Ms. Liu Yanmei from Shangdong Province Tormented for a Year, Labour Camp Authorities Refused to Let Her Husband Visit Her

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Yanmei from Dagou Village, Puwang Town, Yinan County, Shangdong Province, was arrested in May 2006 when she was distributing pamphlets about Falun Gong. She was later sentenced to three years in Shangdong Forced Labour Camp located in Jinan. News from the labour camp reported that she was seriously tortured. Her family tried to visit her many times but was refused by the camp authorities.

Before Ms. Liu was sent to the Shangdong camp, she had been repeatedly arrested, detained, and physically tortured. At Yinan County Detention Centre, the guards used the inhuman "handcuff torture" on her and injected her many times with unknown drugs. At Dawangzhuang Township Brainwashing Centre, she was once tortured so badly that she became mentally disordered.

Ms Liu Yanmei is 46 years old. She had poor health since she was young. Later she suffered from emphysema and tuberculosis and her condition had worsened. She needed to rely on intravenous drip and medicines to keep her alive. Four-fifths of the family's yearly income was spent on her medical expenses. In the end, her husband carried her on his back to a Falun Gong practice site and she started to practise Falun Dafa. After just a few months' practice, she regained her health and looked as if she were a different person. Her temperament also improved.

On July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin colluded with the Chinese Communist Party to start the persecution of Falun Dafa. In order to explain the truth of Falun Dafa to the government, Liu Yanmei went to Beijing. She was detained and fined. In Beijing, she was cuffed to an iron chair¹ for 48 hours. Later she was transferred to Yinan Detention Centre in Shandong Province. On the way to the detention centre, she was handcuffed to the frame of the car, with her hands fixed and her body suspended, her feet not allowed to touch the floor. She fainted from the excruciating pain and was left like this until the next morning.

When she was in Yinan Detention Centre, guard Liu Zhijie tortured her brutally. Ms. Liu was forced to stand inside the cell and put both of her arms out through a small window in the door of the cell. Liu Zhijie separated Ms. Liu's arms and then cuffed her hands tightly together. He kept pulling her hands from outside the door. Liu Yanmei couldn't help hitting her head on the metal door when her hands were pulled. She felt faint and dizzy as if the earth was spinning around. The skin on her wrists came off, and the handcuffs dug into her flesh. She was trembled from the unbearable pain. When guard Liu Zhijie saw that Ms. Liu was trying hard not to make a sound, he verbally abused her and pulled the handcuff again, and more blood dripped on the ground. Ms. Liu 's body was covered with blood. Guard Liu Zhijie took off his shoes and started to slap the backs of her hands.

Liu Yanmei was later transferred to Dawangzhuang Township Brainwashing Centre. The brutal torture there was even more severe. In the spring of 2000, she was tormented so terribly that she became mentally disordered. After nearly a year, she started to recognise the sky and sun above her head. She started to regain her memory after a year.

On May 23rd, 2006, Ms. Liu Yanmei and Ms. Du Yonglan, a practitioner from Jinquangou Village (formerly Dougou Village), Puwang Town, Yinan County, were arrested by the police from Hutou Town Local Police Station. The two had been distributing Falun Dafa materials. When Liu Yanmei and Du Yonglan were in the detention centre, they were both sent to a hospital several times to be injected with unknown drugs, which weakened them considerably. On May 13th, 2006, Liu Yanmei was sentenced to three years of forced labour and was transferred to Team 2 of Shangdong No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jinan.

When Ms. Liu was in the camp, her husband went three times in order to visit her, but he was not allowed to see her. On his last visit, the guard roared with rage: "Don't even imagine seeing her if she is not 'transformed².'"

Liu Yanmei became extremely weak after repeated imprisonments, brainwashing, physical torture, and having to do slave labour for a long period of time. The labour camp does not allow the steadfast practitioners to rest at all. Shangdong Jinan Armed Police General Forces Hospital examined Liu Yanmei and found that she was failing fast, so they released her to avoid any responsibility for her death. A health exam at the labour camp before she was admitted showed that Liu Yanmei's health status had been quite good. Since her early release from the labour camp, she has been recovering at home.

Dagou Village Party Secretary Wang Anchen: 86-539-3528358 (Home)
Dougou Party Secretary Ni Dianxue: 86-539-3521386 (Home)
Hotou Town Local Police Station: 86-5393881010

Yinan County Public Security Bureau: 86-539-3222020, 86-539-3221238
Ma Chenglong: 86-539-3223401 (Home)

Note

1. Iron Chair: The "Iron chair" is made of iron pipes. Victims are restrained on the iron chairs with both arms and legs tied for a long period of time, see illustration at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/9/17577.html

2. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/5/6/154209.html