Tang Hui (a pseudonym) is a mother who attracted international support after she was arrested by Chinese authorities for protesting the lack of action after her 11-year-old daughter was kidnapped, raped and forced into prostitution in 2006. Her story is horrific but not unique. The mother reported the kidnapping to police who did nothing even after she discovered her daughter at a strip club. She took her home and continued to protest the failure to punish her rapists who were still walking the streets. The authorities cracked down in response: the mother was convicted and sent to a prison camp.
While the rapists and strip owners remained free, the police alleged that she “blocked cars and the entrances of the buildings and shouted out loud.” She was convicted for acts that “seriously disturbed social order” and “caused extremely bad social influences.” She was given an 18 month sentence without any former trial. She was sent to a labor camp for reeducation while her daughter’s rapists and the strip club owners continue to ply their trade.
After public outcry, she was released early. The reason? To take care of her daughter of course.
Source: Global
“So maybe her crime was actually political- she was shaking the foundation of a class based justice system.”
You know what Leslie Nielson would say about that comment, LK.
shano, ignoring over 400 sex crimes doesn’t even get him into the top 100.
But he’s still trying. I hear they have imported a few dozen more sex offenders so he can bring up his numbers.
They must have been using Joe Arpaio as a consultant. He has ignored over 400 sex crimes in his district, an expert on this subject.
Matt, the linked article tells how long and loud (700,000 Weibo postings and the story picked up by the media.) and leads to a Guardian article that goes into the politics of criminal investigation in China, seems like little people don’t get much police protection. The wealthy and well connected (on both sides of the fence) get a whole ‘nother brand of justice. One of the men convicted of the crime appealed for leniency and got it. He was connected, Unlike here, that sort of thing never happens here..
Also:
“GlobalTimes, a Chinese news agency that was extremely critical of the situation in an op-ed on Tuesday, also noted that the Hunan Provincial Higher People’s Court sentenced seven of the accused rapists in the case. Two of the defendants received the death penalty, four were given life sentences and another one received a 15-year term.”
From Daily Beast:
“But one of the men, Qin Xing, requested that his death sentence be commuted after the police claimed he helped stop a woman in jail from killing herself. Tang launched her protest after the police lent support to Xing’s calls for leniency. But what Tang and others suspect really prompted the police department’s support is that one of Xing’s relatives is a local police officer.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/09/woman-sent-to-labor-camp-in-china-s-latest-abuse-outrage.html
So maybe her crime was actually political- she was shaking the foundation of a class based justice system.
Bill W.
If we would just stop subsidizing our wars we could afford to do just as you suggest. Meanwhile support boycotts.
Channeling Steve Jobs:
Hi Steve, this is B. O. – look, I need a favor. Would you let your people in China know that I intend to ask Congress to subsidize APPLE so that you can move your manufacturing back to the states and that you will do just that if those Red Communists over there don’t stop doing this kind of stuff
tnt (TODAY, not tomorrow). Thanks, Steve.
Woosty’s still a Cat 1, August 14, 2012 at 9:52 am
Only after a public outcry…
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how long? how loud? How many need be endangered by the entrenched liars …. if a tree falls in the woods you can argue its existance….if it falls on your phucking foot and you scream ouch…not so much. If you refuse to answer the scream for aid….how can you blame those who finally stop screaming because it has gathered wolves and not aid?
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A Navy guy tried to cheat a girl in South Korea. I took all the money out of his wallet and gave it to her.
This situation offers a good tool to litmus test a government’s true intentions. That is how earnestly the gov’t prosecutes the crime and if called into question how the gov’t handles the criticism of this. Was Face or Embarassment a worse threat to the gov’t than in this case the child rape and kidnapping.
When the victim is prosecuted more ardently, the test is easily answered.
mespo LOL! There was no line set on that post.
Nick, and I will add the next political one, Ryan is so antichoice he supported the ‘personhood’ act that a fertilized egg should have the rights of a person. The war on women in this country is also real. People like rep FItzpatrick want to redefine rape, that it is rape only if forcible. This chinese story should be a fable warning for us here
nick:
What the over/under on my Algonquin cat post?
I had the over/under @ 10 for when the first person would insert the presidential election into this topic that is much too serious to turn partisan. The under wins @ 6. For those who had the under you can thank Magginkatt.
“After public outcry, she was released early.”
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That’s a promising sign
If not actually poisoned, the Chinese goods are at least besmirched with tears. With a little child rape for adornment. When do we boycott Made in China?
That is the only way to effect them. Here too, the “them” in LEO in America.
Boycottt or the threats are effective. Why spend millions promoting conferences, when one unprosecuted perv will spoil the whold campaign and produce a punitive boycott.
Try it and see.
I think the media might be interested in a new news genre with guaranteed villains, accomplicing LEO/justice systems, victims and heroes after the election.
Things will be slow, in the runup to oath day.
And we are doing business with, allowing people like Romney to outsource jobs there, & borrowing money from them while they sell their poison laden cheap goods to the US?
Only after a public outcry…
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how long? how loud? How many need be endangered by the entrenched liars …. if a tree falls in the woods you can argue its existance….if it falls on your phucking foot and you scream ouch…not so much. If you refuse to answer the scream for aid….how can you blame those who finally stop screaming because it has gathered wolves and not aid?
Her story is horrific but not unique.
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And with changes in the actual factual pieces [perhaps, perhaps not], this kind of corruption, and the punishment of someone who tries to access the PROMISED action of a government that is pretending to do something it is doing the opposite of, are the same on both hemispheres.
Only after a public outcry…
Her story is horrific but not unique.
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Now it is obvious who is ‘in charge’….
Officialdom can be utterly “off their rocker” at times.
In another off the rocker situation, there is a growing story that Robert Holmes, the father of James Holmes (alleged Colorado Batman Shooter) was scheduled to testify before congress and name names in the ongoing LIBOR scandal.
This theory says that James Holmes was drugged into a stupor by hitmen who did the deed while framing Holmes.
It was to silence the father so he would not testify (Ron Paul website link).
Brave new world….. Meets oldest profession in the world….. I am stopping here…..