This report I took from China Labour Watch. This report only substantiates all that I feel towards the wicked, evil regime in Beijing. It is as if this fascist regime thinks that they can get away with anything. Well, I have news for them: they can’t!
Read on . . .
It was learned that at 3.00 p.m. on the day of November 20 2007, that Huang Qingnan, director of Long'gang district's Migrant Workers' Centre (dagongzhe zhongxin) was stabbed. A reporter immediately telephoned Huang Qingnan, but the phone was answered by a friend of his who said that Huang's condition was very serious and they were rushing to save him.
Earlier in the day around 3.00 p.m. Huang Qingnan and a friend Mr. Zhu were chatting at Longhu village when a motorcycle without any license plates drove up. Two young men in their twenties got off of the motorcycle, and each on of them bearing a knife, began wildly stabbing at Huang Qingnan. Huang Qingnan immediately fell on his back and received six knife wounds of up to 15 centimetres in length on his legs and other areas of his body. His left leg was broken and bleeding: Qingnan was in trauma. After the attack the two thugs rode away on a motorcycle parked at a parking site nearby.
Mr. Zhu immediately called the police and took Huang Qingnan to the Shenzhen Long'gang Central Hospital to receive treatment. According to a doctor in the emergency room, it appeared as if he might lose the use of his left leg.
Huang Qingnan is currently the director of Shenzhen's Migrant Workers' Occupational Health and Safety Centre, which is a labour rights protection organisation registered with the department of commerce. Their primary activities are to provide migrant workers with free services such as a library, labour law education, and legal counselling. Their daily activities include holding cultural activities, labour law education and counselling, and by using various methods, seeking to improve the rights protection consciousness of migrant workers. Because the new Labour Contract Law is about to come into effect, the centre has conducted a series of outreach programs in order to disseminate information about this law. These activities may have led to opposition from some factory owners.
The thugs that attacked Huang Qingnan were really not a coincidence, as this is was not the most recent and most serious example of labour rights advocates in Shenzhen being attacked. Just one week before the incident with Huang Qingnan, on November 13th Shenzhen's Long'gang district labour rights activist Li Jinxin was kidnapped and beaten by unidentified thugs. He is still receiving treatment in the Longcheng hospital in Long'gang district.
And so it goes on, attacks by unknown thugs (probably Party officials), with no obvious recourse to the Law or any other lawful or provincial body.
Before Huang Qingnan was stabbed, his offices had been attacked on October 11th and November 14th. A short time after 3.00 p.m. on October 11th, four young ‘adolescents’ wielding metal rods pulled up to the Migrant Workers' Occupational Health and Safety Office. They walked over to the office and proceeded to smash the glass door to pieces before taking off again. A month later on November 14th, just after 3.00 p.m. a commercial truck came to the centre. A few young men jumped out of the vehicle and then continued to smash up the inside of the office before leaving. These two incidents were not construed as being so bad because no-one was injured. After these incidents, the centre’s staff reported it to the police but there have been no further investigations so far.
One only has to ask the reasons why.
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