In June of 1990, Huang Youyuan was taken in by the Tanggu public
security branch of Tianjin for examination and investigation on
suspicions of "profiteering." After being detained for 54 months,
Huang brought an administrative litigation before the Hunan Zhuzhou
Intermediate People's Court. In March of 1996, the Zhuzhou
Intermediate People's Court determined that Tanggu police had abused
their right by overstepping their authority to interfere in financial
disputes. The court ruled that the police would pay Huang Youyuan over
5,000,000 RMB in financial damages.
Before this, Huang had tried to sue the Tanggu public security branch
in Tianjin, but no court would accept and hear case.
Both the Supreme People's Court and the Political and Legislative
Affairs Committee of the CCP issued letters urging that this case be
handled, but then-bureau chief of Tianjin's public security bureau
Song Pingshun instructed that "whoever pays money will be deprived of
their jobs," and this case remained untried. In June of 2007, Song
Pingshun, who was Chairman of Tianjin's CPPCC, committed suicide. He
had been investigated for abuse of authority and expelled from the
Party.
Wu Kaiying, the head of the legal affairs department of the Tanggu
branch, emphasized that "a judgment that goes into effect is not
necessarily the correct judgment," continuing to refuse to enforce the
court's decision.
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