Wu Yuxi, female, a resident of Shangwuban, Huahuang Village, Taihe Town, Liangzihu District, Ezhou City, Hubei Province; a petitioner and rights advocate.
In 2011, the then-village committee secretary, Wu Lison, without completing any expropriation procedures, acted under the guise of the village committee and falsely claimed to be “working for the people’s benefit and driving economic development.” seized the village’s public forest land and irrigated farmland, and then transferred and sold them on a large scale to developers (namely the local Lianhua Quarry and Lianfa Quarry), sparking widespread outrage; During this period, his family’s farmland and homestead were also forcibly seized, illegally excavated, over-mined, and subjected to destructive management by the local government and developers, forcing him to join other villagers in filing appeals to defend their rights.
From June to August 2021, due to his frequent petitioning in Beijing, he was forcibly sent back to his hometown several times by local officials and taken into quarantine (in reality, detention) under the pretext of the pandemic; On August 29 of the same year, as he was exiting the South Plaza of Beijing West Railway Station, he was intercepted by Beijing police. After being questioned and immediately sent back to his hometown, he was again forcibly quarantined by the Ezhou municipal authorities at the Tianxing Hotel in his local jurisdiction under the pretext of the pandemic; On November 19, 2021, he was formally arrested by the Liangzihu District People’s Procuratorate of Ezhou City, Hubei Province, on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
He is currently detained at the First Detention Center of the Ezhou Municipal Public Security Bureau (Fenghuang Street, Echeng District, Ezhou City, Hubei Province; Postal Code: 436099).
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