County denies that graft protesters were beaten
By Xu Chi |
May 31, 2011, Tuesday
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OFFICIALS from Gansu Province's Hui County yesterday dismissed claims from seven women who said they were stripped and beaten in Beijing for alleging corruption over earthquake relief funds.
The women were in the capital seeking relocation compensation and no one was assaulted, insisted county officials.
This follows the women's online accusation published in a microblog on weibo.com.
They said they were humiliated in Beijing on April 27 by a group of black-clad men who stripped them to their underwear in public, beat them, breaking one woman's leg, bundled them into two vans and sent them back to their hometown overnight.
In an announcement on its official website, Hui County government denied that one of the seven women, Zhang Xiaoli, had suffered a broken leg during the alleged confrontation.
It said their investigation found Zhang broke her leg after "she accidentally tumbled when kicking her daughter who hadn't done her homework carefully."
The announcement said "the women went to Beijing only to ask for relocation compensations and they came back safe and sound."
However, the government didn't provide details on what exactly happened to the women who went to Beijing.
A Hui County official told Shanghai Daily they were carrying out investigations.
One of the women, 42-year-old Liu Xiling, told Shanghai Daily they went to Beijing primarily to report alleged corruption and relocation compensation claims were a secondary reason for the trip.
She and another victim, Liu Xiuhua, claim they saw the men break Zhang's leg.
Liu Xiling said she was detained for 10 days in Hui County. She said government officials gathered the women yesterday, promising to "solve their problems," if they stopped speaking to the media.
On the microblog, the women said high ranking Hui County officials abused the 2008 Sichuan earthquake relief funds, taking bribes to give contracts, embezzling cash due to residents and carrying out low quality work.
The microblog was deleted about 5pm yesterday.
The women were in the capital seeking relocation compensation and no one was assaulted, insisted county officials.
This follows the women's online accusation published in a microblog on weibo.com.
They said they were humiliated in Beijing on April 27 by a group of black-clad men who stripped them to their underwear in public, beat them, breaking one woman's leg, bundled them into two vans and sent them back to their hometown overnight.
In an announcement on its official website, Hui County government denied that one of the seven women, Zhang Xiaoli, had suffered a broken leg during the alleged confrontation.
It said their investigation found Zhang broke her leg after "she accidentally tumbled when kicking her daughter who hadn't done her homework carefully."
The announcement said "the women went to Beijing only to ask for relocation compensations and they came back safe and sound."
However, the government didn't provide details on what exactly happened to the women who went to Beijing.
A Hui County official told Shanghai Daily they were carrying out investigations.
One of the women, 42-year-old Liu Xiling, told Shanghai Daily they went to Beijing primarily to report alleged corruption and relocation compensation claims were a secondary reason for the trip.
She and another victim, Liu Xiuhua, claim they saw the men break Zhang's leg.
Liu Xiling said she was detained for 10 days in Hui County. She said government officials gathered the women yesterday, promising to "solve their problems," if they stopped speaking to the media.
On the microblog, the women said high ranking Hui County officials abused the 2008 Sichuan earthquake relief funds, taking bribes to give contracts, embezzling cash due to residents and carrying out low quality work.
The microblog was deleted about 5pm yesterday.
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