Web user captures expulsion on film

Sophie — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:34:38 +0200

We've already published several posts - here and here - about the authorities expelling people from their homes around China in the name of "housing redevelopment". Here, a new amateur video found by one of our Observers in China.

Chinese petitioners, driven out of Beijing, take refuge online

Zhang — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:55:00 +0200

Material compiled by Zhang, our editor for the Chinese region

For hundreds of years the central authority in China has allowed citizens to file a petition if they feel a local official has wronged them. The citizen must go to Peking to ask for reparations related to expropriation, police brutality, and unjust verdicts, or to denounce corruption. Over the years, these thousands of dissatisfied people have formed a village in an area south of the capital, where they live sparsely, while waiting their case to be heard by the petition office. Some people have been waiting for over ten years. However, the day before the seventeenth congress of the Communist Party, the authorities decided to get rid of the petitioners. On 12 October, police forces entered the petitioner village and expelled all its inhabitants. Now, keeping in mind the ancestral tradition of petitions, some petitioners use the Internet to air their grievances. For example...

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