Seventy Year-old Ms. Li Mengshu Dies as a Result of Imprisonment in Sichuan Province

Ms. Li Mengshu, 70, lived in Jiangcheng Town, Jianyang City, Sichuan Province. On March 15th, 2007, she went to the Zhouchang area in Yangma Town to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and was reported and arrested by officers from the Yangma Town Police Station and Jianyang City Domestic Security Division (Yan Yiquan, Luo Jiao, Lu Hui, and Chen Ke). She was detained in the Jianyang City Detention Centre. Her family went to request her release, but Domestic Security refused them. Her family demanded that they show legal documents, but the agents would not issue any. Instead, they told her family, "Go ahead and sue us!"

Ms. Li's husband could not take the stress. He got sick and died on April 22nd, 2007. Ms. Li was not allowed to say goodbye to him. On June 8th, 2007, Ms. Li was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and sent secretly to the Sixth Ward of the Chengdu City Women Prison on July 26th, 2007.

After the sentencing, Ms. Li's salary was withheld. The guards did not allow her to practise Falun Gong and brutally tortured her until her life was in danger several times. The prison administration saw that she could not take care of herself, and in fear of being held responsible for her death, ordered the Jianyang City Police Department to pick her up. However, the latter delayed doing so for three months. The prison had to take her home in January 2009. She died at 4:00 a.m. on April 21st, 2009.

Ms. Li Mengshu's home address: 158-Anxiang Street, Jiancheng Town, Jianyang City, Sichuan Province, zip code 641400

Chengdu City Women Prison located in Hong'an Town, Longquanyi District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, zip code 610109
Yangma Town Police Station Director Zeng (given name unknown)
Prosecutor Huang in Jianyang City Procuratorate
Jianyang City Domestic Security Division: 86-832-7226655
Yan Yiquan, Jianyang City Domestic Security Division chief, 86-832-7263848 (Home)
Chen Ke, Lu Hui, Luo Jiao, Jianyang City Domestic Security Division chief officers
Tang Jianguo, Jianyang City 610 Office chairman: 86-832-7210610 (Office), 86-832-7261234 (Home), 86-13320685898 (Mobile)
Zhong Shiquan, Jianyang City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee secretary: 86-832-7221166 (Office), 86-832-7213369 (Home), 86-13980382369 (Mobile), 86-832-7288818 (Xaiolingtong)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/7/12/204402.html