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Brutal Beating, Force-Feeding and Poisonous Injections -- Death of Dafa Practitioner Meng Xiao in Qingbaijiang District, Chengdu City
(Clearwisdom.net) On December 26, 2003, Dafa practitioner Liu Chengjun
was tortured to death in Changchun City, Jilin Province, and Dafa practitioners
around the globe protested the atrocity. Fearing international media exposure,
many police officers in China refrained from more brutal means of torture but
some perpetrators in certain areas are still indulging in fanatic persecution.
In early January 2004, Dafa practitioner Meng Xiao was tortured to death. Ms. Meng Xiao, a college graduate, was a 37-year-old employee/division head
of the Chengdu Steel Factory. After being brutally tortured, force-fed, tied up
and injected with poisonous drugs, Meng Xiao died between January 8 and January
12, 2004 in Jintang County, Chengdu City. On November 19, 2003, with orders from the "610 Office," police
officers from the Chengdu City Riot Control Group and Jintang County Police
Department abducted Meng Xiao from her rented home on Hengping Street, Jintang
County. The perpetrators from the "610 Office" and from the police
department tortured her cruelly. After saying "Falun Dafa is great,"
Meng Xiao remained silent despite the savage tortures used on her, which earned
the respect from some police who still have kindly thought. At Jintang County Detention Center, Meng Xiao was tortured for holding a
hunger strike. The guards sent her to 201 Hospital where she was forcibly
injected with poisonous drugs that damage the central nervous system. Everyday
she was injected with two doses of Valium and one dose of Thorazine* [also
known as Aminazin, Chlorpromazine, Largactil, Thorazine or Wintermin; see below
for further details], a strong tranquilizer and psychotropic drug used in
the treatment of psychiatric patients. After the injection, Meng Xiao had
constant body aches, muddle-headedness and muscle weakness. She could not regain
mind clarity until after two or three days of sleeping. Right after she came to,
she would immediately be sent back to the hospital to suffer the same torture
and would have the same symptoms all over again. Meng Xiao was at death's door
several times. Later, after she had clarified the truth to the doctor, he
stopped giving her poisonous injections and the symptoms disappeared. The police then decided to send her to No. 1 People's Hospital in Jintang
County for intravenous infusion, after which Meng Xiao went into coma for two to
three days. She experienced body aches and vomited after she regained
consciousness. She also had slurred speech. The doctor's diagnosis stated that
Meng Xiao had only two to three more days to live. Meng Xiao's family begged the
police to release her, but the police replied, "Only our superior can
determine if she can be released, what we say doesn't count." The
authorities for Jintang County Detention Center asked the Chengdu City "610
Office" if Meng Xiao was to be released. The response was, "Just let
her die at the hospital or detention center. Don't release her!" As a
result, the abuse against her escalated. Jiang Zengyao, head of the detention
center, said at the detention center, "It's impossible for Meng Xiao to get
out with a hunger strike; if she is going to die, she'll have to die at the
detention center or the hospital." At the hospital, numerous police
officers tied up Meng Xiao and gave her injections. Meng Xiao was seen covered
with bruises and deep cuts and blood on her hands and feet after each injection.
It is also heard her ribs were broken from beating. On January 8, 2004, Meng Xiao was again sent to No. 1 People's Hospital in
Jintang County and never returned to the detention center. It was later learned
that between January 8 and January 12, 2004, Meng Xiao was tortured to death at
the hospital and her body, which was covered with bruises, was immediately
cremated without her family's knowledge. Meng Xiao began practicing Falun Gong in March 1999. On November 17, 1999,
Meng Xiao and other Dafa practitioners unfurled a banner that read "Falun
Dafa stands in the world forever." Afterwards, Meng Xiao was illegally
detained and sentenced to two years in prison. She was brutally beaten countless
times in Beijing; she was cuffed with her hands across her back, shocked with
electric batons; the police banged her head against the wall while grabbing her
hair, and they tied her up. During an unconstitutional trial, Meng Xiao refused
to cooperate and recited in a loud voice "When the Fa is Right" (from Essentials
for Further Advancement), and the court police fanatically beat and kicked
her. On April 22, 2000, Meng Xiao was sent to Sichuan Province Female Prison in
Yangmahe, Jianyang. During this time, Meng Xiao was detained in solitary
confinement numerous times for a very long time because she did the Dafa
exercises and upheld Dafa. The authorities and inmates beat her on countless
occasions, including dragging her down the stairway, shocking her with electric
batons, tying her with ropes, throwing her outside in the winter with only thin
clothes on, and hanging her on the window with her hands behind her back for
several days and nights. After her sentence expired, Meng Xiao was fired by the Chengdu Steel Factory
and was sent to a brainwashing class in Tangchang Town, Pixian County, where she
was tortured until she suffered bone fractures and she couldn't stand up.
Authority from her factory picked her up when she was on the brink of death.
They locked her in the security office and then the factory hospital to inject
her with big doses of drugs that damage the central nervous system. Later, Meng
Xiao broke free with righteous thoughts but was forced into exile for more than
one year. On November 19, 2003, Meng Xiao was arrested in Jintang County and was later
tortured to death. The details of her torture are being investigated. Meng Xiao's parents live in Xichong County. Her father is paralyzed and her
mother had a nervous breakdown. Work units and individuals responsible for this persecution: Chengdu City Police Department * Important Note on Thorazine: The psychotropic drug Thorazine (also known as Aminazin, Chlorpromazine,
Largactil, Thorazine or Wintermin) is an anti psychotic drug and used in the
treatment of psychiatric patients. Thorazine may result in rather severe side
effects, such as tardive dyskinesia (irreversible neurological disorder,
afflicting the involuntary muscle movements, such as eyelids, tongue, arms,
legs, mouth, lips, tongue, etc.), tardive dementia (a global deterioration of
mind and mental faculties caused by the drugs), general dulling of awareness,
emotional numbing, and cognitive dysfunction.- According to Amnesty International's medical advice, these drugs are not in
themselves sinister. There are specific disorders for which they are prescribed,
but only qualified doctors should administer them, and they must be monitored.
Given that Falun Gong practitioners are subject to torture and maltreatment, and
in the absence of evidence that they suffer from any psychiatric disorder, it is
evident that the administration of such drugs are a punitive measure. In other
words, Falun Gong practitioners have been inappropriately administered
psychotropic drugs in order to punish them for their spiritual belief in Falun
Gong.
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