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Woman calls for inquiry into rape interview leak

A RAPE victim is seeking an investigation into the public leak of a detailed police interview after she was raped two years ago.

Dozens of copies of the seven-page document were posted across her hometown in a north China county and made known every detail of her case to nearly all the population in the small town, yesterday's China Youth Daily reported.

"My son remained silent after learning it and walked across town in tears trying to collect back all the copies for me," 49-year-old Zhang Liping told the newspaper.

Zhang, a native of Quzhou County in Hebei Province's Handan City, said she reported the rape to police in Handan's Congtai District in March 2008.

She described the full details of the assault by the former Party secretary of Quzhou's Henantong Town.

Police assured her that the record of her description of the offence would remain confidential.

The Party official asked her to withdraw the lawsuit a month later and threatened to publish the police account of her case, but she refused.

"I felt like I'd been stripped naked in public," Zhang said. She had attempted to commit suicide, according to the newspaper.

Zhang said she had asked local police, prosecutors and disciplinary supervisory authorities for an investigation into the leak but had received no response so far.

Congtai police refused to comment on the leak to China Youth Daily.

In December last year, Handan's Congtai District People's Court sentenced the official to four years behind bars for raping Zhang.




 

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