In a recent incident, four individuals including retired university lecturer and human rights activist Guo Guoping from Changning District in Shanghai were intercepted on a public bus in Beijing on March 19 and subsequently sent back to Shanghai where they were all detained. Wang Huifang, a 72-year-old woman, was forcibly subjected to a psychiatric evaluation, while Guo Guoping, who is suffering from advanced prostate cancer, had his spine broken while in custody and was released early.
Having faced life and death once again, Guo Guoping is currently recuperating at home. Reflecting on his recent detention, he expressed, “The governments and public security officers of Changning and Jing’an districts in Shanghai, along with officials such as Ma Jijun, the deputy director of the local police station, exhibited blatant disregard for the law, humanity, and conscience by forcibly throwing a terminally ill individual like me into custody. Wang Huifang, a 72-year-old woman suffering from depression, is not allowed by regulations to be detained in custody. However, the law enforcement authorities in these districts recklessly crossed all boundaries and treated the law, human rights, and morality as a joke.”
Last year, Wang Huifang narrowly avoided being declared mentally ill, and this year authorities in Jing’an District attempted to subject her to a compulsory psychiatric evaluation once again. Her son wrote letters to the police and procuratorate asserting his mother’s mental stability and firmly opposing the psychiatric evaluation.
Before being taken to the detention center on March 21, Guo Guoping’s blood pressure measured a dangerously high 226 mmHg. The police demanded that doctors rapidly lower his blood pressure to below 200 mmHg using high-speed antihypertensive drugs to meet the criteria for detention, completely disregarding the potential side effects such as heart attacks, strokes, renal failure, liver necrosis, and arterial aneurysms that could result from such rapid blood pressure reduction. The medical community strictly prohibits the use of high-speed antihypertensive drugs, yet the doctors administered them to Guo Guoping against protocol.
All these incidents can be corroborated by the law enforcement records, hospital prescriptions and diagnoses, pharmacy dispensation records, and financial receipts.
Guo Guoping’s experiences over the past two decades of human rights advocacy highlight the Chinese Communist regime’s blatant violations of humanity, human rights, and the rule of law, exposing their fascist terror tactics devoid of any legal boundaries!
He stated, “My experiences also reveal that the Chinese petitioning system is a trap designed not to resolve issues but to delay and eventually suppress those who raise concerns – to either delay the problem or silence the person who raised it. There are numerous petitioners like myself who have been advocating for over twenty years without any resolution, with some even losing their lives due to the prolonged delays. Petitioners have been tortured and killed, such as rights activists Chen Xiaoming and Duan Huiming in Shanghai, who were beaten to death by the petitioning department. As the appeals are raised by petitioners themselves, once the petitioners are silenced, their appeals cease to exist. This is the most ruthless, dehumanizing, and vicious tactic under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party!”
He continued, “The petitioning institutions themselves are rife with corruption, with incidents of renting temporary housing, guesthouses, running unofficial study sessions in black sites, accepting kickbacks, and issuing inflated invoices for reimbursement being rampant. Despite the prosperity in various sectors, stability maintenance has led to abnormal growth.”
“My and Wang Huifang’s cases are not isolated incidents. As long as the CCP remains in power, the tragedies we face today could be anyone’s tomorrow – yours, mine, or his!” he emphasized.