BEIJING, Feb 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The family planning program in China, which in much of the country forbids couples to have more than one child, continues to be enforced with torture, threats and financial and social penalties for those who infringe the policy. An extensive Amnesty International report on torture in China has its most gruesome details in its exposé on the family planning regime. While the practice is downplayed by Chinese officials at the United Nations, Amnesty reports that the tortures continue unabated.
The Amnesty report begins with the following chilling quote: “Zhou Jianxiong, a 30 year-old agricultural worker from Chunhua township in Hunan province, died under torture on 15 May 1998. Detained on 13 May, he was tortured by officials from the township birth control office to make him reveal the whereabouts of his wife, suspected of being pregnant without permission. Zhou was hung upside down, repeatedly whipped and beaten with wooden clubs, burned with cigarette butts, branded with soldering irons, and had his genitals ripped off.”
For the full Amnesty report see: https://www.web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/9847042ee27f9c948025695f006fc47f/ 5de714c0187dfd31802569dd0041b35c?OpenDocument