(Minghui.org) Ms. Liu Hongxia, 39, from Dalian City, was illegally arrested when she was taking care of the critically-ill mother of a friend who had been arrested for practicing Falun Gong.
Ms. Liu is being held at the Dalian Detention Center. Her arrest was approved by the Xigang District Procuratorate on August 13. She is on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. Her current condition is unknown.
Her friend Ms. Wang Yusi was arrested this spring. Despite being aware that the police were monitoring Ms. Wang's family, Ms. Liu and another friend went to take care of her mother. The police monitored them for six months.
Officers from the Xigang Domestic Security Division and the Xiangong Street Police Station ransacked Ms. Liu's home and tried to arrest her in late July 2014, but she escaped. The police put her on the wanted list. She was reported and arrested when she went to a bank. She was then taken to the Yaojia Detention Center.
She was previously arrested by officers from the Dalian Police Department in October 2007, and was held in a forced labor camp for a year.
