A man in China has been jailed for nine years for imprisoning a woman in a rural shack, a court said Friday, in a case that has triggered outrage on social media.
The episode stirred anger not only for its shock factor, but also for the wider social problems it exemplified, and the government’s lack of transparency.
Six people involved in a high-profile case of a human trafficking victim who was confined with an iron chain around her neck have received prison sentences for multiple crimes by a court in Jiangsu province on Friday.
A Chinese court has jailed six people for up to 11 years for the abuse of a woman whose appearance last year in an online video chained by the neck sparked a public outcry and calls for the better. | April 7, 2023
BEIJING - A Chinese court has jailed six people for up to 11 years for the abuse of a woman whose appearance last year in an online video chained by the neck sparked a public outcry and calls for the better protection of women. The video, which surfaced in January last year, showed the woman in an apparently confused state.