On December 19, 2024, due to exposing the “Black Prison List” in Shanghai, Song Jiahong was warned twice by the police, and his WeChat group chats and moments were temporarily restricted. Song Jiahong stated that the actions of the police were illegal, and he would take legal action if necessary.
Song Jiahong has revealed the “Black Prison List” in Shanghai (1-8), which involves the suppression and persecution of petitioners by the government in each district of Shanghai. On November 28 and December 16, two policemen from the Nanjing East Road Police Station visited Song Jiahong’s residence in Songjiang District, warning him not to spread unverified information.
In an interview with a reporter from Dajiyuan, Song Jiahong said, “The first time they came, I asked for their police ID but they evaded the question and left. The second time, they went to the Qiu Leyuan Community Committee in the neighborhood and asked me to come for questioning. I asked the community cadre if they had an ‘Introduction Letter,’ and she said she didn’t know. I pointed out that the procedures were incorrect and the process was flawed.”
“Government officials nowadays don’t even have basic common sense. They keep talking about the rule of law. Isn’t it ridiculous? I suspect they are coming because of the ‘Black Prison List’.”
On December 17, Song Jiahong’s WeChat group chats and moments were restricted for 24 hours.
Having been illegally detained in black prisons for his advocacy work, Song Jiahong said, “Every time I pass through Jungong Road in Yangpu District, I remember being beaten by three officials and being held in a black prison, filling me with anger. But what can we, ordinary people, do? The country is supposed to serve the people, so how did the country become a cage?”
At the time, Song Jiahong was taken back to Shanghai from Beijing after petitioning in the capital. When he encountered officials from the Yinhang Street Office in Yangpu District at the refugee center at 500 Fucun Road: a police officer named Dai Jiuren, a chief of public security Yang, and another person he didn’t recognize, they immediately grabbed his ID card, three of them ganged up on him, even knocking his glasses off. The police drove him to a black prison in the Youth Forest Park on Jungong Road in Yangpu District. With his phone stolen, unable to call for help, and under the surveillance of 8 security guards and 2 police officers taking shifts, he was imprisoned for 11 days.
He cited two examples: Jinshan petitioner Xu Jianming, who shortly after being released from a black prison, was found to have a “rotting intestine” during a medical check-up and passed away after staying in the hospital for nearly half a year; Putuo District petitioner Zhou Jingzhi, upon returning home from a black prison, uttered the words “injected with poison” and similarly passed away under suspicious circumstances.
Song Jiahong emphasized, “The reason behind this is the lack of security for petitioners and activists. The principle that safety is the first priority for everyone is the most basic and universally accepted. Therefore, in order for Chinese people to live decently, we must bravely expose these black prisons. Even if it means risking imprisonment and death, I will not give up.”