Name: Liu Zhongjie (刘忠杰)
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province
Occupation: Lawyer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 10, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Suihua Detention Center
City: Suihua
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, forced labor, force-feeding, forced injections, surveillance, solitary confinement, iron chair, fired from job
(Minghui.org) On September 10, 2012, Ms. Liu Zhongjie, a lawyer and Falun Gong practitioner from Qing'an County in Heilongjiang Province who had been forced to leave home and move from place to place to avoid arrest for nearly ten years, was arrested at Suihua County. She is currently detained in the Suihua Detention Center.
Ms. Liu was a lawyer with the Tiancheng Legal Office in Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province. Because she practiced Falun Gong, her home has been ransacked and she was arrested and sent to forced labor camps many times. She was fired from her job and has moved frequently for nearly 10 years.
Before she began to practice Falun Gong, Ms. Liu accepted bribes from people whose cases she handled. After she began to practice, she conducted herself according the standards of Dafa and worked very diligently. The legal fees she charged were comparatively low, enough to cover her accommodations and travel expenses. In addition, she returned the money that she received from her clients who had bribed her before. Practicing Falun Gong changed her into an ethical and broad-minded person.
In July 1999, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) began the persecution of Falun Gong. On October 27, 1999, Ms. Liu went with two other practitioners to Beijing to appeal to the Chinese government. They ended up being stopped by the police officers on the train. They were arrested and held at the Qing'an Detention Center for two and a half months.
In order to prevent Ms. Liu from going to Beijing again, on April 19, 2000, Zhu Qianchun, the person in charge of the legal office, took her to the detention center. To oppose the persecution, Ms. Liu and other practitioners went on hunger and water strikes. Guards led by Wang Zhilong tortured them by means of force-feeding. Wang Zhilong and Ma Jiang tied Ms. Liu to a chair, held her head down, squeezed her jaw, pinched her nose very hard so that she couldn't breathe, and force-fed her.
They also injected unknown drugs into practitioners including Ms. Liu. As a result, Ms. Liu began to have dramatic adverse reactions. At that time, Ms. Liu was menstruating, but her blood appeared to be dark green. There were other adverse reactions such as other female practitioners losing their hearing with blood flowing out of their ears while they were spitting blood. Ms. Liu Yan also had pus in her bowel movements and blood in her urine.
On the eighth day, Ms. Liu's condition appeared critical. Even so, the police bureau still did not release her. Wang Zhilong took practitioners, including Ms. Liu, to the hotel inside the Water Conservancy Bureau and called over those in charge of each department. After they talked to the practitioners and lured them into eating, they attempted to set up a brainwashing session, then held them for an indefinite period of time. In the evening, Ms. Liu appeared to be convulsing and her life was in danger. Not until then did Wang Zhilong release her. After Ms. Liu returned home, people from work kept sending observers over to watch her around the clock. They even stayed in her home at night to watch her.
On January 17, 2001, more than ten practitioners went to the countryside to hand out truth-clarification materials, only to be arrested by the Fazhan Township Police Station. On January 22, without going through any legal procedures, Zhou Tianen, the head of the police station, and a few others secretly transferred Ms. Liu and two other female practitioners to the Shuanghe Forced Labor Camp for a one-year term.
At the forced labor camp, because Ms. Liu refused to write a Guarantee Statement, guards put her in solitary confinement, where she was tormented by collaborators. On October 26, the forced labor camp and the local police bureau made things worse for Ms. Zhang Shuze and Ms. Liu Yongjuan. When Ms. Liu tried to stop them from committing evil deeds, more than 10 officers dragged her by her clothes to a small room downstairs. The officers put tape over her mouth when she shouted out what was happening to her. They then restrained Ms. Liu in an iron chair. Two officers handcuffed her hands behind the chair. If she moved, the handcuffs cut into her wrists and it was extremely painful. They stuck her feet into the two holes fixed under the iron chair, making it impossible for her to move them. After being tortured for six days and five nights, her hands, feet, and legs were seriously swollen, and she lost consciousness. Her heartbeat became weak, she became delirious, she fainted several times, and she was on the brink of death. Only because the guards were afraid that she would end up dying did they take her down from the chair.
At the end of December, forced labor camp officials attempted to extend her term. Ms. Liu went on a hunger and water strike to protest. On day four, Ms. Liu was force-fed. Guards tied her to a bed, then the prison doctor inserted a long, thick rubber tube into Ms. Liu's nose. Her nose bled, and tears ran down her face. The pain was very hard to endure. As team leader Wang Yan was holding her hands down, he was humming a tune.
On January 19, 2002, Zhu Qianchu, the director of the legal firm that Ms. Liu worked for, and others went to Ms. Liu's home to announce that she was dismissed from the lawyers' association because she would not give up practicing Falun Gong and was detained in a forced labor camp.
After she came home, the Qing'an 610 Office directed the police station to harass her, monitor her, and ransack her home on a regular basis. Her husband was often harassed and threatened.
On the morning of April 13, 2003, officers from Yuejin Police Station showed up at Ms. Liu Zhongjie's home again. At the instigation of the person in charge of the Qing'an County Domestic Security Department, police officers Wang Xingyun and Shang Man sent four plainclothes officers to arrest Ms. Liu. They dragged Ms. Liu, who was only wearing slippers, out of her home and took her to the police station. She was held at the detention center. Ms. Liu went on a hunger strike again to protest. Not until five days later was she released.
On July 25, 2003, when Ms. Liu and her sister, Ms. Liu Zhongqin, were handing out truth-clarification materials in Huansheng Township, Huansheng Township authorities arrested them. This time after she was released, Ms. Liu was forced to leave home and move from place to place for a long time.
Contact information:
Wang Shubo, team leader of the 610 Office of the Beilin District Police Bureau in Suihua City: +86-13945539186 (Cell)
Li Jianfei, deputy team leader of the 610 Office of the Beilin District Police Bureau in Suihua City: +86-13845500330 (Cell)
Wang Xingyun, team leader of Qingan County Domestic Security Department: +86-15845072133 (Cell)
Suihua Detention Center: +86-455-8354714, +86-455-8360528
