From EastSouthWestNorth blog:
This is a run-of-the-mill story: a man goes to petition at the People’s Congress but the police from his hometown were waiting for him and arrested him. This must occur many times each day all over China. So what? We all know that ‘police’ + ‘arrested petitioner’ does not mean much anymore.
Except this story is about ‘police’ + ‘charged into the Provincial People’s Congress’ + ‘arrested petitioner.’ Now all of a sudden, we have an Internet storm with thousands of comments coming in every hour. This looks very bad for the People’s Congress when a local police officer could tell them off with “You have no say over me.” [Full Text]
Also see CDT’s “A petitioners’ village in Beijing”
