Heilongjiang petitioners intercepted while visiting Beijing during two sessions, property embezzled.

On February 26th, during the two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party, Ma Bo, a petitioner from Heilongjiang Province, arrived in Beijing by train. As soon as she got off the train at the South Station, she received a notification from the local Beijing liaison office that someone would meet her. The person who met her claimed that she would be given stability maintenance fees if she returned to her hometown. However, upon being taken back to a hotel in Jiamusi, she did not receive the promised fees.

The two police officers who intercepted Ma Bo in Beijing were from the local Jiamusi area. They informed her that they would take her to register at the National Petition Bureau. Instead of taking her there, they directly drove her to Building 7 in Zone 2 of Xiroyu, the residence of the local Beijing liaison office. The police officers then proposed taking her on a tour, claiming they needed over 30,000 yuan for the expenses. They also offered to provide her with stability maintenance fees if she did not go on the trip, allowing her to return to either Beidaihe or Jiamusi. However, in the end, she did not receive the stability maintenance fees promised to her.

Ma Bo was confined at Xiroyu for two days. On the morning of February 28th, around 8 o’clock, a black car claiming to be from Harbin arrived and forcibly abducted her. “They left my wheelchair in the residential area. After getting into the car, they snatched my phone and watch, started driving, and when I asked where we were going, they said the Beijing liaison office wanted to talk to me.”

The car headed towards Chaoyang District Railway Station. Instead of taking the Jingha Expressway, they took a detour through the Inner Mongolia Expressway. During the journey, when Ma Bo needed to use the restroom, they only allowed her to get out of the car after covering the front and rear license plates with two black cloths labeled “Emergency Rescue.”

She said, “The vehicle arrived at the Jiamusi Chang’an Police Station around 8 a.m. on March 1st. The phone that was taken from me was handed over to the Chang’an Police Station driver, who brought the phone into the station. At that time, two cars from Yucai Community came to pick me up to go to Building 27 in Jiaxi.”

Two years ago, Ma Bo was assaulted on a public bus in Beijing, resulting in a broken leg that has left her reliant on a wheelchair for mobility. The police arranged for Ma Bo to stay on the sixth floor of a residential building. Due to her physical condition, she couldn’t climb the stairs, so after protesting in the community for three to four hours, the police relocated her to a small courtyard hotel between 649 and 651 Changqing Road.

Ma Bo said, “The police in this location from Yucai Community assigned 18 people divided into 9 groups to watch over me 24 hours a day. They took eight pictures of me daily, and the food they provided me was substandard, poor quality meals that cost 10 yuan per day. I told them countless times that I needed to go back to Beidaihe to take my medication and take care of my cat, as the cat food at home would only last for half a month. I requested the return of my wheelchair, phone, and watch, but whoever I contacted claimed not to know their whereabouts!”

Secretary Pan of the street committee brought a discarded wheelchair. “On the afternoon of March 11th, I sat in that broken wheelchair and fell backward on the ground, experiencing unbearable pain in my head, back, and waist. I lay on the road in agony for over 10 minutes while the community staff watching over me stood nearby. I later called 120, and they took me to the hospital, where I received treatment anonymously. The doctor prescribed a magnetic resonance imaging scan, but they refused to proceed without payment, leaving me lying there.”

On the morning of March 19th, Ma Bo went to the Yangquan District Petition Bureau in Jiamusi City, where she was received by Director Wang. She requested to return to Beidaihe and to have her phone and watch returned. After returning to the small hotel, she was notified to buy a train ticket back to Beidaihe. Later that afternoon, she returned to the Petition Bureau to report that her phone and watch had been secretly taken by someone.

Ma Bo stated, “The Yangquan District Petition Office in Jiamusi City’s violent interception and robbery of phones in remote areas is a serious violation of the law. At the moment, I can only recuperate in Beidaihe for a while before going to the Xiroyu Police Station in Beijing to file a case to investigate this matter.”

Due to her son’s death in a campus violence incident that remains unsolved to this day, Ma Bo has been advocating for justice for her son in Beijing for a long time. Over a year ago, she was assaulted by an unknown man on a bus in Beijing, resulting in a leg injury, with the police still not taking action against the perpetrator. With old cases unresolved and new challenges arising, coupled with her limited mobility due to the leg injury and aging, seeking justice has become increasingly difficult for her.