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Chinese whistleblower doused with acid, has fingers hacked off for embarrassing government
The Province ^ | JULY 17, 2013 | MALCOLM MOORE

Posted on 07/19/2013 7:20:49 AM PDT by Sopater

A Chinese amateur whistleblower, who spent his free time embarrassing Communist Party officials by posting pictures of their luxury cars on the Internet, has been blinded with acid and had two of his fingers hacked off.

Li Jianxin, 47, is in hospital after being attacked earlier this month, it has emerged. His car was rammed from behind and he was taken by three men to a remote industrial park in the southern city of Huizhou, where they doused him with acid and hacked at him with knives.

A woman in a worker’s dormitory nearby emerged to find Li lying on the ground in a pool of his own blood and his six-year-old son wailing in his car.

Li posted dozens of reports of corruption on a popular local Internet forum.

His younger brother, Li Jianhuang, said several members of one prominent family in Huiyang, many of whom worked for the local government, had been particularly embarrassed by Li.

He said he was not hopeful that the police would find his brother’s attackers. “The pressure from the local government is enormous because the influence of that family is huge. My only wish is to see my brother recover,” he said.

Li Jianxin is scheduled for a second operation to give him an artificial eye and a skin graft and remains in a stable condition in hospital in Huizhou.

Xi Jinping, China’s president, has called for whistleblowers to help in the fight against the endemic corruption inside the Communist Party.

But his rhetoric has been accompanied by harsh treatment for those brave enough to take up his challenge.

On Wednesday, a Beijing-based lawyer named Xu Zhiyong was detained by police after signing an open letter calling for the release of eight people who had campaigned for government officials to publish their assets.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; nsa; snowden; treason; whistleblower
It's tough all over for whistleblowers these days.

Picture of whistleblower (after sentencing)
1 posted on 07/19/2013 7:20:49 AM PDT by Sopater
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To: Sopater

And no means of self -defense.


2 posted on 07/19/2013 7:25:15 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: Sopater

And Zero would love to do similar to anyone who embarrasses his regime by exposing his corrupt actions.


3 posted on 07/19/2013 7:26:25 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Sopater

Obama and Holder are taking notes.


4 posted on 07/19/2013 7:26:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sopater
Did Obama get all gay in admiration when he heard this? "Now thaaaaaat's how you handle disent!"


5 posted on 07/19/2013 7:28:43 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Sopater

Seems rather harsh.


6 posted on 07/19/2013 7:29:28 AM PDT by Gamecock (Member: NAACAC)
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To: Sopater

The Commie Masters do not like their lies exposed. So they hacked his fingers off, for the people of course.


7 posted on 07/19/2013 7:29:49 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Sopater

I expect similar local news one day soon.


8 posted on 07/19/2013 7:33:17 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sopater

He’s fortunate. In this country, trouble makers have an “accident” and then are cremated.


9 posted on 07/19/2013 7:37:13 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Sopater

The future of the USA if present trends continue.


10 posted on 07/19/2013 7:52:29 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The forces of decadence are the forces of evil.)
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To: Sopater

Mobsters rule in China, just as they do in the West. “One World Government” now means government by powerful syndicates of political, banking, bureaucratic and international business elites. In their own way, they punish and/or seek to destroy those who expose and/or fight against their secret combinations which they operate for gain and for control.


11 posted on 07/19/2013 8:02:15 AM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: JustTheTruth

Many believe that “us v. them” are between rich and poor, but a more accurate representation would be gov’t and governed.


12 posted on 07/19/2013 8:07:01 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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Holder is taking notes.


13 posted on 07/19/2013 8:15:34 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Sopater

Marxists are all about peace and love. Until they are in power and you cross them.


14 posted on 07/19/2013 8:18:44 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: jdsteel
Anthony: "I hate everybody that doesn't like me."

Anthony's Dad (smiling): "Why, everybody loves you, Anthony! They love you, son! You're everybody's favorite!"

Anthony (scowling): "I heard somebody think one time . . . that I shouldn't wish away all the automobiles and things . . . they thought it wasn't good that I did that . . . He shouldn't have thought those bad thoughts. That's why I made him go on fire."


15 posted on 07/19/2013 8:23:41 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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You tell them, Anthony...
16 posted on 07/19/2013 8:24:53 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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I guess the professional whistleblowers end up dead.


17 posted on 07/19/2013 11:33:59 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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