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1. News - China - HUMAN RIGHTS

   Crippled petitioner tells of being locked up in disused morgue

   Posted Jan 25th 2013, 12:00am by CHOI CHI-YUK

   ... News China Human Rights Crippled petitioner Chen Qingxia Choi Chi-yuk chiyuk.choi@scmp.com Woman tells of horror treatment after seeking justice for her mentally disabled husband A middle-aged woman petitioner whose legs are paralysed has been locked up in a disused morgue in Heilongjiang since being released from 18 months in a labour camp. Chen Qingxia told China National ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1135456/crippled-petitioner-tells-being-locked-disused-morgue
2. New rules on petitions are just a start, say scholars

   Posted Dec 04th 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Appellate Review Law Petitioner Ng Tze-wei ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/732341/new-rules-petitions-are-just-start-say-scholars
3. New rules on petitions are just a start, say scholars

   Posted Dec 04th 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Appellate Review Law Petitioner Ng Tze-wei ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/732392/new-rules-petitions-are-just-start-say-scholars
4. Premier's meeting with petitioners was staged, witness says

   Posted Jan 27th 2011, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Petitioner Staff Reporter Premier Wen Jiabao's encounter with eight petitioners on Monday was staged, one person who witnessed it says. 'What you saw on television was not the real situation,' said a hostel operator who ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/736839/premiers-meeting-petitioners-was-staged-witness-says
5. Mayor fired for ignoring hundreds of kneeling petitioners

   Posted Apr 26th 2010, 12:00am by Mimi Lau

   ... Petitioner Mimi Lau in Guangzhou The mayor of a city in the northeastern province of Liaoning lost his job for ignoring hundreds of petitioners who got down on their knees to seek fair compensation over a government land grab. At a city government ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/712575/mayor-fired-ignoring-hundreds-kneeling-petitioners
6. News - China

   China villager bombs local government office

   Posted Sep 03rd 2012, 07:31pm by Agence France-Presse in Beijing

   ... on Monday, killing himself and wounding six others, state press said. Qu Huaqiang, a “disgruntled petitioner”, allegedly set off homemade explosives at the government offices in Tengjia township, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1028820/china-villager-bombs-local-government-office
7. News - China - SECURITY

   Rare victory for petitioners as 10 hired thugs are convicted over 'black jail'

   Posted Feb 06th 2013, 12:00am by Verna Yu

   ... News China Black Jails China Petitioners Verna Yu verna.yu@scmp.com Hired thugs who roughed up and illegally detained complainants are handed jail terms, but officials who hired them remain unpunished A Beijing court yesterday sentenced 10 people to prison for illegally detaining petitioners in a "black jail" after they tried to lobby the central government ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1144022/rare-victory-petitioners-10-hired-thugs-are-convicted-over-black-jail
8. Children pay hefty price as parents wage weary battle to correct injustices

   Posted Mar 02nd 2007, 12:00am by Josephine Ma

   ... China China Petitioning Petitioner Josephine Ma Josephine Ma Josephine Ma Guo Yanzou , 49, knows well that his son's life has been ruined by petitioning. But he now has a new cause - to save his son. The former fisherman from Zhejiang province said he was crippled after he was tortured by police who accused him of rape in 1997. He was released after 79 days of detention ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/583431/children-pay-hefty-price-parents-wage-weary-battle-correct-injustices
9. Intercepting petitioners is a thriving business

   Posted Apr 03rd 2010, 12:00am by Minnie Chan

   ... in Beijing stop petitioners,' Yu Jianrong , a professor from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in a lecture in Hong Kong yesterday. 'They have so many tactics to stop ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/710413/intercepting-petitioners-thriving-business
10. Bridge users tire of 'suicide' petitioners

    Posted Jun 27th 2009, 12:00am by Fiona Tam

    ... the final channel for frustrated petitioners. Several weeks ago, a disabled man from Huizhou climbed the bridge and demanded a newspaper publish his story about poor medical treatment he received. ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/685047/bridge-users-tire-suicide-petitioners

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