Police Violence at the Letters and Visits Office of the Ministry of Public Security

[Ye Jinghuan] Ye Jinghuan (野靖环), a Beijing petitioner and rights defender, describes his beating by police when he, along with nine others, went to petition at the Letters and Visits Office of the Ministry of Public Security. The police also subjected three fellow petitioners to body search before refusing to register their petitions. The group had gone to the office to petition against the brutality committed by the officials at the Yangfangdian local police station in Beijing’s Haidian District.