Word: jiangxiong
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...gets much worse. When township officials apprehended 30 year old Zhou Jiangxiong in May 1998, they hung him upside down, repeatedly whipped and beat him with wooden clubs, burned him with cigarette butts, branded him with soldering irons and ripped his genitals off. What did this man do to deserve such a heinous punishment? According to Amnesty International, he was tortured to death because the officials were trying to make him reveal the whereabouts of his wife, whom they “suspected of being pregnant without permission...
...part of law enforcement. The government-initiated “strike-hard” anti-crime campaigns have given tax collectors, judges, court clerks, party leaders and other officials a free reign on using torture to extract confessions and information from “criminals” like Zhou Jiangxiong. These practices are particularly prevalent in restive Tibet and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where ethnic minorities and their families undergo various forms of cruel and unusual punishment if they are even suspected of being involved in separatist activities...
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