» 06/26/2012 15:50 CHINA The husband who denounced the forced abortion suffered by his wife has disappeared For weeks he was stalked and threatened by police and criminals. According to the authorities, Deng Jiyuan is a "traitor" because he spoke to foreign media about the violence of the one-child law.
Beijing (AsiaNews/SCMP) - The husband of the woman who a few
weeks ago in Zengjia (Shaanxi) was forced forced to abort a fetus of seven
months, has been missing for two days. For over a week he and his family have endured
controls, pressures and violence. It seems to be an act of revenge by the local
government because the couple denounced the violence to the international
media.
Deng Jiyuan, the 29 year-old father of the aborted child, was
followed for days by police and thugs at home, at the hospital, where his wife
is hospitalized, and even in the bathroom. The pressure started when Deng tried
to go to Beijing to participate in an online transmission on abortion. The man
was threatened and beaten several times. The pressure increased when the family
gave an interview to the German magazine Stern. Two days later, on Sunday, June 24, at least 40 people
arrived at the hospital shouting and carrying banners that threatened the whole
family with the words "Beat the traitors strongly and throw them out of
Zengjia". One of the relatives, who tried to photograph the group, was
beaten.
On June 2 the agency for population control forced Jianmei
Feng, aged 22, to undergo an abortion in the seventh month. Feng and Deng have
a five year-old daughter and another child is prohibited by law. The employees
of family planning threatened her to pay a fine of 40,000 yuan (about 4,000
euros, four years of wages) or to undergo the abortion. But abortion after the
sixth month is also prohibited. Their case has aroused criticism and complaints
from all over China, especially after on the internet there appeared pictures of the woman, overwhelmed by the abortion, with
alongside her on the bed, the bleeding corpse of the aborted baby.
After the furor in the media, the authorities of Ankang
(which have authority over the village of Zengjia) confirmed the violence
against Feng Jianmei. They have also suspended the three employees who ordered
the forced abortion and gave the family permission to have another child. The
woman's husband, Deng Jiyuan said, however, bitterly: "The government
should not have the power to tell us when and how to have a child."
