Li Naitang and 255 Other Shaanxi Rights Defenders: Collective Submission Regarding Alleged Systemic Procedural Formalism, Abuse of Power, Retaliation Against the Public and Other Legal and Disciplinary Violations by Procuratorial Organs

Dear Central Inspection Group：

We are more than 200 individuals and relatives from various parts of Shaanxi who have suffered unlawful violations or unfair treatment by criminal law-enforcement、administrative law-enforcement and other power-wielding departments。，We are hereby making a real-name and truthful report regarding serious disciplinary and legal violations and breaches of judicial fairness by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate in handling public supervision、complaints and appeals、and case-review work，including judicial procedures spinning their wheels、delayed performance of duties、suppressing cases without investigation、abuse of power、and retaliation against petitioners，and respectfully request that the inspection group initiate investigations in accordance with regulations、correct errors and pursue accountability、and safeguard the lawful rights and interests of the public and the credibility of the judicial system。

Complainants：Li Naitang、Zhang Heping、Li Qihong、Du Shufang、Shi Xiuju、Wang Xiaoqin、Zhang Xiaojuan、Tao Lanmei、Zan Hengzhong、Zhang Minxia and others（a list of 256 people is attached below）

Li Naitang: Address：No. 10, Baishulin, Beilin District, Xi'an，Tel. 18509214480；

Respondent1：Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: Ying Yong

Respondent2：Prosecutor General of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate: Wang Xuguang

Respondent3：Director of the Tenth Procuratorial Division of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate: Wang Xiaodong

Subject of the complaint：

Prosecutor General Ying Yong of the Supreme People's Procuratorate has long served as a black protective umbrella for the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate，while procuratorial personnel of the Tenth Procuratorial Division of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate，headed by Wang Xiaodong，have long abused public power to shield unlawful handling of cases by lower-level public security and judicial organs，allow procedures to spin their wheels，create unjust cases，refuse to correct errors and violently suppress and persecute petitioners. Prosecutor General Wang Xuguang has failed to supervise，rectify or correct errors and has tacitly allowed and condoned Wang Xiaodong and others to act recklessly. These are alleged legal and disciplinary violations。

Collective demands:

1. We respectfully request that the Central Inspection Group thoroughly investigate the serious problems of procedures spinning their wheels、failure to docket cases，suppressing cases without investigation，failure to investigate violations，and failure to perform duties and inaction by the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate in handling unjust and wrongful cases from various parts of Shaanxi Province；

2. Investigate in accordance with regulations the dereliction of duty、abuse of power and bureaucratic disciplinary violations by the procurators handling cases and officials in charge at all subordinate districts and levels headed by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate，and pursue accountability in accordance with regulations；

3. Immediately end the procedural formalism and, in accordance with law, reopen and conduct off-site reviews、supervised case handling、conclude the cases within a specified period、and provide written replies to the complaints and appeals and legal-supervision matters submitted by the 256 rights defenders in Shaanxi；

4. Correct the retaliation and abuse of power used to obstruct the 256 rights defenders in Shaanxi and restore their lawful judicial rights；

5. Publicize the results of the investigation and handling，carry out rectification through the cases and make immediate corrections，eliminate the chaos of judicial procedures spinning their wheels and public power retaliating against the public，and ensure that every lead discovered and transferred by the inspection results in an outcome and that every matter receives a response。

Facts and grounds：

（1）Serious procedural formalism in the judicial system，inaction、slow action、failure to handle cases and the squandering of the public's rights-protection procedures

The core manifestations of procedural formalism are: accepting but not handling cases、conducting reviews without results、failing to respond after deadlines have passed、verbal delays、blank written responses and going through procedures without performing duties，resulting in the public's lawful demands being left unresolved for long periods and judicial supervision becoming a mere formality。

Specific facts and circumstances：

For many years，the 256 rights defenders in Shaanxi have, in accordance with law and regulations and through the proper levels, submitted written complaints、appeals and applications for legal supervision to the Supreme People's Procuratorate，the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate and other procuratorial organs. Their materials are complete，the facts are clear and the evidence is complete，fully satisfying the statutory conditions for acceptance and review by procuratorial organs.

During the rights-protection process，the Supreme People's Procuratorate，the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate and case-handling personnel have displayed the following typical problems of procedural formalism and dereliction of duty：

1. Exceeding statutory case-handling deadlines and delaying matters without valid reason：Under the Rules of the People's Procuratorates on Criminal Procedure and the Provisions on the Handling of Complaints and Appeals by the People's Procuratorates，procuratorial organs have clear statutory deadlines for handling and responding to public complaints、appeals and supervision applications. The 256 rights defenders have repeatedly traveled for years to the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the provincial procuratorate with materials concerning their individual cases and, to this day, have not received lawful acceptance or written responses. There is no statutory reason for an extension and no written notice of an extension has been provided。

2. Failure to accept、review、handle or provide feedback：We have repeatedly inquired in person，by telephone and in writing about the progress of our cases. Case-handling personnel have merely fobbed us off with vague phrases such as “the matter is being handled、wait for further study、awaiting approval by the leadership.” For long periods there have been no review opinions、investigations or verifications、written responses or handling results，and the case-handling procedures have completely spun their wheels.

3. Letters reporting the matter that we repeatedly mailed to Ying Yong，Prosecutor General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate，Wang Xuguang，Prosecutor General of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate，and other departmental leaders have disappeared without a response for years. We have serious reason to suspect that they were maliciously withheld by Wang Xiaodong and others to deceive superiors and conceal the wrongdoing. Because the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the provincial procuratorate have colluded for mutual protection，deliberately hollowed out the judicial-supervision function，and, regarding the alleged judicial violations and case-handling irregularities reported by the256rights defenders in Shaanxi，the procuratorate deliberately avoided the core disputes and failed to investigate、collect evidence、correct errors or supervise，going through the motions of a procedural process while in substance refusing to perform its statutory duty of legal supervision，resulting in no one being held accountable for unlawful case handling and completely blocking the public's channels for seeking redress。

4. We once received the following text message in response to reporting materials mailed to several leaders of the Supreme People's Procuratorate: “【Supreme People's Procuratorate】XXX: We have received your petition materials. After review, based on the materials currently available, the issues you have reported do not fall within the jurisdiction of our procuratorate under the law and relevant regulations. We have transferred the materials to the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate.” The strange thing is that when we took the text message to the reception center of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate to inquire about the handling result, staff members always told us that no such matter could be found and that they had not received any response from the Supreme People's Procuratorate. We have serious reason to suspect that the transfers or supervisory instructions by the Supreme People's Procuratorate concerning the unjust and wrongful cases of each of us were maliciously withheld by Wang Xiaodong and others and even falsely reported as closed. Because the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the provincial procuratorate have colluded，repeatedly shifted responsibility and allowed matters to cycle through empty procedures for years，and still failed to perform their duties after repeated demands，they have left the public's lawful demands unresolved for long periods，forcing256parties to travel for years to pursue their rights and expend enormous amounts of time、energy and money，with their lawful rights and interests continuously harmed and judicial fairness seriously absent。

5. Staff members of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate treat petitioners who come in person to report problems in a savage and crude manner. For years, they have operated only one reception window, worn no name badges, carried no work certificates and provided no on-site evaluation system. They basically fob off all petitioners with excuses such as “Your issue does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate”；“Your procedure has not yet reached us”；or “Your procedure has already been completed……”

（2）Abuse of procuratorial authority and malicious retaliation against people seeking rights protection、petitioners and those exercising supervision

The individual petitions by the 256 rights defenders in Shaanxi were conducted lawfully and rationally throughout. They submitted materials in accordance with regulations and engaged in no persistent or disruptive petitioning and no extreme words or actions. However, because of their continued supervision and pursuit of accountability, staff members of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate abused their authority，acted out of personal resentment and used public power to retaliate against the informants. The specific facts are as follows:

1. Hostile attitudes、making things difficult for the public and suppressing rights protection：They maliciously resisted normal appeals and requests for supervision, shouted at people during reception, deliberately made things difficult and denied the lawful right to seek redress, thereby covertly suppressing public supervision。

2. Selective performance of duties and targeted suppression：They deliberately shelved and refused to handle all lawful supervision matters concerning the individual cases raised by us, while covertly punishing people exercising their rights lawfully through delays, refusals to respond, cold treatment and procedural obstruction。

3. Using authority to create obstacles to rights protection：They refuse to issue documents as required by law, refuse to inform people of case progress and refuse to perform their duty to respond, using barriers of power to block the public's avenues for judicial relief. This constitutes typical abuse of power and retaliation against informants。

4. Seriously damaging judicial credibility：Procuratorial organs are supposed to supervise the law, administer justice fairly and protect the rights of the people. However, they retaliate against lawful petitioners through public power and hollow out legal supervision through procedures that merely spin their wheels, seriously violating judicial discipline and the principle of serving the people through the administration of justice, and allegedly committing disciplinary and legal violations including abuse of power, inaction and arbitrary action.

A public notice hangs on the wall of the reception room of the Procuratorial Affairs Center of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate. It states：“The scope of petitions accepted by the 12309 Procuratorial Service Center:

1. Complaints reporting unlawful conduct in investigative activities by investigative organs。

2. Complaints reporting unlawful or disciplinary conduct by staff members of people's procuratorates。

3. Appeals against handling decisions of people's procuratorates。

4. Appeals against effective judgments and rulings of people's courts。

5. Applications for state compensation submitted by citizens、legal persons or other organizations。

6. Applications for judicial assistance submitted by victims of criminal offenses or persons whose civil rights have been infringed and their close relatives。

7. Inquiries regarding procedural information on cases and legal consultations。

8. Surrender and confession。

9. Suggestions and opinions for strengthening and improving procuratorial work and the building of the procuratorial team。

10. Other petition matters that should be handled by people's procuratorates in accordance with law。”

Our many unjust and wrongful cases fully fall within the acceptance scope of items 1、2、3、4、9 and 10 on the public notice. However, almost every petitioner has for years been fobbed off with excuses such as “Your issue does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate”；“Your procedure has not yet reached us”；or “Your procedure has already been completed……”. They go through the motions and finish receiving the petitioner within a few minutes, or even refuse to make a record. They continue to act as they please without any improvement even during the Central Inspection Group's inspection period!

（3）The Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate“12309Procuratorial Service Center”has produced one problem after another under the years-long leadership of Director Wang Xiaodong，and urgently requires a special task force dispatched by the central authorities to supervise rectification。

Because they petitioned in accordance with law, all the complainants have firsthand experience dealing with the 12309 Procuratorial Service Center of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate.

Years of visiting and petitioning have completely overturned Shaanxi petitioners' understanding of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate, particularly the “12309 Procuratorial Service Center” headed by Director Wang Xiaodong. The procuratorate is no longer a legal-supervision organ that dares to uphold justice and has the courage to supervise.

Wang Xiaodong and others have pulled out its teeth and chopped off its claws, turning it into a lame tiger that can only roar, doing nothing but moving materials around, mechanically copying templates and forwarding other people's materials. The so-called procuratorial supervision has become a laughingstock. Not knowing how to supervise, not wanting to supervise, being unwilling to supervise and not daring to supervise have become the norm…… Its “12309 Procuratorial Service Center” is unworthy of its reputation. Whom does it serve? What has it done to serve them? To whom are its services and contents explained? It emphasizes its own rights while saying nothing about the responsibilities and obligations of public officials. It tells you which rules you must observe but does not tell you about the rights granted to citizens by law. It demands that you petition in accordance with law while allowing itself to receive petitions unlawfully and knowingly violating the law…… It talks about procuratorial services but treats petitioners as troublemakers, acting as a black protective umbrella for criminal forces by guarding against them with all its might. It may install surveillance cameras to monitor you, but you are not allowed to use a mobile phone to monitor it. The service center of a provincial procuratorate has, under Director Wang Xiaodong's leadership, actually become the imposing “Mount Weihu,” a den of bandits. Anyone who visits it leaves chilled and desolate.

1. As soon as petitioners enter the gate, their mobile phones are forcibly confiscated and controlled. This is a blatant infringement of rights. As a law-enforcement organ, the procuratorate is not unaware of this; rather, it knowingly violates the law.

2. During petitioning, reception staff receive petitioners unlawfully. If this causes dissatisfaction, staff order security guards to forcibly drive petitioners away, abusing their authority.

3. Multiple cameras are installed at the petitioning site to monitor petitioners. Security guards without law-enforcement authority carry body cameras and take photographs and record audio at will, infringing human rights, while reception staff do not wear formal uniforms, display work badges or give their names, and provide no complaint telephone number, unlawfully refusing to accept public supervision.

4. There are more than three reception positions in the middle of the reception hall, but no reception staff. In practice, only one room receives visitors, and only one or two people are received at a time, which plainly cannot meet demand. Yet regardless of how petitioners appeal or plead, the “service center” refuses to make corrections. “I am doing practical things for the public” has become a laughingstock.

5. Reception staff have various identities, including administrative personnel who do not understand procuratorial work and are not procurators, clerks who lack qualifications to receive petitioners, and procurators in secondary positions awaiting retirement who only want to collect their salaries and do not want to take responsibility. They act on orders: “Just push the petitioners away.” No one performs the duty of explaining the law and reasoning with petitioners.

6. Receiving petitioners is like playing volleyball. Reception staff do not accept, respond to or explain petition matters, and refuse to report them directly to leaders. Most of the time they fob people off and shift responsibility by saying, “The director receives petitioners on Friday; come again on Friday.”

7. Even when many people petition on Fridays, when the director receives visitors, staff limit the number to eight or fewer. As soon as working hours end, the director immediately leaves and never explains or clarifies anything. Even if you have traveled hundreds of kilometers from remote areas in southern or northern Shaanxi, they tell you to come again the following week. The method of receiving petitioners is: “Our petition department is like a hospital registration office: it only registers patients and does not treat them. I can only report the matter to the relevant department; there is nothing else I can do,” or, “We have already spoken with the relevant department. Go home and wait for a call; they will contact you.” They try every means to send petitioners away. Even if you cite the law and explain that the procuratorate has violated the rules, they remain unconcerned and coax you out. Unlawful case handling is widespread; they know that officials protect one another and that no one will be held accountable.

8. When non-group incidents occur at petitioning sites, reception staff never come out to handle them in accordance with regulations. They shift the problem to security guards, who may intimidate petitioners in minor cases, use force and forcibly expel petitioners in serious cases, or even use their privileges to pressure public security officers to find reasons or excuses to take petitioners away.

9，Hiring security guards，having them impersonate judicial police and enforce the law illegally，and persecuting petitioners。

Before 2022，the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate hired security guards mainly to work as doormen and handle mail, and the people hired wore standard security uniforms. In 2023, after the so-called “12309 Procuratorial Service Center” began operating, security guards were assigned to work at the petition center for appearances and to intimidate ordinary people. They illegally put on police uniforms and police insignia and, in the capacity of judicial police, illegally exercised law-enforcement powers. They often present themselves as law-enforcement personnel, berate petitioners, photograph them at will and forcibly inspect the contents of their mobile phones, deleting materials unfavorable to them. They have even used violence to drive petitioners out of the petition room or wrestle with and injure them. The conduct of the security guards is deplorable, but those who use security guards and have them impersonate judicial police to enforce the law illegally and persecute petitioners are even more heinous and deserve utter condemnation!

10. The Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate has authorized positions for judicial police but none for auxiliary police. Judicial police on duty do not wear uniforms and instead wear ordinary clothes. Meanwhile, security guards wear police uniforms at work and enforce the law illegally. This is a strange phenomenon. The purpose is presumably the same as in various incidents that have occurred in society: judicial police receive the credit and awards for meritorious deeds, while security guards take the blame. Those always sent into the breach are the children of ordinary people. This must be exposed: the personnel wearing police uniforms and working at the petition center of the provincial procuratorate are security guards, not judicial police. They have no law-enforcement authority, cannot interfere with the conduct of petitioners, cannot photograph petitioners without authorization and, still less, can forcibly inspect or delete information on petitioners' mobile phones without authorization…… Security guards who infringe rights may be refused and even reported to the police. The People's Police Law provides that police insignia, uniforms, police equipment and identification documents are for the exclusive use of the people's police; no other person or organization may possess or use them. Violators shall have the uniforms and insignia confiscated and may be detained or fined.

（4）We respectfully request that the Central Inspection Group not again transfer the complaint and reporting materials concerning the Shaanxi public's reports of legal and disciplinary violations by procuratorial organs to the respondent, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, for handling，in order to prevent the public from again suffering retaliation by procuratorial organs。

Article 30 of the State Council'sRegulations on Petitioning Workprovides: The reporting and denunciation materials of petitioners and relevant information must not be disclosed or transferred to the persons or organizations being reported or denounced。

Article 52(3)of theRules on the Handling of Reporting and Complaint Matters by Discipline-Inspection and Supervision Organsexpressly provides: The information or contents of informants and complainants must not be disclosed, nor may reporting and complaint materials be transferred to the organizations or personnel being reported or complained against. Violators shall be dealt with seriously in accordance with regulations and discipline; where an official violation or crime is suspected, legal responsibility shall be pursued in accordance with law 。

Article 32 of theRegulations of the Communist Party of China on the Work of Discipline-Inspection Organs in Handling Complaints and Appealsalso provides: Reporting and complaint materials must not be transferred to the person being reported or complained against, and the informant or complainant and the contents must be kept confidential. Violators shall be held accountable 。

From the perspective of procedural legality，all respondent organizations, as the subjects of the reports, have an inherent conflict of interest in “investigating themselves and responding to themselves” and do not possess the qualification to handle the petition matters submitted by the complainants to the Central Inspection Group. Under these circumstances, all respondent organizations nevertheless sent text-message responses to the complainants regarding their petitions. Their response conduct lacks a lawful basis in terms of the competent subject and is essentially unlawful. The conclusions of all such responses likewise have no legal effect and should not be recognized, nor can they be considered impartial in any way. This will not resolve any problem; it will only facilitate further retaliation by the respondent organizations against all complainants. All responses in any form issued by the respondent organizations regarding complaint materials transferred to them by the Central Inspection Group should immediately be revoked in accordance with law, and all respondent organizations should be held legally accountable for their violations。

Dear leaders of the Central Inspection Group: A film called Article 20, directed by Zhang Yimou, once ignited in ordinary citizens a flame of yearning for the rule of law and fairness and justice. The prosecutor in the film says: “We are not handling a case，we are handling someone else's life,” creating the image of a prosecutor who speaks out for justice and possesses an overwhelming sense of justice. We have not watched the film and will not watch it in the future, because the 12309 service center headed by Prosecutor General Wang Xuguang and his subordinate, Wang Xiaodong, director of the Tenth Procuratorial Division, at the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate, has for years completely degenerated into a black protective umbrella for unlawful case handling by lower-level public security and judicial organs. As a result, the ordinary lives of all complainants from various parts of Shaanxi have been completely changed and plunged into a painful vortex of suffering. We have never seen the righteous image of Prosecutor Han Ming in the film and are even less likely to encounter it. The prosecutors and judges we encounter in real life are all devils who eat people without leaving the bones, experts in handling cases unlawfully and killing without shedding blood. We respectfully request that the Central Inspection Group promptly establish a special task force, supervise the cases, take forceful action to rectify the chaos in Shaanxi's procuratorial system, firmly stand on the side of ordinary people, ensure that procuratorial power is exercised on behalf of the people of Shaanxi, and satisfy the people of Shaanxi.

Attachments:

Three individual case materials and the collective list of256rights defenders

1.Collective list of256rights defenders

2.Li Qihong of Lantian County, Xi'anRequesting that Chen Zhangyong, head of the Central Inspection Group No. 10, supervise and handle the major criminal case involving Wang Hao and Wei Suikang, who allegedly interfered for 10 years with the public security authorities' failure to docket the cases against alleged violent kidnappers, illegal imprisoners, intentional assailants and traffickers in women He Xinfeng, Geng Hongbo, He Wei, Zhang Bo, Cao Yanghong and Cao Jian'e, directly accept the case and issue legal documents to the applicant after assuming jurisdiction at a higher level over the case involving gang-related and organized-crime offensesindividual case material，From April 22, 2026, to May 27,Li Qihong sent 12 express-mail packages and 10 registered letters to Central Inspection Group No.10,and as of today，has received only6text messages from the Supreme People's Procuratorate，which merely went through the motions，deceiving the complainant。

3.Wang Yingqiang of Xixian New Area, Xi'anComplaint materials regarding the suspected systematic and serious violation of the Party's six disciplines by procuratorial organs in handling the September 28 intentional-injury case and other casesindividual case material，On May 15, 2026, victim's family member Wang Xiaoqin mailed the complaint materials to Central Inspection Group No.10。The express-mail tracking number was:1190500652648，At 9:11 p.m. on May 26, 2026, a text message was received from the Supreme People's Procuratorate:The issue you reported does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Supreme People's Procuratorate……，once again leaving the matter trapped in procedural formalism，with no way out。

4.Shi Xiuju of Xi'anApplication requesting the initiation of an investigation and pursuit of accountability regarding the suspected dereliction of duty and abuse of power by the Weiyang District People's Procuratorate of Xi'an and procurator Lu Yuindividual case material，On April 25, 2026, Shi Xiuju mailed the individual case material to Central Inspection Group No.10。The express-mail tracking number was:1190500107848，As of now，Shi Xiuju has received neither any text-message response，nor any telephone notification or written response。It has completely disappeared without a response。

Complainants: 256 rights defenders in Shaanxi May 28, 2026