Chang Wei-ping’s family uploaded the arrest notice on social media platforms and condemned the authorities for abusive retaliation.
The family of Chang Wei-ping, a rights lawyer in Shaanxi province who has been illegally imprisoned for more than 16 months, said in a statement on social networking sites Friday that they had received an arrest notice for Chang Wei-ping, who is being held in Feng County Detention Center in Baoji City.
Chen Zijuan, his wife, said in the statement that Chang had not committed any crime, let alone subversion of state power, and that the Baoji Public Security Bureau and Public Prosecutor’s Office were suspected of abusing their power and demanded her husband’s immediate release.
Chen criticized the public security authorities for detaining Chang Wei-ping off-site without any legal basis, which is an outright abuse of power and retaliation, and will file a lawsuit in this regard. She is extremely angry at the local judiciary’s recklessness and demands that the mistake be corrected immediately.
The statement refers to the detention center where Chang Wei-ping is being held, which is located in the mountainous region of the Qinling Mountains where transportation is difficult, and questions the intention of the detention in a remote detention center.
Chang was placed under residential surveillance a month after he met with several human rights activists in Xiamen in December 2019 to discuss current affairs, on suspicion of subversion of state power, and was later released on bail. He later uploaded a video revealing that he had been tortured during his stay.
Wang Zhan has been arrested for a year and a half and has not been heard from in the past six months.
Wang Zhan, a meteorologist living in Finland, has also been detained for more than a year and a half on suspicion of subversion of state power. According to Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 academic movement, Wang Zhan’s name has been reported to the U.S. State Department in the hope of making representations to the Chinese side.
According to Wang’s close friend Chung Fuchuan, who now lives in Canada, Wang has lost all contact with the outside world in the past six months, making him very worried. Chung said it has been a year and a half since Wang was arrested in China, and he has been refused to meet with his lawyer by the authorities. He feels very sad about this situation. Chung said that he had known Wang Zhan for six to seven years and that he had a great influence on him: “He has always given me the impression that he is funny and humorous, with a little bit of idealism, and his perspective is also very thorough and tricky. He has also encouraged many people online to develop a local awareness of their respective hometowns, and that includes me.”
Wang, a native of Wafangdian, Dalian, who advocated for Manchurian independence online years ago, was arrested by authorities in mid-October 2019 after entering China on suspicion of “subversion of state power.” A reporter from our Mandarin team called the Shenyang City No. 1 Detention Center on Friday to find out about Wang’s condition, but was also denied access.
Gao Zhisheng, a human rights lawyer, has been missing for more than 1,000 days, and Geng and his husband are suspected to have been persecuted to death.
Chinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been missing for more than 1,000 days, and his wife Geng He says authorities have once again rejected his family’s request to meet with him for absurd reasons, giving reason to suspect that Gao has been persecuted to death.
As of last week (April 16), Zhisheng Gao has been forcibly disappeared by the authorities for 1,141 days, with no news. Ms. Geng He, Zhisheng Gao’s wife, tweeted, “There is reason to suspect that Zhisheng Gao has died in the CCP’s illegal detention.” Geng He said she has now raised her two children and is willing to return to China to join Zhisheng Gao in prison, while calling out to the Chinese Communist authorities, “If Zhisheng Gao is indeed dead, I ask the Chinese Communist Party to return Zhisheng Gao’s ashes for humanitarian reasons.”
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