155. LIU JIE (released)

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Liu JiePen name                 Constitution Defender

Sex                               Female

Birth date                1952-01-03

Birth place              Wangkui County, Heilongjiang Province

Resident place         Donghujiayuan 50-2-301, Xunke Farm, Heilongjiang Province

Education                  Primary school

Profession                  Former farm workers in Heilongjiang Land Reclamation Group, blogger, human rights defender (ICPC honorary member)

Date of arrest          2013-08-12 (administratively detained), 2013-08-23 (criminally detained), 2013-09-23(under residential surveillance), 2013-12-12 (arrested)

Organ of arrest       Public Security Bureau of Mudanjiang Reclamation, Heilongjiang Province

Cause of arrest      Online exposing illegal infringement of the administration of Heilongjiang Land Reclamation Group, criticizing the judiciary responsible person from local to the central government including former President of Supreme People’s Court Wang Shengjun and former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, and helding a seminar to discuss illegal infringement of the administration of Heilongjiang Land Reclamation Group in July 2013 with experts and scholars in Beijing

Charge                         Defamation and creating disturbances

Date of sentence     2013-11-20 (hearing), 2013-12-05 (verdict), 2014-01-22 (appeal), 2014-02-10 (appeal verdict)

Organ of sentence   People’s Court of Mudanjiang Reclamation, Intermediate People’s Court of Heilongjiang Reclamation (appeal)

Sentence                  1 year and 6 months imprisonment

Defender                 Lawyer YANG Zhiyong

Place of jail             Female Prison of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province

Situation in jail        Suffering from hypertension and heart and stomach disease; lung cancer found after hemoptysis for some time

Date of release           2015-02-16 (medical parole)

Family contact           FU Jingjiang (husband), FU Weifeng(son), Tel:  86-13621359753

Donation to

Case adopted by        ICPC

Current Status           Released on medical parole on 2015-02-16

 Reference
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/1403
https://www.chrdnet.com/2008/06/incarcerated-human-rights-defender-liu-jie-tortured/
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/1474