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| Ma Zhenchuan (Director of the Beijing Public Security Bureau) |
Zhou, Yongkang (Left one) (Web Photo)
On the 16th session of the 13th National People’s Congress held on Feb. 26, 2010, Ma Zhenchuan was removed from his office as Director of the Beijing Public Security Bureau. Simultaneously, Wu Yuhua was removed from his office as Director of the Bureau of Justice in Beijing. In the meeting, new procuratorates of eight counties in Beijing were appointed. This is a rare maneuver in the system of Public Security and Justice in Beijing. It is said to be an important step by Hu Jingtao and Wenjiabao’s administration to solve the problems in the political and justice system controlled by Zhou Yongkang.
The Ministry of Public Security in China, in name, is an agency subordinate to the State Department. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party’s system of Public Security, Procuratorate, and Courts is under the control of the Communist Party’s Central Political and Legal Committee, hence controlled by Luo Gan and Zhou Yongkang, two major agents of Jiang Zemin. It is almost a separate kingdom, the darkest of the dark in the Communist Party. Some netizens have said, “Premier Wen Jiabao can handle the financial crisis, but is helpless in front of the police abusing their power.”
The most infamous power abuse in the system of Public Security, Procuratorate, and Courts is in Beijing. They conduct massive arrests, suppress human rights activists and victims who seek to appeal for justice by visiting government agencies. During the period of the Beijing Olympics and the National Day Celebration, methods of state terror were adopted in Beijing to maintain the so called stability. It has largely damaged the civil and harmonious image that Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao are trying to establish.
Wu Fan, Chief Editor of China Affairs, told the reporter from Sound of Hope International Radio Station in an interview, “The Central Political and Legal Committee is in charge of the system of Public Security Police, Justice, Procuratorate, and armed police. But its main purpose is to maintain their power, control the people, and suppress them. At present, Hu Jintao’s goal is to target some of the corrupted officials subordinate to this committee.”
Since the beginning of last year, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao’s administration started to investigate the high ranking officials in the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme Court, and other high ranking officials in the legal system, through the cases of Huang Guangyu, the richest man in China, and the case of Wang Yi, former deputy director of China’s National Development Bank. They removed from office the chief commander and political commissar of the Armed Police Force in Beijing.
Since March of last year, there have been rumors about Ma Zhenchuan, Director of Beijing Public Security Bureau, being investigated. There were many other people in the Public Bureau under investigation, including Zheng Shaodong, the assistant Secretary of the Ministry of Public Security and the Bureau Chief of the Financial Crime Investigation Bureau, Xiang Huaizhu, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Financial Crime Investigation Bureau, and Yu Bing, Director of Internet Monitoring Department of Beijing Public Security Bureau.
According to the book, China's Black Gold, distributed in Hong Kong, Wen Jiabao’s order to arrest Huang Guangyu and Zheng Shaodong was like an earthquake, shocking the public security departments. It is a case involving many high profile representatives at the level of department director in the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, Beijing Public Security Bureau, Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department and Liaoning Provincial Public Security Department. The investigation prompted an immediate reaction from the Ministry of Public Security, who, in turn, arrested several subordinates of Wen Jiabao.
Ma Zhenchuan was the Commander in Chief for the Olympic Security Commanding Center in Beijing. During the time he was being investigated, Ma continued to make appearances in public, as if to demonstrate his power.
The one who assumed Ma Zhenchuan’s position as Director of Beijing Public Security Bureau is Fu Zhenghua, the former deputy director of Beijing Public Security bureau. Fu is also under investigation for covering He Yang, also known as He Gangqiang. The latter is suspected to have illegally embezzled capital and property of China’s Rail Road Transportation Company.
Wu Yuhua, who was removed from his position as Director of the Bureau of Justice of Beijing, was reported to the State Audit Bureau by Li Jinsong, a lawyer from Beijing, for embezzlement of tens of millions yuan (Chinese currency).
Lawyers from Beijing, including Li Subin, Yang Huiwen, Xie Yanyi, Teng Biao, and Tang Jitian, also reported Wu Yuhua, Director of the Bureau of Justice of Beijing and Li Dajin, Director of Beijing Lawyers’ Association, for extorting money from lawyers in the process of registration and annual audit. The registration fee, administration fee, and association fee that they collected amounts to more that one billion yuan.
On March 12, 2009, Li Subin, along with other nine lawyers in Beijing, jointly filed a criminal law suit against Wu Yuhua, director of Bureau of Justice of Beijing. On March 13, the Yitong Law Firm where Li Jinsong and Li Subin belonged, was ordered to suspend their business and rectify their operation by Haidian District Bureau of Justice in Beijing. Another reason they drew this kind of suppression was that they have called for direct election in the Lawyers’ Association.
Lawyer Li Subin said, “If those with whom the lawyers have some trouble are the so called brothers of the corrupted officials, they will jointly suppress the lawyers. They are extremely hateful toward those who called for direct election and democracy. They are also quite afraid of them. Therefore, they will immediately suppress such lawyers, trying to suffocate them as quickly as possible. ”
At present, the reform promoted by Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao in the legal and justice system has touched the roots of the corrupted political and legal system headed by Zhou Yongkang. On Feb. 22, 2010, the article in People’s Daily, the mouthpiece newspaper controlled by Jiang Zemin and his gang, said in rebuttal, “It is doomed to fail for blindly copying the justice system of the west. ”
Guo Guoding, the human rights lawyer in exile, said, “The corrupted system of justice will naturally lead to the corrupted judges who would conduct a mistrial and give a wrong verdict in many cases in exchange for their own benefits. That is why there are millions of people visiting higher government offices every year in China. The whole country has no trust in the law, nor do they have trust in the judges or the legal system. That’s why there are so many visits. It is a vicious cycle, getting worse and worse, till the Chinese Communist Party reaches its doom. ”
In addition, according to a report from WOIPFG (World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong), the Director of Beijing Public Security Bureau Ma Zhenchuan was also in charge of the operation to persecute Falun Gong in Beijing. Under the name of security for the Olympics, he illegally arrested many Falun Gong practitioners. The Director of Bureau Justice of Beijing Wu Yuhua was in charge of the administration of the prisons and labor camps in Beijing. He is directly responsible for the wide spread torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners in the prisons and labor camps. At the same time, Wu Yuhua is also one of the people responsible for the persecution of lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
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