Chinese Petitioners Welcome Nancy Pelosi to Beijing

U.S. House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the middle of an eight day trip to China. She arrived there last Sunday. Once word got out of her visit, thousands descended on Beijing to welcome the speaker, who is a well known supporter of human rights in China.

On the morning of May 25, thousands of petitioners from all over the country gathered and protested outside Beijing South Gate. They were there to ask the U.S. government and U.S. House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi to pay attention to Chinas human rights issues.

People there ranged from young children to an 80-year-old man and everything in between.

[Chen Fengqiang, Petitioner from Guangdong Province]: (male)
The scene is spectacular. Petitioners from all over the country use this as a place for to vent their frustrations. They did not even register at the relevant departments. They are all here to show their grievances.

Later in the morning police cars were sent to block petitioners.

[Chen Fengqiang, Petitioner from Guangdong Province]: (male)
The reason why we are at this stage is because of the Chinese governments one-party dictatorship. There is no democracy, no effective oversight, which led to corruption, collusion between upper and lower departments officials help one another.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the U.S. governments harshest critics of human rights in China. She has spoken in support of the Tibet movement, as well as Falun Gong practitioners persecuted in the Mainland.

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