Ophthalmologist Li Lijuan from Qiqihar City Imprisoned

Name: Li Lijuan
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Ophthalmologist at Qiqihar City Second Hospital
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 11th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Unknown
City: Qiqihar
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Prison sentence

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Lijuan from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province was sentenced to three years in prison in January 2011.

Ms. Li Lijuan, 46, is an ophthalmologist at the Qiqihar City Second Hospital. She began to practise Falun Gong in 2001. During the past ten years, she was persecuted several times. Because Ms. Li told the people around her, including her colleagues and patients, about Falun Gong and the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong, the hospital officials kept her from seeing patients.

At around noon on May 11th, 2010, when Ms. Li was distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution to people near Qiqihar City Third Middle School, she was reported to the authorities. The police from the Beida Street Police Station in Jianhua District, Qiqihar City arrested her. In January 2011, she was sentenced to three years in prison.

Ms. Li had been living with her mother. After her arrest, her mother's health deteriorated badly. She went to the police department to request her daughter's release, but to no avail. In October 2010, Ms. Li's mother passed away.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/3/13/237524.html