mother-in-law wanted a grandson while my daughter was born then. Thus my physical body and spirit broke down.

I entered the gate of Falun Gong in a fog in summer of 1996 when I bought a copy of Zhuan Falun on the recommendation of a friend, and the statements in the book that people could be cured without taking medicine and could also become Buddha by cultivation really attracted me deeply.

During the period from 1997 to 1998, Li Hongzhi asked us to expand the cultivation team. In order to recruit more people, I sold up the valuable trees and spent the money behind my husband's back on VCR, video tapes, tapes and books to learn Li Hongzhi's analysis on Fa, in addition, I bought some materials and send them to neighbors.

Everyone thought I practiced well since I worked earnestly, made great progress on Falun Gong and had strong rallying point and influence. In March 1997, I became assistant director of Yangzhai Instruction Center in Zhuji Town, Huaiyang County, in charge of managing Falun Gong materials. Since then, I had been increasingly obsessed in Falun Gong and regarded Li Hongzhi as "the primary Buddha in universe" descending to the world to save people.

As I associated closely with the cultivators, I distanced myself from my relatives gradually. My husband, who was hurt again and again, had no power over me, so he could do nothing with me but double carry the family burden alone.

My youngest daughter suffered more from it. In December 1997, in order to attend the Falun Gong-relative meeting in Lutai Town, Huaiyang County，I ignored my breast-fed baby. As a result, she got cold for drinking milk powder. When she was sick, I didn't give her any medicine for a few days. Young as she is, she has poor resistance, and her condition got worse and worse. She often coughed seriously, which made her hard to fall asleep. Then, she caught a fever. I believed that the Master Li Hongzhi would eliminate karma for her so I didn't take her to the hospital. A week later, being unable to bear seeing our daughter in pain, my husband took her to the hospital in spite of my objection. The doctor suggested that my daughter should be hospitalized at once. She didn't turn better until she was dripped for a week.

One day in July 1998, in order to learn Li Hongzhi's new scripture Digging Root with my cultivators, I surrounded my 9-month sleeping daughter in bed with a quilt and then locked her in the room alone. It was 4 or 5 hours later when I came back in the evening. My daughter had fallen off the bed with the quilt with her face and upper body being buried in the quilt and her two legs kicking back and forth outside. I pulled her out of the quilt immediately. Her face went blue with choke at that time and her face was covered with tears.

In August 1998, as director I set up a practicing point in my home in order to better learn the Fa and expand the cultivation team. I organized the cultivators in our village to learn Fa and practice Gong together. Moreover, I usually organized the cultivators in the five neighboring towns in the southern half of Huainan County to have Fa meetings. At the meeting, I played the practicing tapes and CDs of Li Hongzhi to the cultivators, explained Fa to those new comers and agitated more people to join us.

Meanwhile, my sister-in-law began practicing Falun Gong in 1998 under my influence.

In February 1999, my 34-year-old brother-in-law showed the symptoms of cough and fever. He thought it as common cold, so he took some medicine. In March 1999, I recommended him to practice Falun Gong to treat disease by eliminating karma and then he began to refuse to take medicine. My sister-in-law read Zhuan Falun to him every day and taught him how to learn Fa and practice Gong. Two months later, he was skinny, blue and weak.

In July 1999, China officially banned Falun Gong. Some cases telling how Falun Gong caused death or disability were shown on TV. Some kind-hearted people in our village told my brother-in-law that Li Hongzhi was a fraud and advised him to go to hospital as soon as possible. But he refused and insisted on saying that he was under the protection of the Master's Law Bodies and he would be all right after the Master eliminated karma for him. Later, a friend of my brother-in-law knew it and sent my brother-in-law to the hospital by car by force one day in early August in 1999. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis in terminal stage. There were many pulmonary cavities in his lung. Since he had missed the best treatment opportunity, there was no therapy for his illness. My brother left us on the second day he was in hospital.

I didn't wake up facing the bleeding tragedy that my brother-in-law died for practicing Falun Gong and refusing to take medicine. Instead, I thought that he had achieved "Consummation". Under the bewitchment of Li Hongzhi's scriptures, I took it as a test for the disciples. In order to become immortal and achieve the so-called "Consummation", I kept on practicing Falun Gong in spite of the notice that our country had banned it.

On the 17th of the first lunar month in 2001, I left my four young children alone and rented a house as material point in the suburb of Xiangcheng City away from home to prove my loyalty to Dafa. I spent all the money of our family on the material point. I franticly printed promotional materials about Falun Gong with several cultivators and distributed them everywhere. I believed that distributing one more brochure meant saving one more life. In October 2001, I was punished for violating the criminal law.

When I was detained in house of detention, the prison policewomen were very concerned about me. They took good care of me and advised me to think more about my family. Not only did I turn a deaf ear to their persuasion but also regarded them as devils to damage Dafa. According to Li Hongzhi's requirement of "not coordinate with evil", I often fought against them with radical words and actions, such as a hunger strike and shouting slogans.

One day in December 2003, a policewoman showed me a brochure downloaded from one of Falun Gong's websites, in which an article The Prison Policemen Oppress Liu Jinfang was published. In the article they said the policemen plugged prod into my fingernails, burnt my arch of the feet with smoke and fire, and my hair, shreds of clothes and bloodshot were beaten to fly about, my lower limbs were beaten handicapped and I fainted many times.

I was quite astonished after reading it. In fact I had never suffered the abhorrent oppression, why did this website publish such a piece of false news? I still took a view of preserving Falun Gong and dared not think more or suspect it at that time. But I thought that if more people read the false news presented by it, it would delude them and have a pernicious influence.

Liu Jinfang shows her hands, saying, "Nobody has ever plugged prod into my fingernails."

Then I wrote a note, in which I asked this website to correct the news, explaining that the news about my oppression in house of detention was not true. I wasn't tortured as the web described, nobody had ever beaten me and I was still healthy. I hoped it could correct the news as soon as possible. When I finished the note, I asked a cultivator who left the house before me to take it out.

Later, I heard that those cultivators at Xiangcheng material point got to know my real condition one by one. Some people surfed the website and required it to correct the news about my oppression. However, this website didn't correct its mistakes, but spread and broadcasted the false news everywhere instead.

Until March 2011, Falun Gong-relative web still had been publishing such false news to mislead others and provoke their resentment to our government.