{"id":34139,"date":"2013-05-28T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=34139 "},"modified":"2013-05-28T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T20:24:00","slug":"34139-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=34139","title":{"rendered":"China anger over girl \\’handcuffed\\’ for spilling drink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This image, believed to be of the girl, caused outrage on Chinese social media sites<\/div>
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Two Chinese officials have been suspended after being accused of handcuffing and parading a 13-year-old girl down a street for spilling a drink on a government car, state media say.<\/div>
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The officials – a Communist Party chief and a police officer – reportedly forced the teenager to walk up and down for 20 minutes.<\/div>
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The incident has caused uproar on Chinese social networking sites.<\/div>
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Local officials have been accused of acting in a high-handed manner.<\/div>
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A post on a micro-blogging site on Monday claimed the girl got into an argument with local officials in the county of Hezhang, Guizhou province, in April after accidentally splashing water onto a government car, according to China’s state-run news agency Xinhua.<\/div>
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She was then reportedly handcuffed and paraded up and down a street.<\/div>
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Photographs appearing to show the handcuffed teenager have appeared on Chinese news sites.<\/div>
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Communist Party secretary Yuan Zehong and police officer Chen Song have been suspended from work for their involvement in the incident, Xinhua said.<\/div>
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It added that a team was now investigating the incident.<\/div>
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It comes as part of a growing phenomenon of Chinese internet users exposing information about officials perceived to have done wrong.<\/div>
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Social media sites such as Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, have seen tremendous growth in the country in recent years and have become a powerful medium of discourse.<\/div>
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According to some Chinese news reports, Mr Yuan admitted that the girl had been handcuffed, but said she had not been paraded through the streets.<\/div>
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He said she had only been restrained with cuffs because police officers thought she was older than she was.<\/div>
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