Closure of the CCP’s Two Sessions, Call for Attention to Missing Visitors

The closing of the two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party today (March 11) saw a large number of visiting petitioners who went missing in Beijing during the two sessions and still have not been heard from. These petitioners have been calling for attention, support, and filing complaints with relevant departments through social media platform WeChat, seeking justice for their rights.

During the two sessions each year, petitioners always face increasingly severe suppression and persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. The stability maintenance work for petitioners started a month before the two sessions, with many petitioners from various regions being abducted and disappearing in Beijing or en route by local stability maintenance personnel. Even as the closing date of the two sessions approached, petitioners continued to be abducted and vanish.

Disabled petitioner Shan Shuping from Sifangtai District, Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province, collapsed on the roadside in Dadong Village, Fangshan District, Beijing on March 8. Tianjin petitioner Yang Huiqin, borrowed a wheelchair to push her back to her rental place and prepared food for her. Just after finishing her meal, a group of unidentified individuals suddenly stormed in, without showing any credentials, forcibly put Shan Shuping into a police car (license plate: Hei J6987), and the abductors got into another car nearby (license plate: Jing Q52ZM6).

Yang Huiqin posted in a WeChat rights protection group that they also robbed her phone and personal belongings.

Sensitive days for petitioners’ outings are also a great challenge. Petitioners Xu Weiping, Miao Liuzhen, Fang Chunmei, and others from Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, who had planned to go on a trip, were still kidnapped. On March 7, Xu Weiping and the other two were kidnapped by local officials while traveling by train. There is currently no further information available.

Wang Liyan, a petitioner from Songyuan City, Jilin Province (currently residing in the Economic Development Zone of Changchun City), was forced to return to Changchun by the Zhuhai Road Police Station in the Economic Development Zone of Changchun on March 5 due to financial difficulties while working in Beijing to make a living. On March 7, she was criminally detained on charges of “provoking trouble”.

According to a message sent by Wang Liyan, “I did not go to the National Petition Office to register in March. I have not committed any crimes but have been listed as a wanted person online. Please provide support and attention to the netizens in the group.”

A reporter from Da Ji Yuan called the director of Zhuhai Road Police Station, Cai Donghai (18544307960), but no one answered the phone.

Xu Lijun, a petitioner from Wuhan, had her home surrounded by several cars and a group of people during the two sessions, with up to 8 people on a three-shift schedule guarding outside her building. Unable to endure it anymore, on the afternoon of March 7, she rushed out of her home to seek refuge with relatives to avoid being monitored by stability maintenance personnel.

As soon as she stepped out, the authorities tracked her location, followed her to her relative’s home, and continued to monitor her at the door, claiming to be sent by the public security bureau. Xu Lijun’s relatives called 110 to report the situation, and the police came, but left without taking any notes. When Xu Lijun contacted the relevant department to report, those people only retreated to the alley entrance and continued monitoring.

Xu Lijun is seeking justice due to a wrongful case. During the two sessions in 2024, her husband and daughter were abducted by the authorities and illegally detained at the Hei Prison in Qingliangzhai, Huangbei District, as hostages to exchange for her. Forced to do so, Xu Lijun had no choice but to go to the Ministry of Public Security in Beijing to report the situation. Just arriving in Beijing on March 4, 2024, she was intercepted by the presiding judge of Xuzhengwu Court of the Zhongjiu Court in Wuhan, and handed over to Liu Yongqing, the then-resident representative of the Qingshan District of Wuhan City in Beijing, and He Ping of Ganghua Street. They were taken back to the Huoshanzhai Prison in Huangbei, Wuhan, illegally detained, and beaten several times.

A reporter from Da Ji Yuan tried to call Xu Lijun’s phone but could not get through.

On March 11, Shanghai petitioner Yang Xiuting told Da Ji Yuan, “Pudong New District petitioner Cai Xiaomin has been monitored by several members of the underworld from February 10 until now, restricting her personal freedom. I have been surveilled and restricted by the Kangqiao Town government by employing the underworld since February 7.”

Yang Xiuting and Cai Xiaomin are both victims of forced demolition in Shanghai. Cai Xiaomin’s entire family is still homeless and living in destitute conditions. Yang Xiuting received no compensation after her house was forcibly demolished. She said, “The government, in addition to deflecting responsibility, is becoming more like the underworld. They only want to resolve petition cases, not address accumulated petition cases, and are treating illegal stability maintenance as a way to make a profit.”