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Liu Peizhen Sentenced to Eight Years, Nearly Blind from Torture and Abuse
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Liu Peizhen, a practitioner in her sixties, is from
the Nanshan District in Shenzhen City. Before she began practicing Falun Gong in
1998, she had various diseases. She was practically blind and was unable to
raise her drooping eyelids. But after becoming a practitioner, all her diseases
vanished. She looked younger too. The principles of
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" also transformed her previously
unpleasant demeanor to one that was peaceful and kind. After the Chinese Communist Party and Jiang's circle began persecuting Falun
Gong, Ms. Liu decided to clarify the truth and try to save the
deceived Chinese people. She used every penny she had to produce
truth-clarification materials and the Nine Commentaries on the
Communist Party. Every day, she would go out on the street to
distribute these materials. When she got hungry during the day, she would eat a
cookie or a piece of pineapple, and when she got thirsty, she would drink tap
water. On October 21, 2004, someone reported Ms. Liu to the police while she was
clarifying the truth. Officers from the Nanshan District 610 Office
and the Nanshan District Police Department arrested her, ransacked her home, and
seized her Dafa books, phone book, stamps, and envelopes. Since her arrest, the
police have also been harassing her family members and monitoring their phones.
Two days after her arrest, Ms. Liu managed to escape from police custody, but
she became homeless as a result. The police responded by placing her on their
"most wanted" list. At around 9:00 a.m. on April 15, 2005, officers from the Nanshan District 610
Office and the Xili Police Station (under the Nanshan District Police
Department) burst into the rental property where Ms. Liu Peizhen and her husband
were living and arrested them both. They also seized Ms. Liu's computer and her Nine
Commentaries DVDs. Because her husband was very old and infirm, he was
released the following day. Ms. Liu, however, was held at the Nanshan District
Detention Center. In November 2005, the Nanshan District Court held a trial for Ms. Liu and
three other Falun Gong practitioners from Shenzhen City. The following April,
Ms. Liu was sentenced to eight years in prison for distributing
truth-clarification materials. She is currently being held at the Guangzhou City
Women's Prison. It is impossible to express how much pain and torture Ms. Liu has suffered
during the last three years. According to her family, Ms. Liu is almost blind,
so she is unable to read anything. She is also unable to care for herself
without assistance. Guangzhou City Women's Prison, Guard Zhang Chunmei (female): 86-20-87413538,
86-13580597860 (Cell) Nanshan District Police Department, Section Chief He Wei (male):
86-755-26610437, 86-13502810010 (Cell) Related article: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/7/29/76084.html February 9, 2008
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