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American Arrested for Ten Days, the State Department Refused to Help

Posted by on 2012/07/03. Filed under Breaking News,China,International. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Vincent Wu, a Chinese American from Los Angeles, was arrested in Huizhou, Guangdong Province from his office by hundreds of armed policemen. Dozens from the building were arrested, including janitors who do not know Wu at all. The police called them “Gangsters”.

The truth is: Wu invested and built a farmer’s market in Foshan, Guangdong in the late 1990s. A retired police officer, LIN Qiang, proposed to buy the market in 2002, and Wu refused. Without any investigation, LIN managed to steal the property title using his governmental power. Wu fought for ten year in court and recently the High Court handed down a favorable judgement to Wu. Then, on June 22nd, hundreds of policemen (link) surrounded Wu’s office building and arrested dozens of people, including many of them who do not know Wu at all.

Wu and the others were not handed to the official facility. Intead, they were sent to a place that semmed more like a warehouse, where Wu is being tortured and the others are threatened. In ten days, no one was able to visit him, and his lawyer tried, but was refused.

Wu’s family has contacted the US Consulate in Guangzhou, and called the helpdesk of the State Department, but the answer remains the same: as Wu entered China with his Hong Kong identitification card, he is not protected by the USA.

The question is: if Wu was a white American and entered China under a Hong Kong identity, would the State Department keep silence when his/her life was in danger?

http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2012/07/201207031242.shtml

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