{"id":165477,"date":"2013-11-15T15:16:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T23:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=165477"},"modified":"2013-11-15T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T23:50:40","slug":"gansu-teen-suing-police-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/gansu-teen-suing-police-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"Gansu Teen Suing Police Over Detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old Yang Zhong, the Gansu teenager who <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/09\/16-year-old-rumor-posters-release-hollow-victory\/\">attracted attention in September<\/a> when he was detained under new laws that criminalize the spread of online rumors, sued the local police on Thursday. <a href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/15\/chinese-youth-sues-over-alleged-police-torture\/?ref=world\"><strong>He and his father are demanding an apology and symbolic compensation<\/strong><\/a> of 1 RMB for each day of his week-long sentence, during which he says he was repeatedly beaten. From Didi Kirsten Tatlow of The New York Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They also applied for Mr. Yang\u2019s detention order to be legally overturned, saying he had done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about the money,\u201d said Mr. Yang, a middle-school student whose\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weibo.com\/u\/3795496650\">photographs<\/a>\u00a0show a dusting of dark hair on his upper lip, and who says he loves \u201cto read about true events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make the police who beat me responsible. What they did was illegal. It was definitely not O.K.,\u201d he said, the words coming out in a torrent.<\/p>\n<p>Several attempts to reach the Zhangjiachuan Police for comment failed, with calls unanswered or transferred to lines that were not active. 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