Humans Rights Attorney Beaten in China
Over the past several days a prominent human rights attorney in Shanghai, China has been beaten by plain clothes police officers in front of his home. The attorney has been on house arrest for several months, for reasons not specified. The police refuse to comment about the beatings by their police officers. The human rights attorney has organized a campaign to prevent a railroad system from being built through middle class areas in Shanghai, China. He is also responsible for calling out city officials for corruption involving real estate as well as wrongfully influencing peddling. It has been speculated these are the reasons for the unprovoked beatings by several, up to five or six individuals, plain clothes police officers. It is sad that the police will not speak of such an event that is taken place to a human rights attorney, especially since China is allegedly bettering their human rights as they prepare for the 2008 Olympics to be hosted in Beijing.
posted by mfbibb01 at 7:25 PM
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It seems that stories of such human rights violations are numerous and continuous. However, they rarely get considerable media attention from those media markets that will be benefiting from the considerable attention of the summer Olympics coming up. The summer games are not far off - only a few months away - and yet such stories and incidents in China still go uncriticized. I wonder whether this blind eye that the media has turned towards human rights violations will continue to occur in the middle of August when all eyes will be turned on China.
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