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Exposing the wildcat mines of Hengshan County, Shaanxi

China National Radio reports about wildcat coal mines in Shaanxi, and two teachers who were suspended until their families stopped petitioning.

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The political background check of a petitioner’s daughter

Beijing media report two cases in which girls had their college application paperwork rejected because of their parents’ political problems.

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Who’s the real victim of “zero tolerance” for petitions?

Xinhua’s China Comment publishes a complaint by a village petitions official. Yu Jianrong responds.

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Peking Uni prof in trouble for remarks discriminating against petitioners

Petitioners gathered outside the west gate of Peking Unversity, demanding professor Sun Dongdong to come out and explain himself.

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Local authorities in Shandong put petitioners
in mental hospital

Petitioners in Xintai, Shandong Province who tried to go to Beijing and appeal their grievances to the central government were put in a mental hospital by local authorities.

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