Name: Meng Fanli (孟繁丽)
Gender: Female
Age: 50
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Senior caretaker
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 5, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center (青龙山洗脑班)
City: Jiansanjiang
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, force-feedings, extortion, physical restraint, home ransacked, detention, denial of restroom use, interrogation
(Minghui.org) Ms. Meng Fanli was arrested on September 5, 2012, in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. According to her older sister, several men came into their home and made the arrest without showing any IDs or any legal papers. None of them wore police uniforms. The family had to report a “missing person” in order to find out where she was taken. They learned that Ms. Meng had been sent to Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center in Jiansanjiang Branch of Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation Bureau.
Ms. Meng Fanli
The plainclothes police made a great deal of noise beating on Ms. Meng Fanli's door for a long time, disturbing the neighbors. When the neighbors and passersby asked what they were doing, they said, “It's none of your business! Don't ask!”
Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center operates under the name “Qinglongshan Law Training Base.” It is one of the places in Heilongjiang Province where Falun Gong practitioners are routinely detained and persecuted. The practitioners that are being detained by different branches of Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation Bureau are being sent to this brainwashing center without any legal procedures being followed. The heads of the different branches and 610 Office cooperate with local police to arrest practitioners and send them to the center. The practitioners are then brainwashed and tortured.
Arrested at Home, Ms. Meng's Whereabouts Discovered by Reporting Her as Missing
Between 6 and 7 a.m. on September 5, 2012, Ms. Meng Fanli heard furious knocking at her door. Looking through the peephole, she saw a group of strangers outside and didn't want to open it. When the knocking became louder and louder, Ms. Meng's older sister finally opened the door. Some of the strangers rushed in while others remained outside. None of them wore uniforms. Two of them were from Jiangchuan Police Station and had come several times before to harass the family. Meng Fanli refused to go with them. Two police officers stood on either side of her, holding her arms, and dragged her out. By the time Ms. Meng's sister realized what was happening, her sister had already been taken away in a police car. No one told Ms. Meng's sister where she was being taken.
Ms. Meng's sister went to the local police station to find out where she was. The police there all claimed that they didn't know anything about it. After 8 p.m. that evening, Ms. Meng's sister went to Yingjun Police Station to report a missing person. It was then that she finally learned that Jiangchuan Police Department officers had arrested Ms. Meng.
On the morning of September 6, four or five officers came to Ms. Meng's home again. They even searched the personal computer belonging to her sister. One of the officers said that Ms. Meng was detained in Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center. They threatened her sister, and told her not to talk to other practitioners and not to tell them the police phone numbers.
After Being Persecuted for Years, Ms. Meng Is Arrested Again
When Jiang Zemin's CCP regime started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Ms. Meng Fanli was arrested and detained in Jiamusi Detention Center for six months. She was released after her family was fined 2000 yuan.
She and two fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in November 2000. They were arrested and detained in Beijing Xicheng District Detention Center. They were searched and stripped of all their belongings. Ms. Meng was later sent to Shahe City Detention Center in Hebei Province. She was handcuffed to the heating pipe for 24 hours in an awkward and painful half-crouching position. Because she refused to tell the police who she was or give any information, she was forced to stand for long hours and was not allowed to sleep. After being tortured this way for several days, she was exhausted and in pain. After she told them her name, she was transferred to Jiamusi Detention Center and later was sentenced to one year of forced labor. In labor camp, she was detained in a cold, dark and damp room and watched by two inmates. She had no freedom of movement. She suffered a lot, both mentally and physically.
Torture re-enactment: Death bed
Meng Fanli was reported to the police when she clarified the truth about Falun Gong in October 2004. Xiangyang Police Station officers took her to a detention center. She started a hunger strike to protest the mistreatment. While she was on the hunger strike, she was brutally tortured including being tied to a death bed and force feeding. She was tortured to the brink of death. Despite her fragile condition, she was still sentenced to three years of forced labor and sent to Xigemu Forced Labor Camp in Jiamusi City. In the camp, she was beaten and verbally abused. She was detained in a cold, damp storehouse, kept in isolation, and forced to do slave labor. She was threatened that if she did not meet the quota making car cushions, her term would be prolonged.
Torture re-enactment: Force-feeding
Ms. Meng Fanli has suffered greatly in detention and forced labor camp for years. Now she has been arrested and detained again. We hope kindhearted people will pay attention to the persecution of Falun Gong and help stop it.
Parties responsible for the persecution of Ms. Meng Fanli:
Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center: +86-454-5700569
Fang Yuecun, head of Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center: +86-13846125557
Jiangchuan Police Station: +86-454-8191110
Chao Yujiang, head of the bureau: +86-454-8199820
Hu Zhenfu, deputy head of the bureau: +86-45-48199825
For more perpetrators' contact information, please refer to the original Chinese article.
