Chinese petitioners have been thrown into black jails by local authorities during the Chinese Communist Party’s provincial-level Two Sessions meetings—annual meetings of provincial-level rubber-stamp lawmakers and political representatives—in early February.
Shanghai petitioners Ding Juying and Zhang Huixian from Pudong went to deliver a letter to National People’s Congress representatives through the official “People’s Letters” system on Feb. 5, the closing day of the Shanghai People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
After delivering the letter, they returned home. However, that evening, Ding Juying was abducted from her residential community by local police and taken to the “Fan Family Courtyard” farmhouse, a black jail on Chongming Island in Shanghai….
Petitioners Detained in Shanghai’s Black Jails During CCP’s Annual Political Meetings
