Beijing Adult Entertainment: China tries to stop the public shaming of suspects
Beijing - The Chinese government is calling for an end to the public shaming of criminal suspects, a time-honored, but increasingly hated, practice of Chinese law enforcement. China’s state-run media reports that the Ministry of Public Security has ordered the police to stop parading suspects in public and is instead calling on local police departments to enforce laws in a “rational, calm and civilized manner.”
The New York Times reports that the new regulations are believed to stem from the public’s negative response to a string of “shame parades”. The latest incident which happened just last month was in the southern city of Dongguan, where a group of young Chinese girls accused of being prostitutes, were shackled, barefoot and paraded in front of the public. The police, when asked about the incident, said this was not punishment for the women, just a way for them to seek help in their pursuit of an investigation.
Last October, police in Henan Province went on the Internet and posted photographs of wo …
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Beijing Escorts: China bans "shame parades" of prostitutes
BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhuanet) — China will end the public shaming of prostitutes by parading them through the streets, the People’s Daily reported on Tuesday, following controversy over cases in which sex workers were paraded in public.
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Prostitution is illegal in China and police sometimes used means such as parading prostitutes in public as a deterrent. However, recent cases have sparked controversy on the Internet.
Earlier this month, local media in the city of Dongguan in southern China’s Guangdong province published pictures of two suspected prostitutes and two patrons who had been detained by police. The handcuffed girls were shown walking barefoot, handcuffed and tethered by a rope around their waists.
In another case this month, police in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, posted a public notice about a vice raid, including personal information about prostitutes and their clients.
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Beijing Escorts: China Pushes to End Public Shaming
China Daily, via Reuters A “shame parade” of suspected prostitutes in the southern city of Shenzen in 2006.
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Last October, the police in Henan Province took to the Internet, posting photographs of women suspected of being prostitutes. Other cities have been publishing the names and addresses of convicted sex workers and those of their clients. The most widely circulated images, taken this month in the southern city of Dongguan, included young women roped together and paraded barefoot through crowded city streets.
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Mao Shoulong, a professor of public policy at People’s University in Beijing, said the new regulations were necessary to rein in the worst impulses of the police.
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The most recent wave of prostitution arrests involving thousands of suspects is part of a seven-month “strike hard” campaign aimed at gambling, drug use and violent crime. As part of the increased law enforcement efforts, judicial authorities have been encouraged to mete out swifter, and harsher, punishment. It is the fourth such campaign since 1983.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Beijing to end shaming criminals in public
Beijing to end shaming criminals in public
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Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Ministry of Public Security has decided that police will no longer humiliate offenders by exposing them to public scorn, the Global Times reported. The decision to stop the public parading of criminal suspects came amid an intense public outcry that followed the publication online of photos showing barefoot, scantily clad handcuffed women, arrested, allegedly, for being sex workers in Dongguan, southern Guangdong Province
A similar incident had occurred in Chenjiawan, Hongshan District, Wuhan City. Here, local police posted the names and ages of alleged sex workers on walls.
When asked about their action, police said that the goal was not to humiliate the suspects, but to warn the general public of the consequences of such activity.
In view of the changes, local public security departments must now “improve their approaches to law and regulation enforcement” and “correct rude methods,” a Ministry notice said. Therefore, police forces are required to “behave reasonably and in a civilised manner, and fully r …
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Beijing Escorts: China Pushes to End Public Shaming of Suspects
BEIJING — The Chinese government has called for an end to the public shaming of criminal suspects, a time-honored cudgel of Chinese law enforcement but one that has increasingly rattled the public.
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Last October, the police in Henan Province took to the Internet, posting photographs of women suspected of being prostitutes. Other cities have taken to publishing the names and addresses of convicted sex workers and those of their clients. The most widely circulated images, taken earlier this month in the southern city of Dongguan, included young women roped together and paraded barefoot through crowded city streets.
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Mao Shoulong, a professor of public policy at People’s University in Beijing, said the new regulations were necessary to rein in the worst impulses of the police.
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The most recent wave of prostitution arrests involving tens of thousands of suspects is part of a seven-month “strike hard” campaign aimed at gambling, drug use and violent crime. As part of the ramped-up law enforcement efforts, judicial authorities have been encouraged to mete out swifter, and harsher, punishment. It is the fourth such campaign since 1983.
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Beijing Escorts: China cracks down on ‘prostitute parades’
China cracks down on ‘prostitute parades’
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BEIJING — China has ordered police to show more respect for the rights of criminal suspects following controversy over cases in which prostitutes were paraded in public, state media reported Tuesday.
The order was contained in a circular issued nationwide by the Ministry of Public Security and was prompted by the recent vice cases, the China Daily reported.
Although illegal in China, prostitution is widespread and police have periodically used tough means such as parading prostitutes in public as a deterrent.
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Earlier this month, local media in the city of Dongguan in southern China’s Guangdong province published pictures of two suspected prostitutes and two patrons who had been detained by police.
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In another case this month, police in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, posted a public notice about a vice raid, including personal information about prostitutes and their clients, reports said.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Call to recruit women in campaign against HIV/AIDS
BEIJING – Women should be recruited as an active force in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a campaign that has previously addressed them almost exclusively as carriers of the virus, according to study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released on Monday.
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In their sex lives, women have less say over condom use as well as little say about the disease in society, said He Xiaopei, director of the Pink Space, a Beijing-based NGO that provides support to female sufferers.
Women should be empowered by education to fight the virus, while assisting authorities in reaching high-risk groups like gays and prostitutes, she added.
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Police crackdowns on prostitution, she added, also have the potential of undermining efforts in HIV/AIDS control among high-risk groups.
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Police arrests, he said, will do little or nothing for disease control, except to drive prostitutes further underground, thwarting the delivery of intervention efforts.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Hotel star ranking system under increased scrutiny
BEIJING – The country is planning to accelerate a mechanism with which to
strip poorly run hotels of their star rankings in order to protect the image of
all the 15,000 star-rated hotels across the country, a top tourism official said
on Monday.
Anonymous customers’ opinions will be considered for the first time along
with those of industry experts when evaluating a star-rated hotel’s
qualification, said Du Jiang, deputy head of the National Tourism Administration
of China.
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The news came days after the announcement that the Hilton Chongqing was to be
stripped of its five-star status for reportedly permitting a venue for
prostitution to operate on its premises.
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Since 1982, when the Jianguo Hotel Beijing became the first hotel to
introduce international hotel management on the mainland, the world’s top 10
hotel groups have entered the Chinese market.
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Beijing Escorts: Trafficking syndicates prey on Filipino women
Philippine embassies in Beijing and Abu Dhabi and the consulate in Macau reported the increasing influx of Filipino women victimized by gangs that land them into prostitution, drug smuggling and slave labor, particularly in China.
Consul General in Beijing Teresa Almojuela warned that although China continues to enjoy economic expansion, its labor market has not been opened for foreign workers particularly in blue-collar jobs.
Reporting to the DFA, Almojuela said the Chinese government is now worried over the increasing number of undocumented workers from the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
“The Chinese labor market is not yet open for blue-collar Filipino and other foreign workers, thus offers from recruitment agencies to work in the country as blue-collar workers can be considered human trafficking,” she said.
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She also reported that four more Filipino women were detained after they were found to be voluntarily engaging in prostitution.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Death toll soars to 273 in July floods in China
BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhua) — Rain-triggered floods left 273 people dead and 218 missing since rainstorms struck south China on July 1, latest figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs show; up from the 146 deaths reported on July 16.
As of 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, about 58 million people in 11 provinces and Chongqing Municipality had been affected by the floods, with 3 million being evacuated and resettled, according to a statement released Wednesday by the ministry.
A total of 330,000 homes and some 4 million hectares of crops have also been destroyed.
Also, economic losses were estimated at about 58.27 billion yuan (8.53 billion U.S. dollars), the statement said.
Additionally on Wednesday, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs earmarked 329 million yuan for disaster relief in the flood-hit provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi and Hubei and the municipality of Chongqing.
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