Ms. Meng Gui, in her sixties, from Linshan County, Guangxi Autonomous Region, is still suffering torture at the Nanning Women's Forced Labour Camp in Guangxi Autonomous Region because she refuses to renounce Falun Gong. She is being detained at the labour camp past the legal time limit. She is being monitored by four inmates and is not allowed to sleep for long periods of time. She has been tortured beyond recognition during these past four years.
Before 1999, Ms. Meng Gui helped her daughter sell sweets in Beihai City, Guangxi Autonomous Region. After July 20th, 1999, she went to the Beihai City Airport every day to do the Falun Gong exercises with several other practitioners. The police from Beihai City Police Department then threatened her. They told her that if she gave up the practice of Falun Dafa, then she would be allowed to stay in Beihai City. Otherwise, they would arrest her.
Ms. Meng went back to Linshan County. One day, Ms. Meng and several other practitioners got together to watch Teacher Li's [Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa] lecture on VCD. The police followed one of the practitioners to the place and arrested everyone there. Ms. Meng and six other practitioners were detained for a month and fined 1,000 yuan1 each. The rest of the other dozen or so practitioners were detained for two weeks. Before they were released, the police forced practitioners to sign a detention certificate saying they had "joined a [slanderous term omitted] and obstructed the implementation of laws." Ms. Meng Gui refused to sign the certificate and started to explain the facts about Falun Dafa to the policemen. In the end, Head of the National Security Brigade Huang Shoujie gave up and gave the order to let her go.
On the evening of April 22nd, 2000, a group of practitioners were sharing their cultivation experiences. Plain-clothes policemen forced themselves in and arrested everyone. The practitioners were taken to the Shili Detention Centre, where they were detained for 15 days. On May 7th, Ms. Meng Gui was released. The next day, while she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution, she was arrested again and detained for a month.
On June 13th, 2000, Ms. Meng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. On her way to Beijing, she was stopped at Changsha City. The railway police detained her at the Changsha Railway Station Police Station. With righteous thoughts, Ms. Meng escaped and bought a train ticket to Beijing. With only over a dozen yuan left, she arrived at Beijing and went to Tiananmen Square to do the 5th exercise, the sitting meditation. She was taken to the Tiananmen Square Police Station. The policemen there notified the Linshan Police Department.
Ms. Meng was taken back to Linshan. She was handcuffed the whole way back. The police handcuffed several people together. Ms. Meng was sent to the Linshan Detention Centre and was later sentenced to two years of forced labour without going through any legal procedures.
At Nanning Women's Labour Camp, the prison guards forced practitioners to read newspapers and watch programmes that slandered Falun Dafa, and attend the so-called exposing meetings to criticise Teacher Li and Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Meng refused to participate in such activities. Each time, several prison guards would beat her before carrying her to the meeting. Since she refused to criticise Teacher Li or write the three statements2, she was brutally tortured. She was confined to a small room, tied to the bed and was not allowed to sleep. She was hung by her arms with the tip of her toes barely touching the ground. She was beaten up by criminal inmates. She was not allowed to use the toilet. While enduring all these tortures, she was also forced to do heavy labour for long periods of time.
Ms. Meng Gui was in good health and weighed about 165 pounds before suffering persecution. As a result of the tortures, she became emaciated. Her heart problem also recurred. Her whole body went numb due to prolonged hanging. She could no longer feel the pain from the beatings or the needles that were injected into her body. She lost the ability to talk and move her body. She didn't respond to intravenous injections. Authorities at the labour camp were afraid she might die and released her on medical probation. One of the conditions for her release was that her family call the labour camp every 10 days to report her condition. The labour camp sent her home in the middle of the night in order to cover up their tortures.
In 2002, when the Chinese Communist Party was holding its national conference, Ms. Meng was forcibly taken to the brainwashing class for more than 10 days. One day in Mid-August, she went to the county 610 Office3 to get back her Dafa books and other belongings that were confiscated. As a result, the next day, she was arrested by policemen from Lincheng Police Station and detained in a conference room in the Lincheng Township Government Building. The police did not allow anyone to visit her. As a result, she did not have any clean clothes to change into or other necessities. The police laughed at her and said: "Why don't you ask your Teacher to save you?"
A month later, Ms. Meng went out to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution at night and was arrested by patrolling policemen. She was sent to the Linshan Detention Centre. A fellow practitioner went there to give her 100 yuan and wrote down "Righteous Thoughts" as her name in the visiting log. The practitioner's intention was to remind Ms. Meng to strengthen her righteous thoughts and negate all the persecution. The guard on duty was the deputy head of the detention centre. He became nervous when he saw the characters "Righteous Thoughts" and refused to give the money to Ms. Meng. Instead, he called the police department to come and arrest this practitioner. The practitioner was alerted and quickly left the detention centre. Around 2:00 a.m. that night, Ms. Meng was sent to the Nanning Labour Camp and was sentenced to three years of forced labour.
Practitioners who have been released from the labour camp said that Ms. Meng is being brutally tortured. She was not allowed to use the toilet. She had to urinate or excrete in her trousers and was not permitted to change clothes. As a result, her buttocks were soaked in excrement for a long period of time. They became red and swollen until the skin broke, causing excruciating pain. The guards used up all of their inhumane tortures, but Ms. Meng still refused to give up practising Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and did not cooperate with them. One practitioner said that when she saw Ms. Meng, she couldn't walk. She had to be carried out on a stretcher. When she spoke, one had to put their ear next to her mouth in order to hear anything. The guards saw that she was too weak and loosened up a little on the persecution. Only then was Ms. Meng able to recover a little from the tortures.
Ms. Meng Gui is in her 60's, and has suffered relentless persecution every day for the past several years. She has been detained for over four years, and has still not been released.
Responsible Parties:
Head of Linshan County 610 Office, Su Decai, 86-13877766633 (Mobile)
Linshan County Party Secretary, Liu Hai, 86-779-6523886 (Office)
Linshan County Secretary of Political and Judiciary Committee, Zhong Jihua, 86-779-6516209 (Office)
Head of Linshan County Police Department, Chu Xukun, 86-13877711033 (Mobile) 86-779-6529968 (Office)
Head of Linshan County Security Brigade, Yao Zhengqi, 86-13907776000 (Mobile) 86-779-6529645 (Office)
Head of Lincheng Police Station, Chen Haifeng, 86-13907776170 (Mobile) 86-779 -6529669 (Office)
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
2. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/14/146796.html
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