Detention to House Arrest, Result of Public Pressure

Stabbing Death of Official Draws Attention to CCP Corruption

Waitress stabs local official to death after he made unwanted sexual advances

Epoch Times Staff May 18, 2009

Deng Yujiao, a waitress in Badong County of Hubei Province, stabbed a local official to death after he made unwanted sexual advances towards her. This case has drawn a lot of public attention on Chinese blogs.

According to a news portal run by the county government, three local government officials went to an illicit entertainment venue after a night of dining and drinking. Deng Guida, the director of the local government's business promotion office, requested "special services" from Deng Yujiao but was rejected.

Deng Guida hit Yujiao's head with a stack of RMB (Chinese currency) and said “Don’t doubt that we don’t have enough money (for the special service).” He then pushed her down on the couch. When she was unable to free herself, she stabbed the man several times with a fruit knife. Deng Guida died on the way to the hospital.

Many Chinese bloggers have expressed their sympathy and support of the waitress and believe she was exercising her right of self-defense and shouldn't be liable for any criminal charges.

Some bloggers even think of her as a heroine helping to eradicate corrupt officials. Some articles posted on Chinese website said that the waitress’s knife stabbed at the soft spot of Chinese Communist Party officials’ absence of moral values.

Hao Jinsong, the director of the Beijing Legal Assistance Center, thinks the case reflects a common social problem in China. Average people have been suppressed by the corrupt regime for a long time. The outbreak of their anger could easily result in aggressive actions like what happened in this case.

The Chinese Communist Party regime is notorious for the corruption problem. Even according to official Chinese reports, from the vice-chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, to members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Commanders-in-Chief, CCP officials of provincial and municipal levels, to CCP officials of county, district, and village levels, cases of bribery, selling official posts, and supporting mistresses has never ceased.

Although a lot of officials have been punished, the problem cannot be resolved fundamentally due to the lack of an independent justice system and the one-party dictatorship without media supervision.

Hao feels that cases causing public outrage such as the stabbing incident could also be used by the authorities to distract from the upcoming 20th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre.

This case has again exposed the corrupt situation among CCP officials and Chinese citizens’ burning animosity towards them.

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Detention to House Arrest, Result of Public Pressure

By Luo Ya
Epoch Times Staff May 28, 2009

A young man plans to support Deng Yujiao by traveling one thousand kilometers on a scooter to give her a plaque engraved Lady of Integrity.(The Epoch Times)

The local regime in Badong, Hubei province has announced that police have released waitress Deng Yujiao from a detention centre and put her under house arrest.

Deng is alleged to have killed a party official who was trying to rape her.

People believes that the regime is yielding to the pressure of public opinion, and Chinese websurfers are still initiating all kinds of supportive activities.

On May 27, an article posted on China’s biggest Blog, Sina, calls for a 100,000 people walk to support Deng Yujiao, and named the activity as “The World First Unorganized and Disciplined Jog.” It suggested to participants to emphasize that the activity has no organizer when police interfere, and not to shout slogan, distribute brochure s,hold banners, and not to line up.

The blog also claims, that more than 7,000 people in Beijing and over 5,000 people in Shanghai have show their willingness to join the activities, and several hundred also planned to go to Badong during the weekend.

The article also said that if the other CCP official was not charged, the jog could become a routine every Saturday, “We hope the participants will double every weekend, and over million people will walk on the street till the end of June, and over ten million will walk on street till August.”

A young man living in southeast China’s Jiangsu province wants to show his support to Deng by travelling over thousand kilometres on a scooter

On May 23, he started his journey from his home town to Deng’s home in central China’s Hubei province, and carrying a plaque inscibed “Lady of Integrity” on his back.

Scholar supports Deng Yujiao

Professor Gao Xudong, the dean of the Institute of Comparative Literature & Culture Studies at Beijing Language and Culture University, recently published an article in praise of Deng Yujiao.

Titled “Why Deng Yujiao Should Be Praised” Gao said, “A fragile lady, was not moved by the money, and did not give in when facing the one who has power, (She) defended herself and resisted to protect her dignity. Is this the spirit that ensured the Chinese race survived for several thousands years?” and Gao thinks that, that spirit is the reason why Deng became so popular among Chinese websurfers.

However, lawyer Xia Lin, who was appointed by Deng’s mother Zhang Shumei, said he is not very optimistic about progress. The local regime announced on May 25 that Zhang had dispensed with Xia’s services, after Xia met with Deng and handed Deng’s statement to police demanding the arrest of another cadre involved in the case named Huang Dezhi. Xia also made public the statement on his blog.

Xia announced on May 27 that Zhang had not formally terminated the contract with him, and it is illegal for the government to appoint a lawyer to represent Deng. He also called on Zhang to contact him.

Xia also said his investigation is ongoing, and if the regime insisted on handling the case under the table, he will release more information.

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Last Updated
May 28, 2009