Former Shangdong University Professor Sun Wenguang severely injured for mourning the death of Zhao Ziyang. (The Epoch Times)
These human rights abuses involving the use of violence by authorities is an increasing problem in mainland China, said attorney Tang Jingling in an interview with The Epoch Times.
Former Shandong University Professor Sun Wenguang said he has been a victim of police brutality on several occasions, including during the last Ching Ming Festival, when his ribs were broken from a beating. He was beaten for commemorating the death of Zhao Ziyang, a popular official in the regime during the Tiananmen Square massacre era.
“When I saw the petition, I signed my name too,” he said. “Not only am I a victim, I have also seen many law-abiding citizens suffer from this type of violence. These actions are extremely inhumane; they violate our human rights and they often result in injury and death. We strongly oppose this.”
Sun said police violence falls into two categories: The first is beating up people while in uniform; the second is utilizing plainclothes police to beat people up.
Beijing attorney Zhang Kai said public awareness needs to be raised and people need to know their rights. “Otherwise, anyone can become a victim,” he said.
“Lawyers get beaten up by policemen while they are practicing law,” Zhang said. “Why do these vile things happen? Moreover, the assailants are rarely punished for their wrongdoing, and still maintain their positions. This happens all the time.”
Famous human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng was a victim of violent torture for defending Falun Gong practitioners and other persecuted groups in China. Zhisheng recounted in a letter 50 days of extreme torture by regime officials.
“These fascist methods are evil,” said Sun. “They torture victims physically and mentally and bring intense fear and anxiety to the victim and their family.”
He remarked that such violence is depriving people of their human nature and turning them into slaves of the Chinese Communist Party. “We had a very popular saying in the 1950s to 1960s: 'to be the Party's tamed tool.' Human nature or not, it doesn't matter, as long as you're a tool,” Sun said.
He said regime officials are using violent means simply to fulfill their personal wishes, such as the forced demolition of homes to make way for new living quarters for Chinese officials
In the city of Yantai, all the residents were forced to move out of one district for regime officials. The residents were not compensated accordingly for their homes, which were soon torn down.
Attorney Sun Wanbao filmed and photographed the demolition in the hope of exposing the injustice. However, local authorities caught him documenting the takeover and he was forcefully abducted. They locked him in a room and beat him to near-death.
The online petition calls for any victims of police violence to send their experience to an email address given.
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