Xuzhou mother: Video of chained woman in hut outrages China internet

[aziqbal]

Xuzhou mother: Video of chained woman in hut outrages China internet​

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A screenshot of the video shows the woman with a chain around her neck standing in the hut
A video of a Chinese mother of eight children locked up in a village hut with a chain around her neck has sparked outrage and shock in China.
The video on Douyin, which owns TikTok, was shot by a man who visits the woman, and is visibly shocked at what he sees.
After bringing her warm clothes, he asks her several questions but she is unable to answer properly.
The video has gone viral with Chinese netizens demanding authorities intervene to help her.
Many have also discussed the abuse of women and their limited rights in China's rural areas, and questioned the circumstances under which the woman in Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu province gave birth to her eight children.
They've asked how this escaped the notice of local authorities, given China's strict family planning restrictions.
In the video, the woman appears dazed and unable to comprehend questions from the vlogger, who asks her repeatedly if she feels cold. She's dressed in only a light layer of clothes despite the freezing winter temperatures.
Since being posted on Friday, the video has prompted fevered discussion about human trafficking in China's impoverished rural areas - despite the scant details available on this particular case.
Many netizens drew comparisons to a 2007 Chinese film Blind Mountain, which tells the story of a young woman who is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Authorities put out a statement on Friday dismissing any speculation about abduction. They identified the woman by her last name Yang, from Feng County Huankou Township.
They said she had married her husband, identified as Mr Dong in 1998, and had been diagnosed with a mental health illness. His family had told local authorities that Ms Yang often had violent outbursts.
But the response from officials further angered netizens who criticised authorities for not addressing the issue of her detainment, the use of the chains, and her overall welfare.
That prompted a second statement from authorities on Sunday, which contained more information about the family's history.
Officials said they were now investigating her husband.
"Dong is suspected of violating the law. The public security authorities have launched an investigation into it," the statement said, according to local media reports.
They added that Ms Yang was now in hospital for treatment and her children had been taken into state care. Officials said she had recently been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
However, public anger over the situation has not abated with netizens demanding local authorities take greater responsibility.
"She is a person, not an object. After having eight children over 20 years, she is only to be found today? None of the government departments and judicial bodies involved in are innocent," wrote one user.
Online discussion of the case has been heavily censored since it flared up on Friday. Authorities have removed many posts discussing human trafficking and censored one key topic phrase "Xuzhou Eight Children".
But it has retained the topic "Authorities Statement published re Xuzhou Feng County Woman with 8 Kids" which saw more than 190 million views and 56,000 comments on Monday alone. Much of the discussion is critical of local officials' responses.

Xuzhou mother: Video of chained woman in hut outrages China internet

The viral video has prompted demands the authorities intervene to help the mother of eight.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[beijingwalker]

Online discussion of the case has been heavily censored since it flared up on Friday.

Western media can never report anything without lying , it's everywhere on the Chinese social media, even Global Times chief editor Huxijin lashed out at the local officials

Hu Xijin, the former editor of Global Times, a state-controlled tabloid, said anyone with common sense could see that the woman had been treated inhumanely. But officials seemed to have blindly accepted the husband’s story, he added.

“To forcibly have so many children with a mentally ill person, and turn her into a reproductive tool — is this not illegal?” Mr. Hu wrote on the social media platform Weibo.

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[aziqbal]

Western media can never report anything without lying , it's everywhere on the Chinese social media, even Global Times chief editor Huxijin lashed out at the local officials


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I agree that Western media can be bias

however at least we are allowed to have a opinion

and also we know that 1.35 billion Chinese live in China and bad things happen right ?

I mean I live in Scotland and we have lots of issues and problems and thats 5 million people

some members (you included ) like to portray that nothing bad ever happens in China and everyone is living in a fairytale land no two Chinese differ in opinion

 

[Zsari]

Xuzhou mother: Video of chained woman in hut outrages China internet​

Published10 hours ago
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IMAGE SOURCE, DOUYIN
Image caption,
A screenshot of the video shows the woman with a chain around her neck standing in the hut
A video of a Chinese mother of eight children locked up in a village hut with a chain around her neck has sparked outrage and shock in China.
The video on Douyin, which owns TikTok, was shot by a man who visits the woman, and is visibly shocked at what he sees.
After bringing her warm clothes, he asks her several questions but she is unable to answer properly.
The video has gone viral with Chinese netizens demanding authorities intervene to help her.
Many have also discussed the abuse of women and their limited rights in China's rural areas, and questioned the circumstances under which the woman in Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu province gave birth to her eight children.
They've asked how this escaped the notice of local authorities, given China's strict family planning restrictions.
In the video, the woman appears dazed and unable to comprehend questions from the vlogger, who asks her repeatedly if she feels cold. She's dressed in only a light layer of clothes despite the freezing winter temperatures.
Since being posted on Friday, the video has prompted fevered discussion about human trafficking in China's impoverished rural areas - despite the scant details available on this particular case.
Many netizens drew comparisons to a 2007 Chinese film Blind Mountain, which tells the story of a young woman who is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Authorities put out a statement on Friday dismissing any speculation about abduction. They identified the woman by her last name Yang, from Feng County Huankou Township.
They said she had married her husband, identified as Mr Dong in 1998, and had been diagnosed with a mental health illness. His family had told local authorities that Ms Yang often had violent outbursts.
But the response from officials further angered netizens who criticised authorities for not addressing the issue of her detainment, the use of the chains, and her overall welfare.
That prompted a second statement from authorities on Sunday, which contained more information about the family's history.
Officials said they were now investigating her husband.
"Dong is suspected of violating the law. The public security authorities have launched an investigation into it," the statement said, according to local media reports.
They added that Ms Yang was now in hospital for treatment and her children had been taken into state care. Officials said she had recently been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
However, public anger over the situation has not abated with netizens demanding local authorities take greater responsibility.
"She is a person, not an object. After having eight children over 20 years, she is only to be found today? None of the government departments and judicial bodies involved in are innocent," wrote one user.
Online discussion of the case has been heavily censored since it flared up on Friday. Authorities have removed many posts discussing human trafficking and censored one key topic phrase "Xuzhou Eight Children".
But it has retained the topic "Authorities Statement published re Xuzhou Feng County Woman with 8 Kids" which saw more than 190 million views and 56,000 comments on Monday alone. Much of the discussion is critical of local officials' responses.

Xuzhou mother: Video of chained woman in hut outrages China internet

The viral video has prompted demands the authorities intervene to help the mother of eight.

www.bbc.co.uk

Aren't Chinese suppose to be arrested for criticizing the government online? This not only poke a hole in the lies, but also shown how quickly the government respond to online public grievance.

 

[Globenim]

Exceptional tragic event happens to a apparently mentall ill woman
Authorities involved before video even went viral
Investigation about what happend ongoing
Criticisim over relevant authorities all over social media
Officals make frequent public updates about her status
But China

U.K. state run propaganda mouthpieces and shills after reading it on Chinese media:
China is censoring it!
Public outrcry forced authorites to act!
Did we mention Chinas one child policy bad?
Did we mention Chinese women have no/less rights?
World Affair!

These sick people Westerns dare to call their journalists are more appaling than the news they try to use to placate China with. Its obvious nobody of of them actually gives a **** about the woman or anyone in a similar tragic situation anywhere the world besides countries the West is hostile towards and they just see new material to smear China with and pile a dozen more lies on top.

 

[beijingwalker]

Aren't Chinese suppose to be arrested for criticizing the government online? This not only poke a hole in the lies, but also shown how quickly the government respond to online public grievance.

The angry Chinese public forced the government to issue statements again and again and are still not happy, how can this be possible? anyone who speaks against the government will be shot on the spot in China. wait, how come Chinese government officials in Beijing lash out at the Chinese government officials in Xuzhou?

 

[beijingwalker]

Dozens officials in China face punishment over case involving chained woman, local government governor dismissed​

Reuters
February 23, 2022

BEIJING, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have launched a criminal investigation of nine people in connection with a woman who appeared chained by the neck in a video on social media that went viral and sparked a public outcry, state media reported on Wednesday.

The video, which surfaced in late January, showed the woman in an apparently confused state in the eastern province of Jiangsu and was seen by millions, stirring debate over the treatment of women and issues including the trafficking of brides.

As well as the nine facing criminal investigation, 17 county-level officials have been punished in connection with the case, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Investigators said the woman, 44, originally from the southwestern province of Yunnan, was sold twice by human traffickers in Feng county, the first time in 1997 for 5,000 yuan ($800), CCTV said.

She ran away the following year and ended up with her current husband after being sold to his father, CCTV said.

The broadcaster said the woman had eight children with her current husband, seven of them over nine years until 2020. Her mental state worsened after giving birth to the third child in 2012, the investigation team said, according to CCTV.

Nine people who were directly involved in the selling and buying of the woman in Feng County were either arrested or put under criminal investigation for abuse or trafficking of women, CCTV said.

The county's Communist Party chief, Lou Hai and its governor, Zheng Chunwei, were dismissed from their posts for failing to "uphold people's rights and interests" and for approving the release of incorrect statements that "caused severe bad influence", CCTV reported.

Another 15 county officials received lesser punishments.

The county government had previously issued conflicting statements that had added to public anger over the case, CCTV said.

Doctors diagnosed the woman with schizophrenia and she is being treated at a hospital, it said.

Dozens in China face punishment over case involving chained woman

Chinese authorities have launched a criminal investigation of nine people in connection with a woman who appeared chained by the neck in a video on social media that went viral and sparked a public outcry, state media reported on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

 

[nang2]

Exceptional tragic event happens to a apparently mentall ill woman
Authorities involved before video even went viral
Investigation about what happend ongoing
Criticisim over relevant authorities all over social media
Officals make frequent public updates about her status
But China

U.K. state run propaganda mouthpieces and shills after reading it on Chinese media:
China is censoring it!
Public outrcry forced authorites to act!
Did we mention Chinas one child policy bad?
Did we mention Chinese women have no/less rights?
World Affair!

These sick people Westerns dare to call their journalists are more appaling than the news they try to use to placate China with. Its obvious nobody of of them actually gives a **** about the woman or anyone in a similar tragic situation anywhere the world besides countries the West is hostile towards and they just see new material to smear China with and pile a dozen more lies on top.

You seem to be more outraged against western media than the suffering of this and many other poor Chinese women. Just so you know, all you have listed above are correct:
1. China is censoring it!

When Jiangsu province took over the investigation, the first thing they did was to find out who leaked the photo of the marriage certificate, which has shown numerous violations by the authority. If it is not censoring or attempted coverup, I don't know what it is.

2. Public outrcry forced authorites to act!

The first 4 public statements from the authority severely contradict with one another. It WAS the public outcry that forced the authority to move forward. The authority would be more than happy to pretend this tragedy didn't happen.

3. Did we mention Chinas one child policy bad?

It is certainly bad, especially when many, many, many Chinese pregnant women were forced to abort. If you think feticide is not bad, you are a monster!

4. Did we mention Chinese women have no/less rights?

Just look at that woman who has been used as a breeding stock, treated like an animal. This is not just an isolated case. Women trafficking is popular among poor rural villages. That is the only way for some men to have children. Those men treat those purchased women like a property. In many cases, the entire villages are enforcing their "property" right, including the local law enforcement. These ARE NOT recent news.

 

[Vapnope]

@aziqbal while i appreciate you for this thread, did you miss the news of Prince Andrew?

 

[beijingwalker]

Public outcry in China gets things done and fixed quickly, but in the west, people talk a lot, but no one cares, they talk just for the sake that they can talk, not for issue fixing.

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