Ranking Officer of the CCP’s Discipline Investigation Committee, Lu Qun, Disclosed Police’s Assauon Migrant Workers in Weibo

• Author: China Law Digest compiled news

Forty year old Lu Qun was a student graduate of Hunan Province, Lodi City’s Higher Normal School, a graduate student from Changsha University of Science and Technology majoring in Chinese classical literature. In 1996, he joined the CCP Hunan Province Discipline Investigation Committee. He is now the Deputy Director of the Corruption Prevention Unit. His identity on weibo.com is “An Imperial Inspector on The Move.”

Lu Qun, a ranking officer of the Discipline Investigation Committee, became a public figure when he published an article on weibo.com on October 20. He detailed how 50 migrant workers were lured to the construction site of Changsha Yihai xing cheng without getting any work or compensation for 40 days. It described that the Changsha County Public Security Bureau allied with the lawless construction company and assisted by the county’s Bureau of Labor and Social Security, falsified agreement that lured workers to the Project Unit and sent tens of riot-control police to arrest workers. This article openly criticized the CCP Changsha County Party Secretary Yang Yi Wen, stating that he did not take people’s welfare and hardship seriously and also criticized the Chief of the County Public Security Bureau Zing Weiguo who personally set up traps to arrest migrant workers.

When a ranking officer, who was responsible for overseeing government officials’ conduct, had to disclose unlawful actions to the public through weibo, it puzzled people on whether the “normal revenue of supervision” could resolve problems or not.

Lu Qun acknowledged, “This was indeed not a normal procedure. According to the rules, the CCP Hunan Province Discipline Investigation Committee supervises the CCP County Party Secretary and the County’ Public Security Bureau Director is supervised by the CCP Changsha Discipline Investigation Committee. This organizational system had been tested previously, but was ineffective. On the Internet, I was an ordinary netizen where I had the right to criticize the County’s Party Secretary of not stopping the illegal conduct of his subordinates.”

People who knew Lu Qun said that he was a traditionally educated countryman, had genuine righteousness, and had empathy towards others. Yet, Lu Qun himself believed that his behavior style was merely a result of his...