Lawyer Mr. Liu Ruping in Jinan City Arrested, His 84-year-old Father Dies in Distress

Mr. Liu Ruping, a lawyer and also a Falun Gong practitioner in Jinan City, Shandong Province, was arrested and put in the Jinan City Liuchangshan brainwashing centre on October 17th, 2005, because he had posted up a notice from the Falun Dafa Association. His 84-year-old father heard the news that the Changqing District Police Department was going to send Mr. Liu to a forced labour camp if he did not renounce his spiritual beliefs within a week. The old man was so upset and worried that he subsequently died of a sudden stroke on November 15th, 2005.

During his one-month detention, Mr. Liu was first put in Changqing Jail for seven days. They ransacked his house and took away his Dafa materials and computer equipment, and also searched his office in the Communist Party Academy. Then they forced him to stay in the so-called "Justice Training Centre of Shandong Province" in Liuchangshan to brainwash him. The 610 Office¹ personnel accused him of not cooperating and brutally persecuted him and forced him to watch propaganda desecrating Dafa.

To increase the pressure, the police extorted 2,000 yuan² in "business expenses" from Mr. Liu's family and demanded that the Communist Party Academy send a person to accompany him in the brainwashing centre. It was said that the police threatened that they would send him to a forced labour camp if he did not "reform³" within a week. Mr. Liu's father could not withstand the bad news and died as a result. With the neighbourhood association's guarantee, Mr. Liu was released to take care of his father's funeral, on condition that he would return to the jail after the funeral.

Relevant phone numbers: (Note: for home or office phone numbers, dial country code + area code before all numbers. For cell phone numbers, dial country code before the numbers. Country code: 86, area code: 531)

Changqing District Jail: 87262354
Switch board in Changqing Police Department in Jinan City: 87221350, 87221351, 87221352
Office of the Police Chief: 87221319
Public access for the Police Chief: 85085233
Changqing District Police Office
Wang Zongyan, Chief: 85085201(Office), 87216020(Home), 13361086966(Mobile)

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

3. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/11/18/114786.html