(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Meng Lingshun lived in the Fifth Group of Gaotaizi Village, Dafangshen Town, Dehui City, Jilin Province. He started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996. After the persecution began, Mr. Meng was persecuted to the point of mental collapse. He disappeared two years ago, and his whereabouts are unknown.

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, people from the government often harassed him at home. On January 29, 2002, police officers from the local police station colluded with officers from the Dehui City Police Station to arrested Meng Lingshun. He was taken to a detention center. His wife was also detained. They did not release his wife until the second day, when his family signed a guarantee statement for him and paid a fine of 1500 yuan. After Mr. Meng was sentenced, his family went to the detention center to visit him, but they were told that he had suffered a mental collapse.

Mr. Meng's family asked the authorities to release him, but the detention center chief said they could not release him until the local police station agreed. The local police station told his family to pay 1000 yuan for a checkup fee to make sure that he was mentally disordered, before they released him. Thus, in a mere two weeks, a normal person was persecuted until he became mentally disordered.

After he returned home, police officers from the local police station often came to harass him, so he could not recover. Once, in the middle of the night, the police officers broke into his home and arrested him again. He was so frightened that he shouted out for help over and over, which woke up the neighbors. People argued with the police and tried to prevent Meng Lingshun from being persecuted. The police said, "If anyone tries to stop us, we will use the electric batons." Mr. Meng was taken to the police station again, and the police said they would send him to a forced labor camp. His family asked for his release, but the authorities said that Meng Lingshun was pretending to be insane. They released him only after it was confirmed by the detention center that he was indeed suffering from a mental collapse.

Early on the morning on September 14, 2003, Meng Lingshun disappeared, and his family has not heard from him since.

June 1, 2006

Posting date: 7/19/2006
Original article date: 7/18/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Translated on 6/15/2006
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/2/129428.html

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