[News] Online, Chinese Demand Justice
There was a time when the story of the 21-year-old waitress who
fatally stabbed a Communist Party official as he tried to force
himself on her would have never left the rural byways of Hubei
Province where it took place.
Instead, her arrest in May on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter
erupted into an online furor that turned her into a national hero
and reverberated all the way to China's capital, where censors
ordered incendiary comments banned. Local Hubei officials even
restricted television coverage and tried to block travel to the
small town where the assault occurred.
A Hubei court granted the woman, Deng Yu-jiao, an unexpectedly
swift victory, ruling that she had acted in self-defense and
freeing her without criminal penalties.
The case of Ms. Deng is only the most recent and prominent of
several cases in which the Internet has cracked open a channel
for citizens to voice mass displeasure with official conduct,
demonstrating its potential as a catalyst for social change.
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