Send A Postcard to Xuebing (Huang XueQin & Wang JianBing)
Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing (referred together as “Xuebing”) are an independent journalist and labour activist in mainland China, respectively. They were taken from their homes by the police in September 2021 and are currently being held in secret detention. In the past three months since their disappearance, the police did not inform their families of the charges, nor did they give the families a notice, while asking the families to keep quiet and summoning their friends to make false statements, deliberately framing them for “inciting subversion of state power”.
It has been more than three months since Xuebing disappeared. Lawyers still have not been able to see them, and their actual place of detention remains unknown. We are a group of friends of Xuebing and would like to initiate a postcard campaign at the end of 2021, inviting everyone to send postcards to Xuebing.
Whether you know them in person or not, and whether these postcards will actually be delivered to them or not, the action itself is significantly meaningful and can help critically improve their situations — it is a gesture to tell the authorities that we are strongly concerned about Xuebing’s conditions, and we are closely watching what injustice and illegality you have done to our friends!
We invite everyone to join our campaign. It can be a New Year’s greeting or just a simple wish to Xuebing, or a protest to the police. Let’s express our concern, thoughts, wishes and protests for Xeubing’s case in the coming New Year.
An Overview of “0919 Xuebing” case https://free-xueq-jianb.github.io/links/
【How to Participate】
There are several ways to participate in this campaign, please choose the one that is convenient for you. We hope that you can send us photos or screenshots of what you have written, so we can share the wide concern and influence of Xuebing’s case.
Download the files of the postcard we designed, print and fill it out by yourself. Remember to take photos and send to us before sending it. Download address: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ng0yCOj7q_MNbwxyItvaMzqwuH96kZiX?usp=sharing
Choose your own postcard or make your own postcard, fill it out and send us a photo, then mail it.
Pick up a postcard in assigned locations(Taipei, Hong Kong, London, and Paris only) , fill it out and take a photo for us, then mail it. The pick up location of the postcard will be updated on this page.
London: please contact xuebinglondon@gmail.com to pick up postcards.
Paris: please contact huxiu1912@gmail.com to pick up postcards.If the above three methods are not convenient for you, you can also participate by filling out the electronic form( https://forms.gle/Fr8QFTRcAw3tGMWd6 ) with what you want to say to them. We will fill it out and send it on your behalf.
【How to Send Us Photos】
Please use this form ( https://forms.gle/Fr8QFTRcAw3tGMWd6 ) to upload your photo.
If you post your photos on Facebook or Twitter, please tag our official account.
Facebook: @Freexueqin黄雪琴&Jianbing王建兵
Twitter: @FreeXueBing
【Mailing Address】
Address: Guangzhou, China, 广东省广州市白云区后岗北街第一看守所 (Di Yi Kan Shou Suo, Hou Gang Bei Lu, Bai Yun Qu, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China), Zipcode: 510430
Please write either Huang Xueqin or Wang Jianbing as the recipient. We encourage you to send a postcard to each of them.
Please purchase your own stamps for this campaign.
【Cause for Xuebing’s arrest】
According to friends who were interrogated, the so-called “subversion” by the police refers to the friends’ gatherings that Wang Jianbing would often host at his home. The theme of the gatherings were merely daily life sharing and companying of depressed communities, with little to no connection to the state or the regime, unless the state considers companionship to be a crime.
【About Xuebing】
WANG Jianbing: Born in 1983 in Tianshui, Gansu Province. Independent activist. He has been involved in non-profit work for over 16 years . His friends prefer to call him “pancake” as his nickname. After graduating from university in 2005, he joined the Beijing Western Sunshine Rural Development Foundation and ran rural development projects, which kicked off his career as a non-profit worker who cares deeply about the education and development of the youth. He was the project manager of rural education program at Western Sunshine Foundation for 5 years. In 2014, He joined GongMing Institute of Social Organization and Development in Guangzhou as the project manager and coordinator of the youth development project as well as the disabled community empowerment project. Since 2018, he has been undertaking rights advocacy and service work for workers with occupational diseases, such as pneumoconiosis, providing necessary legal support for them. Wang also participated in supporting the #MeToo movement in China.
HUANG Xueqin: Born in 1988 in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province. Independent journalist. She worked as an investigative journalist for News Express and Southern Metropolis Weekly. She wrote on topics related to gender, equal rights, government corruption, corporate pollution, and other marginalized groups. She has also participated in many #MeToo cases and campaigns to provide support and assistance to victims of sexual assault and harassment cases. Huang Xueqin had planned to go to the University of Hong Kong to enroll in a Master of Laws program in 2019. Her study plan was deferred when she was abruptly detained by the Guangzhou police on October 17th 2019 for the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. She was later moved to a different location for residential surveillance in a designated location (RSDL) until she was released under supervision on January 17th, 2020. She had received a full scholarship for her master’s studies from Chevening Scholarship earlier this year. She was planning to leave for the UK to begin her master’s course in Gender and Development at University of Sussex on September 20th.
【Disclaimer】
The photos collected from this campaign will be used for advocating Xuebing’s case. No other personal information will be collected.