Name: Meng Yue (孟越)
Gender: Female
Age: 50
Address: Shenhe District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 9, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Masanjia Forced Labor Camp (马三家劳教所)
City: Shenyang
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Illegal sentencing, torture, force-feedings, home ransacking, detention
(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Meng Yue from Shenyang City was arrested on March 9, 2012. Participating in the arrest were officers from Keji Shangcheng Police Station in the Dongling District of Shenyang City. Ms. Meng was subjected to force-feedings in the detention center. The police also kept her shackled and put other torture instruments on her while forcing her to remain in a fixed position for eight days. Ms. Meng is currently in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. She is in extreme pain, and her physical condition is worrying.
On March 9, 2012, Ms. Meng and Ms. Zhu Jinghua were arrested as they were speaking with people about Falun Gong and distributing Shen Yun Performing Arts DVDs on Sanhao Street in Shenyang City. Officers from the Keji Shangcheng Police Station in the Dongling District made the arrests. The police also ransacked the homes of the two practitioners that same afternoon and took Falun Gong books, CDs, and computers. The two practitioners were taken to the Shenyang City No. 1 Detention Center that same evening. Their families were not informed that they had been placed in criminal detention until March 21. Ms. Meng was given 30 days, and Ms. Zhu, 70 days.
Painting: Force-feeding
Ms. Meng held a ten-day hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards tied her up with leather strips so tightly that as they force-fed her, she almost suffocated. The guards also placed her in shackles and other torture instruments, and forced her to remain in a fixed position for eight days. During a physical examination on March 19, before Ms. Meng was sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to serve a one-year term, she was diagnosed with symptoms of myocardial ischemia and a lack of blood flow to the heart, among other symptoms that disqualified her from a forced labor term. Despite the diagnosis, the police hastily sent her to Masanjia that same evening.
Ms. Zhu Jinghua was released on March 19 after she had been detained for ten days.
Ms. Meng's physical condition has continued to be poor since she was sent to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. She is in constant pain. In particular, her upper body is painfully swollen, which is unbearably painful even when she eats and walks. Another physical examination on March 29 showed that her pain stemmed from the external injuries sustained from the abuse and torture at the detention center.
Li Da, officer from Kejicheng Police Station: +86-24-23893701, +86-24-23920938
