Protest mother freed from labor camp
By Li Qian |
August 11, 2012, Saturday
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A WOMAN detained for protesting over the rape of her 11-year-old daughter was released yesterday after almost a week in a labor camp in central China's Hunan Province.
On August 2, a court in Yongzhou City sentenced Tang Hui to 18 months for "seriously disturbing social order and exerting a negative impact on society" after she protested outside courts and government buildings, claiming police had falsified evidence to get lighter sentences for the men who raped her daughter and forced her into prostitution.
Tang was reunited with her husband in a hotel room in Changsha, the provincial capital. She burst into tears when talking to her mother on the phone.
"I couldn't believe I was freed in such a short time. I was afraid that I would be imprisoned secretly in another place until I saw my younger sister was waiting for me outside," Tang told Southern Metropolis Daily.
She said she would continue to lodge complaints to get justice.
She said she had been well treated in the camp. Rather, she was worried about the psychological state of her daughter, Lele. "I feared she might commit suicide," Tang told the paper.
Tang's husband Zhang Hui said he hadn't told their daughter about her mother's detention until he was on his way to meet his wife yesterday.
"She cried when hearing about her mother's experience," he told Xinhua news agency. "She kept questioning me 'where did mum go?' and 'why couldn't I contact her" and I could only lie to her that we had quarrelled and her mother had left home."
Zhang said he feared the news that her mother had been locked up for 18 months would drive the daughter to suicide.
In October 2006, when the girl was just 11, she was kidnapped by criminals who sold her to a nightclub in Yongzhou where she was repeatedly raped and forced to provide sexual services.
Over a three-month period, the girl was forced to have sex more than 100 times. She was beaten up and raped when she resisted.
The girl has contracted a venereal disease and is unable to bear children in the future. "She has tried to end her life several times and told her mother to give birth to another child," Zhang told China Youth Daily.
On June 5 this year, the Hunan Provincial Higher People's Court sentenced two of the men charged with raping the little girl and forcing her into prostitution to death, gave four others life sentences and jailed the remaining defendant for 15 years.
One of them, Qin Xing, had asked for his death sentence to be commuted after Yongzhou police said he had prevented a woman from committing suicide in jail.
However, the woman came forward to deny the story.
It was revealed that Qin was related to a police bureau official.
Police denied accusations that they had given false evidence.
Tang felt the verdicts were too light and had repeatedly protested outside government buildings, seeking the death penalty for all those involved.
According to a police statement, Tang "blocked cars and the entrances of the buildings and shouted out loud" on seven occasions between March last year and July this year to demand death sentences for all the men.
The authorities decided to release her from detention, according to a Xinhua report, in consideration of the fact that her daughter, now 17, was still a minor and she needed her mother to care for her.
On August 2, a court in Yongzhou City sentenced Tang Hui to 18 months for "seriously disturbing social order and exerting a negative impact on society" after she protested outside courts and government buildings, claiming police had falsified evidence to get lighter sentences for the men who raped her daughter and forced her into prostitution.
Tang was reunited with her husband in a hotel room in Changsha, the provincial capital. She burst into tears when talking to her mother on the phone.
"I couldn't believe I was freed in such a short time. I was afraid that I would be imprisoned secretly in another place until I saw my younger sister was waiting for me outside," Tang told Southern Metropolis Daily.
She said she would continue to lodge complaints to get justice.
She said she had been well treated in the camp. Rather, she was worried about the psychological state of her daughter, Lele. "I feared she might commit suicide," Tang told the paper.
Tang's husband Zhang Hui said he hadn't told their daughter about her mother's detention until he was on his way to meet his wife yesterday.
"She cried when hearing about her mother's experience," he told Xinhua news agency. "She kept questioning me 'where did mum go?' and 'why couldn't I contact her" and I could only lie to her that we had quarrelled and her mother had left home."
Zhang said he feared the news that her mother had been locked up for 18 months would drive the daughter to suicide.
In October 2006, when the girl was just 11, she was kidnapped by criminals who sold her to a nightclub in Yongzhou where she was repeatedly raped and forced to provide sexual services.
Over a three-month period, the girl was forced to have sex more than 100 times. She was beaten up and raped when she resisted.
The girl has contracted a venereal disease and is unable to bear children in the future. "She has tried to end her life several times and told her mother to give birth to another child," Zhang told China Youth Daily.
On June 5 this year, the Hunan Provincial Higher People's Court sentenced two of the men charged with raping the little girl and forcing her into prostitution to death, gave four others life sentences and jailed the remaining defendant for 15 years.
One of them, Qin Xing, had asked for his death sentence to be commuted after Yongzhou police said he had prevented a woman from committing suicide in jail.
However, the woman came forward to deny the story.
It was revealed that Qin was related to a police bureau official.
Police denied accusations that they had given false evidence.
Tang felt the verdicts were too light and had repeatedly protested outside government buildings, seeking the death penalty for all those involved.
According to a police statement, Tang "blocked cars and the entrances of the buildings and shouted out loud" on seven occasions between March last year and July this year to demand death sentences for all the men.
The authorities decided to release her from detention, according to a Xinhua report, in consideration of the fact that her daughter, now 17, was still a minor and she needed her mother to care for her.
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