A Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province resident was arrested in 2014 for practicing Falun Gong and sentenced to three years and ten months in prison, where he was brutally tortured. Only two years after he was released, he was arrested again in 2019 and secretly sentenced to a five-year term.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Mr. Liu Qiusheng, a 56-year-old former statistics analyst, started practicing Falun Gong in August 1996. He has been arrested and detained several times since the onset of the persecution. His salary was downgraded by three levels, and he was subsequently fired from his job.

Mr. Liu was arrested and beaten by officers from the Sanli Street Police Station on July 2, 2019. His home was ransacked. The police confiscated all of the funds that he had received as a lump-sum compensation from the government for demolishing his home for urban development projects. The funds were in the form of 6,000 yuan in cash and 50,000 U.S. dollars in a Certificate of Deposit, the latter saved for his son’s college tuition. The police used the CD in a foreign currency as evidence to charge him with “colluding with foreign forces.”

After being detained for over a year, Mr. Liu was put on trial by Yongxiu County Court and sentenced to five years in Yuzhang Prison with 20,000 yuan fine on July 28, 2020.

Mr. Liu appealed with Jiujiang City Intermediate Court and entrusted two lawyers to represent him in the appeals case. On November 9, the court upheld the original sentence without his lawyers or his family present at the hearing.

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