Anhui man secretly detained after land dispute hearing
A villager from Anhui filed a report with police on Wednesday, claiming he was arrested, illegally detained and tortured after appearing at a land dispute hearing.
A villager from Anhui filed a report with police on Wednesday, claiming he was arrested by unknown persons, illegally detained and tortured after appearing at a land dispute hearing at the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing.
In 2003, Wang – a villager from Guomen village in Biyang town, Yi county, Huangshan – sued the county government for an administrative omission over a land dispute and subse quently lost the case. He appealed to the Supreme People’s Court in Beijing shortly after.
Wang came to Beijing on September 21 this year with an official invitation letter issued by the Supreme People’s Court, in the hope of settling the dispute.
Wang was heading to Beijing South Railway station on his way back when he was grabbed by a group of unknown assailants. “I was settled somewhere in Wanggezhuang near South Sixth Ring Road in Beijing for the first twenty days or so,” according to Wang. “I have no idea where I was brought to afterwards.”
“The persecutors burnt my skin with a hot iron on November 18. I was released two days after,” he said.