Chinese Blogger Beaten To Death By Government Officials

[Gerry]

Chinese Blogger Beaten To Death By Government Officials

Chinese blogger has been beaten to death by Government authorities for the crime of attempting to record a protest on his mobile phone.

When Wei was present at some sort of confrontation or protest by local villages against municipal authorities when more than 50 municipal inspectors turned on him, attacking him for five minutes.

According to CNN, the killing has sparked outrage in China, “with thousands expressing outrage in Chinese Internet chat rooms, often the only outlet for public criticism of the government.”

The Chinese Government has moved swiftly to detain those involved, arresting 24 municipal inspectors whilst investigating more than 100 others in relation to the incident. Notably (for China) the story was published by the official state news service Xinhua, in what is believed to be an attempt to head off dissent over the mater by demonstrating that the Chinese Government does not condone those involved in the beating.

 

[leo]

wow thats sad.

 

[stock_post]

They will defend it saying that helped stop the spread of crime and violance.

 

[domain newbie]

beep beep beep ............

 

[HomerJ]

makes you wonder about this years olympics

 

[Gerry]

makes you wonder about this years olympics

I would expect very, very tight control over the media. I think it is post-olympics that will be more revealing. I look for a lot of smuggled videos or clips showing life outside the big city to surface after the Olympics.

There is already large protests outside the big cities as the margin of the haves and have-nots continues to widen.

 

[italiandragon]

it`s another world up there.....when will this change is the question

 

[jasdon11]

I wonder what the Chinese make of Guantanemo Bay.