Sim Chi Yin’s photos and stories of petitioners at The Daily Beast: “These petitioners hail from all over the country. Jaded about the lack of justice in their hometowns, they arrive in the capital seeking help from Beijing’s central government. Armed with little more than plastic bags of handwritten documents, they are desperately trying to receive compensation and redress for all sorts of unsolved cases: alleged illegal land seizures, unpaid pensions or wages, unfair dismissals from work or sexual assaults. By day they file papers at the state’s petition offices. By night they sleep outside.”