On March 5, during the two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party, a number of petitioners from Shanghai went to Beijing to reflect their demands. Some were caught by a high-tech face recognition system at the Beijing train station, while others were kidnapped by Beijing police and their black security guards at the State Bureau of Letters and Visits, handed over to the Beijing Office, and then returned to Shanghai. Visitors said that the State Bureau of Letters and Visits should be renamed the “State Bureau of Interception of Visits.
On March 5, according to visitors at the State Bureau of Petitions, there were about 20 visitors lined up at the site, but there were many more visitors than the interceptors outside the railings.
Ms. Han, a petitioner from Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, told the Epoch Times that at around 9:30 a.m. on March 5, she and Cai Xiaomin from the same area were kidnapped by a group of black security guards led by police (police number 003369) at the State Bureau of Letters and Visits and then handed over to triad members hired by the Shanghai government. These people did not show any pallbearers.
The reporter called Cai Xiaomin’s cell phone, but the voice prompted that it was turned off.
The police broke into his Home in 2017 and seized a kitchen knife with the intention of persecuting his Family. The police also smashed his family’s electric box and meter every night for nearly 20 consecutive days, making his whole family live in darkness every night, his son who is in high school cannot study normally, and his Parents who are over 80 years old live in fear.
In March 2018, Cai Xiaomin was again kidnapped, severely beaten by the police and detained in a black prison for persecution.
Beijing police use high technology to crack down on petitioners
Ma Yalian and Shen Dinggao and Zhou Jinlin, disabled petitioners from Shanghai’s Huangpu District, broke through layers of difficulties and managed to reach the Beijing station on March 5, only to be arrested through face recognition by the Beijing police and Shanghai interceptors, while being repatriated to Shanghai on the same day.
In the evening of March 5, the Epoch Times reporter contacted Ma Yalian, who was on the train back to Shanghai with Shen Dinggao. They both said they could not predict their fate after returning to Shanghai.
Later in the evening, Ma Yalian published a post, “The National Bureau of Letters and Visits should be renamed the National Bureau of Interception of Visits.”
From this experience of being intercepted in Beijing, she wrote with feeling, “Big data, endorsing interception; technology, opening the way for law-breaking. Instead of being used to the greatest extent to combat real criminals, the power of technology is used against unarmed human rights defenders and patriotic dissidents with grievances or criticism of government misconduct, and misused in all kinds of improper affairs.”
“Groups of officials have been desecrating the law and disrupting the government for decades, and the State Bureau of Letters and Visits is the epitome of a place where officialdom is a cluster of demons and a high degree of official lawlessness.” She cited examples of local tampering with visitors’ information and various falsifications, cooperation with local arrests of rights defenders, perfunctory and rejection of grievance petitions, etc.
She argued, “If the top reception agency, which represents the central government, really wanted to eliminate interception of visits, why would there be so many interceptors gathering at the door? Would there be so many interceptors openly blocking the petitioners’ homes and train stations? Will Beijing Public Security actively cooperate with local interceptors? Black jails around the world dare to openly set up and be beaten and imprisoned people have nowhere to sue?”
The most immediate example: on the one hand, the gates are open to welcome visitors from all sides, but on the other hand, they are secretly instructed or pre-determined to strictly control people to visit Beijing and submit issues during the two sessions of the National People’s Congress. It is the best interpretation of the government offices hanging sheep’s heads and selling dogs’ meat, and wreaking havoc on the people!
Therefore, she believes that the State Bureau of Letters and Visits has actually become the umbrella and co-conspirator of local interception of visits, and should be renamed as “State Bureau of Interception of Visits”.
Ma Yalian petitioned for the relocation of her private house, but was repeatedly met with perfunctory and excuses from the relevant departments, and experienced a series of persecution and destruction by the Huangpu District Branch of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau. Ma Yalian was forced to petition in Beijing and was sentenced to one year of re-Education through labor. It is reported that Ma Yalian’s legs were broken during her detention, resulting in a double leg disability.
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