Journalist Tells of Police Detention, Beating after Reporting Riots
The following translation was sent to us by a CDT reader, who tells us he took a screenshot of posts from the Tencent weibo (microblog) account of journalist Lu Chaoguo. The posts, which have since been deleted (but reposted by others), give a personal account of Lu’s detention and mistreatment ...
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From this reliable journalistic account we can understand why so many detainees in the PRC die in police custody. Physical abuse of suspects and even bystanders–especially if connected with the media–is rather routine.