Fujian Province, Fuan City, Xia Baishi Town, Livan Village, a collective land of nearly 400 mu was illegally occupied by the government. The village’s rights representative, Wang Xiuying, has been fighting for their rights for 15 years, but with no success. In early November, she went to Beijing to report the issue, but was rejected by various relevant government departments.
Prosecutors also warned her, “Be careful on the road!” Wang Xiuying said, “This statement carries deep meaning. I think the phrase ‘be careful on the road’ may imply that he has insider information, or it is a warning from the entire criminal organization targeting me.”
This year, Wang Xiuying attempted multiple times to go to Beijing but was restricted. In September, she and other petitioners from Fuqing planned to go to Beijing but were ultimately unable to proceed due to surveillance.
On November 7th, Wang Xiuying insisted on going to Beijing to report the issues, and eventually made it to Beijing accompanied by local officials.
Upon arriving in Beijing, the first place she went to was the Supreme Court, where she explained the situation and submitted the judgment of the Fujian High Court. The staff there indicated that the case falls under the jurisdiction of the Third Circuit Court and not the Supreme Court.
Frustrated, Wang Xiuying said to the prosecutor, “I have submitted materials for reconsideration twice to the Third Circuit Court and received no response. Does this mean that the Fujian High Court renders unfair judgments, the Supreme Court ignores victims’ appeals, and the victims have no recourse?” The staff asked her to seek supervision from the Prosecutor’s Office and gave her a small note with relevant regulations.
They took a taxi to the “12309 Prosecution Service Center” in Shijingshan when it was almost 6 p.m., and they had to stay at a hotel for the night.
The next morning at 7 a.m., Wang Xiuying queued up at the Supreme Procuratorate reception, and at 8 a.m., she went in for the appointment. She met with a young prosecutor about 30 years old.
Wang Xiuying said, “I briefly explained the bizarre illegal actions of the Fuan government and the ridiculous judgments of the two courts, and informed him of the two demands I was there to address: 1. Submit an appeal; 2. Sue the judges of the two courts.”
After Wang Xiuying submitted the documents to the prosecutor, he returned the indictment and appeal to her, saying they do not accept such documents. She said, “After he recorded everything, he informed me of the results: 1. This is a matter for the court, not the Procuratorate. Applying for supervision should be directed to the same level of the Prosecutor’s Office, and higher-level Procuratorates only supervise criminal cases; 2. You should initiate a retrial process at the Supreme Court.”
Wang Xiuying expressed, “I have applied for supervision twice at the same level Prosecutor’s Office, both times were said to be received. I have also applied for reconsideration multiple times at the Fujian High Court and filed two applications with the Supreme Court Circuit Court, but have not received any responses. In the end, the prosecutor asked me to find a lawyer, saying there are lawyers on the first floor of the Prosecutor’s Office.”
“I asked him: if someone cannot afford a lawyer, can the government and the court rob and deprive him of his rights? Finally, he returned the materials to me, saying ‘we do not accept’. He also suggested that I report to the discipline inspection commission, or initiate a retrial at the Supreme Court headquarters or Circuit Court, both of which have reception services.”
In fact, Wang Xiuying had already informed the prosecutor of her refusal at the Supreme Court reception on the first day.
Wang Xiuying told Epoch Times, “All day they talk about correcting miscarriages of justice, but the Supreme Procuratorate says they do not accept it and do not provide any basis. This is the characteristic of China. I told the prosecutor that I would go to the Prosecutor-General. You make it impossible for the people to rely on, I will distribute flyers everywhere in Beijing. After saying this and preparing to leave, the reception prosecutor said, ‘Auntie, life is still beautiful, be safe on the road!’ This statement carries deep meaning, at that moment, I was filled with righteous indignation.”
She then went to the headquarters of the Supreme Court. After explaining her intentions to the police officer at the entrance, going through ID check and security screening, and having her bag checked thoroughly, the police officer gave her an address to submit her “retrial application.” Wang Xiuying said, “At a glance, I realized it was the first place I went when I arrived in Beijing yesterday – the Supreme Court’s reception office. I said I had already been there, and they did not receive me. He said, ‘There is no reception here, except for court hearings.'”
As she was getting ready to leave, she decided to see if everyone was denied entry. As she approached to observe, she noticed many people being allowed in after swiping their IDs and observed vehicles entering. At this point, the police officer who checked her bag approached and said, “Why are you wandering around here?” She asked him why others could enter, to which he responded that the place others went to was different from where she was. She questioned why he didn’t inform her from the beginning since he knew there was no reception there and needed to conduct a search and ID registration before instructing her. His true Communist face emerged as he then threatened her, saying, “If you keep hanging around here, the police station will take you away.”
“Look, in China’s land, in China’s capital, Chinese people are threatened to be taken away by the police just for standing around. Whose law is this? It seems like Beijing’s territories are all inherited from their ancestors,” she remarked.
In the afternoon, she went to the Ministry of Natural Resources to petition. She was received here, concluding her process of petitioning in Beijing.
Wang Xiuying, a villager from Livan Village in Xia Baishi Town, Fuan City, Fujian Province, in 2009 lost the village’s collective land to illegal government seizure, followed by bankruptcy due to not repaying the loans obtained through collusion with certain parties, resulting in the government looting and occupying nearly 400 mu of Livan Village’s land.
As a village representative, Wang Xiuying began legal proceedings against the government for the corrupt incident. Since the event occurred, the villagers’ rights protection efforts have made no progress.