The 20th Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party is set to be held in Beijing at the end of July. Recently, many petitioners traveling to Beijing have been intercepted, with some being taken to Jiujing Zhuang, a location known for handling petitioner cases. Among them is petitioner Ding Juying from Shanghai, who was taken away by local officials and placed in a black jail after being intercepted.
On May 28, a petitioner in Beijing recorded a video saying, “We were taken by car to Jiujing Zhuang at the Supreme People’s Court.” Alongside them, 18 petitioners from Shanghai were also intercepted, with 17 of them being sent back to Shanghai on May 29 on a high-speed rail.
A petitioner surnamed Chen from Shanghai told Epoch Times, “Petitioners heading to the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing are being taken to Jiujing Zhuang. I am currently under control.”
On the morning of May 28, Shanghai petitioner Ding Juying was taken by a judge surnamed Sha from the Shanghai High People’s Court at the Supreme People’s Court and then brought to the Xiaohongmen Police Station. The police told her, “Someone from your local area wants to meet you.” Later, Ding Juying was taken to the Xiaohongmen Police Station.
Inside the police station, she saw a female officer surnamed Wu from a local police station in Shanghai already waiting there for her.
According to information released by Ding Juying, the police at the Xiaohongmen Police Station repeatedly told her that someone from Shanghai would come to speak with her and help her resolve the issue.
Later, four officials from the office in Beijing came, and after explaining the situation regarding the petition, they contacted their superiors and told her she had to return to Shanghai because a meeting was being held by the central government. They also contacted the government of Tangzhen Town in Shanghai.
Ding Juying requested that after returning to Shanghai, she should not be placed in a black jail. The officials from the Beijing office were supposed to arrange a meeting with the main leaders of the town, and if everything was fine, she would then agree to return to Shanghai.
Ding Juying knew that despite her requests, there was no guarantee of her safely returning home to Shanghai. In her message, she asked petitioner friends to pay attention to her situation and appeal for her.
On May 31 at noon, Epoch Times called Ding Juying, who said that after returning from Beijing to Shanghai, she had been confined in a hotel with four people guarding her, making it difficult for her to speak freely.
At 77, Ding Juying has suffered under the Chinese Communist Party’s “reform and development” policies for the past 22 years, with her properties and farmlands seized by authorities. Forced to wander with her husband due to being without housing after relocation, they once even spent nights in bridge caves, leading her to describe herself as a “Chinese characteristic wanderer!”
In June 2019, Ding Juying and her husband filed a complaint to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Supervisory Group for Cracking Down on Corruption, but they were criminally detained on charges of “provoking trouble.” On July 13 of the same year, Ding Juying was sentenced to two years in prison for “disrupting the work order of state organs.”
After being released in 2021, Ding Juying continued to fight for her rights. However, she has not seen her issues resolved, and during sensitive periods, she becomes a key target for local government stability maintenance efforts.