Chinese gov't presents glitzy Women's Day pageant while arresting the real feminist activists

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The reality: Women cannot even plan to protest wife beating without getting arrested in China.


Li Tingting, who goes by the pseudonym Li Maizi, pictured in Beijing's Qianmen Street campaigning against domestic violence in 2012. She appeared with two other university students wearing bloodied wedding gowns. Photo: Simon Song

Five Chinese feminist activists are still in police custody after authorities detained at least 10 women’s rights proponents across the country in the runup to International Women’s Day, according to a Chinese activist.

Activist Feng Yuan said those still in detention were Li Tingting, Wei Tingting, Wang Man, Zheng Churan and Wu Rongrong, the founder and executive director of the Hangzhou-based rights group Women Center. Feng said their lawyers have not been able to reach them since they were detained on Friday and Saturday.

Feng said the women had planned to observe International Women’s Day by putting up leaflets about sexual harassment in Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou. Lu Jun, a board member of Women Center, said the activists ha d observed previous International Women’s Days in similar ways but without interference.

Public security has been heightened around Beijing this past week as the country’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, holds its closely watched annual session. On Saturday, the meetings included a news conference on gender equality and women’s rights issues in China. The nearly two-week long congress ends on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/09/china-detains-feminist-activists-over-international-womens-day

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Sounds par for the course for the Chinese Communists

The government keeps wages low to bring in the business. Somebody's getting rich, I guess, but that's no way to build a worker's paradise. Allowing some free enterprise helps economic development, too, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. However, it's still just as much a police state as it was under Chairman Mao with the result being that they have developed a mixed socialist/capitalist economy with the worst of both worlds.

Maybe we Yanks should take a loser look, as long as we're headed in the same direction.

[whereisjustice]

2. Unfortunately Democratic Party advocates sending jobs to abusive China while giving lip service

to human rights. Same with India.

Thanks, TPP.