Jiang Zhanchun, a Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, human rights defender, forcibly sent back from Beijing by local authorities, beaten and injured, taken for emergency treatment by 120 ambulance

(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On April 12, 2026, this outlet learned that on April 10, 2026, Jiang Zhanchun, a human rights defender from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, went to the Ministry of Public Security in accordance with procedures to register and report a problem, but was intercepted by Beijing police and taken to Yangqiao Police Station of the Fengtai Public Security Sub-Bureau. (For details, see Rights Defense Network: “Jiang Zhanchun, a rights defender from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, intercepted and sent back by police after going to the Ministry of Public Security to register and report a problem; currently unreachable”https://wqw2010.blogspot.com/2026/04/blog-post_10.html )

On April 10, Jiang Zhanchun was immediately handed over by Beijing’s Yangqiao Police Station to local police in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. Because Jiang Zhanchun cried for help, a mineral-water bottle was stuffed into his mouth. Nie Feng, head of Lucheng Police Station in Danyang, Zhenjiang, led three police officers and auxiliary police officers, seized Jiang Zhanchun’s mobile phone, and drove him back to Zhenjiang under escort. During the process, Jiang Zhanchun was beaten by police officers including Zhu Ziwen (phonetic), sustaining injuries to multiple parts of his body. On the evening of April 10, Jiang Zhanchun was taken to the case-handling center of the Danyang Public Security Bureau in Zhenjiang and held there until the evening of April 11. Jiang Zhanchun requested that legal documents be issued, but the police refused to provide them, citing a broken printer. During the two days he was deprived of his personal freedom, the police provided Jiang Zhanchun with only two meals.

On the evening of April 11, police drove Jiang Zhanchun to his home and carried him out of the vehicle. The police then hurried to leave, driving straight away and nearly running over Jiang Zhanchun’s body as he crawled on the ground; they stopped only after Jiang Zhanchun cried for help. Jiang Zhanchun’s wife, Ma Yuzhen, then called a 120 ambulance. After the ambulance arrived, however, police would not allow Ma Yuzhen to leave with it to accompany and care for her family member, demanding that she call 110 and falsely claiming that the parking lot she operated was restricting the police officers’ personal freedom. Ma Yuzhen clearly explained that the parking lot’s barrier gate was an automatic identification and raising-and-lowering system, and that the police vehicle could be automatically identified and leave at any time. But the police insisted that Ma Yuzhen could not accompany the 120 ambulance and had to call 110 first. Because Jiang Zhanchun’s condition was urgent, Ma Yuzhen had no choice but to call 110. Only after a 110 police vehicle arrived was she able to leave with the 120 ambulance.

From Beijing to Zhenjiang, the police did not present any legal documents during the entire process. Jiang Zhanchun’s mobile phone is still being held by the police, also without any legal documents. Police had previously seized several of Jiang Zhanchun’s mobile phones without legal documentation and refused to return them.

This outlet will continue to follow Jiang Zhanchun’s subsequent situation.

Profile of Jiang Zhanchun: A human rights defender from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, born on August 11, 1976, and a person with disabilities. He has been detained many times, held in black jails and even sentenced to prison for rights defense activities; while in custody, he suffered countless instances of torture, beatings and abuse.

On December 20, 2008, after entering a railway station to take a train for a business trip and arguing with security personnel over showing his identity card following a routine luggage inspection, he was taken into the station duty room, where police forcibly required him to strip naked for inspection and beat him indiscriminately. Because he had a disability, after being pulled, dragged and beaten, he was completely unable to fight back. He was then forced to call 110 dozens of times for help, but the police actually did not respond. When his wife, younger brother and other family members came to inquire, they too were violently beaten and verbally abused. He was ultimately taken to a police station to give a statement, while his wife and young son, only 2 years old, were held there with him until late in the evening before being allowed to return home. Having been beaten without cause, and seeking fairness and justice, he went to the local letters-and-visits bureau and the Nanjing Railway Sub-Bureau the next day to file complaints, but without result, and was then forced to embark on the long road of petitioning in Beijing.

On March 11, 2009, after going to Beijing to petition, he was intercepted and sent back by petition-interception personnel from Sipailou Subdistrict in Jingkou District, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and detained in Dongwu Hotel (a black jail). He was repeatedly threatened and beaten by underworld enforcers, causing him to be beaten unconscious on the ground and requiring an ambulance to take him to Zhenjiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for emergency treatment. On September 24 of the same year, after going to Beijing to petition again, he was jointly intercepted by stability-maintenance personnel from Sipailou Subdistrict in Jingkou District, Zhenjiang, and police from the jurisdiction. He was brought back under the pretext of “pursuing a fugitive,” detained in a “hotel” (actually a black jail) for 10 days, and beaten nearly to death. He was then placed under 10 days of administrative detention by Sipailou police on the grounds of “intentionally injuring government personnel.” Afterward, because he petitioned in Beijing, he was repeatedly brought back and held in black jails for several days.

On March 5 and November 9, 2012, when passing near Beijing’s embassy district on two occasions, he was questioned by police from Maizidian Police Station and then placed under five days of administrative detention. After his release, he was again sent back to his hometown by petition-interception personnel;

On September 9, 2015, after displaying a banner in Tiananmen Square to appeal over his rights-defense experiences, he was placed under 10 days of administrative detention by police from the Tiananmen Sub-Bureau. After his release, he was sent back to his place of origin and criminally detained at the Danyang Detention Center. He was not released until January 2017, after being held beyond the legal time limit for 472 days and the Jingkou District Procuratorate in Zhenjiang withdrew the prosecution after reviewing his case, at which point he was released not guilty. During this period, his wife, who had also engaged in rights defense over the issue of “being a married-out woman and the village leaders refusing to issue a homestead,” was arrested by police in January 2016 and later sentenced to two years in prison by the Danyang People’s Court in Zhenjiang; she was not released until November 22, 2017.

In 2018, seeking to make a living, the couple took their young child to Beijing to look for work, but were again sent back to their place of origin by petition-interception personnel. His wife was placed under seven days of administrative detention, their young son (more than 3 years old) was sent to the Danyang orphanage, and he himself was also sent back while traveling in Beidaihe and criminally detained for one month on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

On February 26, 2019, when the couple were dining with several Christian friends and discussing their baptism, they were unexpectedly found by local petition-interception personnel and taken back to Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, after which they were immediately criminally detained for one month on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On September 26 of the same year, after going to Yanjiao, Hebei Province, to work in order to provide expenses for the schooling and daily lives of their three children, he was again seized and brought back by petition-interception personnel, and criminally detained by police from Jingkou District, Zhenjiang, on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On October 25 of the same year, the charges against him were changed to suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and “disrupting the working order of state organs.” From October 25, 2019, to February 27, 2020, he was again placed under residential surveillance at a designated location, during which he was secretly held at three different locations. On February 27, 2020, he was again detained at the Zhenjiang Detention Center. In April 2020, he was formally arrested by the Jingkou District Procuratorate in Zhenjiang on the same charges. On July 1, 2020, his case was transferred by the Jingkou District Procuratorate to the Jingkou District Court. On April 9, 2021, his case was heard by the Runzhou District Court in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. On October 15, 2021, he was ultimately sentenced by that court to three years and six months in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” with his sentence running until February 14, 2023, which he served at Tongzhou Prison in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. Because Jiang Zhanchun was repeatedly viciously beaten while under residential surveillance, leaving him unable to stand on both legs, he could only walk with difficulty on his knees when meeting with his lawyer. Unable to endure the repeated beatings, he attempted suicide with a network cable and by slashing his wrists.

On April 9, 2025, while Jiang Zhanchun was resting on a chair on Wangfujing Pedestrian Street in Beijing, police took him to Wangfujing Police Station and then transferred him to Nie Feng, deputy head of Lucheng Police Station under the Danyang Public Security Bureau. Ma Yuzhen called Nie Feng to ask about it, and Nie Feng claimed that he was acting on orders. On April 10, Jiang Zhanchun was placed under residential surveillance at a designated location by the Jurong Public Security Bureau in Zhenjiang on the charge of “disrupting the working order of state organs.” On July 17 of the same year, after more than three months under residential surveillance, he suffered a cervical-spine injury as a result of torture and fainted on the spot. He was taken to hospital for emergency treatment and only then granted bail pending trial.