Yang Xingcai, whose contracted land in Xinjiang was destroyed, has been petitioning for his rights since 1997 and has been persecuted repeatedly. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Mainland petitioners Yang Xingcai and Wang Yan, one from Xinjiang and the other from Sichuan, were originally unjustly imprisoned in their own country, but they came together because of the same illness, and in the desperation of both being beaten and imprisoned, they sought help from the outside world. Wang Yan told reporters about Yang Xingcai and their two miserable encounters in Xinjiang.
The businessman Yang Xingcai was originally from Xiangfan, Hubei, his mother was from Zhongshan, Guangdong. 1983, Yang Xingcai wholesale 60 tons of fish from Guangdong to sell in Xinjiang, rented a warehouse in Urumqi Jijiawan to store the fish. At that Time, the local people were very poor, the night to steal the fish, Yang Xingcai also hired a Uighur people to guard the warehouse.
For the locals to steal fish, Yang Xingcai said, “Let them eat a little bit, and whoever has no more will come back to get it.” Seeing that Yang Xingcai was charitable and good at business, the locals gave the production team 8,000 yuan and settled him in the sixth team of Jiujiawan.
In 1993, Yang Xingcai contracted more than one hundred acres of wasteland in Shaibak District, Urumqi, Xinjiang (formerly Eigong Township) according to the local government’s suggestion, when the wasteland was deep in grass. The local government was afraid of losing the wasteland to be held responsible, and the local people were poor and could not afford to contract, so they mobilized Yang Xingcai, who had better economic strength, to contract.
Yang Xingcai developed the wasteland into an orchard and planted a variety of fruit trees, including apples, pears, peach and apricots. Five years later, the fruit trees blossom and fruit, Yang Xingcai development wasteland will soon have earnings, but the village support Zhao Kuanli eyes red. He extorted Yang Xingcai 20,000 yuan benefit money, but Yang Xingcai was not so much money at Home, said a backhoe to sell for money to him. Unexpectedly, Yang Xingcai to sell the excavator, Zhao Kuanli on the organization of social loafers, using a large excavator to dig up Yang Xingcai orchard fruit trees, and set fire to destroy the orchard. At that time, there are villagers to stop, the village clerk also want to beat villagers.
Yang returned home with the money, saw the orchard in disarray, went to the relevant departments to reflect. The news of the destruction of the orchard was broadcast on the local TV station for three days, and the matter was also published in the Urumqi Evening News. The then mayor of Urumqi, Nur Bailey, gave instructions to properly solve the problem.
Yang Xingcai’s contracted land was destroyed, as reported in the Urumqi Evening News that year. (Courtesy of the interviewer)
However, village clerk Zhao Kuanli has a brother who works at the Procuratorate, and his brother intervened in the case of Yang Xingcai’s orchard being destroyed. In the end, Yang Xingcai orchard was destroyed 105 mu of land, the court only awarded 15,000 yuan in compensation; there is a 3-mu nursery was destroyed, awarded more than 310,000.
Five years later, the begonia seedlings in the destroyed nursery, some of whose roots were not dead, sent out buds, and Yang Xingcai asked the Xinjiang Academy of Forestry to identify them. However, the court did not rule according to the identification results.
Yang Xingcai also suffered continued retaliation from Zhao Kuanli. Zhao put Yang Xingcai in the Jiujiawan six team collective 4 acres of ration land, to his power mandatory designation to another Uyghur villagers, the villagers have several brothers. Yang Xingcai did not dare to fight for this land, so he could only keep complaining.
Village clerk Zhao Kuanli finally committed extortion and was sentenced to three years in prison suspended for three years for extorting a construction company. But Yang Xingcai’s unjust case has not been resolved.
In order to make a living, in 2001, Yang contracted 580 mu of land in the village of Shuixigou Zhatan (now a tourist attraction), the contract was notarized by a notary public, and three years of rent was paid in advance.
Yang Xingcai contracted the land contract of Shuixigou Zhatan Village. (provided by the interviewee)
Yang Xingcai did not expect his contract to fizzle out because of the officials protecting each other. A Urumqi city inspection group came to Shuixigou Zhatan village, heard that Yang Xingcai contracted land, said he dared to sue the village branch of the seventh team of Jijiawan, used armed police to push down the contracted land in the heated shed, the contracted land was taken back for no reason, so far the local government has not given any statement.
In addition, Yang Xingcai’s house was also occupied by a triad woman, the house was rented out but did not give Yang Xingcai money.
On January 23, 2011, Wang Yan was beaten by people from the local office in Beijing, and Yang Xingcai and other visitors called the police and sent her to the hospital. Since then, they have been helping each other on their journey to defend their rights.
Wang Yan is a single mother who supports her triplet daughters in school in Beijing. A few years later, Wang Yan and Yang Xingcai got together, but to their surprise, the Nightmares kept coming.
During the 19th Communist Party Congress in 2017, the Xinjiang government suddenly came to Beijing to kidnap Wang Yan and detain her at the Shaibak District Office in Beijing. Wang Yan begged them to let her go and was forcibly detained for a week.
Since then, Wang Yan and Yang Xingcai have been beaten and detained by Xinjiang government officials several times, and Yang Xingcai was stabbed with a knife in his right hand.
Wang Yan sells fruit in Beijing’s Xinfa Di market, and easily survived until her daughter graduated from college. 2018, her third daughter suddenly had a dental disease, and Yang Xingcai took her oldest to see a doctor at the First Medical University Stomatology Hospital, and once he registered and showed his ID card, he was said to be an online wanted person, and was arrested by the Haidian District Dazhongsi Police Station and sent back to Xinjiang.
Local officials in Xinjiang kept blocking them from getting a Marriage license. In the Sha District Civil Government Bureau, after inspecting the documents and pressing the steel seal, the staff made a phone call and said that the director of the management committee (An Yonghong) would not allow the marriage certificate to be issued. Then the photo was torn off the marriage certificate.
“Yang Xingcai has no relatives and is alone in Xinjiang. 2015 local officials came to Beijing to find Yang and drunkenly whispered in Yang’s ear, ‘You are one of the six people to be assassinated set by the Xinjiang Urumqi municipal government.’ Yang Xingcai dared not imagine what happened and went to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to report the case.” Wang Yan said.
The two went to the provincial civil affairs department, the municipal civil affairs bureau, and finally got a marriage certificate on August 3, 2018, but then was locked inside the community management committee’s distribution room for three months. The gate was chained with two large wolf dogs, police carrying submachine guns, Yang Xingcai could only bask in the sun in the courtyard, and the auxiliary police took a handcuff in front of his eyes.
Every Monday in Xinjiang, the community has a flag-raising ceremony, the people gathered over, because of fear of Wang Yan and their cry of injustice, the police told the people to stop here, saying that the flag will not be raised here.
In order to avoid arrest, Wang Yan discussed with her husband to work in the military compound at 170 Dongfeng Road. One day at noon the two sold paper boxes just returned, deputy district governor Han Wei (then director of the Hongmiaozi Management Committee), An Yonghong, and organized a dozen people, driving a police car to the couple back, sent people outside to guard the door, the stairs above the wire bed.
Unidentified persons guarded Yang Xingcai and his wife. (Courtesy of the interviewer)
The couple is a very important part of the Family,” said Wang Yan, “An Yonghong has been persecuting us. April 2019 stole and demolished my house. The woman signed our house to be demolished.” The reporter found that An Yonghong was also awarded “Urumqi Excellent Talent” by the Urumqi municipal government in 2013, and publicized as an excellent community (village) service talent.
July 19, 2019, Wang Yan was sick for two days without Food, but the guards did not let Yang go out to buy food, the police said it was a government action they could not control. Yang Xingcai then helped Wang Yan to go to the government, almost to the letter bureau, was Han Wei, An Yonghong and other people forced to let people drag off, pressed in a police car to fight. When they arrived at the Hongmiaozi police station, Guan Guangyao, a triad member who had been beating them and spitting on them, suddenly fell to the ground and pointed out that Wang Yan had beaten someone, and thus sent Wang Yan to Shuimagou Detention Center for 10 days. Yang was dragged to a demolition room and held there.
Wang Yan was detained for 10 days for “assault and battery”. (Courtesy of interviewee)
After the 10-day detention period, Wang Yan was taken to the management committee, where a group of government officials asked Wang to divorce Yang. Wang Yan cursed them and was about to jump off a building, but was taken to the Xingyuan District where she lived and detained. Four people guarded the building every day, in three shifts, until 11:00 p.m. on November 19, 2019.
During this period, Wang Yan hunger strike 20 days, to the traffic hospital resuscitation 2 times, do not know how to survive, she said, “because I was desperate. We didn’t break the law either, they repeatedly tortured us like this and locked us up in death. For the 70th anniversary of the ‘big celebration’ (of the Communist Party), I started another hunger strike on October 1 until October 8, when they turned Yang over to be locked up with me.”
On January 24, 2020 (New Year’s Day), Yang Xingcai and Wang Yan went to Beijing again to defend their rights. On October 12, 2020, after registering with the Beijing State Bureau of Letters and Calls, the couple took the 832 bus back to their residence, and just got off at the Daning Hills Station in Fangshan District, when they were beaten by An Yonghong, deputy secretary of the Hongmiaozi Administrative Committee, and Qu Shengjiang, director of the general government, who organized three black cars with more than 30 triad members and dragged them onto the black car.
Rain like fists on Wang Yan’s head. Yang was pressed in front of the car at the door. Someone shook his ID and said “police”, took out handcuffs to handcuff Yang Xingcai, and took out a knife to stab Yang’s neck, Yang’s head deflected a bit, using his hand to block the knife, his right thumb was stabbed with a 2.5 cm long wound, and blood spurted out.
In October 2020, Yang Xingcai and his wife were dragged into a black car by Xinjiang police and beaten violently and stabbed. The left picture is the police at the Hongmiaozi police station, and the right picture is Yang Xing’s right thumb stabbed with a knife and wrapped in gauze. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
“There is a triad of people then said, an official commanded to beat you to death.” Wang Yan described, “At that time my eyes were pitch black and could not see, only to hear Yang Xingcai shouting, bleeding a lot, pulled us to a very remote place, a different car, bought Yunnan Baiyao and sand cloth to Yang wrapped wounds.”
To the Inner Mongolia Expressway security checkpoint, the police took out Wang Yan’s cell phone to scan the code, Wang Yan took the opportunity to take photos and noted the license plate number is Lu VA9M52 Dongfeng business. After taking photos of the phone out of power automatically shut down, there is no way to send information to the outside world.
“back a week they did not take Yang Xingcai to see a doctor, Yang’s hand inflammation and pus, stink, screaming every day, he smashed the window glass with a stool, shouting for help, and then we were transferred to the Shay District Judicial Bureau of learning classes, the sign called ‘Adult Continuing Education School’.”
They were released on the night of February 5, 2021, but were only allowed to walk around in Urumqi. Out of Xinjiang are security checks, buy tickets without ID information, Wang Yan can not return to Sichuan to take care of his sick daughter. Yang’s social security salary is a little more than 1,000 yuan, and they live frugally on it.
A while ago, Wang Yan called the national political and legal rectification team and got through after 150 calls. Wang Yan told the truth about her experience, and then boldly said, “We have no human rights! We have been deprived of all our human rights and identity rights! We are not poor, but now we are penniless and have no place to stand. There is no way to live. We are forced to death, where there is such a people’s property robbed, but also beaten, but also shut down, and not allowed to sue ……”
Wang Yan told reporters, “Xinjiang to ‘maintain stability’ to oppress the people, moving to maintain stability, to give you something to rob, to beat you up, he has a lot of reasons to say you are not right that is not right. You can not go to which a relative or friend’s house, to go is a string. We now have no relatives, no friends, and no right to live, where we go to work he said hello people do not dare to use us.”
She said, “My family knows that I am a good person, a woman raising three daughters, not relying on the government, but also in the community to do public welfare. They scolded: ‘The Kuomintang robbed people and beat them with a flowery face (to wipe their faces for fear of being recognized), but the Communists robbed people without a flowery face.’ Now they are openly robbing the people!”
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