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Law Professor and civil rights activist Teng Biao has written an account of his treatment at the hands of police officers who detained him when he went to visit the home of a human rights lawyer who is under house arrest. The Wall Street Journal has translated his account<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nA police officer shouted at me to sit; I pushed the chair over with my foot. Several officers rushed forward and twisted my arms, punched my head and choked me, and pushed me to the ground. They took me to another room. In the corridor I cried out, “I am a law teacher, I know whether or not you are violating the law.” I said this primarily to make them understand that they were dealing with someone who knew the law, to make them refrain from acting rashly and inflicting too much pain\u2014and it was also meant for the ears of Mr. Zhang and the officers who were interrogating him.<\/p>\n

Several police officers pushed me into a corner and one guy came up and fiercely dragged at my tie until he finally managed to pull it off, and threw it to the floor. The police officers pointed at my nose and coarsely swore at me again, and again they cried, “Do you know where you are? If we beat you, what can you do?”<\/p>\n

After a while, a police officer came in and said that we had been detained because we had gone to Fan Yafeng’s home. One officer, who I heard addressed as Xu Ping, went from merely loudly interrogating to roaring accusations at me: “O ho, that’s how it is! In that case, you belong to the enemy! F- your mother, you went to see Fan Yafeng! That c-! In that case we don’t have to talk about legal constraints at all! And you motherf- won’t get out of here again! You traitors, you dogs! Counter-revolutionaries! The Communist Party feeds you and pays you and you still don’t acknowledge how good it is! You keep insulting the Party!\u2026 We will treat you just like an enemy!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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