The Chinese Communist Party’s Two Sessions on stabilizing society lasted until March 16. However, in early April, Shanghai authorities began detaining and persecuting visitors to Beijing once again. Song Jiahong, who released the list of Shanghai’s black prisons, said, “This infringes upon the dignity and rights of visitors.”
During the Two Sessions held in Beijing on March 5, Shanghai activated its stability maintenance for petitioners beginning from February 10 in various districts and February 18 across the city. Throughout the sessions, the Beijing Liaison Office gradually sent back petitioners to Shanghai to be locked up in black prisons.
Song Jiahong told Epoch Times, “Due to the authorities’ stability maintenance policy, legal visits to Beijing by petitioners have turned into illegal acts. Before and after this year’s Two Sessions, almost all petitioners deported from Beijing to Shanghai were imprisoned in black jails.”
He pointed out, “Regardless of the pretext, Shanghai’s two-tier government stability maintenance policy violates the dignity and rights of petitioners, undermining the establishment of the rule of law. We must be vigilant as the stability maintenance policy has turned into a means of suppressing, persecuting, and framing petitioners without any justification, reaching an unscrupulous level.”
Cui Qun, who went missing during the Two Sessions, was released back home in early April, and her family only then found out she had been held in a black prison. On May 1, she was intercepted in Beijing and sent back to Shanghai, where she was taken to the Jiaxing Police Station in Hongkou for questioning and statement recording.
On May 11, Shanghai petitioner Sun Hongqin was defending her rights at the Supreme Court in Beijing when officers from the Jing’an Sub-Bureau of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau were already waiting there, forcibly taking Sun back to Shanghai.
Petitioner Cui Fufang stated, “At 11:00 on that day, I was still in communication with her (Sun Hongqin), but she said she was at the police station and has since gone missing.”
Song Jiahong said, “The incidents occurred in Beijing, so all actions by Shanghai police are overreaching and have violated Article 4 of the Police Law regarding ‘code of conduct.’ Sending people back to Shanghai goes against the basic requirement and purpose of Article 3 of the Police Law, completely contradicting aspects such as ‘relying on the people, connecting with the people, listening to the people, accepting people’s supervision, safeguarding the people, and serving the people.'”
Upon Sun Hongqin’s return to Shanghai, at No. 500 Fucun Road, the police read out an “Informant” to her, which she refused. She said, “No. 500 Fucun Road is not a dispatching institution of the Public Security Bureau; the police have violated Article 33 of the Police Law by ‘refusing to carry out instructions exceeding their statutory duties.'”
On May 8, the Shanghai government once again sent back nearly 30 petitioners who advocated for their rights in Beijing, among whom Chen Guoying was detained in a black prison. Chen Guoying, a resident of Jing’an District, went to Beijing to petition for resettlement following demolition, as the government failed to address his demands and resorted to suppressing him in a black prison.
There are reports that petitioner Chen Meihua has recently been confined in a small house near the Chongming District government with no freedom, even being refused the purchase of food.
Song Jiahong remarked, “The police have reversed the rule of law, darkened society, and caused hardship to the people. What’s the use of enacting the ‘Petition Work Regulations’? He hopes that everyone can join forces to expose the dual-faced nature of Shanghai’s two-tier government’s petition stability maintenance policy!”