http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/aug/25/yehey/top_stories/20070825top6.html
BEIJING: Chinese police on Friday stopped the wife of a blind activist who exposed government abuses of the one-child policy from going to the Philippines to receive the Magsaysay Award for her husband, colleagues said.
Yuan Weijing had been going to pick up the prize for her blind husband Chen Guangcheng, 35, imprisoned for unmasking abuses such as forced sterilizations and women being made to have abortions eight months into term.
Yuan, Chen’s wife, has previously said that Chen had been severely beaten in prison. Human Rights Watch has called his case an example of the “significant deterioration” of rights in the country.
There is a one child policy in China but Communist Party officials and the rich often ignore the law themselves and avoid punishment by just paying fines.
CHINA is embarassing.
I think many people probably care on a personal level, however it is not news to them that China is abusive to any resident who does not fit within the streamlined confines of its polices, nor is it surprising to them that people in China go to prison for publicly disagreeing with those policies. What would surprise me is if the abuses of authority and residents were not severely worse than this article reports. Mr. Chen went to prison to reveal information that is not exactly news, and that is terribly sad.
Comment by Pulu Si Bagumba — September 28, 2005 @ 10:26 am
thats horrible, i’ve never head about it but to say china is embarassing? what makes you think other countries dont do that and just not let the public know
Comment by SlipknotGirl3287 — October 1, 2005 @ 6:04 am
And where is Human Rights Watch getting this information?
From the people who claim the abuse.
And what does Human Rights Watch get out of it?
More money to run their non profit.
And who in that organization is getting that money, and how much of it goes into their pockets and how much for public education?
I don’t know, but do you?
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My point is, after living here in China as an ex pat from the USA and reading all the horrible things that were going on here before I first visited, I got the impression it was so wide spread that it was common.
What I have found, after asking quite a few people, that few know of anyone who has been arrested and what they got arrested for was crime, AKA criminals as in stealing, assault, etc. No one has ever heard of anyone being arrested for political reasons. That is not to say it doesn’t happen, but if you go by all the Amnestie International type organizations, one would have to think it is common and in the hundreds of thousands. I’m looking for decedents, and to date I have found none. Plus, the Chinese people are pretty apathetic. Which I found curious and finally figured out why. It’s because what they have now is a billion times better then what they had in the past and in the case of their grandparents, they couldn’t even fathom the amount of freedom the people have now.
I have seen three people get arrested and all of them for legitimate crimes. I have also never seen the police use strong arm tactics, in fact, when minor breaches of the laws are witnessed by them, they usually look the other way. In the case of minor disturbances, such as public arguing, I’ve seen them stand on the sidelines watching the people or group scream at each other while letting them settle their own differences.
What I am trying to point out, there is two sides to every story and the human rights groups need the other side to make sure they keep filling up their coffers.
Where is the truth? Probably somewhere in the middle and where the money isn’t being made.
Peace
Jim
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Comment by just plain jim — October 4, 2005 @ 3:29 pm
Actually, PRC has a terrible human rights record.
The people are mostly nationalists who inflate their own acheivements; real news and sites like Wikipedia are simply not allowed.
Instead of “filling their coffers,” the Human rights watch was distributing a book free at my univ not too long ago. I have a copy of it somewhere.
But don’t take my word for it, check out the free book for yourself and see how China is doing. The Human Rights Watch has released it on the net on (search for this title: Human Rights Watch World Report 2005: The Events of 2004 )
Does it look like the Human Rights Watch is lying and communist China is telling the truth ?
The Chinese not only supress the Uyghurs, Tibetans, manchus (to a lesser extent) and the Hui muslims but bad news rarely makes it to television so the info can’t be leaked and the world does’nt even know that Xinkiang is burning and the Han outnumber Tibetans in Tibet. All the Chinese get is Xinhua and books from arrested communists like Tang Hao trying to tell people how the Chinese invented everything and how flawless chairman Mao was.
I care but my voice on Yahoo answers is worth nothing. It does’nt reach the Chinese and the others don’t care.
Comment by worldwide_shootfight — October 6, 2005 @ 7:05 pm
Jim, I think that even though you live in China you really have no clue as to what really happens here, I personally know several people harassed and jailed for what they believe in, they do nothing to deserve the treatment they are given, accept that someone says they cannot think this way or that
Comment by 888 — October 9, 2005 @ 4:37 pm