Mother in Labour Camp, Father Persecuted to Death

The police from the Public Security Bureau in Shenyang City detained practitioner Mrs. Zu Liming at 10 p.m. on May 23rd, 2006. The authorities sentenced her to two years of forced labour and sent her to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Her young son Miao Yumeng is now at home, all alone. His father Miao Qisheng was persecuted to death in May 2002.

Mr. Miao Qisheng used to work at a printing press for the Political Committee in Shenyang City. He began to practise Falun Gong in 1994. He was viewed as a great person in his workplace. He was arrested in October 1999 and held in a detention centre in Shenyang, where he was brutally persecuted. In March 2000, the Middle Court in Shenyang City secretly sentenced him to two years of forced labour, but he was actually held for two and a half years.

On May 14th, 2002, a group of police from Xianggong Police Station in the Huanggu District broke into Mr. Miao's home. Mr. Miao had just been released from the labour camp, but they took him away. They brutally tortured him. They fractured both his arms in the police station and later beat him to death. He was only 39 years old. The police later had a meeting to block information regarding his death and claimed that he had committed suicide by jumping off of a building. His ten-year-old son Mengmeng lost his beloved father forever.

Mengmeng's mother, Ms. Zu Liming, was an architecture budgeting accountant. She was arrested and tortured numerous times for practising Falun Gong. In April 2001, she was secretly arrested and sentenced to forced labour. Mengmeng was then left behind in the care of his relatives.

What Mengmeng has experienced in the last seven years is beyond imagining for a child his age. The emotional trauma has been terrible. From being homeless to having a broken family, there were only few days he spent with both of his parents, and the happy times they spent together are only a memory. Mengmeng has suffered tremendous pressure from the CCP's brutal persecution against Falun Gong and it has made him even more withdrawn.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/18/130746.html