Ms. Liu Kaimei Tortured in Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp; Her Prison Term Extended

Name: Liu Kaimei
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Address: Nanjing, Jiangsu
Occupation: Engineer, Education Bureau, Nanjing City
Most Recent Place of Detention: Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp
Province: Jiangsu
Persecution Suffered: detention, forced labour, torture

Ms. Liu Kaimei, a Falun Gong practitioner from Nanjing City, was tortured in Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp for one year. She should have been released upon completing her term, but authorities have extended her imprisonment because she would not renounce her faith in Falun Gong.

Family Persecuted for Over a Decade

Ms. Liu was born in 1966. She worked as an engineer at the Education Bureau in Nanjing City. Her husband, Mr. Zhang Xuefeng, who is one year older than her, worked as a civil engineer at the Nanjing Industrial College. The Nanjing City Court had sentenced Ms. Liu and Mr. Zhang to 7 years and 8.5 years of imprisonment, respectively, for practising Falun Gong. Ms. Liu was jailed at the Nantong Women's Prison, while her husband was held at the Suzhou Prison. Both were grossly mistreated.

When Ms. Liu and Mr. Zhang were released from jail, they were not allowed to return to their job posts. They also saw that their child had been gravely effected by their absence, both physically and mentally.

Officials from the Nanjing 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) continued to persecute the family thereafter. On May 16th, 2011, Ms. Liu was arrested again. Because she was physically weak from years of mistreatment in jail, officials from the Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp refused to accept her five times. However, police officer Xiao Ningjian from Nanjing took her to the labour camp again and eventually succeeded in getting her admitted through underhanded means.

Ms. Liu was severely tortured in the Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp by being dragged on the ground by inmates and through other means.

Over 1,000 Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp

The Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp is a dark dungeon where more than a thousand Falun Gong practitioners have been mistreated. Labour camp personnel has utilized torture methods such as forcing practitioners to stand or squat for extended periods of time, depriving them of toilet use, forcing them to sleep in a tiny space and depriving them of sleep. They have also beaten practitioners, sexually abused them and shocked them with electric batons, as well as threatened them with scorpions and poisonous insects.

Some practitioners were exposed to the scorching sun in the summer for prolonged periods of time, while others were forced to wear very little while being outdoors in the cold winter for refusing to be “transformed” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] and sign the guarantee statement to promise to stop practising Falun Gong.

At least nine Falun Gong practitioners had a mental collapse as a result of the abuse they had suffered in the Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp, including Dai Xiaomin, Zhou Xinfang, Kong Qingmei, Liu Dongmei, Peng Xiuying, Dong Min, Liu Shuyun, Zhao Wenying, and Zhao Yumei.

Wang Yuqin, one of the tortured Falun Gong practitioners, passed away soon after returning home. Two other practitioners, Wang Jiping and Huang Hongping, became paralyzed after being tortured. It is suspected that others also became paralyzed due to torture in this labour camp.

Police officer Zheng Qihui, captain of the labor camp's brigade No. 3, colluded with Tang Guo Fang from the Reeducation Through Labour Bureau in Jiangsu Province to severely persecute Falun Gong practitioners at the labour camp, committing many vicious crimes.

Parties involved in the persecution:
Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp:

Miao Qi and Gu Dianbin, deputy directors: +86-511-87706301, +86-511-87706336, +86-87201159, +86-511-87707100
Wei Qiushun, head of the labour camp
Niu Zhongping, political commissar

Brigade No. 3 of the labour camp: +86-0511-87707305
Zheng Qihui, captain
Hu Xiaoyan, instructor
Wu Wenjie, instructor

Jiangsu Province Reeducation Through Labour Bureau:
Jiang Jinbing, director: +86-3705171001 (Mobile), +86-25-83716093 (Office)
Tang Guofang, deputy director : +86-25-83719121 (Home), +86-13813910507

Police:

Xiao Ningjian, police officer from Nanjing City in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners

Tai Haiyan, Shen Jingjing, Qin Ling and Xu Zhiqin, police officers
Zhang Jin, captain

Miao Disheng, minister of Justice Department, Jiangsu Province
Lu Shengrong, political commissar