After Serving an Unjust Four-Year Prison Term, Ms. Liu Jin Is Arrested Again

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Liu Jin from the Fengxian District in Shanghai has been arrested again. Before this, she had served an unjust four-year prison term. On the afternoon of November 25, she was arrested at her home by police officers from the Fengxian District Police Department. Her home was also ransacked by policemen from the Fengxian National Security Brigade and Haiwan Police Station. The police arrived in two official cars and confiscated 20,000 yuan, a computer, a printer, identification cards, and the family's bank cards. They even took Ms. Liu's electric motor vehicle. Several bystanders said that the policemen were clearly operating outside of the law. Ms. Liu is now in the Fengxian District Detention Center.

Liu Jin and her husband, Mr. Zhang Zhanjie, are in their early 40s. Both of them used to work for Shanghai Normal University. Mr. Zhang received his Master's degree from the university and was hired by the university as a teacher. Ms. Liu used to work in the university library. They both practice Falun Gong and follow its principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" in their work and life. They were very nice to people and were two outstanding professionals.

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Jiang Zemin started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Liu Jin and Zhang Zhanjie refused to give up their belief in the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance" and began to tell people the facts about Falun Gong. Under orders from the Shanghai 610 Office, policemen from the Fengxian District Police Department arrested the couple. The Fengxian District Procuratorate and court illegally sentenced Mr. Zhang to four and a half years and Ms. Liu to four years of imprisonment. Mr. Zhang was taken to Shanghai Tilanqiao Prison, where guards put him and death row inmates in the same cell in order to try to force him to give up his belief. Ms. Liu was taken to Shanghai Women's Prison. Since she didn't give up her belief in Falun Gong, they mistreated her in various ways, including putting her in solitary confinement, verbally abusing and humiliating her, threatening her, subjecting her to brainwashing attempts, and force-feeding her. Their daughter, then only 11 years old, lived by herself in Shanghai. Later, the authorities sent her to Mr. Zhang's hometown in Shandong Province.

After years of torment in prison, Ms. Liu and Mr. Zhang were finally released in late 2004 and early 2005. Officials of the Shanghai Normal University were afraid of the 610 Office and did not dare to give the couple their jobs back. Other companies and organizations were also afraid of police harassment and rejected the couple's job applications. Mr. Zhang had to go to Beijing to work. Ms. Liu had to take odd jobs in restaurants and laundries. The couple had to live thousands of miles away from each other, which made it difficult to take care of their daughter. Even when they were living like this, people from the Fengxian District 610 Office, policemen from the National Security Brigade and Fengxin Police Station still did not let them live in peace and continued to harass them. They followed the two when they went out; they even went to their home to monitor and question them.

This year Ms. Liu and Mr. Zhang's daughter is preparing for the college entrance examination, so this is a crucial year for her. Liu Jin talked to some people about Falun Gong, telling them the facts that the CCP had been hiding from them. As a result, she was arrested again and therefre she couldn't take care of her daughter. Mr. Zhang, who was in Beijing trying to earn some tuition money for their daughter, had to resign from his job and return to Shanghai. His elderly parents, who are in poor health, also came to Shanghai to help out. The whole family has suffered a big blow.

We urge all kindhearted people to please pay attention to this family's difficulties and help them break away from the CCP's persecution.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/12/8/168017.html

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