Mr. Liu was arrested when he was at home browsing the Internet. His wife escaped and became homeless.
Ms. Liang has been arrested several times and suffered cruel tortures by the police, including sexual assault.
Mr. Liu Ming from Yanzhou, Shandong Secretly Sentenced to Seven Years
Name: Liu Ming (刘明)
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Drug store employee
Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 8, 2009
Most recent place of detention: A prison in Taian City
City: Yanzhou City (兖州市)
Province: Shandong (山东省)
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, home ransacked, extortion,
interrogation, forced labor, illegal sentencing
Mr. Liu Ming, 37 years old, is an employee at the Deshoutang Pharmacy of Yufeng Medicine Company, in Yanzhou. His wife, Zhang Maoyun, 36 years old, works in Yanzhou Seed Management Station.
Around 4:30 PM on April 8, 2009, when Mr. Liu was at home browsing the Internet, over a dozen police officers rushed in and arrested Liu immediately. Then they waited outside his home and arrested his wife, who had come home after picking up their twelve-year-old daughter.
The police took away their computers (one desktop and one laptop), a printer, seven CD burners, more than two thousands CDs, two MP3 players, two cellphones, a TV signal receiver, Falun Gong books, half of a box of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and several monetary bills with truth clarifying messages on them. The total value of the confiscated belongings is around twenty thousand yuan.
The 610 Office and the Domestic Security Team ransacked Mr. Liu's home. They arrested Mr. Liu and Ms. Zhang without any legal documents.
Liu Ming and Zhang Maoyun were kept in Yanzhou Detention Center. They were repeatedly interrogated and were forced to work--peeling 15-20 kilograms garlic per day per person.
Someone from the Procuratorate asked Zhang Maoyun if she would plead guilty in Court. She said, "We did not commit any crimes. We were simply practicing Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. It is Jiang [Zemin] and his gang who are committing crimes using the law!"
Around 6 o'clock in the afternoon on May 11, 2009, Zhang Maoyun was sent home for future questioning; her family had to pay ten thousand yuan for this. On August 19, 2009, when there was to be a trial held for Liu Ming and Zhang Maoyun, Mrs. Zhang left home and became homeless. Mr. Liu was secretly sentenced to seven years in prison. He is currently in a prison in Taian City.
Nurse Ms. Liang Xiulan Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison
Name: Liang Xiulan (梁秀兰)
Gender: Female
Age: 44
Address: Qian'an City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Registered Nurse at Qian'an City Chinese Medicine
Hospital
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 11, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Qian'an City Detention Center
(迁安市看守所)
City: Qian'an
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, beatings,
imprisonment, torture, sexual assault, force-feedings, home ransacked, detention
Key Persecutors: Pu Yonglai (浦永来), Ha Fulong (哈福龙), Tang Guoqiang (唐国强),
police officers from the Domestic Security Team of Qian'an City Police
Department
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liang Xiulan, a nurse the Chinese Medicine Hospital in Qian'an City, Hebei Province, was sentenced to eight years in prison on December 3, 2009. She has been arrested by authorities on different occasions.
At about 8:00 p.m. on May 21, 2008, Ms. Liang and seven others were passing out truth clarifying materials. They were reported by local CCP agents, and were arrested by the Domestic Security Team of the City Police Department. Police officer Pu Yonglai claimed, "If we torture you to death, you'll be counted as a suicide case, nothing to do with us. We'll be more delighted if you expose us to the world, because our boss can know we are doing our job." Then he handcuffed Ms Liang's arms to two chairs, using two electric batons to shock her body with another officer. Next day the torture went on. Police officer Ha Fulong and two others took her to the interrogation room, where one of them shocked her legs, feet and vagina, and another one shocked her neck and breast. Ms. Liang's was a mass of bruises, while Ha Fulong was laughing.
On April 2, 2009, Ms. Liang was detained again by Pu Yonglai, Ha Fulong and Tang Guoqiang from the Domestic Security Team. The police also confiscated her computer, CDs, materials and other items. To protest the persecution, she went on a hunger strike for forty days. On May 12 she was carried to court for trial while unconscious. As she appeared to be on the verge of death, the court let her husband take her home after the secession.
On September 11, 2009 after having lunch, Ms. Liang Xiulan was going to the hospital. But once she went downstairs from her apartment, several policemen got out and forced her into their car.
Several days later, her mother and daughter went to the police department to request her release, but the police cursed and chased them out. They went there again a few days later, but were turned away. On September 20, 2009, Ms. Liang's mother and brother went to give her winter clothes. The detention center guards refused the clothes and did not allow them to see her, but took 2,000 yuan in cash.
Ms. Liang's husband is a stroke patient and needs care. Her daughter is a college student who lives out of town.
On December 3, 2009, Ms. Liang was secretly sentenced to eight years in prison, and she is currently held in the Qian'an City Detention Center.