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2000 petitioners in Shanghai, and senior CCP member resigns

On April 22, more than 2000 petitioners in Shanghai gathered at the Letters and Complaints Bureau of the city government to demand their rights be safeguarded. Petitioners demanded the Central Government send an investigation team to Shanghai. In addition, a nearly-four-decades-old senior party member of the Chinese Communist party, from Nanhui County, issued an open letter to Hu Jintao declaring she was quitting the party.

Lu Qiu Shuiying, a 75-year-old issued an open letter to Hu Jintao, the CCP’s Central Committee General Secretary, declaring she is quitting the party. Her son stated his mother has lost confidence in the Communist Party. He said,
“From Public Security to the courts, the law is not complied with. My mother is very disappointed, and I am also not satisfied. Therefore my mother has requested to quit the party.”

Lu Qiu Shuiying had been in the party for forty years before her retirement; she was a section chief of a military workshop in fertiliser plant at Nanhui County. Her letter stated,
“In view that our party has degenerated from the ‘Working Class Party’ to the ‘Rich and Powerful who Defraud People Party’, I therefore authorise my son, Yeping, to issue a statement to the CCP general secretary of my quitting the party.”

It is understood that the number of petitioners regarding demolished homes in Shanghai is much higher than the number of petitioners in Beijing. A petitioner, Shi Lin, said,
“The Letters and Complaints Bureau in Shanghai and Shanghai’s municipal government reported to Beijing that they had resolved 94% of petitioners’ problem, but actually 6% of petitioners’ problems had failed to be resolve.”

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