(Clearwisdom.net)

Practitioner Mr. Liu Guihan from the Shunyi District in Beijing was transferred to and detained in the First Brigade of the Assignment and Relocation Depot at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp on the same day that he was sentenced.

Mr. Liu Guihan, 65, became a practitioner in January 1994 at the First Falun Gong class in Tianjin City. He is a retired clerk from the Beijing Transportation and Freight Company. He was a dedicated worker and a highly regarded specialist in his profession. He was invited back numerous times to lecture at the technical training school after he retired.

On the evening of May 7, 2006, seven policemen illegally arrested Mr. Liu at the Shunyi District Bolian Tiandi Marketplace. A few hours later, Shan Xiong, Xi Lei, and several other policemen from the Shunyi Public Security Bureau State Security Department and the Guangming Police Station ransacked his home and seized all his Falun Gong books and other personal property. The police have never given any oral or written notification about Liu Guihan to his family.

On August 16, 2006, the Shunyi Public Security Bureau sentenced Mr.. Liu Guihan to two years of forced labor. At that time, he had already been detained for more than three months, exceeding the time limit of detention by nearly two-and-a-half months. The duration was nearly double the lawful felony detention time limit. The police even tried to fake the paperwork by altering the date on the "forced labor decision" to June 7, 2006. They tried to cover up their crime of illegal detention.

On August 17, Mr. Liu's family received notification of his sentencing. They immediately objected, pointing out that the police had violated the law on numerous points, and they refused to sign the "decision" document. They filed an appeal on the same day.

At this time, Mr. Liu suffered symptoms of severe high blood pressure, yet the Assignment and Relocation Depot refused to release this nearly 70-year-old senior because he did not sign a Guarantee Statement to renounce his faith in Falun Gong.The Beijing Police recently arrested a group of elderly Falun Gong practitioners and sentenced them to a forced labor camp. The Depot police claimed that they would only release them after they signed Guarantee Statements. They tried to use this pressure tactic to force these senior practitioners to give up their faith in Falun Gong.

We are the family members of Mr. Liu Guihan; we live at 32-2-203 in the Jianxin Beiqv residential complex of the Shunyi District, Beijing. Mr.. Liu Guihan is a Falun Gong practitioner.

On the evening of May 7, 2006, around 7 p.m., Liu Guihan did not return after he left home. Around 10 p.m. a group of people suddenly broke in and started searching and ransacking our home. There were about seven people. Among them were Shan Xiong and Xi Lei from the Shunyi Public Security Bureau State Security department and the Guangming Police Station and Liu Ziqing from the Resident's Committee of the Jianxin Beiqv. We did not know the names of the others in the group. These people left around 11:30 p.m. From that point on we never heard anything about Liu Guihan. As family members we did not receive any documentation or verbal notification regarding his abduction and detention.

After three months had passed, Liu was still being detained, just as if he had been formally arrested on felony charges.

During this period we tried to find out about him from every available source. We finally learned that he was detained at the Shunyi Nihe Detention Center. We sent money and clothes many times to the detention center and they accepted all of them, acknowledging that Liu Guihan was detained there.

In the middle of July, we suddenly received an anonymous phone call. The caller said, "The old man is too stubborn. If he would only admit he was wrong for just a little bit then everything will be fine."

On August 13 we received another unidentified phone call, "In another week or towards the end of the month, Liu Guihan will be released." We were all very elated that we finally had something to look forward to.

Liu Guihan's brother and sister were also Falun Gong practitioners. They had also been brutally persecuted. His second sister, Ms. Liu Guifu, was twice sentenced to forced labor for a total of four years. She is still detained at the Daxing Tiantanghe Women's Forced Labor Camp. His third brother was sentenced to forced labor for two years. His first sister was arrested and detained twice. She was savagely beaten and electrically shocked. She was paralyzed and disabled.

At 8 a.m. in the morning on August 16 we received a phone call from the Shunyi Public Security Bureau, asking Liu Guihan's son Liu Wei, to go to the Bureau. We all thought that we would be asked to bring Liu Guihan home, so three family members went to the Bureau. After we got to the Legislative Affairs department, a man named Ma Haoyue met with us. He claimed that Liu Guihan had been sentenced to two years of forced labor and asked Liu Wei to sign the decision document. But the Labor Re-education Notification document was dated June 7, 2006, more than two months before we were ever notified. We raised our objection and told them that many things the responsible organizations had done were illegal. We refused to sign the document. The man claimed that the decision was handed down by the Beijing City Labor Re-education Bureau. If we did not agree with the decision, we needed to appeal to them. He then brought the meeting to an end in a hurry.

We have sent our appeal to many involved organizations with a sliver of hope. We ask that Liu Guihan receive a fair judgment.

Liu Guihan did not violate any law, and he did not commit any action to endanger people or society. All documents, books, and personal property seized should be disclosed in public and let the people be the judge.

Eveerything the deputies of the various involved organizations did was unlawful. There was no legal justification for anything. The abduction, detention, and illegal overtime detention without any legal justification were further covered up with a falsified Labor Re-education Notification date of June 7.

We appeal for the unconditional release Liu Guihan.

Appeal party: Liu Guihan's family

Appeal date: August 17, 2006.

Appendix 2: Contact information:

Tuanhe Labor Re-education Personnel Assignment and Relocation Depot: 86-10-61292592, 86-10-61291199, ask for administration department.

Beijing Shunyi District Public Security Bureau Chief Mr. Lin

Beijing Shunyi District Public Security Bureau State Security Brigade Shan Xiong, Xi Lei.

Address: Shunyi District, Shunping Xilu 8, postal code 101300.

Phone 86-10-69440212

Beijing Shunyi District Public Security Bureau Legislative Department:

86-10-69424072 Mr. Ma Haoyue

Beijing City Shunyi District Guangming Public Security Bureau Guangming Police Station: 86-10-81492220, 86-10-81491110

Beijing City Shunyi District Jianxin Beiqv Residential district Committee: 86-10-69424278, Mr. Liu Ziqing.

October 5, 2006