(Clearwisdom.net) Meng Xianjun, 30, from Shuangcheng City in Heilongjiang Province, used to work in the Water and Sewage Administration Sector for Shuangcheng City. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1998. Since Jiang Zemin's regime commenced persecuting Dafa in July 1999, Meng Xianjun has gone to Beijing three times to appeal for Falun Dafa. She suffered cruel persecution from Beijing and local police. Her family was extorted out of about 30,000 Yuan.
Meng Xianjun went to Beijing to appeal for the first time on November 9, 2000. She unfurled a banner saying, "Falun Dafa is Great" at Tiananmen Square. The police took her to the Tiananmen Square Police Station. At first she was detained in a steel cage, and then she was interrogated. After divulging her name and address, she was sent to Shuangcheng City's Beijing liaison office and was detained there for 24 hours. Jiang Shihui and others from that office searched the Dafa practitioners' bodies and took all their money. They said the money was for a "boarding fee." Some practitioners were robbed of over a hundred Yuan. The next day, the manager from her workplace took Meng Xianjun back to the local "610 Office," where one of the heads of the "610 Office," Zhang Shiyue (now transferred), interrogated her. He also brought out a printed document and forced her to sign it. Then they extorted 2,000 Yuan from her family before releasing her.
Back home, Meng Xianjun felt remorse towards Dafa and Master, from whom she benefited so much. She went to Beijing to appeal again on December 12, 2000. This time she was taken to Tiananmen Square Police Station. Because she didn't tell them her name and address, she was sent to Fangshan District Detention Center in Beijing. There were so many Dafa practitioners there, and they were each given a number and were taken to different rooms for interrogation.
Two male police officers took Meng Xianjun to a room that had a bunk bed. After entering the room, the officers immediately cuffed her to a modified metal chair, a torture device. Such a chair has a square shape and is as high as a half meter (about 18 inches). When sitting on it, one was cuffed with both hands behind them in an immovable position. There were two steel rings just a little bit wider than an ankle, to shackle the legs. One could not move at all except for a little bit in the head and shoulders. After four or five hours fixed in this position, a normal person's arms might be permanently disabled. The ankles might also swell; after a long time the rings would cut into the flesh, thus leading to potentially serious atrophy of the calf muscles. In the worse cases, it might lead to permanent disability of the lower legs.
The police started to interrogate Meng Xianjun at around 7:00 p.m. The TV showed pictures of Jiang Zemin. One of the police officers said, "It is him who told us to do this." These two officers kept her restrained until 8:00 a.m. the next morning - for 13 hours! After they came to work, they sent her back to the cell in the detention center. Meng Xianjun refused to tell them her name and address. She went on a hunger strike from the moment of her illegal interrogation. Her body was already very weak by then, and after three days, they saw that she was dying, and were afraid to take responsibility for her death, so they released her. With the help of kind people, Meng Xianjun finally went back home.
The third time she went to Beijing to appeal was on December 18, 2000. She was arrested and taken to Daxing District Detention Center in Beijing, where two police officers in their 40s interrogated her initially. Because she didn't tell her name, she was punished by being made to stand for 24 hours. Her legs became numb. The next day, a young but vicious-looking police officer came in and shouted at her, "Take off your shoes, squat by the wall, stretch your arms forward, stand on your heels and don't move." This is a very cruel way to torture people. This torture does not show bruises on the surface. After a prolonged time, it can cause leg spasms, swelling of the feet, and can even cause one to lose equilibrium and consciousness.
Even a small body movement would trigger this police officer to kick her body and head with leather boots. After a while, seeing her persistence to not divulge her name, the officer changed tactics and said, "If you tell us, we can explain to the directors. Then we'll buy you a return train ticket home." She was in so much pain by then that she could barely stand it. So she told her name. To her surprise, they had lied to her. Later she was put into a detention center, and the next day she was taken back by a clerk from the liaison office. Several days later, she was taken back by the managers at her workplace, taken to Shuangcheng City, and directly sent to the Shuangcheng City No. 2 Detention Center.
After eight days of hunger strike in the detention center, she was released on December 31. The detention center extorted over 130 Yuan as a "boarding fee." On February 15, 2001, shortly after she had returned home, the city "610 Office" head, Zhang Guofu (deputy chief of Shuangcheng City Police Department), sent two people to dupe Meng Xianjun into going to the detention center "for a conversation." There she was held for 37 days of unlawful detention. This time they extorted over 300 Yuan as a "boarding fee." During this time, Zhang Guofu also threatened her parents that he would send her to a forced labor camp. Meng Xianjun's parents were worried that she might suffer more, so they paid another bribe of 5,000 Yuan.
On March 7, 2003, Meng Xianjun and fellow practitioners went to distribute truth-clarifying materials in the countryside. Chief Xin Peiyan and two officers from Shuangcheng City Gongzheng Town Police Station arrested them and restricted their personal freedom for the entire morning. The practitioners were then sent to Shuangcheng City No. 2 Detention Center. Meng Xianjun went on hunger strike again, to protest this persecution. After eight days, on March 14, she was "bailed out awaiting trial." The No. 2 Detention Center extorted a 3,000 Yuan "bail out fee."
One day in May 2003, personnel from the Gongzheng Town Police Station suddenly appeared at Meng Xianjun's home. They delivered a document that looked like a notification for forced labor, and told her to come to the "610 Office" the next day. Meng Xianjun's parents were anxious as soon as they saw the document. How come she had to do forced labor again? Later they understood. It turned out that Gongzheng Town Police Station enforcers arrested her but didn't get any credit for it. Instead, the No. 2 Detention Center got 3,000 Yuan, so they felt unhappy inside, not getting their fair share. Meng Xianjun's parents had to borrow money from here and there. They gave 10,000 Yuan to Zhang Guofu from the "610 Office" and 4,000 Yuan to Xin Peiyan from Gongzheng Town Police Station. By this time her family had many debts accumulated. Meng Xianjun was arrested three times, and she and her family had been extorted over 24,500 Yuan. This does not include the transportation fee that her manager demanded for taking her back, which was about 5,000 Yuan!
Meng Xianjun not only suffered tremendous physical and mental torment, but also her family, especially her parents, suffered unimaginable mental pressure. They often had nightmares. A phone ringing easily scared them. When she was at home, her parents always followed her in fear that the police would take her away at any time.