Chapter 10 Tyranny and Crisis (3)

Many people suspect that the government authorities were intentionally creating fires. In order to build the gorgeous red capital demanded by Xi Jinping, government authorities organized and premeditated the expulsion of the “lower class outsiders”, the “low-end population” from Beijing by using the pretext of eliminating fire hazards. The displaced nannies, cleaners, vendors and small stores were needed by low- and- middle-income households in Beijing and they were only living on the edge of the city, invisible to foreigners and tourists. Some estimates predict that the government got rid of 3 million people to clean up Beijing.

In November 2018, Ding Kehui, a low-end person in Ya’an, Sichuan province, was evicted from Beijing’s Daxing County who went to the Daxing government to petition because he suspected that tens of thousands of dollars of items in his rented house would be taken away by the local village committee. The local police station didn’t care but arrested and detained him.

The government has been forced to demolish many newspaper kiosks in Beijing’s urban areas, including the subway entrance and street kiosks. 72 kiosks with business licenses were demolished around August 1,2014 in Chaoyang District and some kiosk owners had physical confrontations with the demolition police.

Many eviction victims and other victims of injustice have sought lawyers to redress their grievances in court. The Xi Jinping government is so displeased with human rights lawyers that it has turned them into enemies and persecuted them in an organized manner. In 2015, the “709 arrests of human rights lawyers” occurred, in which 286 lawyers were arrested in 27 provinces nationwide in the early hours of July 9 by the Public Security Bureau.

Wang Yu, a prominent human rights lawyer in Beijing and her husband Bao Longjun (a lawyer) and 16-year-old son Bao Zhuoxuan disappeared one after another at 4 a.m. on July 9, 2015. There were more than 20 police officers surrounding the building where Wang Yu lived under the pretext of arresting him for drug use. Wang Yu was arrested and his whereabouts became unknown.

On July 10, 2015, all four members of Beijing Fengrui Law Firm were forcibly taken away by unknown people one after another and their whereabouts became unknown.

Many law firms were raided and the Beijing authorities unjustifiably revoked the licenses of many law firms to practice law.

Many lawyers were sentenced to 3, 4, 7 and up to 7.5 years in prison on the fabricated charges of “subversion of state power” and this Red Scare has continued to this day and some lawyers are still in prison.

The U.S. Department of State issued a statement as recently as July 12, 2015, expressing alarm at the systematic detention by Chinese police authorities of people defending the rights of others in a peaceful manner. The United States strongly urged the Chinese government to respect civil rights and to release all those detained who protected human rights.

German Deputy Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel met several dissidents during his November 2016 visit to China. He called on the Chinese government to release detained human rights lawyers. German Chancellor Angela Merkel met 2 detained lawyers during her visit to China in May 2018 and accepted a letter from the wife of one of the lawyers.

The British Embassy in Beijing stated on July 17, 2015 that the British government fully supported the EU’s statement on the recent human rights developments in China. August 8, 2016, the British Embassy issued a statement on the EU’s response to charges of subversion of state power against lawyers in major countries. On August 8, 2016, the British Embassy issued a statement on the “EU Statement on Lawyers Charged with Subversion of State Power, expressing strong support for the Chinese lawyers.

The CCP persecutes religion and claims to be “atheistic”. The CCP only recognizes Marx as God, and they want to see Marx when die. Later Mao Zedong (Red Sun) was added. The CCP sees Mao God as the Sun God. The CCP cannot ban all folk faiths so they allow several major religions to exist from the surface. But all religions have to wear a big hat on their heads “Patriotism”. The CCP does not distinguish between party and state, “patriotism” is love of the Party, love of the Party used to be love of Mao Zedong and now add love of Xi Jinping. The Communist Party wants to control everything and is in charge of everything. The CCP controls religion. Religion is under the control of the United Front Work Department. Christianity believes in God and the United Front Work Department adds “Party” (Xi Jinping) to God. If the church is not patriotic to the CCP, it is not legal, and one can only hold worship and preaching activities in secret.