Remembering Meng Xiao

By Gao Yiqing, a practitioner from New Zealand

Upon hearing the shocking news of Meng Xiao being tortured to death, I could not stop crying. I could still remember her smile and voice vividly.

I knew Meng from January 2000 when I was in Beijing's Dongcheng Detention Centre. Seven of us practitioners from New Zealand went to Beijing to validate Dafa in December 1999, and we were arrested in the hotel before we even got to Tiananmen Square. All seven of us were sent to the Dongcheng Detention Centre on New Year's Eve of 2000. I was locked in the room of the first department for women. After a week, quite a few practitioners were transferred to Dongcheng, and Meng Xiao was among them.

Meng Xiao was taken to the Dongcheng Detention Centre because she went to Tiananmen Square with two other practitioners and displayed a banner with the words, "Long Live Falun Dafa in the World." She was later transferred to the Beijing Police Department 7th Division (a division for the serious criminals), and then transferred back. She said that the banner she displayed spoke to her heart the most. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, she bravely withstood the pressure coming at her from family, work, and others around her, and was determined never to give up the practice. I will never forget her firm belief in Falun Dafa and her courage in facing the evildoers.

Because of the persecution, that young life had been taken away. I could not stop crying in front of the computer.

Meng Xiao's death was reported at

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/1/27/44467.html

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/1/29/66057.html