Chaozhou Anbu town government on April 2, the day to rectify the unlicensed motorcycle program.
After Dongguan, Guangdong Province, police in Chaozhou’s Anbu Township took a surprise operation this Friday (April 2) to detain local unlicensed motorcycles and electric bicycles. Mr. Chen, a local resident, told Radio Free Asia that the government’s massive clearance operation came suddenly and uncharacteristically. He said the police are not enforcing the law on the street, but forcibly breaking into homes without legal documents: “More than 90 percent of the local motorcycles and electric bikes do not have licenses, followed by (police) coming to the door (to forcibly take the bikes away), which are the main two. Residents must be opposed, because they are mandatory action.”
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Local rights activists provided a number of small videos showing public security is putting a motorcycle on the truck. A resident said: “Now put the motorcycle, as long as you see you parked in front of the door, dragged away.”
Video: Police in Chaozhou’s Anbu town go door-to-door to collect unlicensed motorcycles, arguing with residents. (Courtesy of volunteer/reporter Qiao Long)
Local residents provided to the station a written “Anbu town organs compound, some units, community unlicensed motorcycles, electric bicycles cleanup and remediation program” shows that the action is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. on April 2, in turn, the Anbu town organs compound, the town center school, Overseas Chinese Hospital, the second phase of the organs dormitory unlicensed motorcycle mandatory towing cleanup. The reason given by the authorities is “to create good traffic order”.
Our reporter called a number of officials at the local government’s command center to clean up the motorcycles, but no one answered.
Mr. Zeng, a human rights activist in Chaozhou, told the station that the government’s ban on motorcycles and electric bicycles is a violation of human rights: “People need motorcycles as a means of transportation in their daily lives, but the government has never taken into account the needs of the people. By banning motorcycles and electric bikes, they are illegally breaking into people’s homes and confiscating motorcycles and electric bikes from their homes. This behavior of his can be legally defined as a violation of other people’s property, defined as robbery.”
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A week ago, all police stations in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, the city’s streets and towns suddenly launched a ban on motorcycles, many motorcycles driving on the streets or parked in front of residents’ homes were seized by police, and even delivery workers from the Meituan group, who delivered take-out, walked out the door and found their cars towed away by police.
Left/Middle/Picture: A resident of Chaozhou has a theory with the other side about the motorcycles towed away by the police at his door. (Video screenshot/reporter Qiao Long) Right: Chaozhou’s Anbu town government rectified the unlicensed motorcycle program on the day of April 2. (Courtesy of volunteers/reporter Qiao Long)
In late March 2017, Dongguan police sparked a mass incident for banning motorcycles, with a resident accusing the police of impounding his unlicensed motorcycle and making him pay a 600 yuan fine before redeeming it. Some public opinion suggests that the authorities may repeat the same trick this time. In response, Guangzhou dissident Wang Aizhong told the station that in today’s society, gathering money with fines is already a common phenomenon: “It exists in Guangzhou, Beijing and other big cities. Traffic control, demerit points, fines, etc. have become their means of gaining revenue. Now governments around the world are facing a variety of financial pressures again. Various forms of fines to supplement financial shortfalls are likely to become more and more common.”
Dongguan has banned motorcycles since 2009, but unlicensed motorcycles have continued to travel unimpeded for the past decade or so, raising suspicions that authorities are raising revenue by secretly fining unlicensed motorcycle owners.
Mr. Ding, a Jiangxi legal practitioner, told the station that the government’s intention to ban unlicensed motorcycles, but not to ban companies from producing them, is understandable: “Why can they be sold, why can they be sold, why can they be produced, and when people buy motorcycles but can’t use them, why is that? It is obvious that there is interest in it. People in the public authorities even intend to make a profit. On a second level we see that the authorities have no legal basis to do so. Even if you don’t let people use them, motorcycles are private property.”
Mr. Ding said that many illegal actions taken by public authorities that happen in mainland China can be initiated again and again, and that is because the law is not binding on the officials.
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