{"id":29100,"date":"2012-08-10T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29100 "},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:48:00","slug":"29100-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29100","title":{"rendered":"Online Chinese Enraged over Sentence of Victim\u2019s Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">The plight of a mother sentenced to a labor camp for demanding tougher punishment for those who allegedly raped and forced her daughter into prostitution has rallied China&#8217;s online community &#8212; and even prompted an official rebuke from the Communist Party&#8217;s main mouthpiece.<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">Tang Hui was sent to one and a half years of labor education last Thursday. According to a statement from local police in the city of Yongzhou, Ms.Tang had been urging officials to give the seven suspects in her daughter&#8217;s case the death penalty. Two of them were sentenced to death, four to life imprisonment and one to 15 years in prison this June.<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">The statement said&nbsp;Ms. Tang last year on seven separate occasions blocked official cars at the local courthouse, at the homes of local party representatives, at the police station and at schools. Her actions &#8220;severely disturbed order in workplaces and in society, which had an extremely terrible social impact.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">The police said that her sentence was based on a Chinese labor re-education law. Critics point out that the law targets murderers, rapists and reactionaries whose circumstances &#8211; such as their age &#8211; call for less-serious punishment than prison. They also said Ms. Tang was sent to the labor camp without the benefit of a trial.<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">Some are calling for abolishing the labor education system. &#8221; If you make the local officials angry, they can put you in prison without going to trial or [the opportunity to] question evidence,&#8221; said Murong Xuecun, a prominent Chinese writer,&nbsp;in his verified Weibo account. &#8220;Citizens cannot be safe unless the labor education system gets abolished.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">Ms. Tang&#8217;s case can be traced back to 2006, when she rescued her then 11-year-old daughter from a brothel &#8211; where she was&nbsp;raped and beaten &#8211; where she was kept for three months after being kidnapped, according to&nbsp;a report in by South Metropolitan Daily.<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">&#8220;Ms. Tang told us that she is in a good health condition and the staff in the camp is treating her well,&#8221; Hu Yihua, one of the lawyers representing Ms. Tang in the case, told the China Real Time. &#8220;But she said she misses her daughter so bad.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">Continue reading&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2012\/08\/06\/mother%E2%80%99s-labor-camp-sentence-sparks-fury\/\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #034af3; background-color: white; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">original article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 115%; color: #2d2d2d; background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; \">. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Tang Hui, whose 11-year-old daughter was raped and forced in to prostitution, was sentenced to a year and a half in a labor camp for protesting what she thought were lenient sentences for her daughter&amp;#8217;s attackers. &amp;nbsp;A flurry of dissent on microblogs has raged, with calls for Tang&amp;#8217;s immediate release and an abolishment of the labor education system.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}