Wang Haochen | For an article, Kashgar Public Security has traveled the entire Silk Road

Today, a “Notice of Inquiry” from the Kashgar Municipal Public Security Bureau circulated on WeChat Moments, which showed that the Kashgar Municipal Public Security Bureau, on the grounds of “handling a case of picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” notified former journalist Yin Yusheng (online name “Yusheng”) to go to the Law Enforcement Case Handling Center of the Luoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau on November 22, 2023, to be questioned.

It is understood that the cause of the incident is: the appeal case of Wang Weishen, the director of the Enforcement Bureau of the Kashgar Intermediate Court. Yin Yusheng published an article titled “The Director of the Enforcement Bureau of the Kashgar Intermediate Court Cries for Injustice in Prison: ‘Controlled by Drugs During Detention'” on his WeChat public account named “True Logic” on November 13, 2023. Therefore, ten days after the article was published, the Kashgar Public Security Bureau rushed from the westernmost end of China’s ancient Silk Road to Luoyang, the starting point of the Silk Road, to question Yin Yusheng.

In this regard, I would like to ask the Kashgar Public Security Bureau a few questions:

1. In the Notice of Inquiry, why is the case name not stated, and why is it not stated who is suspected of picking quarrels and provoking trouble? How can a criminal case be handled without even knowing the subject involved?
2. If Yin Yusheng’s article is the reason for investigating Yin Yusheng for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, then which of the following four circumstances of the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble in Article 293 of the Criminal Law does Yin Yusheng’s article meet?> Article 293 Anyone who commits any of the following acts of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, disrupting social order, shall be sentenced to imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance: (1) arbitrarily beating others, with serious circumstances; (2) pursuing, intercepting, insulting, or intimidating others, with serious circumstances; (3) forcibly taking or arbitrarily damaging or occupying public or private property, with serious circumstances; (4) making a scene in a public place, causing serious chaos in public order.

3. I reviewed the content of the article published by Yin Yusheng, which is basically a quotation of others’ statements (such as Wang Wei’s appeal) and objective evidence, with basically no subjective comments or evaluations, and it all points to the shocking acts of torture by the Kashgar Supervision Commission. Then, why doesn’t the Kashgar Public Security Bureau first verify the authenticity of the torture, and first verify the problem, but instead goes across provinces to find the person who raised the problem?