Liu Shuyuan - 刘淑媛
Chinese name:
刘淑媛
Gender:
Female
Age:
71
City:
Tieling
Province:
Liaoning
Occupation:
Petroleum transportation administration bureau officer
Date of Death:
January 7, 2024
Date of Most Recent Arrest:
October 2023
Most recent place of detention:
Case Description:
71-Year-Old Woman Dies of Heart Attack
Ms. Liu Shuyuan from Tieling City, Liaoning Province, suddenly dropped dead while riding a bicycle on January 7, 2024. She was 71.
In the last few months of her life, Ms. Liu often woke up in the middle of the night, screaming in fear. Her fear resulted from an arrest in the fall of 2023, when she visited another Falun Gong practitioner. She did not know the police were raiding that practitioner’s home. The police searched Ms. Liu and threatened her. Although she was released hours later, she suffered from panic attacks due to the fear of being persecuted again.
In the past 25 years, Ms. Liu, a former manager of the Northeast Petroleum Transportation Bureau, was repeatedly targeted for practicing Falun Gong.
She was arrested in September 1999 when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After she was released from a 15-day detention, she returned to Beijing in October to appeal again, only to be arrested and given two years of forced labor. She was forced to do hard labor without pay, and was sometimes not allowed to sleep until 3 a.m. if she couldn’t finish the daily quota. The police continued to harass her after she was released.
Ms. Liu was arrested again around August 10, 2001 and interrogated for six straight days. She was deprived of sleep for the first three days. Starting on the fourth day, the police held her in cages of different sizes. Some cages were so small that she couldn’t stand, sit or squat. She held a hunger strike to protest, but was force fed.
Ms. Liu was later sentenced to five years at the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison. She was forced to squat from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on some days. The inmates constantly beat her, pulled her hair, poured filthy water over her and deprived her of restroom use. She quickly lost over 30 lbs and felt dizzy, weak and short of breath.
Ms. Liu was almost arrested again on September 10, 2007 while visiting another practitioner. Although she escaped, she was forced to live away from home to hide from the police for the next eight years.
Her second to the last arrest was on October 9, 2016 after being reported for distributing Falun Gong materials. She was held at a police station for six hours and then released.
Ms. Liu Shuyuan from Tieling City, Liaoning Province, suddenly dropped dead while riding a bicycle on January 7, 2024. She was 71.
In the last few months of her life, Ms. Liu often woke up in the middle of the night, screaming in fear. Her fear resulted from an arrest in the fall of 2023, when she visited another Falun Gong practitioner. She did not know the police were raiding that practitioner’s home. The police searched Ms. Liu and threatened her. Although she was released hours later, she suffered from panic attacks due to the fear of being persecuted again.
In the past 25 years, Ms. Liu, a former manager of the Northeast Petroleum Transportation Bureau, was repeatedly targeted for practicing Falun Gong.
She was arrested in September 1999 when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After she was released from a 15-day detention, she returned to Beijing in October to appeal again, only to be arrested and given two years of forced labor. She was forced to do hard labor without pay, and was sometimes not allowed to sleep until 3 a.m. if she couldn’t finish the daily quota. The police continued to harass her after she was released.
Ms. Liu was arrested again around August 10, 2001 and interrogated for six straight days. She was deprived of sleep for the first three days. Starting on the fourth day, the police held her in cages of different sizes. Some cages were so small that she couldn’t stand, sit or squat. She held a hunger strike to protest, but was force fed.
Ms. Liu was later sentenced to five years at the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison. She was forced to squat from 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on some days. The inmates constantly beat her, pulled her hair, poured filthy water over her and deprived her of restroom use. She quickly lost over 30 lbs and felt dizzy, weak and short of breath.
Ms. Liu was almost arrested again on September 10, 2007 while visiting another practitioner. Although she escaped, she was forced to live away from home to hide from the police for the next eight years.
Her second to the last arrest was on October 9, 2016 after being reported for distributing Falun Gong materials. She was held at a police station for six hours and then released.
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