College Teacher Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison, Her Mother Appeals

Name: Liu Ronghua
Gender: Female
Age: 47
Address: Dalian, Liaoning Province
Occupation: Teacher
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 23rd, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yaojia Detention Centre
City: Dalian
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Detention, forced labour, fired from workplace, interrogation, beaten on the face, stretched and hung up, brainwashing, forced labour, beatings, denied visitation

Ms. Liu Ronghua, a 47-year-old college teacher in Dalian City, has been subjected to detention many times for remaining steadfast in her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Zhongshan District Court officials sentenced her to ten years in prison on April 1st, 2012.

Upon hearing the judge's pronouncement, Ms. Liu and her family were shocked. In two days Ms. Liu was scheduled to be released from her two-year forced labour term, but she was subjected to such a lengthy sentence. Ms. Liu appealed. April 10th was the deadline for submitting the appeal letter. Ms. Liu's mother and husband went to the Yaojia Detention Centre to submit it.

On the morning of April 12th, Ms. Liu's mother went to the Zhongshan Court to look for Judge Jiang Xiaohong to ask if the appeal letter had been received. A receptionist answered that Jiang Xiaohong was not in the office and said that it would no longer be under their jurisdiction after Ms. Liu appealed. She told Ms. Liu's mother to go to the intermediate court to inquire. Ms. Liu's mother, who was nearly 80 years old, dragged her stiff legs and finally arrived at the Dalian Intermediate Court to inquire. However, she was told that the appeal letter had not been delivered.

Ms. Liu's mother anxiously went back to the Zhongshan Court and once again asked to meet with Judge Jiang, but she was told that Jiang was not in the office. She had no alternative but had to contact Jiang Xiaohong's boss, Presiding Judge Liu Hongbin. The receptionist was able to contact Liu. Upon learning that it was about Ms. Liu Ronghua's appeal, he said he had no idea and hung up the phone.

Ms. Liu's mother went to the Zhongshan Court again on the morning of April 13th, and a female police officer told her that Jiang Xiaohong had received the appeal, which would be delivered to the intermediate court the following Monday. She told Ms. Liu's mother to go to the city court to inquire about it the following week.

Ms. Liu Ronghua is a former teacher and associate professor at Dalian Fisheries College. One of her articles was published in the Encyclopaedia of China. She is a kind person and always thinks of others. However, she has been persecuted many times by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents. In September 2009, she was taken to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for a two-year term. When her term expired in September 2011, Dalian City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) agents took her directly from the forced labour camp to the Yaojia Detention Centre. The Zhongshan Court officials tried Ms. Liu on January 9th, 2012. The court notified Ms. Liu's lawyer on March 30th to come to the court at 10:00 a.m. on April 1st for a verdict announcement. On the afternoon of March 31st, the lawyer went to the court to fetch the notification, but couldn't find Judge Jiang Xiaohong.

Related article: “College Teacher Illegally Tried, Friends and Family Protest” http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2012/2/7/131319.html#.T4_Le_krpTI