Xiao Chenglin, a farmer in Beibei District, Chongqing, appealed to his superiors 25 years ago about a $65 tax on public food and agriculture, and was forced by the authorities at gunpoint to have his family’s $60,000 cash taken away.
Xiao Chenglin has been petitioning since then, and 25 years later, the problem has not been solved.
Locked up in a black prison and then placed under residential surveillance
On December 8, 2020, Xiao was forcibly taken back to Chongqing by Caijiagang town officials Long Xian and Xiong Fei, as well as Caijiagang police officers Liang Tian (police number 108990) and Xie Min, at Beijing South Railway Station, where he was held in a farmhouse on Sanshing Mountain in Beibei District for 15 days on the grounds that he might have contracted the Chinese Communist virus (Wuhan pneumonia).
When he returned home from the black prison, he was placed under residential surveillance and guarded by eight people 24 hours a day.
Black security to “bang” blackmail money
On the evening of December 30, he had just come out of Caijia police station when he was interviewed by the Epoch Times. He told the reporter how he was detained by the police station.
Xiao Chenglin said he had been persecuted for 25 years and left penniless, and that recently he had been blackmailed by the unruly people who were guarding him. “December 26, a person named Liu Zhiyong, dropped his phone on the ground, saying that I touched his phone to the ground, asking me to pay 5500 yuan. After I called the police, he also said I bumped him and asked me to pay for his medical expenses. 28th I took the bus to the infirmary to buy medicine, several people followed in the car, a man named Liu Biao said I knocked his jade off and asked me to pay more than 20,000 yuan.”
“They called the police and took me to Caijia police station, where the police wanted me to compensate both of them for the cell phone money, medical expenses and more than 20,000 yuan of jade money. I was detained at the police station for two days and not allowed to eat my lunch.” He said, “Local government officials have been corrupt and dark for a long time, this is the rule of law government, rule of law China!”
65 yuan agricultural tax triggered a series of persecutions
In July 1995, Xiao Chenglin’s family’s tragic fate began when the Caijiagang town government imposed an agricultural tax on a piece of barren land, requiring him to pay an extra 65 yuan for it. Xiao Chenglin was not convinced, so he reflected the problem to the village and town cadres.
On October 14 of the same year, the town government, together with the public security and the district court, came to Xiao Chenglin’s house and forced him to pay 65 yuan of the “public food and agriculture tax” at gunpoint, searched his body, raided his house, and took away 60,000 yuan of cash he had stored at home.
On September 9, 1996, his 6-year-old son was hit by the township driver Liu Gang, causing intracranial hemorrhage and a broken thigh.
On December 17, 1999, the Beibei District Court issued a “judicial recommendation” to the Caijiagang Township Government, stating clearly that Xiao Chenglin had nothing to do with the land, and that Xiao Chenglin was required to pay a grain tax of 65 yuan, which should be borne by the Guangming Society and not by Xiao Chenglin, and should be refunded.
Xiao Chenglin said, “Because the town government does not admit to copying away 60,000 yuan in cash, I refuse to accept the return of 65 yuan. In order to cover up their illegal acts and prevent me from going to Beijing to file a complaint, the Caijiagang town government, in conjunction with the local public security, carried out a series of inhuman persecution against me, creating a series of unjust and false cases, making me even more unjust.”
Judicial advice. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Persecution leads to wife’s disability
Over the past 25 years, Xiao Chenglin has been illegally detained seven times for a total of 79 days and criminally detained for 30 days; he has been imprisoned in black jails eight times for a total of 125 days. As a result of the long-term persecution, he suffered from chronic stomach pain and back pain.
In December 2006, Xiao was sentenced to one year and six months of reeducation through labor for “disturbing social order. In February 2017, he went to Xinhua Gate in Beijing to voice his grievances and was sentenced to three years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” after being taken back to Chongqing.
“For 25 years, Xiao Chenglin’s family has been driven to desperation, so I implore people from all walks of life and domestic and international media to pay attention to them! He said
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