「我死也不服，我是正当防卫。」
Xia Junfeng was born in Tieling, Liaoning in 1976 and worked as a laid-off worker selling street food in Shenyang. On May 16, 2009, while selling snacks with his wife, chengguan (urban management officers) seized his gas tank and dragged him to their office, where several officers severely beat him. Defending his life, Xia pulled out a pocketknife, killing two chengguan officers and injuring another. During his trial, the court systematically refused to hear or admit testimonies from six eyewitnesses who saw the officers initiate the beating. On September 25, 2013, Xia Junfeng was executed by the tyrannical CCP regime at age 36. He is widely honored by the public as a folk hero who resisted brutal police abuse, and hundreds of citizens traveled to Shenyang to attend his funeral.
On October 1, 2013, Xia Junfeng was buried on the seventh day after his death; his family went to the Shenyang Memorial Cemetery, and besides relatives and friends, hundreds of netizens came to see him off; the authorities blocked and deleted related news.
On September 25, 2013, after the Supreme People’s Court approved his death sentence, Xia Junfeng, a street vendor from Shenyang, Liaoning, was executed by the Chinese Communist Party’s evil regime. Earlier, while setting up his stall on the street, he was beaten by chengguan and forced to draw a knife in self-defense, killing two chengguan. The court categorically refused to admit the defense’s eyewitness testimony, sparking years of joint appeals by legal scholars, lawyers, and citizens across the country to “spare his life.” Before his death, Xia Junfeng left these last words: “I will never accept this even in death; I was acting in self-defense.”
In April 2013, Second Floor Press published 5,000 copies of a painting album by Xia Jianqiang, the son of Xia Junfeng, priced at 128 yuan; the paintings were later accused of plagiarizing Jimmy Liao, sparking controversy.
In May 2011, the Xia Junfeng case entered the Supreme People's Court's death penalty review; afterward, academics and netizens launched a "stay the execution" solidarity campaign, though the exact launch date and the scale of hundreds of thousands of participants could not be verified.
On May 9, 2011, the Liaoning Provincial High People's Court concluded the second-instance trial, upholding the first-instance judgment of the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court and sentencing Xia Junfeng to death; his defense lawyer argued that Xia Junfeng had acted in self-defense, which was not accepted.
On November 11, 2009, the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xia Junfeng to death for intentional homicide in a first-instance ruling; his defense lawyer said the court refused to accept testimony from six eyewitnesses and instead relied on the testimony of chengguan officers.
On May 16, 2009, Xia Junfeng and his wife were penalized by chengguan for setting up an unlicensed street stall in Shenyang. A conflict broke out at the Binhe duty room, in which Xia stabbed two chengguan officers to death. The defense argued that he had been beaten by a group first and acted in self-defense, but the court did not accept the claim.
On May 16, 2009, Xia Junfeng and his wife were caught operating an unlicensed street stall by chengguan in Shenhe District, Shenyang, and Xia Junfeng went with the law enforcement officers to the Binhe duty office to receive punishment.
Xia Junfeng was a native of Tieling County, Liaoning, and came to Shenyang to make a living by running a street stall with his wife; his exact date of birth, December 11, 1976, and his experience of being laid off from a factory could not be verified.
To remember is to refuse to give in.