SHANGHAI, August 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chinese officials will return a six-month-old baby girl to her parents after ripping the child from her father's arms, beating him, and pushing him down a staircase, according to the China Aid Association.
On August 7, Yuan Jianbin brought his daughter – Chris Yuan, who is a U.S. citizen – to China from America to visit his parents.
Yuan sued Qilu Securities Company after his wife, Wang Lingling, was fired without severance pay, because she was pregnant.
The case wound its way up the judicial circuit until August 12, when he asked Judge Qiao Beihua of the Shanghai Second Intermediate Court to make a ruling.
When the judge refused, Yuan prepared to leave the courthouse but was instead assaulted by security guards.
“Some of them began attacking him and others tried to pry open his hands [to take his baby]. Yuan fell [down the stairs] from the second floor directly to the first floor, landing on his head and back, knocking him unconscious,” China Aid reported. “The result of the examination at the hospital showed bone fractures in the eighth and ninth ribs, a compressive bone fracture to his fifth vertebra and cerebral concussion. Yuan required five stitches on his head.”
While in the hospital Yuan asked to see his baby daughter. Authorities refused, telling the distraught father at one point that his child was in an orphanage and at another time that she was being cared for by a maid.
Though still in great pain, Yuan left the hospital and went to the office of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and to the U.S. Consulate seeking help to find his baby. But Yuan received no further information about his daughter.
On August 19, Chinese authorities indicated that, after negotiations with the U.S. Consulate, the baby would be returned to her father.
China Aid founder Bob Fu told LifeSiteNews.com, “The baby will be restored to her father, and Mr. Yuan, though still suffering from the injuries inflicted upon him, will be allowed to return with his daughter to the U.S. to rejoin his wife.”
“This baby girl does not deserve this kind of punishment simply for her father's legitimate pursuit of human rights and justice inside a Chinese court,” Fu added.
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“Here we see a dramatic example of official abuse and corruption,” said Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, an international organization that works to expose and oppose forced abortion, gendercide, and sexual slavery in China.
“This happened in the Shanghai Intermediate Court, not a remote area,” Littlejohn said. “Was this done at the direction of the judge?”
The 2012 State Department Human Rights report on China said that human rights abuses in China include extrajudicial killings and the harassment of petitioners who sought to peacefully exercise their rights under the law.
“An innocent man and his baby daughter are being punished merely because he was seeking justice for his wife,” Littlejohn told LifeSiteNews. “Beating citizens when they seek justice, and kidnapping their children, only serve to undermine the credibility of the Chinese Communist regime, both domestically and abroad.”