On a rainy day on September 25th, a protest area outside the United Nations headquarters in New York continued to see many Chinese protesters who had come from various places to raise their voices. They came from different organizations, different groups, and individuals seeking justice in Western free societies. Among them were three citizens from Shanghai who coincidentally arrived at the United Nations and met at the protest site.
Bai Heying, who used to work as a laborer in Shanghai, also experienced forced eviction from her home, leading her to be homeless. After exhausting all avenues for recourse in China and being detained on charges of “disturbing social order,” she came to the United States seeking justice over a year ago.
“The Shanghai government is a gang of thugs. They use forced evictions to rob the people of their property and homes, leaving the people without any protection,” Bai Heying stated at the protest area outside the United Nations in New York.
Bai Heying explained that she used to live alone in her own house, but her brothers responded to the government’s call to serve in the military and as educated youth, resulting in their original home being requisitioned by the government. With nowhere else to go upon returning, they had to cram into Bai Heying’s small house.
“Our crowded living situation is solely created by the Chinese Communist government, causing us decades of hardship with no one coming to solve our problems,” she lamented, adding, “Just because they answered the government’s call. Those who serve in the military defend this privileged rogue government, yet cannot even keep their own homes. They should not have joined the military.”
“So now our homes have been looted,” she continued. “They offer compensation, they say they will give you money. The total amount they offer in the court ruling cannot even buy a half of an old house in the local area.”
“They do not reason with you; they tell you to go to the outskirts, to remote, inaccessible places without infrastructure. They promise to give you back the old house at a high price and ask for over 200,000 yuan from you. It’s equivalent to taking high-interest loans to buy back an old house. We can’t afford it. They just demolish, leaving us with nowhere to go.”
Her house was demolished in 2007.
“We can only protest locally,” she said. “One time I was detained in the detention center and persecuted. Even when we went on hunger strike, it was ineffective. They will go to any lengths to persecute you. We asked for a lawyer, but they did not allow us to speak. The common people have no right to speak up; in Shanghai, the common people have no right to speak.”
“We common people are no longer treated like human beings! We are worse off than animals.”
“For 18 years, whenever I went to petition in mainland China, they just send you to prison, detain you, arbitrarily add a charge, claiming you gathered to disturb social order. Who did I gather with? No explanation was given, where? What did we disturb? They won’t answer you. I become a criminal, sent to a detention center, waiting there for over 40 days, the food was worse than what animals eat. When you come out, you don’t even resemble a person.”
“They just want to persecute you, hoping you die inside. It’s been a cycle of oppression many times.”
Last year, Bai Heying came to the United States. “There was no other choice; I had to come to the United States. This is a place with human rights, and here I am protesting,” she said, expressing her current goal as to reveal the truth to the world: “The Chinese Communist government is a group of thuggish rogues, even worse than ordinary thugs.”
“With the mentality of ‘I am a thug, who can scare me,’ the Chinese Communist Party believes no one dares to touch them in any way, so we need to make our situation known to the world.”
“Regardless of whether it helps, I will participate in every event from now on to let more people know. I want the whole world to know, I want to expose them.”
“The money the CCP gives us cannot even buy a half of an old house in Shanghai. So, they are creating conflicts among brothers and sisters. For the money that can’t even buy half a house, how do you divide it? To whom will this money go? It can’t buy a house for anyone, not even half, so who is it for? The CCP wants siblings to fight each other.”
“We didn’t fight physically, but we are all dissatisfied inside. Unable to resolve it, China is a place where power supersedes law. It’s a rogue government that cheats, exploits, robs the people, and enriches themselves.”
Bai Heying frequently posts online to expose the CCP’s wrongdoings, sharing the truth and her experiences. “Even if I die in the future, I want the world to know about this, to see what kind of entity the CCP is, how they deceive and exploit the people using national power to rob them.”
Bai Heying is currently unable to contact her brothers and does not know their situation. “I can’t contact them now; the CCP will trouble them. Since I came out, I stopped contacting them because not only would they be targeted, but the evil of the CCP spreads to the whole family; even if there is a slight link, they will hold them accountable. I don’t contact anyone at home.”
When asked if she is worried about the CCP causing trouble for her, she replied, “I am not afraid. I speak the truth, based on my own experiences. What do I have to fear? I have evidence and proof.”
During the United Nations General Assembly, world leaders gather here. Bai Heying expressed hope for righteous individuals worldwide to pay attention to their cause and condemn the evil government of the CCP, which is deceiving the world.