[New Tang Dynasty Beijing time June 28, 2021]American professional basketball player Jeff Harper (Jeff Harper) went to Shenzhen, China to participate in the competition. He saw a couple quarreling fiercely. He pushed the man away to protect the woman. , Was arrested by the CCP police and detained for 8 months, and lost 18 kilograms when he was released.
On June 28, the Wall Street Journal reported that Harper is from Whiteville, Tennessee, USA. He is an independent professional basketball player who has played in 12 countries.
At the beginning of 2020, Harper flew to Shenzhen, China to participate in the competition. During the intense quarrel between a couple, Harper pushed her boyfriend away in order to protect the woman. Unexpectedly, he was arrested.
Harper had just arrived in Shenzhen for five days when he was arrested. After being detained for several months, the authorities told him that the man had died in a coma.
Harper said that when the CCP police took him away in Shenzhen, he did not formally arrest him, but instead put him in a “designated residential surveillance” for police use, which looked like an ordinary residence. One of the rooms was rancid. Mattress and a plastic chair.
After Harper’s girlfriend tracked the location of his mobile phone, the authorities allowed US consulate officials and a lawyer to visit him. At a height of 205 cm, he eats a small amount of meals every day, and his rice often grows worms. He survived these 8 months through exercise and prayer, and lost 18 kilograms when he was released.
Harper said that from the beginning to the end, he has not been charged with any crime, nor has he gone to court. Instead, he has been under “residential surveillance in designated residential areas” for 8 months.
In September 2020, Harper was finally released and allowed to leave China. The 33-year-old Harper said, “Their judicial system is completely different from ours.” “I don’t like it.”
“Hua Ri” said that the term “designated residential surveillance for residential surveillance” sounds good, and may make people think that it is under house arrest, but it is not. According to the people who passed by and the investigations by human rights organizations, most of the “designated residences under residential surveillance” are specially constructed detention measures, which are supervised by fixed law enforcement personnel, which is like a black jail.
The international human rights organization “Guardians of the Protection”, based in Madrid, Spain, released its latest report on June 21, which collected testimonies from a large number of victims, detailing the secret kidnapping and detention method of “designated residential surveillance and residential surveillance”. The persecution of dissidents not only restricts the Chinese, but also extends to foreigners.
According to the report, there were as many as 5,810 “designated residential residential surveillance” cases recorded in 2020 alone, an increase of 91% over the previous year. This does not include many cases that were not recorded.
“Guardians of Protection” traced court documents from an open source legal database of the Chinese Communist Party over the past nine years, showing that “designated residential surveillance” cases have increased year by year, with a total of 56,963 victims in nine years.
The report stated that “designated residential surveillance” is a state-licensed kidnapping system that gives the CCP police the power to make people disappear. The national security department can arbitrarily detain, extract confessions, threaten and abuse victims.
The researchers said, “Almost never heard of the police allowing lawyers to contact suspects or allowing family members to visit them.”
The report emphasizes that under international law, such systematic and large-scale enforced disappearances and torture are crimes against humanity.
The “Guardian” stated in a letter to the United Nations, “This report shows the most extensive system of enforced disappearance in the world. There is no doubt that the CCP’s “designated residential surveillance” is widely used. systematic”.
The report also pointed out that if this practice of the CCP is not challenged, it may spread to other countries.
(Reporter Li Yun comprehensive report/responsible editor: Zhu Xinrui)
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