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Boxun reports that on Sunday
April 12 China rights defense lawyer
Cheng Hai and another lawyer accompanied their client--Beijing Normal
University Ming Dynasty history graduate student Tao Yuan's mother Zhang
Shengrong--to her home to get ID cards, residence cards and other
possessions. They were illegally followed and surveilled by local police
the whole time. Cheng Hai immediately filed a complaint with the district
inspectorate and (Sichuan Province capital) Chengdu city inspectorate
regarding Assistant Police Chief Deng Xingqiang illegally entering
private residences and other invasive actions. When the lawyers left Mrs.
Zhang was forcibly detained.
In the early morning hours of April 13,
Beijing lawyer Cheng Hai was
attacked and beaten while on his way to meet with a client in Chengdu.
Cheng was on his way to meet
Tao's mother, Zhang Chengrong ,
who lives in Wuhou District, when four or five men who had been
monitoring and following Cheng encircled him and began striking him,
pushing him onto the floor and kicking him. Cheng called the local
police but when the attackers, who identified themselves as members of
the Jinyang General Management Office, said it was merely a misunderstanding and members of the local Neighborhood
Committee, who by then have arrived at the scene, said they would help
Cheng to solve the problems, the police left without registering
Cheng's beating.
Injured but resolute, Cheng
continued his work on the case and indicated that he would seek a medical
examination once he had completed the necessary preparations for the
case. Cheng, who said he was injured but not seriously, said he was
unwilling to speak more since members from the local neighborhood
committee are currently closely following him.
According to Cheng, those responsible for the
attack were officials from the Jinyang General Management Office, Wuhou
District, Chengdu. It is believed that Cheng was beaten for representing
an individual imprisoned for practicing Falun Gong.
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