A picture of a foetus whose mother Feng Jiamei was forced to have an abortion has shocked China web users. Feng Jiamei, from Shaanxi province, was made to undergo the procedure in the seventh month of pregnancy, local officials said after investigating. Feng Jiamei was forced into the abortion as she could not pay the fine for having a second child, US-based activists said. Rights groups say Chin…
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…d was sent to prison. Xi Jinping was exiled to a far-flung, rural community of Liangjiahe, in Shaanxi province, where he lived in cave-dwellings and was forced to labor in the fields. Little more than 100 miles from Beijing, it is one of China’s poorest regions. The family lived like peasants in a cave-like house carved out of the yellow rock formations that surrounded the village. Xi Jinpin…
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…nd shouted that we were traitors. Now wherever we go, people follow us.” China’s one-child family planning policy aims to control the country’s population, which now stands at around 1.3 billion. Rights groups say the law has meant women being coerced into abortions, which Beijing denies. “Feng Jianmei’s story demonstrates how the one-child policy continues to sanctio…
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…to Feng Jianmei, the woman who was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month of pregnancy and suspended three people responsible On Thursday night, the city officials apologized to Feng Jianmei, 27, and her family, the report said. She was ”forced to terminate her pregnancy” at a hospital in Zhenping on 2 June, said Xinhua. Officials in Zhenping county claimed she agreed to the a…
