In the hope of having their grievances redressed, Chinese petitioners from all over China visit the state petitioning office in Beijing. This week, however, the annual “Two Sessions” meeting has seen increasing numbers of petitioners being detained in Beijing and across the country due to heightened security around the state meetings. The “Two Sessions” are…

Beijing has detained 1.43 million Chinese in a three-month security campaign ahead of the Party’s national meeting. However, not all those arrested were criminals. Tightened security is required  as the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), scheduled for October, approaches. The regime set up a “100-day Operation” that started on June 25….

A Chinese citizen who has appealed for injury compensation for her father for a decade discovered the regime had spent over $300,000 to stop her petition, but refused to pay her father a work injury subsidy of less than $15,000. Furthermore, a document issued by the Hongling street government on Feb. 2, 2020, claimed that…

In the run-up the 100-year anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) founding on July 1, Beijing has imposed extensive “stability maintenance” measures, including flight bans, traffic controls, and crackdowns on petitioners. “Stability maintenance” is an often-used Chinese term for the authorities’ efforts to censor public opinion and suppress dissent, including petitioners and human rights…

Petitioners and dissidents in China have been rounded up or suppressed to keep them out of the public eye so as to not disrupt one of the largest political events of the year, happening today, known as the “two sessions.” The meetings of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), and its top political…