Thousands protest beating of female student in China's Nanjing - HK centre

Thousands protest beating of female student in China's Nanjing - HK centre
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2009 年 5 月 20 日 01:15
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Text of report by Hong Kong Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy on 19 May

["City Management Bureau Officials Beat Students, Thousands of College Students in Nanjing in Bloody Clash With Police, 30 Injured, Police Car Destroyed"]

(19 May 2009, 0800 hours) - This Centre has learned that the beating of a female student from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics by Nanjing City Management [Bureau] led to a street-blocking demonstration by thousands of students from that university. A bloody clash between thousands of students and riot police occurred last night and early this morning. Thirty students were injured, and one police car was smashed up. The police station in Nanjing's Jiangning Development Zone and the security office at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics confirmed the incident for us.

This Centre has learned that towards evening yesterday, five students were spreading out things for sale in the Jiangning campus area of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, when they were hit and injured by City Management [ cheng guan ; i.e., personnel of the City Management and Law Enforcement Bureau]. One of the students was a woman. The incident led college students whose grievances against the City Management [Bureau] had been accumulating for a long time to charge out the campus gate and into the street to demonstrate. Thousands of college students held up signs and shouted slogans. Jiangjun Road at the entrance to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Shengtai Road were blocked so tightly nothing could get through. Until 2000 hours the students put up more and more protest banners. During this time a police car injured a student, and three students were taken away by Public Security, angering students. Several thousand students began charging a human wall formed by riot police, and a bloody clash with the police ensued in which 30 students were injured and one police car was destroyed. The demonstration continued until early this morning, breaking up at 0100 hours. The security office at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Jiangning campus confirmed the incident for us, and indicated that the three students who were arrested have already been released. The police station in Nanjing's Jiangning Development Zone also confirmed that a major demonstration by students took place from last night to early this morning. Students at the university said that provincial [as published] leaders arrived at the university this morning, and that all of the professors have been mobilized to do student work and prevent another street demonstration today. As many as a hundred riot police personnel were standing by at the entrance to the university.

[Name of "Nan Hang" University is given in English]: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Jiangning police station: 25-52103110 or 52121558

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Jiangning campus security office: 25-52119833 or 52119810

Source: Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong, in Chinese 19 May 09