Wuxi Human Rights Defender Shen Aibin Appeals 15-Day Liangxi Police Detention; Wuxi Intermediate Court Issues Perverse Judgment Without a Hearing

(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On October 10, 2026, this website learned that Wuxi human rights defender Shen Aibin’s appeal against his 15-day detention by Liangxi police was met with a perverse judgment issued by the Wuxi Intermediate Court without a hearing.

On October 2, 2026, Shen Aibin received an administrative judgment from the Wuxi Intermediate People’s Court, (2026) Su 02 Xing Zhong No. 312, which perverted justice by ruling to “dismiss the appeal and uphold the original judgment” in response to Shen Aibin’s appeal against the first-instance judgment of the Wuxi Binhu District Court.

On July 3, 2025, the Liangxi Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau took Shen Aibin back from the Ninghai Road Police Station of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau and directly detained him at a case-handling center. On July 4, on the grounds that Shen Aibin had engaged in picking quarrels and provoking trouble, it issued an administrative penalty decision imposing 15 days’ detention and sent Shen Aibin to the Wuxi Detention Center. He was released on July 19.

The penalty decision of the Liangxi Branch of the Wuxi Public Security Bureau identified two alleged violations: first, that on July 1 Shen Aibin took a photograph outside the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Procuratorate while holding a piece of paper that read, “Where are the rule of law and judicial justice? I seek public officials who act according to the law,” and posted the photograph in a WeChat group; and second, that after leaving the Jiangsu High People’s Court and the Provincial Bureau for Letters and Visits, Shen Aibin took a video of himself and posted it in a WeChat group, describing his experiences of being wrongfully sentenced three times and the Provincial High Court’s refusal to accept documents, among other real-time efforts to defend his rights. Liangxi police determined that Shen Aibin had spread false information.

Shen Aibin disagreed with the penalty decision of Liangxi police and filed a lawsuit with the Binhu District Court, where he received a perverse judgment. Shen Aibin immediately appealed to the Wuxi Intermediate People’s Court, pointing out the following legal violations in the Binhu Court’s judgment:

I. The facts of the case were unlawfully determined.

Shen Aibin took a photograph outside the Jiangsu Provincial People’s Procuratorate and posted it in a WeChat group in order to seek judicial justice. His accounts of being wrongfully sentenced three times, suffering extremely strong electromagnetic radiation, and having his minor daughter implicated, persecuted, and sentenced were all subjective evaluations or opinions based on objective facts and did not constitute false information. His actions were undertaken to protect his lawful rights and interests, were not motivated by an intent to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and caused no social impact or harmful consequences.

II. The court shielded Liangxi police’s serious procedural violations in imposing the penalty.

Liangxi police seriously violated the penalty procedures and deprived Shen Aibin of his right to make statements and plead his case. When notified in advance of the proposed administrative penalty, Shen Aibin clearly stated, “I request to make a statement and plead my case.” The case officers nevertheless went directly to issuing the penalty decision and did not lawfully hear Shen Aibin’s statements and arguments.

Furthermore, the penalty approval procedure was unlawful: the penalty was not approved by case officers with the legally required qualifications.

III. The court shielded Liangxi police’s exceeding their territorial jurisdiction by asserting jurisdiction over Shen Aibin’s conduct in Nanjing.

Under the law, even if Shen Aibin committed an illegal act in Nanjing, the matter had to be under the jurisdiction of Nanjing police. For the public security authorities in Shen Aibin’s place of residence to have jurisdiction, they first had to obtain the case-transfer documents from Nanjing police in accordance with the law. Liangxi police did not obtain those documents.

IV. The court shielded Liangxi police’s fabrication and concealment of evidence.

In the defense materials submitted by Liangxi police, Shen Aibin discovered that the defendant, Liangxi police, had fabricated and concealed evidence. They hid the advance notice on which Shen Aibin had written, “I want to make a statement and plead my case,” and fabricated another advance notice bearing the signatures of two police officers and stating, “The party refused to sign; the police officers read it aloud to him on the spot,” thereby concealing the fact that they had deprived Shen Aibin of his right to make statements and plead his case.

V. The court relied on evidence that had not been presented and examined at trial, in serious violation of the Administrative Litigation Law.

Presiding Judge Wu Qian actually relied on evidence that had not been presented or examined at trial, and followed the arrangements of the defendant, Liangxi police. At the request of the Liangxi Branch that the evidence establishing the facts of the case and the penalty approval procedure be “provided only for the court’s review,” she did not show it to the plaintiff, allow the plaintiff to copy it, or present and examine it at trial, yet fully relied on it in the judgment.

Under the Administrative Litigation Law, the Wuxi Intermediate Court should have held a hearing. However, the collegial panel (Presiding Judge Peng Guoshun, Judge Chen Shengli, and Judge Fu Min) issued a perverse judgment directly, without holding a hearing. It ignored all the obvious and serious violations in the first-instance judgment and brazenly issued a perverse judgment, acting as a protective shield for Liangxi police’s unlawful conduct.

Shen Aibin said: “The extent of the darkness and evil in Wuxi’s judicial system is beyond words. The courts, the last line of defense for social fairness and justice, have now completely collapsed. Judges have become agents of evil. The judicial dregs, led by the police as a gang of thugs, not only act as accomplices to corrupt officials in robbing and plundering the people’s property, but also serve as the vanguard in attacking, suppressing, and persecuting people who petition to defend their rights. This gang abuses its power and perverts the law, is utterly inhumane, and, wearing the uniform of the People’s Police, commits wrongdoing, abuses power, does evil, and acts as it pleases. The dregs in grassroots Party committees, governments, and the judiciary have become the ‘three mountains’ sitting on the people’s backs. Ordinary people have nowhere to seek redress for their grievances; calling to Heaven brings no answer, and calling to Earth brings no response. This is a sorrow and disgrace for the Communist Party, which claims to guide a community with a shared future for humanity.”

At present, Wuxi police have opened a criminal case against Shen Aibin using thuggish methods. After undergoing criminal detention and residential surveillance, he is now on bail pending trial. This website will closely follow developments in Shen Aibin’s situation.

Shen Aibin’s telephone number: 17348228687.