Shanghai Resident Feng Zhenghu Reveals Shanghai Courts’Widespread Practice of Denying Citizens’ their Rights of Action

• Author: China Law Digest compiled news from Blog of Fengzhenghu

Shanghai resident, Feng Zhenghu orchestrated the initiative of “I Want to File a Claim” starting August 3. As of December 31, 2010, Feng has compiled the four issues: “I Want to File a Claim; A Compendium of Inaction Cases by the Shanghai Courts”, which documents 308 cases dismissed by the Shanghai courts. The majority of these cases touched on matters like the rights of peasants who had lost their lands due to expropriation, forced-relocations, government violations of property rights, and reeducation-through-labor cases. Many of these cases had gone through the administrative...