From Chinaytlaw.com, translated by CDT:

Dear President Hu, Vice President Zeng and Premier Wen:

My name is Li Jinsong, an average Chinese and an average Beijing lawyer.

Today, I would like you to be able to listen to a plain, simple conversation between a young couple (one is blind) in Yinan County of Shandong Province.

Wife: So much suffering of disabled people, all is the problem of the society. How can we change it? We can change nothing.

Husband: Many many people have the same thoughts like you do and say the same words. They all say this society is this bad and that bad, this dark and that dark. But did you think about, how much did you do for the society? Even a few words of justice or one deed of fairness, even change the bad parts of the society a little bit better, try our bit. If everyone can act like this, then our society can surely change for the better.

I met Chen only once before taking on his case, in Beijing when he was seeking help for the family planning petitions. I had second thoughts about taking his case, but a text message from Yinan County public security bureau on June 11, notifying Chen’s detention for “intentionally damaging properties and organizing masses to disrupt traffic order.” My consciousness was disturbed and I decided to take on this case.

But during June 20-27 while another lawyer Zhang Lihui, my assistant and I were working on the case in Yinan, we were given enough difficulty by the public security bureau and our access to our client was significantly restricted. Thugs broke into our rooms at the hotel to invade our privacy and even make life threats. When we tried to enter Chen’s home in his village to talk to his family, a couple of dozen unidentified people stopped us and physically harassed us. When we called in police, the thugs (or maybe not) didn’t move at all. We asked the police to take photos at the scene as evidence but the policeman said he didn’t bring a camera. When we used our own camcorder to shoot some footage of the thugs, the policeman stood by and watched the thugs grab out camera and harass us more.

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What can really “destroy the Chinese Communist Party, subvert the Chinese government, disrupt the harmonious society and split up the hearts of the people and the party,” if any, is not foreign forces, nor dissidents outside the party, but the corrupt and polluted officials within the party and government “that run away from serving the people and do the wrong things against the law and discipline.”

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Although I don’t have sufficient evidence to dispel the charges on Chen by Yinan public security authorities. I believe, based on my experiences there with local thugs and police, the gang-associated officials must have covered up key facts and materials about Chen when reporting upward.

….[Full Text in Chinese] (23 pages, take your time:)

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