Honorific-Suffix: | Olympic Order |
Office1: | Communist Party Secretary of Beijing |
Term Start1: | 22 October 2002 |
Term End1: | 3 July 2012 |
Predecessor1: | Jia Qinglin |
Successor1: | Guo Jinlong |
Office2: | President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games |
Term Start2: | 29 August 2004 |
Term End2: | 24 August 2008 |
Predecessor2: | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki |
Successor2: | Sebastian Coe |
1Blankname2: | IOC President |
Office3: | Chair of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games |
Term Start3: | December 13, 2001 |
Term End3: | August 22, 2009 |
Predecessor3: | Committee established |
Successor3: | Position dissolved |
Office4: | Mayor of Beijing |
Term Start4: | 10 February 1999 |
Term End4: | 19 January 2003 |
Predecessor4: | Jia Qinglin |
Successor4: | Meng Xuenong |
Office5: | Minister of Metallurgical Industry |
Term Start5: | March 1993 |
Term End5: | March 1998 |
Predecessor5: | Qi Yuanqing |
Successor5: | Position revoked |
Liu Qi | |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Date: | 3 November 1942 |
Birth Place: | Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Alma Mater: | Beijing 101 Middle School University of Science and Technology Beijing |
Liu Qi (; born November 3, 1942, in Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu) is a retired Chinese politician. He formerly served as the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing, and also a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. He was also the President of the Beijing 2008 Olympics Organizing Committee.[1]
On February 7, 2002, Liu was sued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California[5] by the San Francisco-based human rights organization, the Center for Justice and Accountability. The plaintiffs in that case alleged that, as mayor of Beijing, Liu was responsible for formulating security policy and had control over the local police. The police were in turn alleged to have tortured the plaintiffs with beatings, electric shock, and forced feedings through tubes inserted through the plaintiffs' noses.[6] The court issued a declaratory judgment that Liu was responsible for violating the defendants' rights to be free from torture and arbitrary detention.[7] However, because Liu did not defend the suit, there were no hearings, trials, or findings of fact on the issues presented.