Tag: Chinese petitioners

CCP Sets Up Social Work Department to Further Tighten Its Control

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently formed a Central Social Work Department to further tighten the regime’s control of the Chinese people. Observers pointed out that the move is to target petitioners and potential social unrest against its one-party rule. According to Chinese state media, Wu Hansheng, the former deputy party secretary for a state…


Petition to Beijing Is a Trap of False Hope: Lawyer

News Analysis To deal with complaints and grievances, the communist regime initiated the Letters and Calls Bureau during Mao Zedong’s era in the early 1950s. Offices of letters and visits were established at all levels from local governments to the central government in Beijing. Petitioners have to take their issues to the relevant office. However, this petition…