Blogger Liu, who has written about politics and democracy on WeChat since 2009, was detained in 2018 after a six-month period of residential surveillance. he was detained after social media posts criticizing CCP and PRC government officials. She was sentenced to four years in prison in May 2020 for “picking quarrels” following her anti-communist posts. On March 23, 2022, she was released from Hankou Prison after serving her full sentence.