Rights activist Li Meiqing forced to take drugs, Life and death unknown
According to Chinese rights activist Li Huanjun, her sister, rights activist Li Meiqing, has been controlled by the government and public security officials in Beijing for several days under the pretext of “maintaining stability during the two sessions of the National People’s Congress”.
Li Huanjun, a Chinese rights activist now living in exile in the United States, tweeted today that her sister Li Meiqing, who is in Beijing, had been taken away by the authorities for several days in the name of maintaining stability during the two sessions of the National People’s Congress.
Li Meiqing, who lives in Shigatazhuang, Fengtai District, Beijing, has petitioned repeatedly for her Family‘s house to be demolished, and has been severely suppressed by the local government, which has sent her sister Li Huanjun into exile in the United States. Li Huanjun has repeatedly blocked the motorcades of Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and other Chinese Communist Party leaders visiting the United States to voice her grievances. However, not only has she made no progress in defending her rights, but she has even been injured by security. Li Huanjun’s daughter and mother have also been implicated and restricted from leaving the country on the grounds that they “may endanger national security.
Chinese rights activist Li Meiqing (courtesy of volunteer)
In an interview, Li Huanjun said that her sister Li Meiqing has been “on tour” for a few days every Time the two sessions of the National People’s Congress have been held, but this year the situation is even more serious: “Because every time they take Li Meiqing away for a few days during stability maintenance, she is released. But this time my sister suddenly called me, her state is not good, she said ‘they forced me to take Medicine, eat a large amount of sleeping pills’, and then they (stabilizers) began to grab her phone.”
According to information obtained by Li Huanjun, Li Meiqing left Home on Feb. 26 to avoid “being traveled,” but was found and taken away by the stabilizers two days later. Li Huanjun said that at 4:30 p.m. on March 9, Li was taken to Beijing Nanyuan Hospital for gastric lavage after being forced to take sleeping pills during the restriction of personal freedom, while still awake. Soon after the incident, Li Meiqing was again transferred to Beijing 307 Hospital for resuscitation. Due to the loss of contact, it is unclear whether Li Meiqing is currently out of life-threatening condition.
As a result of Li Huanjun’s involvement, Li was repeatedly detained, beaten and abused by the village government in China, and her life was hanging by a thread. Li Huanjun believes that the Chinese Communist Party’s repression of human rights activists has become even more brutal this year: “After I arrived in the U.S., my sister was beaten by the village committee and their black security guards one after another. The family does not give a solution to the matter, has been saying ‘love where to sue on where to sue’.”
Yang Zhanqing, a Chinese public service activist, believes that the legal way is not available, the rights activists are forced to petition to defend their legitimate rights and interests, but in recent years this only remaining channel has been closed: “(rights activists) they usually through the law, through other administrative means also have no chance to get a solution, it is hoped that through the petition to attract the attention of the government, it is possible to This is the last resort. Especially now during the two sessions is a rare opportunity, but now many rights activists simply do not have the opportunity to go out.”
Yang said, as the authorities tighten the suppression and control of human rights defenders, the social atmosphere is becoming more and more severe, the possibility of eventually being able to reasonably and legally solve their own problems through human rights are minimal, and the repression faced by human rights defenders is also more unbelievable: “In the past, the petition and admonishment, or locked up in a black prison for a few days to write a confession of wrongdoing. Now many petitioners are sentenced directly to prison after interception. Local governments are becoming less and less squeamish about this because they know the top brass won’t punish them either, so they act recklessly.”
In recent years, during major conferences or events, the Communist authorities have initiated security and stability maintenance measures, including by restricting the personal freedom of petitioners and other politically sensitive individuals, which have become tougher each year.
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