Mr. Li Jianbo and His Wife Liu Xiuyun Imprisoned – Their Eight-Year-Old Daughter Is Heartbroken

For refusing to renounce Falun Dafa, practitioners Mr. Li Jianbo and his wife Liu Xiuyun from Rizho City, Shandong Province, have been sentenced to prison for eight and four years, respectively. Their eight-year-old daughter cries every day, wishing to see her parents.

At around 2:40 p.m. on May 28th, 2005, Mr. Li Jianbo's boss at the Rizhao City Branch of People's Bank called him, deceiving him into going to his office on Saturday. 610 Office¹ agents took away his house key as soon as he arrived, saying that they would search his house since he still practised Falun Gong. Then four to five policemen opened his door. Ms. Liu Xiuyun and their daughter Mengyuan were studying at home. The frightened child broke down crying after seeing so many policemen ransacking their home like thieves, even taking her things. They arrested Ms. Liu Xiuyun. Mr. Li Jianbo and his wife Liu Xiuyun were both detained for 19 days. On June 17th, 2005, the Rizhao City 610 Office took Mr. Li into custody and detained him at the Rizhao City Detention Centre for 14 months. During this time period, Mr. Li Jianbo was beaten until his head bled, and he still has a long scar on his head today. He was not allowed visitors. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, and sent to Taian Prison on July 14th, 2006. He was allowed to see his family only once before going to prison.

On June 17th, 2005, Ms. Liu Xiuyun was released after being fined 10,000 yuan², but she was not allowed to go back to work. After five months, on October 28th, 2005, her employer deceived her, saying that she could return to work, but actually the 610 Office's vehicle was waiting for her. They claimed that Ms. Liu Xiuyun had given her husband a small slip of paper, and they detained her at the Rizhao City Detention Centre for one year. They fined her another 10,000 yuan, sentenced her to four years in prison, and are about to send her to Jinan Prison.

Their eight-year-old daughter cries every day, wishing to be reunited with her parents. She sometimes does not want to go to school. She lives with her grandparents, who are both almost 70 years old, and do not have the ability to take good care of her.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. "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.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/29/138931.html