Police hunt suspects in toilet porn case
By Xu Chi |
December 29, 2012, Saturday
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POLICE are hunting suspects who took photographs and filmed video footage in women's toilets at a university using hidden cameras.
The material was found on foreign pornographic websites, according to yesterday's Legal Evening News.
The university wasn't named but police said many students featured in the photographs and they had been shocked to find out they had been photographed. A number of the students were now too afraid to use the university's toilets, police told reporters in Beijing.
During their investigation, police found suspects communicating via online chatting software and trading photographs and videos. On one chat service, suspects were sharing their experience of taking photographs with hidden cameras and "showing off their achievements at toilets," police said.
The suspects, who hid their identities, frequently joined different online chat rooms and freely shared experiences and photographs.
Spreading the photographs and videos online was a serious violation of the victims' rights, police said, adding that their investigation was continuing.
The case surfaced after an online post under the heading "Caution Girls" claimed in May that hidden cameras had been used to secretly record women in toilet booths.
The post said photos and footage taken from the toilets were then sold to Japan and featured in adult movies. Women in the videos seemed unaware they were being filmed, the post said.
There was concern in Shanghai after the poster claimed that women featured in some of the clips spoke Shanghai dialect, and the pictures might have been taken at Shanghai's Metro City, a shopping mall in downtown Xujiahui area.
Police checked the mall's toilets but found nothing.
In other cases, more than 500 people suspected of involvement in major pornographic websites had been detained.
About 100 of the suspects were caught at the beginning of the year in a case involving a website in Hebei Province which had more than 230,000 registered members and 12,000 hits a day.
In March, police arrested about 400 people in a case involving porn website "Adult Video Wolf" which had more than a million members.
The material was found on foreign pornographic websites, according to yesterday's Legal Evening News.
The university wasn't named but police said many students featured in the photographs and they had been shocked to find out they had been photographed. A number of the students were now too afraid to use the university's toilets, police told reporters in Beijing.
During their investigation, police found suspects communicating via online chatting software and trading photographs and videos. On one chat service, suspects were sharing their experience of taking photographs with hidden cameras and "showing off their achievements at toilets," police said.
The suspects, who hid their identities, frequently joined different online chat rooms and freely shared experiences and photographs.
Spreading the photographs and videos online was a serious violation of the victims' rights, police said, adding that their investigation was continuing.
The case surfaced after an online post under the heading "Caution Girls" claimed in May that hidden cameras had been used to secretly record women in toilet booths.
The post said photos and footage taken from the toilets were then sold to Japan and featured in adult movies. Women in the videos seemed unaware they were being filmed, the post said.
There was concern in Shanghai after the poster claimed that women featured in some of the clips spoke Shanghai dialect, and the pictures might have been taken at Shanghai's Metro City, a shopping mall in downtown Xujiahui area.
Police checked the mall's toilets but found nothing.
In other cases, more than 500 people suspected of involvement in major pornographic websites had been detained.
About 100 of the suspects were caught at the beginning of the year in a case involving a website in Hebei Province which had more than 230,000 registered members and 12,000 hits a day.
In March, police arrested about 400 people in a case involving porn website "Adult Video Wolf" which had more than a million members.
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