Author: Free China Movement

Person profile: Liu Yijun This archive preserves human-rights and media reporting on Liu Yijun’s 1992 Hong Kong asylum case. Her Chinese name characters remain unestablished. September 3, 1992 — Amnesty International urgent action Amnesty reported that Liu Yijun…

Liu Yijun is a former journalist and editor, and a poet, who fled mainland China for Hong Kong after the 1989 pro-democracy movement and was accepted for resettlement in Canada in 1992. Her Chinese name characters were not…

Person profile: Liu Yao (刘尧) This archive preserves the documentary record on former Guangdong rights lawyer and anti-corruption whistleblower Liu Yao. 2007–2009 — land-rights case CECC records Liu’s representation of villagers in Dongyuan County, his December 2007 detention,…

Liu Yao (刘尧), born February 18, 1962, is a former rights-defense lawyer from Guangdong who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2017 after years of land-rights and anti-corruption advocacy. CECC records Liu’s earlier work as a…

Person profile: Liu Yanmei (刘燕美) — Dongying This archive concerns the Dongying, Shandong Liu Yanmei only and excludes same-name records from Beijing and Qinan County. April 23, 2021 — arrest Minghui reports that Liu was detained during a…

Liu Yanmei (刘燕美) — Dongying is a retiree of the Shengli Oil Field in Dongying City, Shandong Province, and a Falun Gong practitioner. Minghui reports that Liu was arrested on April 23, 2021 during a police operation involving…

Person profile: Liu Yanhua (刘艳华) — Yichun, Heilongjiang This archive preserves reporting on Liu Yanhua of Cuiluan District, Yichun, Heilongjiang. It does not concern the former vice minister or other same-name public figures. 2001–2011 — earlier detention history…

Liu Yanhua (刘艳华) is a Falun Gong practitioner from Cuiluan District, Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province. Minghui reports repeated detention beginning in 2001, including a reeducation-through-labor term imposed after a July 23, 2008 arrest. Its 2011 account alleges beatings,…

Person profile: Liu Xuemei — Kuytun, Xinjiang This archive preserves reporting on Liu Xuemei, a Church of Almighty God Christian from Kuytun/Kuitun, Xinjiang. Her Chinese name characters remain unverified. 2018 — arrest-date conflict USCIRF records Liu’s arrest on…

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…