http://observers.france24.com/en/category/tags/petitioners La vue par taxonomie avec une profondeur de 0. en http://observers.france24.com/en/content/chinese_petitioners_driven_out_beijing_take_refuge_online <p> Material compiled by Zhang, our editor for the Chinese region </p> <p> 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... </p> <p> Post your questions to <span style="color: #336699"><strong><a href="/en/comment/reply/38#comment-form">Zhang</a></strong></span> on her profile page </p> http://observers.france24.com/en/content/chinese_petitioners_driven_out_beijing_take_refuge_online#comments video China deportation expulsion human rights petitioners 39.943436 116.389160 Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:55:00 +0200 Zhang 60 at http://observers.france24.com