This archive collects media and organizational reporting on the case of Liu Shizun (刘世遵), a Liaoning-based China Democracy Party organizer sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in 2000.
Person profile: Liu Shizun / 刘世遵 — China Democracy Party Organizer and Former Political Prisoner
Case timeline
- 1989 — According to his wife Lin Haifen’s account, reported by Radio Free Asia in February 2000, Liu graduated from the polymer department of the Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology and lost his state job assignment after participating in the 1989 student democracy movement.
- 1998 — Human Rights Watch reported that Liu worked in the China Democracy Party network and took increased leadership responsibilities in the Beijing–Tianjin branch after other leaders were detained. HRW also records him as a signatory of the CDP National Preparatory Committee registration statement.
- September 17, 1999 — Human Rights Watch reported that Liu was formally arrested; his home in Dalian was searched and address books were confiscated.
- February 16, 2000 — The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Liu to six years’ imprisonment for “subversion of state power,” according to Human Rights Watch.
Source links
- Human Rights Watch, Nipped in the Bud: The Suppression of the China Democracy Party, full text
- Human Rights Watch, report chapter page
- Human Rights Watch, PDF edition
- ecoi.net mirror of the Human Rights Watch report
Source notes and limitations
The contemporaneous record used here rests principally on the Human Rights Watch report and on Radio Free Asia reporting cited in the person profile. No authenticated judgment text, court transcript, or official custody record has been located. The exact release date at the end of the six-year sentence is not established and is not stated here.
Person profile: Liu Shizun / 刘世遵 — China Democracy Party Organizer and Former Political Prisoner