Protests in China on the case of intimidation of the viral school

An intimidation incident at school in southern China has sparked a series of demonstrations and calls for more justice for the 14 -year -old victim.

A video of the in -class girl, kicks and forced to kneel by three other minors has become viral in the city of Jiangyou in Sichuan province last week.

Police said the three suspects were all women aged 13, 14 and 15 – and that two of them had been sent to “specialized schools for corrective education”.

While the news of the incident spread on social networks, many believed that punishment was too light – especially after the statements that the daughter had been intimidated for some time and that her mother, who would be deaf, had pleaded with the authorities for more justice for her daughter.

He caused a wave of online public anger and demonstrations broke out outside the local government offices in Jiangyou.

More than 1,000 people gathered on the street on August 4 and stayed before midnight, according to owners of local stores.

One of them told the BBC that “things were bloody” after the police used batons and electrical products to control the crowd.

Several videos published online seem to check for your account. You can see officers causing demonstrators along the street and hit them with batons. A witness also said that he saw a few bottles of water launched to the police.

“People just wanted justice,” he said. “People were upset by (lack) of punishment.”

The witnesses who spoke to the BBC were not willing to give their name because the police would have urged local populations not to speak of the incident.

During a call to the local public security office, the BBC was informed that there were “limits to the foreign press asking questions”.

Protests in China are not uncommon, but they are quickly closed and censored on the media managed by the State and on the Internet.

Jiangyou’s demonstrations forced the police to publish a second declaration to clarify the rumors that the attackers were the daughters of a lawyer and a police inspector. These statements are false, police said.

“Two of the parents are unemployed, two work outside the province, one is a local seller and one is a local delivery man,” said the press release.

Police punished two people for having broadcast false online information saying that their messages have “seriously disrupted public order and caused a bad social impact”.

A Shanghai -based lawyer said in an online article that this incident had highlighted a continuous legal dilemma for Chinese officials.

“The sanction for causing minor injuries is too soft, while the physical and mental trauma suffered by the victims is neglected by law, which leads to an important imbalance in the protection of their rights,” he wrote on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.

His references were verified by the BBC, but he does not want to be appointed.

Intimidation has become a very sensitive subject in China in recent years, and the deaths of students concerning an alleged intimidation have triggered demonstrations in the past.

In January of this year, the death of a teenager sparked violent demonstrations in a city in northwestern China. Objects were launched against the police during demonstrations in Pucheng in the Shaanxi province. The authorities said that the teenager fell to death in an accident in his school dormitory, but that there were allegations on the social networks of a concealment.

Last year, a Chinese court delivered long sentences to two teenagers who murdered a classmate in the Hebei province with a shovel. The 13 -year -old children buried the victim in an abandoned vegetable greenhouse.

The victim was the victim of intimidation by his classmates, alleged his family and his lawyer, while the court declared that he had “experienced conflicts” with the condemned adolescents.