11.07
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Fu'an
Recently, Wang Xiuying, a villager from Lifan Village, Xiabaishi Town, Fu'an City, Fujian Province, recorded her experience of petitioning in Beijing: her grievances remain unresolved, submitting materials has become even more difficult, and she was expelled from Beijing. She describes this as a typical portrayal of the implementation of the new 'July 1st' petition regulations.
11.06
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 2
·Beijing
Petitioners line up to submit materials at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls on Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (commonly known as Jia-1). Staff told them not to record video, and when petitioners asked what was wrong with recording, a dispute broke out.
[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, a large number of petitioners were seen lining up at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls reception office in Beijing to register their complaints, and the scene was recorded and posted.
11.06
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Beijing
On November 6, petitioners in Beijing queued at the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing, to submit their case filing materials.
11.05
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Beijing
X user Cyberxinfang posted a documentary of recent petitioners visiting the Supreme People's Court Petition Reception Office located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
11.04
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Beijing
User Cyberxinfang posted a submission stating that Chinese petitioners waiting at Jiujingzhuang are served only ham, pickled mustard greens, and steamed buns for all three meals a day. Any leftovers are taken out of the center, and the situation for petitioners has worsened following the implementation of new petitioning regulations.
11.04
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 2
·Chaoyang, Beijing
Recently, petitioners in Beijing have been visiting the petition reception office of the Supreme People's Court, located at No. 40 Hongsi Village, Xiaohongmen Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing.
2026.11
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 2
·Beijing
Recently, petitioners overcame numerous difficulties to reach Beijing, arriving at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls at No. 1A Yongdingmen West Street, Xicheng District, Beijing. Suspected of lacking provincial-level documentation, they were unable to submit their grievances and were pushed out of the compound by security guards.
[Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On November 7, according to the on-site situation posted by Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher, there were many petitioners at the reception office of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, with petitioners from various regions queuing to register their complaints.
10.29
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
The human rights organization Safeguard Defenders has released a new edition of the book 'The People's Republic of the Disappeared.' It includes first-hand accounts of secret detention under the 'Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location' (RSDL) system from Chinese rights lawyers, journalists, NGO workers, as well as Michael Kovrig, Cheng Lei, and Lee Ming-che, and offers a free PDF download.
10.23
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Shenyang
The trial of Shenyang petitioner Fu Youling, charged with the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, has opened; the prosecution recommended a fixed-term prison sentence of two years.
10.19
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·China
The Ministry of Justice, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the National Health Commission, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration jointly issued standards defining the scope of serious illnesses and criteria for identifying inability to care for oneself for temporary execution of sentences outside prison.
09.29
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Yuncheng, Shanxi
Netizen Cyberxinfang said that last year he received petition materials from Yanhu District, Yuncheng, Shanxi. The petitioner alleged that local gangsters colluded with government officials in the long-term gang rape of her granddaughter, and that she was threatened with lifetime imprisonment if she petitioned again. She has since gone missing, and he is now publicly soliciting information about the case.
09.17
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·Puan County
On September 17, it was circulated online that the Justice Bureau of Puan County, Guizhou Province, issued a notice requiring local lawyers, when handling cases related to cracking down on organized crime, to report to the county justice bureau for study and obtain approval before they can present defense arguments that involve changing the characterization of a crime, and demanding that all law firms strictly enforce this.
08.12
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 3
·Beijing
On August 12, 2026, Li Wenzhang, Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, wrote an article in Study Times, on the one hand calling for correcting local interception and blocking, and on the other hand emphasizing a severe crackdown on troublemaking and disruption of order, as well as persistent petitioning and making a scene, resolutely achieving the goal of not letting conflicts be passed upward.
08.04
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·Nanjing, Jiangsu
On August 4, 2026, rights defense petitioners in Jiangsu Province found that when logging into the official online complaint platform of the Jiangsu Provincial Letters and Calls Bureau, the system repeatedly prompted that the phone number did not exist or the verification code was invalid, accused of setting up technical barriers to obstruct petition appeals.
2026.08
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 3
·China
In August 2026, prominent criminal defense lawyer Chen Youxi publicly pointed out that in multiple cases involving fallen officials, the case-handling authorities appointed legal aid lawyers to crowd out the lawyers retained by family members, effectively depriving the parties of their right to defense.