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But no one would listen?and instead of finding justice, Li found himself on a Homeric journey through the communist bureaucracy. Over the following 24 years, his obsessive persistence was rewarded with several stints in detention centers, where he claims guards whipped him with his own belt and choked him...
...alone in his hopeless quest. At any given time, an estimated 50,000 aggrieved citizens from all over the mainland can be found in a collection of slums surrounding the ill-named Happiness Road that fronts one of the biggest of Beijing's 30 or so petition offices. This petitioners' village, with its desperate residents pushing plastic bags filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only...
...number of petitioners heading to the capital has increased dramatically over the past few years. Though President Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have made mingling with common folk a signature of their new administration?from shaking hands with aids patients to chatting with coal miners?the common touch hasn't trickled down to China's provincial leaders, who are widely viewed as aloof and corrupt. Without any recourse on the local level, the mainland's disenfranchised see little choice but to head to the capital. Their increasingly vocal calls for justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens...
When he was acquitted by a Middlesex Superior Court, it seemed that Zedginidze’s ordeal had reached its terminus. He had never completed his education degree, and this—it would follow—was a ripe time to be allowed back in the country and the...
About Face VENEZUELA In an unexpected turnaround, President Hugo Chávez announced that he would accept the verdict - due in mid-February - of the National Electoral Council on the validity of an opposition petition for a recall vote. Organizers of the petition claim to have collected more than the...