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Name: Meng YanChinese Name: 孟艳Gender: FemaleAge: 74City: SongyuanProvince: JilinOccupation: Warehouse keeperDate of Death: October 8, 2022Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 19, 2015Most Recent Place of Detention: Changchun Women’s Prison

A Songyuan City, Jilin Province resident passed away on October 8, 2022, four years after she finished serving three years in prison, and her pension was suspended, due to the persecution of her faith in Falun Gong. She was 74 years old.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

In addition to the latest three-year sentence, Ms. Meng Yan also served two labor camp terms for a total of four years.

Ms. Meng, a warehouse keeper, took up Falun Gong in March 1999. In the early years of the persecution, she was repeatedly arrested and given two terms at the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp.

Due to enormous mental pressure, Ms. Meng was forced to renounce Falun Gong against her will during her first labor camp term. She also developed high blood pressure and suffered constant dizziness, as well as having difficulty walking. She later regretted her renunciation and announced the voiding of her statement. The guards beat and kicked her in retaliation.

After confirming that she was indeed suffering from a medical condition, they forced her to take unknown drugs. Her term was extended for ten days, as she refused to write thought reports required by the guard.

Ms. Meng was arrested again on July 11, 2008 at her sister-in-law’s birthday party. She sustained a severe injury to her leg during the arrest. She was unable to fall asleep in the detention center. Without informing her family, the police took her to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp for the second time on July 31 of that year.

Several officers from the Qian’an County Domestic Security Team went to Ms. Meng’s home on August 19, 2015, with a copy of the criminal complaint she filed against Jiang Zemin. As she refused to open the door, the police smashed her lock and broke in. They confiscated a computer, a mobile phone, a printer, 20 boxes of printing paper, a box of printer ink, a tape recorder, an MP3 player, Falun Gong books, and other assorted items. Her grandson, a middle-schooler, was terrified and his face turned pale.

Ms. Meng tried to explain that suing Jiang was her lawful right as a citizen, and that practicing Falun Gong was completely legal, but the officers ignored her. They took her to the Qian’an County Police Department and later to the Songyuan City Detention Center, where she was detained for eleven and a half months.

Ms. Meng was charged with “using a cult to sabotage law enforcement” and sentenced to three years in prison. Her appeal was denied and she was transferred to Changchun Women’s Prison in August 2016.

Torture re-enactment: Sitting on a small stool

All of the Falun Gong practitioners in the prison who refused to give up their practice were forced to sit on small plastic chairs for extended periods every day, which routinely lasted from 5:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. Ms. Meng became extremely thin and her buttocks started to fester.

The guards declared that Ms. Meng had hypertension and ordered her to take pills. When Ms. Meng refused, they tried to mix the pills in her food and drink but to no avail. They injected her with an unknown drug at the prison hospital. Ms. Meng was forced to read books that slandered Falun Gong and its founder, and the authorities also attempted to coerce her into renouncing her practice of Falun Gong.

After she was released in 2018, the local Social Security Bureau suspended her pension. Her health continued to decline and she eventually passed away on October 8, 2022.

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