Fujian Putian City petitioner Huang Qingying went missing after petitioning in Beijing and her family received notification from the police on April 5 that she had passed away. The family stated that Huang Qingying was physically healthy and had no history of serious illnesses. In response to this significant criminal case, the police informed the family that no case would be filed as part of the investigation.
Huang Qingying’s son said, “Early on April 5, police from the household registration department informed the family by phone that Huang Qingying had passed away. The police have not filed a case so far, only stating that the investigation is ongoing. My mother’s death is mysterious, and when we reported it, we were beaten by the police in the car.”
Some petitioners have reported that the local government has deployed many plainclothes security personnel to monitor the family members of Huang Qingying near their residence.
Forty-five-year-old Huang Qingying was a villager from Pinghai Town, Xiuyu District, Putian City. Huang Qingying’s sister issued a statement, saying, “My elder sister, Huang Qingying, went to Beijing on March 30 for a lawful petition to address issues. On April 3 at 6 p.m., she lost contact, with no responses on phone or WeChat. By early morning on April 5, the Pinghai Town Police Station called my brother-in-law to inform him that she had passed away.”
A perfectly healthy person, who just lawfully went to Beijing to address issues, ended up suddenly dead! As her sister, she expressed that it felt like the sky was falling! She stated, “Huang Qingying was in good health with no history of serious illnesses; she lawfully petitioned without engaging in any illegal activities, yet in Beijing, she suddenly went missing, indicating signs of being unlawfully controlled and detained; after she went missing in Beijing, the notice of her death was given by the local police station, showing severe abnormal procedures with obvious traces of human manipulation; the entire process from disappearance to death is opaque, raising reasonable suspicions that the victim was harmed and abused leading to her death during illegal detention and control.”
She demanded government departments and law enforcement agencies to intervene, thoroughly investigate and uncover the truth, punish those responsible, and deliver justice for her sister!
Public account blogger “Bing Shu” also publicly expressed his views on the matter, stating, “I can say with certainty that the root cause of Huang Qingying’s death lies in ‘stability.’ In an era where stability prevails above all, a person like Huang Qingying who raises issues naturally becomes one of the factors creating instability.”
So, what is stability? He explained, “In the eyes of some grassroots government leaders, stability means resolving those who raise issues, dealing with those who create instability. They treat stability as a fig leaf. In reality, true stability is not about covering up problems or protecting those who create problems. It’s about upholding rules, protecting the public, and adhering to the bottom line of the law. Genuine stability means punishing those who deserve it and ensuring justice is served. Regardless of one’s official position or connections, if rules are broken, there must be corresponding consequences.”
Over the past few years, Fujian has witnessed several incidents of petitioners dying while in custody. In 2024, female petitioner Wang Aiying from Fuqing City died after being intercepted by local stability maintenance personnel upon petitioning in Beijing and subsequently detained, subjected to physical abuse, injection with poison, and mistreatment at a mental hospital; in 2023, petitioner Ye Zhong from Fuzhou died from being beaten during detention; in 2022, petitioner Lin Tianming from Fuzhou was kidnapped by intercepting personnel near the town’s petition bureau and later crushed by an intercepting vehicle, resulting in his death.
The human rights of petitioners have been deprived by the Chinese Communist authorities. Some officials even shamelessly say: “If the case drags on (for the petitioner), they are dead, so the government just waits for a ‘zero households,’ and the petition case naturally comes to an end.”
Regarding this incident, Fujian petitioner Xiao Wang told a reporter from Dajiyuan, “I have a friend who has been petitioning for 47 years. What does that mean? It means disasters for the people since the establishment of the Communist Party. How many of those 47 years can one have in a lifetime? The Communist Party speaks better than it acts, passing laws and regulations today, and drafting new rules and systems tomorrow, but the entire judiciary ignores the law, leaving the people with no one to turn to, thus resorting to petitioning, and this petitioning system is essentially a system that kills. The petition department completely disregards the people, and not a single petitioner’s issue gets resolved.”
“Without the fall of the Communist Party, Chinese people can’t have good days. This is the sentiment shared by all petitioners,” she said.