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Officials Refuse to Release Mr. Liu Guihan, Who is Now in Ill Health after Illegal Arrest, Detention and Sentencing to Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Mr. Liu Guihan from the Shunyi District in Beijing was
transferred to and detained in the First Brigade of the Assignment and
Relocation Depot at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp on the same day that he was
sentenced. Mr. Liu Guihan, 65, became a practitioner in January 1994 at the First Falun
Gong class in Tianjin City. He is a retired clerk from the Beijing
Transportation and Freight Company. He was a dedicated worker and a highly
regarded specialist in his profession. He was invited back numerous times to
lecture at the technical training school after he retired. On the evening of May 7, 2006, seven policemen illegally arrested
Mr. Liu at the Shunyi District Bolian Tiandi Marketplace. A few hours later,
Shan Xiong, Xi Lei, and several other policemen from the Shunyi Public Security
Bureau State Security Department and the Guangming Police Station ransacked his
home and seized all his Falun Gong books and other personal property. The police
have never given any oral or written notification about Liu Guihan to his
family. On August 16, 2006, the Shunyi Public Security Bureau sentenced Mr.. Liu
Guihan to two years of forced labor. At that time, he had already been detained
for more than three months, exceeding the time limit of detention by nearly
two-and-a-half months. The duration was nearly double the lawful felony
detention time limit. The police even tried to fake the paperwork by altering
the date on the "forced labor decision" to June 7, 2006. They tried to
cover up their crime of illegal detention. On August 17, Mr. Liu's family received notification of his sentencing. They
immediately objected, pointing out that the police had violated the law on
numerous points, and they refused to sign the "decision" document.
They filed an appeal on the same day. At this time, Mr. Liu suffered symptoms of severe high blood pressure, yet
the Assignment and Relocation Depot refused to release this nearly 70-year-old
senior because he did not sign a Guarantee Statement to renounce his
faith in Falun Gong.The Beijing Police recently arrested a group of elderly
Falun Gong practitioners and sentenced them to a forced labor camp. The Depot
police claimed that they would only release them after they signed Guarantee
Statements. They tried to use this pressure tactic to force these senior
practitioners to give up their faith in Falun Gong. Appendix 1: Appeal from Liu Guihan's family We are the family members of Mr. Liu Guihan; we live at 32-2-203 in the
Jianxin Beiqv residential complex of the Shunyi District, Beijing. Mr.. Liu
Guihan is a Falun Gong practitioner. On the evening of May 7, 2006, around 7 p.m., Liu Guihan did not return after
he left home. Around 10 p.m. a group of people suddenly broke in and started
searching and ransacking our home. There were about seven people. Among them
were Shan Xiong and Xi Lei from the Shunyi Public Security Bureau State Security
department and the Guangming Police Station and Liu Ziqing from the Resident's
Committee of the Jianxin Beiqv. We did not know the names of the others in the
group. These people left around 11:30 p.m. From that point on we never heard
anything about Liu Guihan. As family members we did not receive any
documentation or verbal notification regarding his abduction and detention. After three months had passed, Liu was still being detained, just as if he
had been formally arrested on felony charges. During this period we tried to find out about him from every available
source. We finally learned that he was detained at the Shunyi Nihe Detention
Center. We sent money and clothes many times to the detention center and they
accepted all of them, acknowledging that Liu Guihan was detained there. In the middle of July, we suddenly received an anonymous phone call. The
caller said, "The old man is too stubborn. If he would only admit he was
wrong for just a little bit then everything will be fine." On August 13 we received another unidentified phone call, "In another
week or towards the end of the month, Liu Guihan will be released." We were
all very elated that we finally had something to look forward to. Liu Guihan's brother and sister were also Falun Gong practitioners. They had
also been brutally persecuted. His second sister, Ms. Liu Guifu, was twice
sentenced to forced labor for a total of four years. She is still detained at
the Daxing Tiantanghe Women's Forced Labor Camp. His third brother was sentenced
to forced labor for two years. His first sister was arrested and detained twice.
She was savagely beaten and electrically shocked. She was paralyzed and
disabled. At 8 a.m. in the morning on August 16 we received a phone call from the
Shunyi Public Security Bureau, asking Liu Guihan's son Liu Wei, to go to the
Bureau. We all thought that we would be asked to bring Liu Guihan home, so three
family members went to the Bureau. After we got to the Legislative Affairs
department, a man named Ma Haoyue met with us. He claimed that Liu Guihan had
been sentenced to two years of forced labor and asked Liu Wei to sign the
decision document. But the Labor Re-education Notification document was dated
June 7, 2006, more than two months before we were ever notified. We raised our
objection and told them that many things the responsible organizations had done
were illegal. We refused to sign the document. The man claimed that the decision
was handed down by the Beijing City Labor Re-education Bureau. If we did not
agree with the decision, we needed to appeal to them. He then brought the
meeting to an end in a hurry. We have sent our appeal to many involved organizations with a sliver of hope.
We ask that Liu Guihan receive a fair judgment. Liu Guihan did not violate any law, and he did not commit any action to
endanger people or society. All documents, books, and personal property seized
should be disclosed in public and let the people be the judge. Eveerything the deputies of the various involved organizations did was
unlawful. There was no legal justification for anything. The abduction,
detention, and illegal overtime detention without any legal justification were
further covered up with a falsified Labor Re-education Notification date of June
7. We appeal for the unconditional release Liu Guihan. Appeal party: Liu Guihan's family Appeal date: August 17, 2006. Appendix 2: Contact information: Tuanhe Labor Re-education Personnel Assignment and Relocation Depot:
86-10-61292592, 86-10-61291199, ask for administration department. Beijing Shunyi District Public Security Bureau Chief Mr. Lin Beijing Shunyi District Public Security Bureau State Security Brigade Shan
Xiong, Xi Lei. Address: Shunyi District, Shunping Xilu 8, postal code 101300. Phone 86-10-69440212 Beijing Shunyi District Public Security Bureau Legislative Department: 86-10-69424072 Mr. Ma Haoyue Beijing City Shunyi District Guangming Public Security Bureau Guangming
Police Station: 86-10-81492220, 86-10-81491110 Beijing City Shunyi District Jianxin Beiqv Residential district Committee:
86-10-69424278, Mr. Liu Ziqing. October 5, 2006 |