Pen name Zhuaizhuai Reappearing
Sex Female
Birth date 1975-06-01
Birth place Jingmen City, Hubei Province
Resident place Dongbao District, Jingmen City, Hubei Province
Education Colleage
Profession Bank clerk, internet writer and blogger (ICPC member)
Date of arrest 2016-09-26 (detained)， 2016-11-02 (arrest)；2018-11-21 (arrest, 2nd)
Organ of arrest Dongbao Branch of Public Security Bureau of Jingmen City, Hubei Province
Cause of arrest Online dissident writtings in general, and in particular posting a dozen of short messages on her pages of Weibo (Chinese style of Twitter) and/or in some friend circles on WeChat, concerning the negative comments on CPC former and present leaderships, namely late Chairman MAO Zedong, late Premier ZHOU Enlai and current President XI Jinping, mostly coped from other online sources, some even officially published in China, and other critical posts.
Charge Suspicion of defamation (1st), picking quarrels and provoking trouble (2nd)
Date of sentence 2019-01-31 (hearing); 2020-04-24 (verdict), 2020-08-26 (appeal)
Organ of sentence People’s Court of Dongbao District, Jingmen City; Intermediate People’s Court of Jingmen City, Huibei Province (appeal)
Sentence Four years imprisonment
Defender Lawyer ZHANG Lei (1st); lawyers LIU Zhengqing (2nd, ICPC-WiPC legal consultant, disbarred), WU Kuiming and MA Gangquan, sister LIU Yuehua, Lawyer ZHANG Lei (appeal)
Place of jail Detention Center of Jingmen City, Hubei Province
Situation in jail OK (1st); reportedly beaten, then cutting her wrists to commit suicide, and hospitalised (2nd)
Date of release 2017-05-27 (on bail), 2022-03-23 (?)
Family contact PENG Gang (ex-husband), LIU Yuehua (sister): +86-15975322178
Donation to
Case adopted by ICPC
Current Status Main case
After released on bail 2017-05-27 pending trail for half a year, arrested again in 2018/11. On 2020-05-04, her appeal was submitted for her innocence against the court verdict issued on 2020-04-24.
Reference
https://www.nchrd.org/2020/09/briefing-crackdown-on-free-expression-blogger-poet-activist-citizen-journalist-in-custody/
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/liu-yanli
http://www.christianitydaily.com/articles/9353/20200507/hubei-bank-clerk-in-china-jailed-for-critical-social-media-posts.htm
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/clerk-05062020112829.html
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/sentencing-arrest-activists-are-signs-chinas-unrelenting-crackdown
https://www.licas.news/2020/05/07/chinese-woman-sentenced-to-four-years-jail-for-social-media-posts/
https://www.nchrd.org/2020/05/veteran-activists-imprisoned-and-detained-for-online-speech/
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/blogger-01312019111126.html
https://www.chinesepen.org/english/womens-rights-have-been-repeatedly-violated-in-china
https://pen.org/press-release/blogger-and-activist-liu-yanli-charged-with-defamation-in-china/
https://www.facebook.com/CHRDnet/posts/553745911416574