Jiang Zhan Chun, a rights activist from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, intercepted and sent back by police after going to the Ministry of Public Security to register a petition; currently unreachable

(Rights Protection Network Information Center report) On April 10, 2026, this outlet learned that this morning, Jiang Zhan Chun, a rights activist from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, went to the Ministry of Public Security in accordance with procedure to register and report an issue. However, as soon as he arrived at the entrance to the Ministry of Public Security, before he had registered, he was intercepted by police, forced into a vehicle and taken away, and brought to Yangqiao Police Station of the Fengtai District Public Security Bureau in Beijing. At Yangqiao Police Station, Jiang Zhan Chun was subjected to violence by police captain Yang Junming, who choked him. It is reported that another female petitioner whose name is unknown was also detained at Yangqiao Police Station. Subsequently, Jiang Zhan Chun was taken away by Nie Feng, director of Lucheng Police Station in Danyang, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, who said he would take him to the Danyang Public Security Bureau. Jiang Zhan Chun has since been unreachable, and when his family called his phone, no one answered.

This outlet will continue to follow developments concerning Jiang Zhan Chun.

Jiang Zhan Chun is a rights activist from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. Because of his rights activism, he has been detained many times, held in black jails, and even sentenced to prison. During his detention, he suffered countless forms of torture, beatings and abuse. The issues he went to the Ministry of Public Security to report this time include: his wife, Ma Yuzhen, and their three minor children being illegally deprived of their personal liberty by the Danyang Public Security Bureau; and the fact that on April 10 last year, while he was simply walking normally on Wangfujing Pedestrian Street in Beijing, he was without cause taken to Wangfujing Police Station and subsequently sent back to Zhenjiang to be placed under residential surveillance, during which he suffered torture, fainted on the spot and was taken to hospital for emergency treatment.

Reporting problems to government departments is a citizen's right. Jiang Zhan Chun followed the procedures and regulations to register and report an issue at the Ministry of Public Security, yet he was intercepted and detained by police. Since the authorities have established procedures for citizens to petition and report problems, yet in practice they obstruct and even deprive citizens of their right to petition, what exactly are they trying to do?

Profile of Jiang Zhan Chun: Born on August 11, 1976, he is from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, and lives at No. 12 Dongcaishi Street, Jingkou District, Zhenjiang City. He is a Christian, a person with a disability and a rights-protection citizen.

On December 20, 2008, after entering a train station for a business trip and arguing with security guards over showing his identity card following a routine baggage inspection, he was taken into the station duty room, where police forcibly demanded that he strip naked for inspection and beat him arbitrarily. Because he has a disability, after being pulled, dragged and beaten, he was completely unable to fight back. He was forced to call 110 dozens of times for help, but the police did not dispatch officers. When his wife, younger brother and other family members came to inquire, they too were beaten and verbally abused. He was ultimately taken to a police station to give a statement, while his wife and young son (only two years old) were detained alongside 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 petition bureau and the Nanjing Railway Sub-Bureau the next day to file complaints, but this produced no result, forcing him to embark on a long road of petitioning in Beijing.

On March 11, 2009, he was intercepted and sent back by petition-interception personnel from Sipaílou Street in Jingkou District, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, because he had gone to Beijing to petition. He was also locked up in Dongwu Hotel (a black jail), where he was threatened and beaten repeatedly by hired gangsters, causing him to be beaten unconscious on the ground and forcing an ambulance to take him to Zhenjiang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for emergency treatment. On September 24 of the same year, because he had again gone to Beijing to petition, he was jointly intercepted by stability-maintenance personnel from Sipaílou Street in Jingkou District, Zhenjiang City, and police in the jurisdiction. He was brought back under the pretext of “pursuing a fugitive” and held for 10 days in a “hotel” (in fact a black jail). After being beaten nearly to death, he was then placed under 10 days of administrative detention by Sipaílou police on the grounds of “intentionally causing harm to government personnel.” Subsequently, because he petitioned in Beijing, he was repeatedly taken back and held in black jails for several days.

On March 5 and November 9, 2012, he was questioned by police from Maizidian Police Station in Beijing twice when passing near the embassy district, then given 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 he unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square to complain about his rights-protection experiences, he was given 10 days of administrative detention by police from the Tiananmen Branch. 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 statutory period for 472 days and after the Jingkou District Procuratorate in Zhenjiang reviewed his case and withdrew the charges, at which point he was released not guilty. During this period, because his wife had also engaged in rights activism over the issue of being a “married-out woman” whose village leaders refused to issue her a homestead, she was arrested by police in January 2016 and subsequently sentenced to two years in prison by the Danyang Court of Zhenjiang City. 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 they were again sent back to their place of origin by petition-interception personnel. His wife was administratively detained for seven days, their young son (more than three years old) was sent to the Danyang Orphanage, and Jiang himself was also sent back while traveling in Beidaihe. He was also criminally detained for one month on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”

On February 26, 2019, while the couple were dining with several Christian friends and discussing their baptism, petition-interception personnel unexpectedly found them and took them back to Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, where they were immediately criminally detained for one month on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On September 26 of the same year, he went to Yanjiao, Hebei Province, to work in order to provide expenses for his three children’s schooling and daily life, but he was again taken back by petition-interception personnel and criminally detained by police from Jingkou District, Zhenjiang City, on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” On October 25 of the same year, the charges against him were changed to “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 and was secretly held at three different places during that period. 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 of Zhenjiang City 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 of Zhenjiang City, 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. He served his sentence at Tongzhou Prison in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. Because Jiang Zhan Chun was repeatedly beaten during residential surveillance, leaving him unable to stand on both legs, he could only walk with difficulty on his knees when meeting with his lawyer. Having been beaten repeatedly and unable to endure it, he once attempted suicide with a network cable and by slashing his wrists.

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

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