Calls for killers of Wu Xianghu to be
brought to trial
Reporters Without Borders has called for the killers to be brought
to trial of Wu Xianghu, deputy editor of Taizhou Evening
News in Zhejiang province, eastern China, who died on 2 February
2006 from injuries inflicted by police who stormed the paper’s
offices three months earlier. The officer who led the raid has been
dismissed but no criminal case has been opened against him or the
other police officers involved.
"This award-winning journalist was killed because he wrote an
article that upset the local police", said Reporters Without
Borders. "The Chinese authorities should not limit themselves to
just sacking the person responsible for his murder, because that
amounts to accepting that police have the power of life and death over
journalists. This case indicates the climate of fear in which the
media has to work," it added.
Around 50 officers raided the newspaper’s offices on 20 October in
reaction to an article it carried the evening before which complained
of unfair taxes levied on electric bicycles.
The officer who led the raid, Li Xiaoguo, slapped the newspaper’s
editor himself after which he left him to be questioned by
subordinates, who continued to rain blows on to him. Wu Xianghu, who
had a liver transplant two years earlier, was taken to hospital soon
afterwards and died there on 2 February.
A few days after the incident, Li Xiaoguo, head of traffic police for
the town of Jiaojiang, was dismissed. A local official told the
Chinese new agency Xinhua that steps would be taken to ensure
this type of incident was not repeated.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
It is a terrible thing when the Police have carte blanche to do as they please. If the Chinese government really wants to deal with corruption it will have to prosecute Police that act criminally themselves.
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