Recently, our volunteers learned from Chang Weiping’s relatives that since human rights lawyer Chang Weiping’s parents went to the public security bureau to raise a sign, his parents have been summoned several times by the Shaanxi police on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, and many of Chang Weiping’s friends and relatives have been steadily charged and threatened.
According to a relative of Chang Wei-ping surnamed Chen, after participating in a party in Xiamen in 2019, Chang Wei-ping was secretly detained for 10 days in January 2020 by the Baoji City Public Security Bureau in Shaanxi Province for “inciting subversion of state power” and was later released on bail.
On Oct. 16, he posted a video online revealing the torture he suffered during the 10 days of secret detention and how he has not been able to meet with his family or lawyer for more than 10 months since he was released on bail. Shortly after the video was uploaded, it was revealed that Chang Wei Ping had lost contact again on Oct. 22.
In response, Chang’s family believes that Chang was re-arrested because he posted a video on an overseas website complaining about the heinous torture he had been subjected to, and was then held hostage by the Baoji police in retaliation.
In the afternoon of December 14, 2020, Chang’s parents came to protest outside the high-tech branch of the Baoji Public Security Bureau in Shaanxi Province, wearing the words “Save my son from torture” and “Live with my son according to the law. In less than five minutes, the plainclothes public security officers pushed the two men into the hall along with their father-in-law, while Chang Wei Ping’s brother-in-law was escorted to the Maying police station for interrogation. After that, the two elderly people were forcibly sent home by the police. In the following days, Chang Wei Ping’s parents were summoned several times by the police on suspicion of “provoking trouble”.
Chang’s father told his family that during the summons he was scolded from beginning to end by Gaoxin Branch Chief Meng Maishang, who repeatedly threatened, “What you did was ordered by your daughter-in-law, and your daughter-in-law will be subjected to coercive measures.” These words made Wei Ping’s parents very worried that their daughter-in-law would suffer the same thing as Wei Ping and that their grandson would be left unattended.
By the evening of December 18, 2020 (last Friday), authorities had installed another high-definition camera at the diagonal opposite door of Chang Wei Ping’s parents’ old home in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi, opposite the Chang family’s front door. According to Chang’s family, the camera is specifically to monitor the situation of Chang’s family, and because there is a monitoring room in the village committee, the probe is controlled by the town police station in real time, as long as Chang’s family visits, the police will come flying, reprimanding the visitors to interrogate, requiring the visitors to register their ID numbers, work units, words full of threats. In addition, Chang’s parents were forbidden to travel freely, and their cell phones were illegally taken away by the Gaoxin Public Security Bureau, making it impossible for them to communicate with the outside world.
The second sister and brother-in-law of Chang Wei Ping were also interviewed three times last week by the county education bureau, which joined the stable control of the Chang family because Chang Wei Ping’s second sister and her husband are teachers in the county. The family members of Chang Wei Ping surnamed Chen reflected that the two days Chang Wei Ping’s second brother-in-law was arranged by the county school board to Wei Ping’s parents home 24 hours a day “to work”, responsible for the activities of Wei Ping’s parents to report. The family of Wei Ping’s eldest brother-in-law was also threatened not to participate in this matter, otherwise it would affect their son’s college entrance exams for civil service. His brother-in-law’s cell phone was also illegally taken away. Wei Ping’s father-in-law also had his cell phone taken away and was confined to his home, where he was guarded and had to report when he left. All of Wang’s friends and relatives were harassed to varying degrees and warned not to get involved in Wang’s affairs.
In addition, Shaanxi netizen “Tian Tian” also revealed that he was arrested by the police for interrogation to make a statement because he had watched Chang Wei Ping’s parents hold up a sign on December 14. The police also said that the police had been arrested by the police on December 14 to make a statement. A few days after the interrogation, the political police came to the police twice, respectively on Wednesday, and on Friday, the state security police went to her husband’s workplace to talk to him, mainly to prohibit participation in the case of the spectator Chang Wei Ping.
According to public information, Mr. Chang was born on April 14, 1984, in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province, and has represented many sensitive human rights cases. After graduation, he worked at Hainan Haima Automobile, and began to study for his bar qualification in 2009, passed the exam in 2011, and obtained his bar license in 2013. After obtaining the lawyer’s qualification, Chang Wei Ping affiliated with Shaanxi Ligang Law Firm. He has been involved in many public interest and sensitive cases, such as: Wuxi 413 provocation and nuisance case, Jiangsu Wuxi petitioner Wang Jindi provocation and nuisance case, Nanjing Wang Jian provocation and nuisance case, Jiaozuo Li Yufeng provocation and nuisance case, Shenyang Lin Mingjie provocation and nuisance case, Zhengzhou Cao Chunsheng murder case, defending the legitimate rights and interests of Jiangsu Kunshan petitioner Wang Heying, etc. On July 17, 2014, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province On July 21, 2014, Wang Jungan, a police officer, hired Chang Weiping as their attorney to represent Xu Youchen and Zhang Xiaoyu, the suspects in the case. 21, Chang Weiping went to the Zhongzhan Branch of Jiaozuo City Public Security Bureau to submit the commissioning procedures, but was asked to provide the police with Zhang Xiaoyu’s phone records. Chang Wei Ping according to the principle of confidentiality of lawyers law insisted on refusal, the two sides stalemate until 10:00 pm, Jiaozuo police on suspicion of intentional homicide forced to summon Chang Wei Ping interrogation and extracted all cell phone call records, to 10:00 am on the 22nd, the summons was lifted. Chang Wei Ping was locked in the interrogation chair for the 12 hours he was summoned. The apparent violation of the law by the Jiaozuo police drew a great deal of public attention. The matter was reported in detail in the China Youth Daily on the 25th.On October 14, 2018, Chang Weiping was suspended for three months by the Bureau of Justice in Baoji, Shaanxi Province.On November 22, 2018, the Shaanxi Ligang Law Firm where he practiced was cancelled.On January 14, 2019, after the expiration of his three-month suspension, he approached at least ten law firms in Shaanxi Province, but for up to six months However, for up to six months, he approached more than ten law firms and either suddenly changed his mind when he was about to sign a contract and stopped signing, or received a call from the law firm to terminate his employment ten minutes after he submitted his application for transfer to the office window of the Department of Justice.
On December 8, 2019, Chang Wei-ping attended a meeting in Xiamen, China.On January 12, 2020, at around 10 p.m., Chang Wei-ping was taken away by police from his residence in Xi’an.On the 13th, the Baoji Judicial Bureau cancelled Chang Wei-ping’s lawyer’s license.At around 8 a.m. on the 14th, Chang Wei-ping’s wife received a phone call from the Baoji High-tech Branch State Security Brigade and was told that Chang Wei-ping had been placed under residential surveillance for endangering national security. On January 21, 2020, at around 5:00 p.m., Chang Wei Ping was released to go home. on January 23, 2020, the Baoji High-tech Branch of the Baoji Public Security Bureau released Chang Wei Ping on bail pending trial for inciting subversion of state power, and restricted Chang Wei Ping from leaving Baoji City on the grounds that he could not leave his bail pending trial. From October 202016 Chang Wei Ping issued a statement disclosing that he had been tortured while under residential surveillance at his designated residence. “I was locked on a tiger bench in a room in the guest house of the Baotian Hotel for 24 hours a day for 10 days, which was an extreme form of torture. The damage done to me is that the index and ring fingers of my right hand are still numb, unconscious or have abnormal perception to this day.”
On October 22, 2020, Chang Wei Ping was lost. On November 3, Chang Wei Ping’s family received a notice of residence surveillance from the Baoji police for the crime of inciting subversion of state power. By December 14, 2020, Chang Wei Ping’s lawyer had been under residential surveillance for 62 days for the second time.
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