From RFA:
China has pledged to maintain tough family planning policies that limit most of the country’s families to just one child, in a bid to keep its burgeoning population under control.
Pregnant women who fall foul of the system and civil rights activists are still reporting widespread abuses by officials in many parts of the country, including forced abortions, arbitrary detentions and torture.
In Zhubao township in the eastern province of Shandong, family planning officials detained and beat the sister of one pregnant woman who had already given birth to one child, the family told RFA’s Cantonese service.
