Name: Liang Yuzhen (梁玉珍)
Gender: Female
Age: 41
Address: Shaping Town, Heshan City, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 25, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Heshan Detention Center (鹤山市看守所)
City: Heshan City
Province: Guangdong Province
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, beatings, physical constraint
Defense Attorney: (Tang Jitian) 唐吉田, (Li Chunfu) 李春富
(Clearwisdom.net) (Correspondent from Guangdong Province) Ms. Liang Yuzhen was arrested by police from the Yayo Police Station at approximately 3:00 p.m. on February 25, 2009, as she was handing out truth-clarification materials to people in the countryside. The police obstructed her lawyers from seeing her, and she was subsequently sentenced to four and half years in prison. She is still being held in the Heshan Detention Center.
On April 2, 2009, Ms. Liang's 98-year-old grandmother hired two lawyers, Mr. Tang Jitian and Mr. Li Chunfu, from the Anhui Law Firm and the Gaobolonghua Law Firm in Beijing respectively, to defend her granddaughter. When they arrived at the detention center in Heshan to see Ms. Liang, they were refused by the police.
Without any legal basis or judicial process, Ms. Liang was sentenced to a four and a half year prison term. The authorities didn't even inform her family of their ruling. Although Ms. Liang tried to appeal to the People's Intermediate Court she had never received any response regarding her appeal.
On October 15, 2009, Ms. Liang's family went to see her in the detention center for the first time, and they found that she had lost a lot of weight.
On February 25, Ms. Liang was brutally beaten because she refused to cooperate with officers who wanted to take her picture. While detained, she was locked up for a week because she persisted in practicing the Falun Gong exercises.
Ms. Liang's family had difficulty eating and sleeping after she was arrested, and they worried about her personal safety.
Ms. Liang, who is 41 years old and single, started practicing Falun Gong in April 1999. She has benefited from the practice both physically and mentally, and her ten-plus years of cervical inflammation disease disappeared shortly after she took up the practice. After the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Ms. Liang and her younger sister were repeatedly arrested, detained and jailed.
Ms. Liang's parents are Hong Kong residents. Her siblings became very upset and grief-stricken upon hearing of their sisters' persecution. Ms. Liang's 98-year-old grandmother is also suffering as a result of Ms. Liang's situation.
