Liu Dejun

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Liu Dejun (Chinese: 刘德军; born 1976 in Hubei , China ) is a human rights activist and blogger from the People's Republic of China . His work focuses on the Chinese democracy movement as well as the Chinese human rights movement. Liu is a scholarship holder of the Writers in Exile program in Germany and lives in Nuremberg . In 2007 he founded the Society for Aid in employment in the province of Guangdong to help Chinese workers. Liu participated in many human rights cases and reported on them on the Boxun website, on his Twitter page , on Facebook and on blogs. However, all of his blogs were deleted by the Chinese authorities in China. Liu then created a new blog in Germany.

biography

Liu Dejun studied at a police university and then worked as a teacher in a prison. He learned about the grievances that Chinese human rights activists are exposed to through Western radio broadcasts. So he went to Beijing in 2000 to team up with other dissidents . In 2003, he was working in a factory in Guangdong and began documenting human rights violations. He was fired because he educated the migrant workers in the same factory about their labor rights. In 2007 he founded an organization that helped migrant workers to protect themselves from arbitrariness and exploitation through legal instruction. He was arrested for this, but after his release he stood by house owners whose houses were torn down as part of major projects. The main focus of his blogs remained arbitrary police arrests, persecutions and mistreatment.

Arrests

Liu has been arrested many times in China for his work. On December 28, 2008, the Guangdong police arrested him and tortured him for sending out leaflets with democratic content with Li Tie , Yang Yong, and other activists.

In 2010, while investigating Qian Yunhui's case, he was arrested twice at Huang Wie's home by around 20 heavily armed police officers. Since Liu supported the Chinese activist Ni Yulan , also in 2010, he was arrested and tortured by security officials from Beijing in the middle of the night and then abandoned in the mountains outside Beijing. Liu said in an interview that he was "beaten, shocked with electric batons, and then exposed to cold and hunger." The well-known artist Ai Weiwei made a documentary film about these events.

After Liu's appeal to follow the Arab Spring in China, he was kidnapped in 2011 by the security service of the Chinese central government in Beijing and taken to four secret bases of the People's Court. His clothes were forcibly removed from him, then Liu was beaten many times and tortured with an electric baton. He was not given anything to eat and was not given a blanket at night. In addition, his family were interrogated and harassed, and friends of his disappeared.

emigration

In 2013 Liu came to Brussels and then to Ireland with the help of PEN and the human rights organization Front Line Defenders . After three months, Liu received a scholarship for writers in exile. He now lives in Nuremberg and is still committed to democracy and human rights in China .

In February 2014, Liu Dejun's Chinese blog was deleted. Liu then opened the website freeinchina.org to continue reporting on human rights violations in China.

Liu has been studying political science and public law at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen near Nuremberg since October 2015 . He has been studying law since 2017 to help establish a legal system in China.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Liu Dejun , PEN-Germany, accessed on November 21, 2016
  2. ↑ Liu Dejun's Twitter page , Twitter.com, accessed on 18 November 2016
  3. ↑ a b c Liu Dejun - writers in exile in Nuremberg , Nuremberg Human Rights Center, February 12, 2014. Retrieved on November 21, 2016
  4. ↑ China Human Rights Briefing Weekly June 15-21, 2010 , Amnesty International UK, June 15-21, 2010, accessed November 18, 2016
  5. ↑ Dejun Liu: Arrested, Tortured, Abandoned , Haller Tagblatt, September 25, 2014, accessed on November 21, 2016
  6. ↑ Hua Hao Yue Yuan , Ai Weiwei, Youtube, accessed November 21, 2016
  7. ↑ LIU Dejun, Civil rights activist, kidnapped by police and left in mountains BoxunNews, June 15, 2010 Retrieved on November 18, 2016
  8. ↑ Liu Dejun, A Personal Account of Being Kidnapped, Detained, and Tortured , Human Rights in China, HRIC, hrichina.org, July 19, 2013, accessed November 18, 2016
  9. ^ A Chinese dissident in Nuremberg , Deutsche Welle, accessed on November 21, 2016
  10. ↑ China: Diary of a Disappearance - The Abduction (Part One) ( Memento October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Frontline Defenders, frontlinedefenders.org, accessed November 18, 2016
  11. ↑ Liu Dejun ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PEN-Zentrum Deutschland eV, accessed on November 18, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pen-deutschland.de
  12. ↑ INEXPENSIVE LIFE? LABOR AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN CHINA , Amnesty International - Aachen District, amnesty-aachen.de, accessed on November 18, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Liu Dejun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese human rights activist and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hubei Province in China