- The plaintiff, Tang Hui, She was locked up in a center for protesting the rape and prostitution of her daughter
EFE / Beijing
The woman who sparked the debate in China over the controversial re-education camps (laogai), being locked in one after protesting the rape and prostitution of her daughter for years, has filed a lawsuit against that prison to demand compensation and an apology. As reported this Wednesday by the official Chinese agency Xinhua, the plaintiff, Tang Hui, asked for the sum of 400 dollars (300 euros) for damages for her detention and a written apology to be included in the charge sheet filed against her by the Yongzhou Intermediate Court, in Hunan province (on), where she was tried.
Last year, Tang stood in front of the government buildings in his town and started a march to demand greater punishments against those guilty of raping his daughter in 2006, when I was eleven years old, and forcing her into prostitution for years. He also asked that two local police officers be punished for raping the minor and defending prostitution mafias.. Instead, Tang fue declarada culpable de "disturbio social" and sentenced to a year and a half of reeducation.
Wave of criticism
The conviction caused a wave of criticism on Chinese social networks and even protests in articles in the main communist publication, el 'Diario del Pueblo', that allowed Tang to be released after eight days of confinement. Created in 1955, during the early years of the communist regime founded by Mao Zedong, The system of re-education camps served to deprive both intellectuals and (en las campañas contra "derechistas" of 1957) like many of the students who participated in the Tiananmen protests of 1989.
Los "laogai" también se han utilizado para encerrar a "ciberdisidentes" (people who criticized the Chinese government over the Internet), padres que violaron la política de "un sólo hijo" or members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, banned by Beijing in 1999. According to human rights groups critical of Beijing, these work fields, many of them located in secret locations, They have hundreds of thousands of inmates without a court ruling (until 300.000, according to some NGOs). China signed in 1998 the International Convention on Political and Civil Rights, prohibiting forced labor.
