CHAN:
During the Chinese Communist Party’s two sessions in Beijing, Chinese dissidents and human right activists are being closely monitored or secretly detained by authorities.

Facing verbal threats and loosing their freedom of movement, they are appealing to the international community and media for help.

STORY:
74-year-old Jin Shanggong from Shanxi Province says he was monitored soon after he made posted comments on the Internet.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he was not allowed to use his telephone for almost 50 days.

And since December 5th of last year, the National Departments of Security and Education have come to his home four times to stop him from using an software program that would allow him to bypass Internet censorship.

[Jin Shanggong, Human Rights Advocate]:
“They uninstalled Ultrareach and Global Internet Freedom Consortium; I cannot get any news from the outside. They even threatened to withhold my retirement pension. I quit the CCP in 1997. The Communist Party acts too outrageously. I hope that the media can report this and let me get news from outside.”

Wu Di from Guangdong also published a number of political related articles and has subsequently been monitored.

Extra staff have been deployed to keep him under watch during the two sessions.

He says he knows that another dissident from Guangdong, Guo Yongfeng, has disappeared and is likely being secretly detained.

[Wu Di, Human Rights Advocate]:
“One more police officer has been sent here. The police station has hired another person. My neighbors and others are also keeping an eye on my action. They also get people on the street to work for them.”

For these men at least, there are no human rights in China under the Chinese Communist Party.