Ms. Liu Wei Sentenced to Prison for Talking to People about Falun Gong

Name: Liu Wei
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Tonghua City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 17th, 2011
Most recent place of detention: Changchun Women’s Prison
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Detention, imprisonment.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Wei was arrested by police on September 17th, and sentenced to prison within 20 days by Ji'an City judicial departments. She is currently detained at the Changchun Women's Prison.

At around midnight on July 24th, 2009, Ms. Liu was arrested the first time for talking to some people in Ji'an to raise their awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution. The Toudaogou Police arrested her and sent her to the Ji'an Detention Centre, where Ms. Liu was tortured to the point that she contracted a serious blood disease. She was later released due to her illness.

Ms. Liu was arrested at home at around 7:00 a.m., August 17th, 2011, by officers from the Ji'an Domestic Security Division, led by director Yao Xinmeng. To protest her arrest, she went on a hunger strike at the Ji'an Detention Centre. On September 7th, the Ji'an City Court set the date for a trial. Ms. Liu Wei was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. She has been detained at the Changchun Women's Prison since September 23rd.

Ms. Liu's husband has been deeply troubled by his wife's arrest and the involvement of the legal departments who perpetrate the systematic persecution of innocent people. Following his wife's arrest, on August 28th, he had a heart attack and was rushed to the Central Hospital of Tonghua City. Three stents were placed in his heart, and the surgery cost almost 100,000 yuan¹. Ms. Liu's husband and young daughter miss her and are in great need of her care.

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/10/12/247793.html