Wuxi petitioner detained at home for 163 days, can’t even open the door

It’s been 163 days since Wuxi, Jiangsu Province’s Wang Caixia and her husband were illegally detained by the local government and they are still in detention. After a new group of guards changed yesterday (Jan. 3), now they can’t even open the door to their home. She told the Epoch Times, “This inhumane practice should be condemned by society!”

On July 26, 2020, local interceptors in Wuxi intercepted Wang Caixia on the train and returned her to the Wuxi Huangxiang police station, where she was later sent home by Deputy Director Zhou, after which the door to her home was blocked by black security guards. Her husband, Pan Guoliang, was also detained at home by association. She has been detained for 163 days and is still in detention. She called 110 and 12345 government hotline numerous times, but none of them worked.

Wang Caixia said, “After a new wave of people last night, I can’t even open the door today. Before you can still go out and throw a garbage, but now you can’t even open the door, how bad these people are. The Internet is controlled, so I can’t post articles online.”

Wang Caixia, who lives in Room 202, No. 82, Minfeng West Court, Huangxiang, Liangxi District, Wuxi City, was forced to demolish two new buildings (total area of 193.58 square meters, of which 96 square meters is business area and two business licenses) by Guangyi Street and Youduli Village Committee in 2006, which has not been solved for more than ten years.

Wang Caixia has been illegally detained for more than 330 days and Pan Guoliang has been detained for more than 230 days.

Wang Caixia said, “Beidajie street comprehensive governance director and Huangxiang police station chief, characterized our couple as important stability maintenance objects, abuse of criminal investigation methods, long-term involvement in the black and evil, illegal detention, retaliation.”

She said, “For a long time, these black and evil forces have been building tents in front of my house, restricting my personal freedom, forbidding me to go out to buy rice and vegetables, depriving me of my basic right to live, and forbidding me to go to the hospital when I am ill. I countless times to the police are ineffective, I have no choice but to a paper petition, the public security to the court.”

In July 2018 Huangxiang police station chief Feng Wei falsely claimed to solve the problem for Wang Caixia, luring and intimidating her to withdraw the case.

On October 9, 2020, Pan Guoliang escaped from her home to report to the State Bureau of Letters and Visits in Beijing and was chased and intercepted by a group of lawless elements and self-proclaimed police officers who choked, beat and robbed her cell phone. He was then escorted back to Liangxi District North Street Police Station in a black car. He was held on bail for one year on suspicion of “provocation and nuisance”, with a deposit of 1,000 yuan, and then returned home after 21 hours of illegal detention.

Wang Caixia said, “The State Bureau of Letters and Visits is supposed to be a formal department that receives visitors from all over the country. It was ‘provoked’ without any record of violations or any evidence from Beijing.”

She estimated the cost to the authorities from intercepting the visit and hiring a black car (15,000-18,500 yuan) to illegally detaining her for 163 days, “The cost of maintaining stability this time is currently estimated at over 1.5 million, and the total cost of various means of maintaining stability against her over the years is estimated to be over 4.5 million and still going on.”

Wang Caixia wondered, “why the director of the comprehensive governance of North Street street does not use this money to solve the problem, but countless times such a huge squandering of state financial resources. Is it to seek huge windfall profits in the name of maintaining stability?”