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Summary of Key Persecution Facts:

Name: Liu Yong (刘勇)
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Address: Handan City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Former employee of the Handan Iron and Steel Group
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 12, 2013
Most Recent Place of Detention: Unknown
City: Handan
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Forced injections/drug administration, solitary confinement, fired from workplace, sent to a mental hospital

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Yong was arrested at around 7 p.m. on September 12, 2013, less than two months after his recent release from Baoding Mental Hospital, where he had been detained for 12 years. He has been reportedly sent back to the mental hospital, but the details are yet to be confirmed.

The persecution that Mr. Liu endured was detailed on the Minghui website as a typical case of Falun Gong practitioners being categorized as mental patients by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. Now he is again arrested.

Hospital Staff: "He Is Not Mentally Ill"

For 12 years, Mr. Liu was treated as a patient at the mental hospital, where he was given all kinds of drugs under the guise of “psychiatric treatment,” and accompanied only by other mental patients. Such an environment could cause even a healthy, normal person to become deranged, yet Mr. Liu survived by firmly holding onto his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

A medical staff member at Baoding Mental Hospital commented, “Liu Yong is not mentally ill. He is in great health. He does his meditation and exercises every day and also helps other patients. He is a good person, and this is well recognized by everyone at the hospital.”

Mr. Liu was finally released on July 13, 2013, after 12 years. Director Han of the Baoding Mental Hospital personally took him back to his place of employment, the Handan Iron and Steel Group.

Twelve years is a long time, especially when it spans the prime of one's life, the 30s and early 40s.

No Job, No Social Contacts

So what happened in the less than two months after his return to Handan City? How was he doing? We learned that Mr. Liu faced many difficulties upon his release. His former employer would not re-hire him. Because the CCP fabricated stories and lies about Falun Gong, his mother was still very much against it and refused to learn the truth about the practice. She closely monitored her son, strictly limited his activities, and cut off all his contact with the outside world.

Mr. Liu wanted to find a job and become independent of his mother. He said, “I have to make a living and get my own place. I can't live with my mother; she has put me in a very bad position. I feel really bad here (pointing to his chest and head). I need to find work that's easy to do.” He seemed very helpless when he said all this.

Mr. Liu was obviously capable of verbally expressing himself in a normal manner. However, because he had been out of touch with the outside world for so long, he seemed out of place in society after his release and was often at a loss. He was unemployed and had to rely on his mother.

Mother Deceived by the CCP

His mother retained a hostile attitude toward Falun Gong and Mr. Liu, even though he was exhausted mentally and physically. She would rather believe the CCP's lies than her own son. Maybe in her mind, Mr. Liu was still “mentally ill.”

After all, Mr. Liu's mother worked with the officials of the Handan Iron and Steel Group to have her own son sent to Baoding Mental Hospital in the first place.

Over the past 12 years, she had been afraid that the Handan Iron and Steel Group would not pay Mr. Liu's medical bills and that the “government” would give up on her son and his treatments. She had never helped Mr. Liu nor tried to free him. Instead, she feared that her son would return to Handan. It's unknown whether his mother had anything to do with Mr. Liu's recent arrest.

Please find more detailed information about Mr. Liu and the persecution he has endured in the article “Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Declared Mentally Fit After 12 Years of Unjust Incarceration in Psychiatric Institution” on the Minghui website. We call for close attention to be paid to Mr. Liu's situation, for the CCP to stop persecuting him in the name of “psychiatric treatment,” and for help in rescuing him from the mental hospital.