In China, protests erupted over the discovery of a mother of eight children with a chain around her neck. Authorities responded to the incident with strong public sentiment. Action was taken against about a dozen people in eastern Jiangsu province. He lost his position as head of the Communist Party in Feng County.
The Xinhua news agency reported that the local government had launched an investigation. The government has said it will crack down on traffickers of women and children. The woman was found chained around her neck. Peking University alumni have written to the Xi Jinping government asking for an investigation into the incident. The letter was signed by about 100 people. Such interventions are rare in China.
It is reported that this is one of the ten topics that are being actively discussed on the Chinese social media site Weibo. The video of the woman being detained was released. The people turned against it. Later, there were many incidents of women being trafficked on social media. Restrictions on women in rural areas were also discussed.
Public sentiment was strongest against officials in Xuzhou, the third largest city in Jiangsu. Shiao Hume, a woman from the small village of Yunnan, was chained. The investigation found that they had been trafficked twice since 1990. The second sale was to the Dong family. She was married in 2000 to a young man from the family. Between 1999 and 2020, they gave birth to eight children.
Her husband was arrested for assaulting a woman. Two more people were arrested in connection with the detention of the woman, bringing the total number of people arrested in the investigation to six.