Beijing (AsiaNews) - The Chinese public security stops at nothing. In order to avoid awkward complaints and repeated petitions - which are guaranteed by law - they even arrived in recent days at kidnapping and raping protesters demanding justice. Moreover, strengthened by the new powerful criminal code, they have even sentenced disabled to hard labor. This was revealed by the Chinese Human Rights Defender, which has published the worst cases of human rights violations.
Beijing
police have arrested without reason and then sentenced to 18 months of
"reeducation through labor" a disabled woman who came from Shulan, Jilin
province, to petition the central government. The
reasons for the arrest, which occurred last week, are not clear Zhao Guixiang,
involved in a car accident in 2004, had filed dozens of complaints to the
central authority after his level of disability was not recognized.
The
capital's police forcibly entered her apartment in Beijing and seized her phone, ID card and all
documents relating to her petition. After
that she was dragged to a car and brought to Shulan where she remained for 10
days in police custody and was condemned. With
the new Criminal Code that came into force during the last National People's
Congress, the public security officials
do not need to validate their arrests and a judge can hold anyone up to 6
months without communicating anything to anyone.
Even worse is
the case of Zhu Guiqin, from Fushun in Heilongjiang, who was kidnapped and
raped in Beijing by unidentified men - some sources identify them as men from
the local government - between 11 and 13 April. This
is one of the worst human rights violations ever documented in recent years.
On
11 April, Zhu was kidnapped on the streets of Beijing and dragged into a pickup truck. The
kidnappers seized her identity card, mobile phone, a USB stick, cash and credit
cards. Then
they tied her hands and feet and said they were hired by the government, which
asked them to "do away with her in five days." 30
minutes after the kidnapping, the truck picked up a man named Xiao Hai who raped her.
After
this violence she was locked in a room with no windows for two days. On
April 13, drover her back to Fushun
City. She was met by the
vice party secretary of the subdistrict office in front of her home. She
continued to be held in her home for three days, during which she called both
the local and the Beijing
police, but both refused to investigate.