China: Let the Visit Petitioners Back Home?

Recently some scholars organized a seminar to study ways to help visit petitioners, people (usually rural peasants) who visit higher authority in big cities for justice appeal, go home. However only 3 petitioners managed to enter the seminar, the rest (more than 200) have to wait outside. Zhang Yaojie pointed out that the real issue is getting their problem solved, not sending them back home (zh).

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