In response to the stability maintenance for the upcoming two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party, local governments are conducting more rigorous interception operations than usual. Recently, a petitioner from Xiamen, Fujian Province, was detained by local stability maintenance personnel in Beijing. She was deprived of water and the ability to use the restroom for two days and two nights, leading to physical exhaustion and eventually being abandoned outdoors. This incident occurred with a petitioner from Fujian who has been advocating for rights for 25 years. It was her first time coming to Beijing, but she was disappointed and cried bitterly after being passed around by discipline inspectors, and was ultimately intercepted by the waiting stability maintenance personnel.
Zhang Nijun, a petitioner from Huli District in Xiamen, was deceived into getting into a car by personnel from the Huli District government on March 4th after registering at the National Petition Office. Her freedom was restricted for two days and two nights, during which she was not allowed to use the restroom or drink water. The prolonged deprivation caused numbness in her limbs and brought her body to the brink of collapse.
According to information revealed by a local petitioner named Xiao Chen (pseudonym), “Zhang Nijun was intercepted and controlled, deprived of water and the ability to relieve herself for an extended period, leading to numbness in her limbs. She was in extreme discomfort and repeatedly requested to call emergency services at 120 and report to the police at 110, but all her pleas were rejected by stability maintenance personnel. Currently, she has suffered significant physical and mental harm.”
Finally, Zhang Nijun was abandoned on a pedestrian walkway somewhere, attracting a crowd of bystanders who helped call for emergency services at 120. The entire incident was recorded by enthusiastic onlookers. Despite being physically weak, Zhang Nijun lay on the ground with her limbs unable to move, yet she did her best to explain her ordeal to those present. She has since been taken to a hospital for emergency treatment.
Xiao Chen expressed, “This is not a trivial matter; it is a violation of human rights and disregard for the law. Today it’s her, tomorrow it could be any one of us.”
In Xiamen, Fujian, Wang Xiuying arrived in Beijing successfully on February 27, marking her first visit to the capital to petition. Filled with anticipation, she received a cold reception at the so-called national-level political and legal institutions. She tearfully recounted her frustration over the past two decades of being tossed around by various relevant departments. Beijing was her last hope. She endured hunger to come to Beijing to fight for her rights, but encountered the same treatment at the National People’s Congress and the National Discipline Inspection Commission as she did in local endeavors, leading her to cry uncontrollably on the spot.
A local petitioner, Ms. Fan (pseudonym), told a reporter from The Epoch Times, “Wang Xiuying was finally able to squeeze into the National Discipline Inspection Commission after enduring hunger, but she was only required to register and was not asked about the issues she wanted to raise. After registration, she was given a ‘petition guide’ and told to go to the Supreme People’s Court. She broke down in tears on the spot.”
“She cried hysterically to the reception staff, demanding answers for the forced confiscation of farmers’ land by the government without compensation, the court’s wrongful judgments, and the mutual passing of responsibility among national authorities. How could such a good country turn into this? Many security guards present remained silent.”
It is reported that Wang Xiuying, residing in Fanshannan Village, Waishan Town, Xiaobaishi Town, Fu’an City, Fujian Province, was involved in a case where the village’s collective land was converted into state-owned land due to alleged improper handling by the local government in 2000, leading to unjust verdicts by courts under the jurisdiction of the Fujian High Court. As a rights advocate for over two decades, Wang Xiuying’s appeals to national authorities have consistently been neglected.
Over the years, Wang Xiuying has made multiple applications to the Supreme People’s Court for a retrial regarding the village’s collective land issue, but received no response. The security guards at the court entrance prevented her from entering and suggested she apply at the Nanjing Circuit Court. When she mentioned having already applied to the Nanjing Circuit Court several times, they then advised her to seek oversight from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. After following their advice and arriving at the Procuratorate, the reception staff, upon reviewing her documents, quietly told her to hire a lawyer downstairs at the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. When she explained that she couldn’t afford a Beijing lawyer, the Procuratorate refused to take up her case, telling her to go find the National Discipline Inspection Commission.
Now, following her visit to the National Discipline Inspection Commission, the reception staff instructed her to go back to the Supreme People’s Court. This cycle of being passed around has left Wang Xiuying in tears once again after twenty years of hard work in advocacy. She left the National Discipline Inspection Commission and lined up at the National Petition Office but was intercepted by local government stability maintenance personnel. Originally planning to petition in Beijing for nine days, one day at each department, she was unable to fulfill her wishes.