The High Court has made this appeal after the social scandal caused by the beating that a group of men gave several girls in Tangshan last month
The People’s Supreme Court of China, the highest judicial body in the country, has demanded tougher sentences against those convicted of violence against women, children and the elderly, in an appeal made after the social scandal caused by the images of the beating that a group of men hit several girls at a restaurant in the city of Tangshan last month.
“Crimes as abhorrent as these must be harshly punished,” the president of the court, Zhou Quiang, proclaimed this Sunday during a conference of magistrates. “These kinds of assaults are among the most base crimes contemplated not only by law, but also by morality, and they must be punished with the utmost severity,” he added.
So far nine people have been arrested for the assault on Tangshan, which left two of the girls with serious injuries, in a crime that adds to the one that occurred last October, when the influential Tibetan Lhamo was killed live by her ex-husband, or the case of a mother of eight who was found chained in a brick shack in Jiangsu province in January.
Two weeks after the Tangshan attack, China’s new public security minister, Wang Xiaohong, ordered increased police deployments throughout this summer to combat this kind of crime.
Death penalty
In March, Zhou promised to impose the death penalty for serious crimes involving “cruel treatment” of women, children and the elderly, in an apparent response to public anger over recently exposed trafficking cases.
The ‘South China Morning Post’ recalls that the China Women’s Federation, a women’s rights organization closely associated with the government, has long been criticized for its inability to defend women’s rights in China, in particular after a 2021 survey revealed that 30% of married women in the Asian giant had experienced domestic violence.
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