Lyushunkou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province: Eight Falun Gong Practitioners Incarcerated for Their Faith

(Minghui.org) Eight Falun Gong practitioners in Lyushunkou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province are currently incarcerated for their faith, which has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Below are details of their cases:

- Mr. Liu Renqiu, around 52, was arrested on June 28, 2016. He was sentenced to ten years by the Lyushunkou District Court. He is now held at the Dalian Prison and his family hasn’t been allowed to see him for two years.

- Ms. Sheng Jie, in her 60s, was arrested on June 28, 2016 and sentenced to seven and a half years by the Lyushunkou District Court. She is now held at the Shenyang Women’s Prison and has been denied family visitation for over six months.

- Ms. Zhan Shuhua, 63, was reported in mid-June 2017 for showing a video about Falun Gong to the owner of a cellphone repair store. She was arrested at home a few days later and taken to the Dalian Detention Center on June 28. She was sentenced to eight years by the Lyushunkou District Court and taken to the Shenyang Women’s Prison. She is allowed to make occasional phone calls to her family.

- Ms. Yu Yinghua, 71, was arrested at home on July 10, 2019 and later sentenced to three and a half years by the Lyushunkou District Court. She was transferred from the Dalian Detention Center to the Shenyang Women’s Prison in July 2021. She fell into a coma on the evening of November 25, 2021. Her blood pressure was so high that it was no longer detectable. She also vomited blood. Although the guards took her to the hospital for resuscitation, they refused to release her on medical parole, with the excuse that she wasn’t qualified for it. She was taken back to the prison four days later. Her family paid her medical expenses of 10,000 yuan. They haven’t been allowed to see her since and are very worried about her.

- Ms. Tan Huali was arrested at home on July 10, 2020 and held at the Wanfangdian Lockup. She was released on bail eight days later due to high blood pressure. The police submitted her case to the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate on July 12, 2021. She appeared in the Ganjingzi District Court on January 13, 2022. The presiding judge, surnamed Lu, sentenced her to three years on January 25, 2022. She has appealed with the Dalian City Intermediate Court.

- Ms. Ma Yan, 74, was arrested on July 10, 2020. She was sentenced to four years and ten months by the Ganjingzi District Court on June 3, 2021. She appealed, but her appeal was rejected by the Dalian City Intermediate Court in early October 2021. She is still held at the Dalian Detention Center at the time of writing.

- Ms. Fu Lihua was also arrested at home on July 10, 2020. She was tried by the Ganjingzi District Court in May 2021 and sentenced to three years with a 20,000-yuan fine in September. She has been transferred from the Dalian Detention Center to the Shenyang Women’s Prison.

- Ms. Xu Liru, 75, was arrested on October 27, 2021, while visiting another practitioner, Ms. Qu Yushuang, 80, who lives in the same village and had just been discharged from the hospital. Ms. Xu was reported by Ms. Qu’s second son Liu Rihai and her oldest son’s wife Xu Xiaohui. Ms. Xu is now held at the Dalian Detention Center and her son is hiring a lawyer for her.

Perpetrators’ contact information:
1. Officials responsible for Ms. Ma Yan’s case:Zhang (张), head, Xigang Domestic Security Office: [phone]Yuan Zhiwei (袁志伟), prosecutor, Ganjingzi District Procuratorate: [phone]Duan Li (段丽), judge, Ganjingzi District Court: [phone]. Officials responsible for Ms. Tan Huali’s case:Zhang (张), head, Xigang Domestic Security Office: [phone]Zheng Jinde (郑金德), deputy head, Baiyun Police Station: [phone]Li Jianzhe (李建哲), police officer: [phone]Hu Tongjun (胡同军), prosecutor, Ganjingzi District Procuratorate: [phone]Lu Dandan (卢丹丹), judge, Ganjingzi District Court: [phone], [phone]. Officials responsible for Ms. Fu Lihua’s case:Zhang Yining (张益宁), director, Domestic Security Office: [phone]Yuan Zhiwei (袁志伟), prosecutor, Ganjingzi District Procuratorate: [phone]Jin Hua (金华), judge, Ganjingzi District Court: [phone], [phone]. Officials responsible for Mr. Liu Renqiu, Ms. Sheng Jie, Ms. Zhan Shuhua and Ms. Yu Yinghua’s cases:Zheng Jiawei (郑家为), president, Lyushunkou District Procuratorate: [phone], [phone]Yu Yuanming (于远明), president, Lyushunkou District Court: [phone], [phone]Yu Sen (于森), presiding judge, Lyushunkou District Court: [phone]Zhang Hui (张慧), presiding judge, Lyushunkou District Court: [phone], [phone]

(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)