Before the convening of the Chinese Communist Party’s two sessions, Shanghai petitioner Li Qin was abducted by black security personnel hired by the authorities in Beijing on March 1st and taken back to Shanghai, where she was held in a black prison in the Qingpu district. Every time she entered or exited the black prison, she was forced to wear a hood and had her hands and feet bound with tape. She was detained for a total of 14 days.
Recently, Li Qin filed a complaint with the Ministry of Public Security accusing the town party committee, government officials, and related personnel of conspiring together to repeatedly illegally detain individuals who made lawful petitions, using methods such as hooding, binding, illegal searches, confiscation of belongings, destruction of evidence, installation of surveillance cameras, restricting access to basic necessities, creating harsh living conditions, severely violating personal freedom and dignity, constituting a serious criminal offense.
Shanghai petitioner Yu Zhonghuan revealed to a Epoch Times reporter, “On March 1st, Li Qin was temporarily staying in Changping District of Beijing, without engaging in any petitioning or illegal activities. Min Hang, director of the Ping’an Office of Jinze Town, Qingpu District, illegally tracked and followed Li Qin. Without any legal documents or reasons, he controlled her and brought her back to Shanghai. When the car passed Suzhou Station, the black security personnel forcibly covered Li Qin’s head with a white cloth bag, bound her hands and feet, and took her to a tin-roofed house within the jurisdiction of Jinze Town. Li Qin was hooded for over an hour, making it difficult for her to breathe, covered in sweat, and calls for help went unanswered.”
Li Qin was confined at this location for 14 days, with 9 black security guards taking turns to watch her 24 hours a day, in groups of 2 to 3 people each time, including both men and women. “The surveillance camera inside the tin-roofed room was aimed at Li Qin’s sleeping position the whole time, and the guards sat close by to monitor. Even when she needed to use the restroom, there was someone standing in front of her, leaving no privacy.”
He mentioned, “The environment in which Li Qin was detained was extremely noisy, with the tin-roofed house situated next to a high-speed railway, causing constant loud noise from passing vehicles 24 hours a day. Outdoor dogs barked incessantly at night, the lights inside the house were on all the time, guards continuously played on their phones, preventing Li Qin from sleeping normally for an extended period.”
“The windows of the house were sealed shut with plywood, no ventilation, the air was stale, there was no water heater, so Li Qin went without bathing for 14 days. Her basic daily needs were restricted as well, even eating, drinking water, using toilet paper required advance permission, approved by the authorities.”
On the night of March 14th, blacklisted personnel hired by the town government abandoned Li Qin under a certain elevated bridge in Jinze Town and fled the scene. Li Qin kept the white cloth bag hood used to cover her head in detention as evidence. She also took pictures to show how she was hooded and tied up, crucial evidence of the illegal detention.
After being kidnapped, Li Qin’s belongings such as her phone and ID were forcibly confiscated, with data and evidence inside her phone deleted, making it impossible for her to contact the outside world temporarily.
Li Qin, a villager from Jinze Town, Qingpu District, Shanghai, petitioned legally due to housing issues on her homestead since 2012 but has not received a resolution after many years. Over more than a decade of petitioning, especially during sensitive periods like the National People’s Congress and CCP Party Congress, Li Qin has been illegally detained and persecuted by the Jinze Town government of her household registration, accumulating hundreds of days of detention.
Each time the Qingpu District government detained Li Qin, they would transport her at night wearing a hood, then release her at night, always changing the location of detention to different jurisdictional areas, various remote tin-roofed houses to avoid investigation.
From October 16th to November 24th, 2025, Li Qin was detained in the same area corresponding to this black prison, though in a different room. When she was kidnapped back to Shanghai from Beijing, she was put into the tin-roofed room for illegal detention, and upon release, she was covered with a hood, forcibly choked, and beaten with the intent to destroy evidence of her illegal detention.