Beijing rights lawyer Tang Jitian’s request to travel to Japan to take care of his daughter’s critical illness was “kicked in the pants”

Beijing rights lawyer Tang Jitian’s daughter, who is studying in Tokyo, has been hospitalized since April 30 with tuberculosis and is in serious condition with swelling of the right side of her brain, hydrocephalus and hydrocephalus. Tang Jitian’s lawyer expects to be able to travel to Japan to take care of her, but has been unable to get a positive response from the authorities.

According to Tang Jitian’s own account to Fazhong, his Beijing Dongcheng District State Security tried to contact his superiors, but to no avail, and he was told to contact the public security authorities in his hometown of Jilin, which have never been involved in the control of Tang Jitian, so he is considering contacting the Beijing Public Security Bureau, or even the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, to try to go to Japan to take care of his daughter anyway. He calls on the Beijing authorities to safeguard his most basic rights as a Chinese citizen in a humane manner.

In 2010, Tang Jitian’s license to practice law was revoked by the authorities for promoting direct election to the Bar Association and assisting Falun Gong practitioners. In 2017, he intended to seek medical treatment in Hong Kong, but was stopped at the Luohu border crossing in Shenzhen and banned from leaving the country on the grounds that he “might endanger national security.

Tang Jitian is a well-known human rights lawyer in mainland China who has defended the rights of victims of illegal land expropriation, Falun Gong believers, freedom of expression, civil and political rights, and other vulnerable groups. He was illegally detained several times in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

In late March 2014, Tang Jitian and three other human rights lawyers were entrusted by their families to go to a brainwashing class (the so-called “legal education base”) at Qinglong Mountain Farm in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang, to look for the missing Falun Gong practitioners, and four lawyers and their clients’ families were arrested, triggering the famous “Jian Sanjiang Incident. Jian Sanjiang Incident.

Tang Jitian was beaten with ten broken ribs and broken teeth, Wang Cheng had a broken sternum, Jiang Tianyong had bruises all over his chest and abdomen and eight broken ribs, and Zhang Junjie had a broken spine, and in 2016 Tang Jitian was involved in a bizarre car accident that left him worse off.