Mr. Liu Qunming, 56, Dies as a Result of Persecution

Name: Liu Qunming
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Address: Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Formerly employed by Sanjiu Beer, Ltd. in Shijiazhuang City
Date of Death: October 27th, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 7th, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Shijiazhuang City Detention Centre
City: Shijiazhuang
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, torture, force-feedings, fired from workplace, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

In July 2000, police detained Mr. Liu Qunming, his daughter Liu Hui, Ms. Xu Zengzhen, and other Falun Gong practitioners in a meeting room, with the excuse of organizing a brainwashing session, and they were not released for more than 20 days.

In August 2000, Sanjiu Beer, Ltd. in Shijiazhuang City cancelled Mr. Liu Qunming's work contract because he practised Falun Gong.

In December 2000, Mr. Liu hung signs on the front of his bike saying "Falun Gong is good," "Zhen-Shan-Ren" (Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance), and the like. When he rode his bike in Shijiazhuang City, he was arrested and taken to the Zhongshan Road West Police Station. He was later taken to the Jianda Police Station and sentenced to three years in a labour camp.

On the morning of March 9th, 2003, about thirty police officers from the Chang'an District Police Department and Changfeng Police Station arrested Mr. Liu and his daughter Ms. Liu Hui from their home. The police broke the gate, ransacked their home, and took all the valuables including a TV, VCR, DVD player, two bank certificates of over 20,000 yuan¹, and 1000 yuan in cash.

In 2008, the police arrested a large number of Falun Gong practitioners around the time of the Olympics. At 5:50 a.m. on July 4th, 2008, six policemen, one in uniform and five in plainclothes, lied to Ms. Liu Hui's parents-in-law, telling them that they were express mail delivery workers. Ms. Liu was not home at the time, so they ransacked her home. At 11:00 a.m. on July 7th, officers broke into Mr. Liu Qunming's home, arrested him, and ransacked his home.

Police planned to detain Mr. Liu for 15 days and then send him to a forced labour camp on July 19th. Due to Mr. Liu being on a hunger strike after his arrest, he appeared very sick. The labour camp refused to accept him and he was released. His daughter had to leave home to avoid being arrested.

Mr. Liu never recovered from the abuse that he suffered during detention, and he died on the morning of October 27th, 2009.

Telephone number for Changfeng District Police Station: 86-311-6856943

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/11/16/212699.html