Chinese Policy: If you are Falun Gong, we cut you open. If you have an issue, we beat you senseless, jail you, and torture you. WE ARE CHINA.
Tiananmen Square is almost empty. Rows of policemen standing under Chinese flags stop anyone from getting close.
In the past few days, China has rounded up and jailed those most desperate to be heard, petitioners who need the state's help.
In a country without elections, it is often the only way anyone get can noticed.
But now that the parliament is in session, China wants to make sure that petitioners do not get in the way.
But now that the parliament is in session, China wants to make sure that petitioners do not get in the way.
Rei Jiancai has spent a decade campaigning against local corruption. He holds up his petition as he speaks.
"I've been tortured three times," he says. "My wife is being held in a labour camp. But I can't give up."
The petitioners point to the bed of another petitioner, he was dragged out at three in the morning.
He did not even have time to collect his belongings, which are left in two plastic bags hanging on the wall.
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