From poor region to poor region, traffickers sell Chinese women in marriage to men without brides. The phenomenon is old and known, but several captive women have been discovered recently, arousing general indignation. In the Hong Kong newspaper Mattersdocumentary filmmaker Ai Xiaoming makes a strong call to break these chains.
February 14, 2022 is the “love day”. As I write these three words, I find them ridiculous, and unworthy.
On paper they promise love and loved things, an even greater closeness than one has with one’s own parents, but in fact they are chains and padlocks. In the hell of Xuzhou [ville du Jiangsu, dans l’est du pays], a mad woman drags herself along the ground; further, a mother of eight divulged a secret from Heaven:
This world does not want me!”
All is said : “I am excluded from the rest of the world, against which I stand up, in absolute solitude”, with for all self-consciousness, in this solitude, that of a submissive existence, in cold and despair. [En janvier, une vidéo a été diffusée sur les réseaux sociaux, montrant une femme souffrant de troubles mentaux enchaînée dans un cabanon. En septembre 2021, une première femme avait été découverte dans une grotte. Outre l’enquête policière en cours, la province du Jiangsu a ouvert une enquête le 17 février.]
The sight of this mother of eight children created an even greater emotion than all the wonders of the world would have aroused, she ruined the spring festival, the festival of lovers, and will soon ruin the day of the woman. And Xiao Huamei [nom d’une femme disparue au Yunnan, attribué à l’une des captives], that crazy girl crawling in the shed next door, is that you? You drag yourself on the ground, in your urine and excrement, all ragged, less well treated than a pig or a dog. In this prefecture of Fengxian, in Xuzhou, disappearances and abductions of women are so frequent that such a case has
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The physical integrity of women, a priority
The Xuzhou captive women scandal comes as the 30-year-old Women’s Rights Protection Law is in the process of being revised, writes the business magazine Caixin. In one month of public inquiry, 80,000 people issued more than 400,000 recommendations, ie 100 times more than for the law on companies also under study. “The heat of such a debate underlines the weakness of guarantees for women’s rights”comments the weekly: “The situation is truly serious.” For if the social position of a large number of women has risen, and if the defense of their rights is essential, “it is even more urgent, so that they have the freedom to act, that they have the guarantee of not living in fear, but in the security of their physical integrity”.
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Matters is an open source content publishing platform in Chinese, with a total of 80,000 contributors. Created by journalist Zhang Jieping, the platform was registered in 2019 in Hong Kong and the public chat space that
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