One-Child Policy Opponent Tortured [HRIC]
October 5, 2004 Human Rights in China (HRIC) has received an appeal for help on behalf of a Shanghainese woman, Mao Hengfeng, who has reportedly been subjected to torture and abusive treatment because of her public protests against China’s official one-child policy.
According to HRIC’s sources, Mao Hengfeng was originally employed at a soap factory in Shanghai. In 1988 she became pregnant with her second child in contravention of China’s one-child policy. Her managers at the factory tried to force her to have an abortion, and when she resisted they bound her and took her to a psychiatric hospital, where she was forcibly admitted and injected with medication. Mao managed to retain her pregnancy in spite of official pressure and gave birth to her child, but the factory dismissed her from her job. [more]
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