In 2012, Wang Dengchao (王登朝), a police officer in Shenzhen, was sentenced to 14 years after being convicted of “embezzlement” and “obstructing official business.” Wang and his lawyers contend that these were trumped-up charges.
On December 28, 2012, Wu Xuewei (吴雪伟) submitted this request (Chinese only) to the Shanghai Municipal People’s Procuratorate to investigate officials of the Shanghai Municipal Committee on the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor for abuse of power in unlawfully depriving Wu of his right to visit his wife, Shanghai activist Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤).
On December 28, 2012, Wu Xuewei (吴雪伟) submitted this request (Chinese only) to the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress and Standing Committee to discipline the Shanghai Municipal Committee on the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor for unlawfully depriving Wu of his right to visit his wife, Shanghai activist Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤).
This application for administrative review (Chinese only) was submitted to the Shanghai Municipal Committee on the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor by Wu Xuewei (吴雪伟), requesting that the decision ordering his wife, Shanghai activist Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤), to Reeducation-Through-Labor be rescinded.
This application for medical parole (Chinese only) for Shanghai activist Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤) was submitted by Mao's husband Wu Xuewei (吴雪伟) to the Shanghai Municipal Committee on the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor on December 27, 2012.
Shanghai Municipal Bureau for the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor
2012-10-30
On October 30, 2012, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau for the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor issued this Notice of Execution of Reeducation-Through-Labor for Shanghai activist Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤).
On October 31, 2012, the Yangpu District Detention Center in Shanghai issued this Certificate of Release which released Shanghai rights defender Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤) from detention.
Shanghai Municipal Committee on the Administration of Reeducation-Through-Labor
2012-10-30
The decision (Chinese only) orders Shanghainese petitioner Mao Hengfeng (毛恒凤) to serve one year and six months of Reeducation-Through-Labor for "disrupting social order.” The Committee cites as reason Mao’s participation in public activities in Shanghai on January 5 and July 1, 2012, that commemorated, respectively, the death of Wang Kouma’s (王扣玛) mother—a petitioner who died in police custody—and the death of activist Chen Xiaoming (陈小明).
This article (Chinese only) describes how on August 20, 2012, more than 50 petitioners rushed the office building for the Tianjin Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of Communist Party. The petitioners had requested to meet with the commission heads so they could discuss how to resolve their problems. They waited for over two hours, yet no one came to meet them; eventually, they charged into the building. All of the petitioners had sought justice from relevant government departments previously, all without any resolution. Their complaints included forced evictions, housing disputes, and medical malpractice. Dozens of policemen were called to stop the petitioners.
April 10, 2012, Beijing based disabled rights defender Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) was ordered to serve two years and eight months in prison and pay a fine of 1,000 yuan ($159) for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” and “fraud”. Her husband, Dong Jiqin (董继勤) was also sentenced to two years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” On April 13, Ni filed the appeal through her lawyer Cheng Hai challenging the verdict.
[Crackdown on Shanghai Rights activists] According to Shen Peilan (沈佩兰), Shanghai petitioner and rights defender, Shanghai rights activist Feng Zhenghu (冯正虎) has been under house arrest for more than 20 days, and is currently sick and out of food. Shen said that on March 16, 2012, 28 Shanghai petitioners attempted to visit Feng Zhenghu at his home but were stopped by policemen, security guards, and others. Feng Zhenghu was summoned at 8:00am to the Wujiaochang police substation, questioned and released at 4:00pm the same day.
[Zhu Yufu] On February 10, 2012, the Zhejiang based dissident was sentenced to seven years in prison and three years of deprivation of political rights. The verdict states that he committed the following crimes: First, he operated as a member of the illegal China Democratic Party to fundraise for political prisoners and their families; second, he published, via overseas websites and media outlets, speech that attacked and slandered China’s state power and socialism; and third, he sent, via the Internet, information that he wrote to incite the public to gather illegally to subvert state power.
[Huangyang Village Wheat Subsidies] Instead of receiving the full sums of the wheat-growing government subsidies due them, the villagers of Huangyang were told that portions of the subsidies went to the Shangdian Township government as payments for their irrigation fees. The villagers challenge the legality of the irrigation fees, and request open government information from the relevant government departments at the township, city and central levels.
[Chen Wei] Sichuan dissident Chen Wei, recently sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment on for "inciting subversion of state power," was taken to prison before meeting with his family, a meeting that the authorities had promised to grant. Wang Xiaoyan, Chen's wife, said that not being able to see Chen Wei “was extremely devastating to us psychologically.” She and their nine-year-old daughter firmly believe that Chen Wei is innocent.
[Zhang Hengyin, Sinopec Group] Zhang used his real name to report to Sinopec Group’s discipline inspection commission the corrupt actions of Nie Sizhi, a unit manager at the Fushun Petroleum Chemical Company, a Sinopec’s subsidiary. In 1996, Zhang was detained by the company’s public security officers and was crippled during an interrogation aimed at extorting a confession from him through torture. For the past fifteen years, Zhang has demanded an investigation into the criminal responsibility of public security officers involved in the case, but his pursuit has yielded no results whatsoever.
[Chen Wei] On December 23, 2011, Sichuanese dissident Chen Wei (陈卫) was convicted of inciting subversion of state power for publishing nine essays on the Internet; he was sentenced to nine years in prison with two years of deprivation of political rights. His lawyers Zheng Jianwei and Liang Xiaojun pleaded not guilty on his behalf.
[Ni Rong] The “Strike-Hard” campaign launched by the central government in the early 1980s led to the imprisonment of many innocent people. Fujian citizen Ni Rong was detained at the scene of an arrest of a thief. He spent four days in intensive care after being tortured. He was not allowed to hire a lawyer. The court of Yong’an County (now Yong’an City), Fujian Province, tried him in secret proceedings that lasted for only two or three minutes, heard by a “judge” who was in fact a manager from a food service company. Ni was sentenced to eight years for robbery. On December 4, 1983, he was sent to Siying coal mine in Songmin County, Yunnan Province, to serve his sentence. Because he refused to admit guilt and continued to appeal the judgment, Ni received no deduction from his sentence, and finished serving his time on August 12, 1991.
On April 10, 2012, Beijing rights defender Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) was sentenced to two years and eight months of imprisonment for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” and “fraud”. Her husband, Dong Jiqin (董继勤) was sentenced to two years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” The sentence came more than three months after their trial on December 29, 2011, where the prosecution accused the couple of arbitrarily occupying a hotel room, refusing to pay the hotel, and verbally abusing staff members of the hotel.
[Wu Zeheng] After proposing, in 1998 and 1999, government reforms, including greater government transparency, establishing non-Party oversight bodies, and ending corruption, Wu Zeheng, a Guangdong-based Buddhist leader, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on the charges of "illegal business" and "issuing stock without authorization." Since his release in February 2010, he has been continually harassed, monitored, threatened and beaten.
[Wang Lihong] On September 9, 2011, Beijing rights activist Wang Lihong was sentenced to 9 months in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” On April 16, 2010, Wang organized a protest for the Three Netizens on trial after they exposed a police cover-up of a rape and murder. The government alleged that the protest resulted in disorder inside the courtroom and traffic confusion in the area.
[Lü Gengsong] Zhejiang rights defender Lu Gengsong was arrested on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power,” on August 24, 2007 for publishing articles critical of the government. The court convicted and sentenced him to four years in prison and one year of deprivation of political rights. Lu appealed. On April 7, 2008, the Zhejiang Provincial Higher People’s Court upheld the trial verdict. The original Chinese ruling is linked below.
[Lü Gengsong] Zhejiang rights defender Lu Gengsong was arrested on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on August 24, 2007, for publishing articles critical of the government. The court convicted and sentenced him to four years in prison and one year of deprivation of political rights. The Chinese original is linked below.
[Wang Lihong] Beijing rights activist Wang Lihong (王荔蕻) was charged with “picking quarrels and proving troubles” after she organized netizens to go to the Mawei District People’s Court in Fujian to observe three netizens’ trial on April 16, 2010. Wang was tried on August 12, 2011, and her lawyers Liu Xiaoyuan and Han Yichun pleaded not guilty on her behalf. See Chinese original linked below.
