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China news tagged with: sexual harassment (12)

• China Fires Two Officials in Deng Yujiao Sexual-Assault Case

  

  Andrew Browne of the Wall Street Journal writes that two officials connected to the Deng Yujiao case have been fired:

  A government notice said a police investigation found that two officials, Huang Dezhi and Deng Guida, from a township investment office, accosted Ms. Deng [Yujiao] in the lounge of the Fantasy City bathhouse and demanded “special services,” a euphemism for sex. When she refused, they pushed her around and insulted her. Ms. Deng picked up a knife, stabbed Mr. Deng to death and injured Mr. Huang, according to the notice, issued on Sunday by the Badong county government in central Hubei province.

  Ms. Deng then called a police emergency number using her mobile phone and gave herself up. She initially was arrested on suspicion of murder. However, the notice said police believed it was a case of “excessive self-defense.” Her lawyers have said she was defending herself from a rape attack.

  Mr. Huang has been fired from his position as vice director of the investment office and expelled from the Communist Party. He is now under detention. A third official, Deng Zhongjia, who was with the other two at the time but is not alleged to have committed any crime, has also been fired, the notice said. The three Dengs are unrelated.

  Roland Soong of ESWN comments on a related Xinhua report:

  This is the only piece of news on Deng Yujiao that is allowed to be published. Comments are not being allowed. KDnet briefly ran a poll as to whether the outcome was satisfactory or not, but quickly killed it. Probably that is because the people are not satisfied. Why is that? First, Huang Dezhi is only “being detained in connection with public order offences” instead of “criminal offences such as attempted rape and sexual battery.” The latter are based upon lawyer Xia Lin’s public statement that Deng Yujiao told him that Huang Dezhi had pulled down her trousers, yanked down her panties and fondled her. However, Deng did not say that Huang “raped her.” It was an attempted rape and it was sexual battery. To write that “she claimed that Huang raped her” is to say that she lied. That is why people are not satisfied, but they have no where to express their misgivings.

  The big question is, Will the prosecutor really dare to charge Deng Yujiao with “using excessive force”? Or will they just let this matter fade from public memory [but do] nothing?

  Read also Ai Weiwei’s take on the penalty, translated by ChinaGeeks.

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  • June 1, 2009 7:53 PM

• Deng Yujiao Tells Her Story; Protesters Express Support

  

  ESWN translates a Southern Metropolis Daily article in which Deng Yujiao tells what took place on the night she stabbed a local official who attempted to rape her:

  Deng Guida then continued to curse: “What do you mean about working here or upstairs? Aren’t you all the same? You are a prostitute but you still want to have a good reputation.” He also said: “Don’t you want money? You have never seen any money! How much money do you want? Just say so. Would you believe if I am going to beat you to death with money today” He took out a wad of money and used it to slap Deng Yujiao in the face and shoulder. At each slap, Deng Yujiao took one step backwards until she was at the edge of the sofa. She said: “Yes, I have never seen money. If you have the guts, you can beat me to death.” Deng Guida said: “Indeed I’ll beat you to death with money. I am going to summon a truckload of money and squash you to death.”

  The captain once again advised to leave. Deng Yujiao wanted to leave but she was dragged back. Deng Guida said: “You want to run away? Where are you going to run to?” Deng Yujiao tried once more to leave but she was dragged again. Deng Yujiao took out a fruit knife from her pocketbook and held both hands behind her bad. Deng Guida pushed Deng Yujiao on the chest until she fell down onto the sofa. When Deng Yujiao could not get up, she started kicking with both her feet.

  Then Huang Dezhi and Deng Guida both rushed at her. Deng Yujiao took the knife and stabbed in front of her. Deng Guida tried to grab her with both arms. Since Deng Guida was right in front of her, she stabbed her multiple times. Deng Guida then grabbed his stomach, walked towards the door and fell down on the floor. Deng Yujiao saw a knife wound on Deng Guida’s neck, so she called 110 (police). 110 told her to call the Yeshanguan town police station. Deng Yujiao replied: “Someone is dying over at Xiongfeng. Please hurry over.” Then she called her mother and asked her to come over immeidately.

  In Beijing, college students staged a work of performance art to express support for Deng Yujiao. The signs around the bound woman read, “Anyone Could Become a Deng Yujiao.”
  
  
  

  It has also been reported that 42 female college students have written a statement (倡议书) in response to Deng’s case calling on all of society to protect and respect women’s legal rights and human dignity.

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  • May 25, 2009 9:32 PM

• Sexual Harrassment Defined for the First Time in Beijing

  

  Danwei translates a report from The Beijing News on amendments to the Law on Protection of Women’s Rights, which would define sexual harassment for the first time:

  Using a mobile phone to send “yellow [pornographic] material” can possibly constitute as sexual harassment now. Yesterday morning, in Beijing new additions were made to the law for the Protection of Women’s Rights; now language, letters, pictures, electronic information, and physical conduct can all be cause for sexual harassment towards women. This is the first time that Beijing has defined the situations in which sexual harassment can happen in Beijing.

  It is understood that “electronic information” basically means text messaging. The specific dividing line [of what is considered sexual harassment] will be decided during real situations. The director of the Law Department in Beijing Zhou Jidong (周继东) said that these actions were taken so that women will have a better idea of self-protection.

  Also added into the draft was the responsibility of the work place in preventing sexual harassment.

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  • May 22, 2009 12:26 PM

• Government Official Attacks 11-Year-Old Girl

  

  The following translation from Chinasmack shows how “Lin Jiaxiang” “林嘉祥” became the latest online “celebrity,” thanks to the powerful “human flesh search engines” of Chinese netizens. Mr. Lin, the 58-year-old party secretary of Shenzhen Maritime Administration, is now known as the “Weird uncle sent by the Beijing Ministry of Communications” (“北京交通部派下来的”怪叔叔) in Chinese cyberspace. (“Weird uncle” is a slang term for pedophiles.) This story has already made it to the front page of Southern Metropolis Daily today.

  On the evening of October 29, 2008, a big-bellied man around 50-years-old asked an 11-year-old little girl for directions to the restroom. After the girl kindly told him, he claimed he still was not clear, and asked her to lead the way for him. Then, he grabbed her neck and tried to force her into the men’s restroom.

  Below is the surveillance video recording from the Plum Garden Seafood Restaurant in Shenzhen City Nanshan District:

  In the video:

  1. The young girl is seen leading the man with the big belly wearing a white shirt to the restroom.
  2. Awhile later, the girl is seen running the other direction back into the restaurant.
  3. She returns with her parents and brother to find the man and talk to the restaurant manager.
  4. The mother and children first return to their dining room.
  5. An argument occurs between the man and the girl’s father while the wait staff look on.

  At first, the parents found the woman who was dining with the man to ask him where he is. The woman (also wearing white) claimed not to know anything and tried to leave. Then the over 50-year-old man with the big belly wearing a white shirt came out of the toilet. To everyone’s surprise, he said:

  “I did it, so what? How much money do you want, give me a price. I will pay it!”

  Arrogantly pushing and pointing at the girl’s father, he also said:

  “Do you know who I am? I was sent here by the Beijing Ministry of Communications, my level is the same as your mayor. So what if I pinched a little child’s neck? Who the fuck are you people to me?! You dare fuck with me? Just watch how I am going to deal with you.”

  

  Soon after the surveillance video clips were released online, netizens identified the person in the video and posted his photos in chatrooms and forums. Mr. Lin is currently under investigation by the Shenzhen police.

  The following photos are from Tianshandaolang’s blog:

  

  

  

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  • November 1, 2008 5:26 PM

• China Jails Liu Lun, Its First Office Sex Pest

  

  From The Times:

  A human resources manager has become the first Chinese man to be found guilty of sexual harassment, in a case that highlights the continuing struggle towards equality for women in China.

  Liu Lun was accused of inviting one of his women staff, Chen Dan, into his office to discuss work matters but then told her that he wanted to become her boyfriend. When the woman turned him down, he held her by the neck and kissed her.“Miss Chen screamed out and fought back. Colleagues next door heard her and called the police,” state media said.

  Liu, who works for a company in southwestern China, was found guilty of using force to act indecently towards a woman, and ordered to serve time in jail. It was the first time that a law enacted in 2005 had been used successfully to prosecute a suspected offender.

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  • July 17, 2008 3:35 AM

• Sexual Harassment Law Include Dirty Jokes, Messages – Keralanext.com

  

  From Keralanext.com:

  A risque joke, a suggestive text message, a naughty email. Any one of these could end up landing an amorous male in east China’s Zhejiang Province in court if the object of his affections takes offence.

  The Zhejiang provincial legislative body on Thursday passed an amendment to its implementation of the country’s law to protect women’s rights, stipulating that, from September 1, a woman can file a sexual harassment lawsuit against a man if he oversteps the line in conversation or during online chat or via text message. Those who are found guilty of sexual harassment of women will be punished by public security departments or even held criminally responsible, according to the new regulation. [Full Text]

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  • July 27, 2007 10:58 AM

• Shanghai Targets Sexual Harassment – Jude Blanchette

  

  From The Christian Science Monitor:

  At first, Sarah Cheng didn’t realize that she had been sexually harassed. Then the woman next to her on the bus told her that the man who’d just brushed up against her had done it intentionally.

  “That was a watershed moment for me,” says the young Shanghai native, who prefers to go by an English name. “After that, I now see inappropriate behavior that is often directed towards women in the city.”

  Aware that many of the city’s female residents have been victims of unwanted sexual advances, Shanghai has become the first city in China to define what constitutes sexual harassment. [Full Text]

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  • June 7, 2007 5:48 AM

• Women chase cheating spouses in Chengdu, China

  

  From CTA.ca:

  A group of women in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu are proving the old adage that goes ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’

  Under the banner Women’s Rights Protection Investigation Centre (WRPIC), a growing team of women are cruising the streets of the Sichuan capital, on the hunt for wife-beaters and cheaters.

  The group was founded by 38-year-old divorcee Yan Guoqiong, who first suspected and through her own investigation confirmed her then-husband was being unfaithful just three months after their marriage in 1994.

  Thanks to Hong Kong Entertainment Review

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  • October 3, 2005 6:03 PM

• Sexual harassment law gives hope to Chinese women suffering in silence – AFP

  

  From AFP, via Khaleej Times:

  Like most women in similar circumstances in China, Wen was at first too afraid to speak up in fear of risking her reputation, dishonouring her family and losing her job.

  “Most people don’t understand. Even my mother thinks: why does it happen only to you?” she said. “I became very depressed and soon started suffering from neurasthenia (mental fatigue).”

  But last Sunday saw a glimmer of hope for Wen and thousands like her with the government introducing China’s first laws governing sexual harassment.
  
  

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  • September 2, 2005 1:06 PM

• A woman’s right to sue – Economist

  

  From the Economist (subscription only; free day pass available):

  Mao Zedong told China’s women that they “hold up half the sky”, but they have had little to show for their feat. Women today make up more than 60% of China’s vast agricultural workforce, yet occupy barely 20% of the seats in the national parliament. Nor have most Chinese women ever enjoyed the other equalities and protections that the ruling Communist Party’s propagandists have long claimed they do. Slowly, that is changing. On August 28th, a committee of China’s male-dominated parliament amended the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women, for the first time making the sexual harassment of women unlawful, and stipulating that equality between men and women “is a basic state policy.”

  Will the new measures change much?

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  • September 1, 2005 1:42 PM

• China Daily: Sexual harassment: A growing social problem

  

  From China Daily:

  Sexual harassment is a growing social problem in China. Experts point out that the sexual harassment of women is directly related to the country’s social and cultural structures.

  The rising number of cases shows that women still occupy a lower position in society, and are therefore more vulnerable to exploitation and bullying by men.

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  • May 20, 2005 11:29 PM

• Xinhua: 71% of Chinese women sexually harassed?

  

  From Xinhua:

  Sexual harassment has reportedly been included in the amendment to China’s Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women (LPRIW) that has been included on the legislative agenda for 2005.

  It will be the first time this behaviour has appeared in Chinese law if it is passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, possibly by the end of the year…

  A nationwide survey showed that about 71 per cent of Chinese women have been sexually harassed in their lives.

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  • March 31, 2005 1:02 PM

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