Los Angeles, October 27, 2025 – The 761st Jasmine Action was held in front of the Chinese Consulate-General in Los Angeles at 4 p.m. on October 25, 2025. The event was jointly organized by the Los Angeles Committee of the China Democratic Party, the China Democracy and Human Rights Alliance, and the “Opposition Party” magazine. Over a dozen participants delivered public speeches, urging for the release of imprisoned prisoners of conscience Xing Wangli and Zhang Pancheng.
More than sixty democratic activists, civic representatives, and concerned individuals such as Zhu Yufu, Chai Song, Ni Shicheng, Liu Ao, Yang Changbing, and Peng Xiaomei attended to show their support. They called for the release of Xing Wangli, Zhang Pancheng, and other imprisoned prisoners of conscience, expressing solidarity with the human rights and rule of law advocacy in China. The event was co-hosted by He Yu, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the “Opposition Party” magazine, and Zhang Xiaoli, a member of the Democratic Party.
Peng Xiaomei, one of the organizers of the event, was previously a small business owner in Guangzhou. Due to the Chinese Communist Party’s extreme epidemic prevention policies, her critically ill mother was delayed treatment and unjustly passed away, leading to the closure and bankruptcy of her business. Facing escalating suppression, she fled to the United States in November 2023. At the event, Peng Xiaomei introduced the personal circumstances and persecution suffered by Xing Wangli, Zhang Pancheng, stating, “The two cases of human rights persecution we support are just the tip of the iceberg under the CCP’s rule. We urge the Chinese government to immediately cease human rights violations, safeguard everyone’s basic rights and dignity, and release all prisoners of conscience.”
Hu Jing, a member of the China Democracy and Human Rights Alliance, expressed, “From this photo, we see the kindness, vicissitudes, and resilience of Xing Wangli. He was sentenced to over a decade in prison for advocating for his child, and his family was also affected. Every father loves their child, and when a child is harmed, he cannot stay silent. We stand here in solidarity with Xing Wangli, Xing Jian, and Zhang Pancheng, hoping they receive due compensation and freedom.”
Ni Shicheng, the Director of the Action Department of the China Democratic Party, said, “The experiences of Xing Wangli and Xing Jian illustrate that advocating for political prisoners and prisoners of conscience is a cause that every person with conscience should engage in and persist in in the long run. The persecution Xing Wangli faced for his rights also means that anyone daring to speak up could encounter fear and violence. If people choose silence out of fear, the forces of justice will be eroded. Regardless of the circumstances, we will not remain silent and will continue to speak out for all those persecuted in prison until freedom, rule of law, and democratic constitutionalism prevail.”
Xing Jian, the son of Xing Wangli, was also present. He first expressed gratitude to the supporters and admired the unwavering spirit of the 761st Jasmine Action campaign. He said, “I am proud and honored of you all, because there is a dissenting voice supporting the conscience prisoners in prison, giving them great courage to endure longer in jail.”
Xing Wangli, also known as Wu Quanli, began his human rights activism in 2002 after his young son Xing Jian (then known as Xing Lulu) suffered a ruptured liver and fractured right leg from being hit by a vehicle belonging to the Xinyang Cotton Flax Company, nearly leading to his death. Local authorities mishandled the case and embezzled compensation, triggering his family’s human rights activism. Over the next twenty years, Xing Wangli switched from advocating for his own rights to assisting others in seeking justice. Throughout the prolonged advocacy, his family members faced repeated crackdown and persecution by authorities, with family members being illegally sentenced and imprisoned for a total of 16 years; Xing Wangli himself was subjected to forced labor and imprisonment, serving a total of 10 years and 8 months; the family collectively spent 26 years and 8 months in prison (excluding periods of administrative detention, illegal detention, soft detention, criminal detention, and surveillance).
On February 18, 2025, Xing Wangli was detained on charges of “provocation and troublemaking” after filming a video of the mistreatment of a petitioner, Yu Jun, and reporting it to the authorities. By the end of August, he was sentenced to three years. On October 28, 2025, the second trial of Xing Wangli’s “provocation and troublemaking” case will be held at the Suxian District Court.
While seeking protection from the United Nations Refugee Agency in Thailand, Xing Jian faced retaliatory persecution against his father by the Chinese Communist Party. In 2016, Xing Wangli suffered a fractured skull due to a beating in Suxian County Detention Center; in 2019, Chinese authorities conducted a cross-border arrest of Xing Jian in Thailand, and the UN Refugee Agency urgently relocated him to New Zealand; in June 2024, during Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit to New Zealand, Xing Jian was assaulted by a pro-China group in Auckland for protesting against the CCP, with his residence being vandalized with feces and suspected methamphetamine crystals.
Xing Jian accused the Chinese Communist Party of transnational repression against him, stating, “Some say the arm cannot twist the thigh, and eggs cannot beat stones. But there is also a saying, ‘Dripping water wears away the stone.’ The CCP is like a malicious machine. We need to act like a wrench, unscrewing every screw on it.”