The two sessions of Sichuan were held at Jinjiang Hotel in Chengdu from January 28 to February 1. Hundreds of police and plainclothes officers were deployed in front of the subway entrance of Jinjiang Hotel and the letter and petition office of the National People’s Congress opposite to it, and the interceptors took the visitors away directly when they passed by that subway entrance or lined up in front of the letter and petition office.
On the morning of January 30, Liu Chengqin, Qingyang District, Chengdu; Xie Junbiao and Song Yingjie, Yixin Street; Li Chenggen, Li Hong and Li Zhaoxiu, Jiujiang Street; Xin Guohui, Cao Yulan, Ye Shanhu and Li Weiguo, Dongsheng Street, respectively, went out of the Jinjiang Hotel subway entrance and passed by the Jinjiang Hotel, ready to hand in their petition materials to the Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress Petition Office, and were forcibly stopped and taken away by many police officers and plainclothesmen.
Xin Guohui, Ye Shanhu, Cao Yulan and Li Weiguo of Dongsheng Street were taken away by community members; the rest of the visitors were forcibly pulled onto 12 buses and taken to the Phoenix Hill Triage Center in Chengdu.
After the Phoenix Hill Triage Center police recorded their demands, Yixin Street Song Yingjie was forcibly taken away by local government staff, and the others were also picked up separately. Li Chenggen, Li Hong and Li Zhaoxiu were picked up by community officers and returned to the Zoujiachang community.
The scene of the two meetings in Sichuan. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Yixin street visitors Xie Junbiao said to reporters, “the morning of January 30, I went to the People’s Congress Petition Office to hand in the request materials, I saw about 15 visitors were stopped and pulled away at once. The police at the scene I saw about a hundred people, some in police uniforms, some in plain clothes, immediately surrounded us and pulled to the Phoenix Hill Triage Center in Chengdu. Then let the community government, street people come to pick up back.”
Li Zhaoxiu, a visitor from Jiujiang Street, said, “We were sent to the triage center, registered, and then picked up by the local authorities. We from Jiujiang Street were sent to the police station to make a statement for questioning. Some people were traveled, and some didn’t know what was going on. I look at the information sent by everyone in the WeChat group said that they were monitored.”
Li Zhaoxiu went Home and was monitored, and someone followed her when she went out yesterday (Feb. 1), but she was shaken off. “I saw a lot of cars under the stairs of my house that followed as soon as I went out, and today there were cars following when I went out.” She said, “This interception is because Chengdu is holding two sessions, the interception of plainclothes, police station police than the petitioners, a lot more. They robbed the visitors especially strong, we called the police, the police are toward them, said they can not do anything, the scene is very out of control.”
On February 1, Li Zhaoxiu and Li Hong came back to the NPC Petition Office and were forcibly taken away at a distance of 300 meters, during which Li Zhaoxiu’s calf belly was injured. She went to the hospital for a checkup and reported the incident to the district police station.
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