Shanghai Judge – “Do You Farmers Really Think You can Recall and Sue the Mayor?”

• Author: Zhang Qisheng

Shen Jun is a farmer of Maqiao Township in the Minhang District of Shanghai, whose land was illegally expropriated. On May 12, Shen and three other farmers separately sued Shanghai’s First Court and Second Court for administrative non-conduct of the head of Minhang District and Han Zheng, the mayor of Shanghai. The receptionist judge at the petitioning office asked, “Do you farmers really think that you...