Liu Xuemei is a Christian of the Church of Almighty God from Kuytun (Kuitun) City, Xinjiang. The Chinese characters of her name were not confirmed in the sources reviewed and are therefore not supplied here.
USCIRF identifies Liu as a Han woman and a Church of Almighty God member who is not a religious leader. ADHRRF reports that she was born in 1974.
The sources differ on the timing of her arrest. USCIRF gives October 15, 2018, while ADHRRF reports that Liu was among eight Church of Almighty God Christians arrested in July 2018 by Kuytun public-security officers. Both sources agree that the case involved Kuytun authorities and that Liu remained in custody pending prosecution.
ADHRRF reports that the Kuytun Procuratorate charged the group on June 25, 2019 under Article 300 of the Criminal Law. According to the outlet’s account of the prosecution case, Liu and Wang Yuling were accused of proofreading testimony articles written by church members, some of which appeared on the church’s website.
On September 10, 2019, the Kuitun People’s Court sentenced Liu to seven years in prison and fined her 40,000 yuan. USCIRF records the same sentence and lists her status as “Not Released.”
Status: USCIRF lists Liu as not released. Her current detention location was not identified in the sources reviewed, and no release date is inferred.
Sources: USCIRF database; ADHRRF report; Bitter Winter contextual report.