Xiamen (AsiaNews / Agencies). A journalist from Al Jazeera, Melissa Chan, has reported that Chinese woman Xiao Ying was forced to undergo an abortion in the last stage of pregnancy. A video was posted, apparently without the couple's knowledge, on the Chinese version of Twitter.
Melissa Chan writes that the Xiao Ying was pregnant with her second child, and was eight months pregnant when she was arrested by the police. Xiao Ying was taken away, while screaming and kicking, from her house. In the journalist’s story, her husband, Luo Yan Qua says that "There were many men around my wife. They kept her arms behind her back, slamming her head against the door, she got kicked in the stomach, I do not know, maybe trying to force an abortion, there and then". The officers then brought her to a hospital where Xiao was subjected to an abortion. The child was killed by a lethal injection to the mother’s belly.
Luo Yan Qua and Xiao Ai Ying do not know how their story got on to the internet. They were too upset and in shock at the time, and had not even considered the idea of contacting the media. There is a possibility that someone from the institution, conscious of their situation and feeling sympathy for them, quietly passed the information about them to a very popular website in China that works the same way as Twitter . If it is difficult to find evidence of this fact, but the possibility it occurred is not unrealistic. In China, the birth of a second child is illegal, a crime for which the mother is fined with an amount that may range from one dollar to 40 thousand dollars. Some women may also have to undergo sterilization.
