【Epoch Times, October 24, 2025】 On October 20, the first day of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party, overseas human rights activists Yang Caiying from Jiangsu and Xia Beibei from Hubei live-streamed in front of the CCP Embassy in Japan. While appealing for their own families, they also spoke out for the silenced groups of petitioners within China, including the case of Zhao Shuang from Jinan, Shandong, who was sexually exploited by a police officer from a local police station.
Zhao Shuang publicly accused Liu Haitao, who was then the director of the Baishan Police Station of Jinan Public Security Bureau, of using his power to manipulate her into a year-long illicit relationship in exchange for helping her with her human rights issues. When Liu failed to fulfill his promises, conflicts arose between them, leading to Liu invading Zhao’s social media accounts in an attempt to find incriminating evidence against her.
Yang Caiying told Epoch Times, “Due to Zhao Shuang gaining millions of views through her video testimonies exposing Liu Haitao’s illegal actions, authorities became irritated. On October 1, after Zhao Shuang posted a video, she was forcibly summoned by the police and is currently unreachable. Liu Haitao had asked Zhao Shuang’s father multiple times whether she had a mental illness, possibly intending to forcibly admit her to a psychiatric hospital.”
Zhao Shuang appealed for rights after being deceived in a dating scam and was sexually exploited. Yang Caiying said, “As a police officer at the interception station and the director of the police station, Liu Haitao held absolute power and took advantage of Zhao Shuang’s desperation for help to exploit her sexually.”
In addition to showing support for Zhao Shuang in front of the embassy, Yang Caiying also voiced her concerns for Zhao on the social media platform X. This action angered the authorities in Jinan, who threatened to take legal action against Yang Caiying and demanded she stop speaking out, delete her posts, or risk consequences if she didn’t cease her activities in Japan.
Yang Caiying further stated, “I urge General Secretary Xi Jinping to abolish the petitioning system, implement judicial independence, and call on the Jinan authorities to cease all threats and intimidation, release Zhao Shuang immediately, and clean up the police force.”
Xia Beibei, the daughter of Hubei petitioner Yin Dengzhen, told Epoch Times, “For the past six months, Yang Caiying and I have been continuously live-streaming protests in front of the Chinese Embassy, voicing support for the silenced group of petitioners within the country.”
“In these support actions, I often think about my mother Yin Dengzhen enduring repeated and systematic suppression for over twenty years in her fight for rights. Seeing Zhao Shuang’s ten-year-old daughter and Huang Linting’s ten-year-old son, I couldn’t help but recall my brother when he was ten, being forced to accompany our parents on petitions, being locked up multiple times in dark prisons, witnessing our parents being beaten by the police, and even being forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital with our mother, denied medical care when sick from fear. Such experiences leave lifelong traumas on a child’s heart.”
“Over the years, I have witnessed and heard of too many petitioners being beaten to death in dark prisons, their names suppressed and forgotten. Yet, we are willing to continue speaking for them through our ongoing actions,” she said.
Yang Caiying expressed, “The petitioning system, originally intended to remedy judicial shortcomings and provide a legitimate channel for people to appeal, has degenerated into a tool for the CCP to fish out and screen dissenters.”
“The privatization of power among local CCP officials, manipulation of the judicial system under the guise of the Communist Party to suppress the weak, covering up their own illegal actions, all for the sake of maintaining their absolute interests. Such a system will only destroy social trust and escalate the divide between officials and citizens. This so-called ‘Chinese characteristic rule of law’ under the Communist Party is a naked oppression by bureaucrats and systemic violence,” she stated.