Zhou Jingzhi (first from left), a petitioner in Shanghai’s Putuo District, was kidnapped and held in a black prison for persecution before the two sessions, and was exposed to drug injections and died shortly after returning home. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Zhou Jingzhi, a petitioner from Shanghai’s Putuo District, was held in a “black prison” on Chongming’s Hongsha Island for 21 days before the two sessions of the National People’s Congress, and died shortly after being sent home. Her husband revealed that Zhou was given poisonous injections in the black prison, and officials from the street office had threatened to torture her until she died.
Zhou was kidnapped and held in a black prison before the two sessions. (Courtesy of the interviewer)
Persecution in a dark room in a black prison led to mental disorder
Zhou Jingzhi was kidnapped by Yin Tianyu, the secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, and other people who were squatting at the entrance of her residential district, and taken to Chongming’s Heng Sha Island to be held in a black prison for 21 days on February 18, when she had to go to her parents’ home to pick up two elderly people from the hospital for medical treatment.
During the period she was worried that her nearly 90-year-old father’s swollen feet and blood clots were not medicated in time, and the blood clots to the heart and lungs would lead to death. On March 3, the seventh day of her hunger strike, she again called and texted the director of the petition office, Ji Yaming, explaining that she was anxious to go home to take care of her father, but Ji Yaming ignored her.
Zhou Jingzhi’s husband Pu Rongxiang told reporters, “In the afternoon of March 10, Zhou Jingzhi was escorted home by Gu Ke, director of the Wanli Street Comprehensive Governance Office, and he was already dying and unable to stand. Since the day he returned home, Zhou has been having nightmares every night, unable to sleep, chanting ‘they’re going to put me in a small dark room and kill me’. Yin told her to her face that she would not leave until she was dead.”
Pu Rongxiang was too upset by his wife’s passing and the interview was interrupted for a while.
The reporter called the Shanghai Putuo District Street Office to find Yin Tianyu, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and the operator said that Yin was out of town. When the reporter asked questions about Zhou Jingzhi’s abduction to a black prison, she asked the reporter to call extension 5857 and ask for the letter and visit office.
The reporter called the extension several times, but no one answered.
Zhou Jingzhi called and sent text messages to Ji Yaming, the director of the Petition Office, but received no response. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Zhou went on a hunger strike and slit his wrists in protest of his father’s serious illness. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Officials did not give a statement to rush the cremation of the remains
The niece of Pu Rongxiang told reporters, “Zhou Jingzhi has been sent back thin and mentally abnormal. The government did not give any statement to the family, but only said that the remains should be cremated quickly so that they (the government) can come to care.”
Zhou Jingzhi embarked on the road to defend her rights because her mother, Shen Huizhen, was criminally injured and violated 18 years ago. On April 11, 2021, Zhou Jingzhi died of persecution and injustice.
After Zhou Jingzhi passed away, a dozen friends of Shanghai’s visitors, including Wei Kaizhen and Wang Yongfeng, went to offer their condolences, but were all escorted to 500 Fucun Road by police officers of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau at the subway station, and then escorted back to each police station by the respective police stations they belonged to.
Shanghai authorities set up a black jail for 66 petitioners who had signed a petition to sue
Song Jiahong, a volunteer for the Shanghai People’s Liberation Army, told reporters that “the fighters in the black jail are paid by the head of the government or the secretary of political and legal affairs with high prices. I’ve heard about the ‘poisonous injection’ in the black jail for a long time, and today Zhou Jingzhi is another victim.”
In light of the growing severity of the Shanghai authorities’ black jails against petitioners, Song Jiahong had written letters of complaint to Wang Qishan and Zhao Leji before the 19th National Congress, suggesting that Shanghai mayors Yang Xiong and Ying Yong be held accountable. The letter was a “joint letter” from 66 petitioners, but it didn’t end well, and the first petitioner to support the signature, Shao Hao Lan, from Minhang District, was kidnapped and sent to a farmhouse in Haimen, Jiangsu Province, where he was held in a dark prison for 80 days. Song Jiahong said, “Whoever calls for justice will be retaliated!”
Song Jiahong cited several cases of persecution of visitors in the black jail more prominent, such as Songjiang District, Wang Lanying, in the black jail by the female guards with the sole of the board hit the head, resulting in bleeding eyes disabled; Jiading Li Qin, in the black jail by a few triads stripped off the whole body clothes humiliation, the matter in the Minhang District Court litigation; Hongkou District, Ma Chunying, was locked in the black jail when the triads on her hands and feet, she jumped out of the window to escape when she fell to the ground, sent to the hospital to rescue the lumbar spine installed four steel nails.
Song Jiahong also said, “December 14, 2020, originally sent the ‘joint letter’ to the central fourth inspection team Zhao Fengtong team leader, but surprisingly still transferred to the hands of the umbrella (local government). After this letter was made public on the Internet, it was blocked within a few days.”
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