{"id":1328001,"date":"2022-02-22T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1328001"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:08:51","slug":"china-censors-scandal-over-woman-found-chained-in-a-hut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-censors-scandal-over-woman-found-chained-in-a-hut\/","title":{"rendered":"China Censors Scandal over Woman Found Chained in a Hut"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-censors-scandal-over-woman-found-chained-in-a-hut%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1328001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s Twitter-like Weibo and WeChat social media platforms allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3167927\/china-silences-trafficking-debate-sparked-chained-woman-scandal?utm_source=rss_feed\">suspended<\/a>\u00a0accounts, the <em>South China Morning Post<\/em> (<em>SCMP<\/em>) reported Tuesday, after expressing concern online about a suspected human trafficking case involving a Chinese woman found living in squalid conditions in eastern Jiangsu province in January \u2014 including with a chain attached to her neck to prevent her escape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he social media accounts of at least two prominent intellectuals have been suspended after they commented on the scandal,\u201d the Hong Kong-based newspaper reported February 22.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Continuing, the <em>SCMP<\/em> revealed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lao Dongyan, a former prosecutor and professor in criminal law with Tsinghua University in Beijing, had her WeChat channel and a newly registered Weibo account suspended after expressing concerns about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Wu Bihu, a professor at Peking University\u2019s urban and environmental sciences college, has also been suspended from Weibo, a week after calling \u2013 through his personal account \u2013 for the All-China Women\u2019s Federation to issue a public apology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China silences trafficking debate sparked by \u2018chained woman\u2019 scandal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YI4lHCJdRK\">https:\/\/t.co\/YI4lHCJdRK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCMPNews\/status\/1496020849056440321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bihu asked the Chinese state-run All-China Women\u2019s Federation to issue an apology for its alleged \u201csilence\u201d on the chained woman\u2019s case, according to the <em>SCMP<\/em>. In statements shared by Bihu through his Weibo account, the academic called for the federation\u2019s\u00a0chapter in Xuzhou \u2014 which is the Jiangsu province city in which the chained woman was found \u2014 \u201cto be dissolved for its failure to protect the basic rights of local women.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_9789362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7af0b3_weibo-was-launched-in-2009-has-400-million-monthly-active-users-making-it.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9789362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7af0b3_weibo-was-launched-in-2009-has-400-million-monthly-active-users-making-it.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"768\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weibo (AFP\/PETER PARKS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to the <em>SCMP<\/em>, the All-China Women\u2019s Federation did issue a statement on the chained woman scandal, despite Bihu\u2019s accusation it had remained \u201csilent\u201d on the issue. The organization said it welcomed an investigation into the matter by the Jiangsu provincial government, adding it hoped the probe would \u201cascertain the facts, bring justice to the victim and provide the conclusive findings the public needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A video went viral on Chinese social media in late January for appearing to depict a woman chained to a hut in a rural village of Xuzhou. The footage circulated on the social media platform Weibo \u2014 which is heavily censored by the Chinese Communist Party \u2014 and drew the attention of domestic and foreign media outlets throughout the months of January and February.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-based, China-focused news site SupChina reviewed the video and <a href=\"https:\/\/supchina.com\/2022\/01\/31\/disturbing-video-of-chained-up-mother-in-rural-china-sparks-outrage-calls-for-investigation\/\">detailed<\/a> its contents on January 31. The website described the video as depicting \u201c[a] middle-aged Chinese woman, seemingly dazed and confused, stood in a doorless, shabby shack \u2014 with a metal chain tied to her neck and nailed to the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuing, SupChina wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was freezing cold in the winter, but the woman was wearing no coat. Next to the shed was a warm house where her husband and eight children resided. When asked about the woman\u2019s situation, one of her kids said with an emotionless expression on his face that food was brought to her every day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Police in Xuzhou allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/19\/china-police-arrest-people-for-trying-to-find-woman-chained-in-hut\/\">arrested<\/a> two women on February 13 after they documented via social media a journey to the city to locate the chained woman, the <em>SCMP<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/2-detained-china-trying-visit-081349538.html\">reported<\/a> on February 16 citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Beijing-based lawyer, who could not speak on the record but had been informed about the case, confirmed that two women were detained at the weekend in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province,\u201d the newspaper relayed.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>SCMP<\/em> said it spoke to other anonymous sources who claimed Xuzhou police detained the two women on suspicion of \u201cpicking quarrels and provoking trouble,\u201d which is a catch-all phrase the Chinese Communist Party uses to charge political dissenters with crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s Twitter-like Weibo and WeChat social media platforms allegedly suspended\u00a0accounts, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Tuesday, after expressing concern online about a suspected human trafficking case involving a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}