Petitioners Detained in Shanghai’s Black Jails During CCP’s Annual Political Meetings

Petitioners Detained in Shanghai’s Black Jails During CCP’s Annual Political Meetings

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…