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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Street Vendor Atrocities

Street Vendor Atrocities






  • Angola: Police Abuse Luanda’s Street Vendors | Human Rights ...

    www.hrw.org/.../2013/09/29/angola-police-abuse-luanda-s-street-vendors
    Sep 30, 2013 · (Johannesburg) – Angolan police routinely beat and extort street vendorsduring “removal operations” in the capital, Luanda, Human Rights Watch said ...


  • Rights Group: Angola’s Vendor Crackdown Part of Pattern

    www.voanews.com/content/rights-group-angolas-vendor-crackdown-part...
    Sep 30, 2013 · A human rights watchdog said police in Angola are cracking down on impoverished street vendors in the capital - attacking them, demanding bribes and …


  • In China, anger grows over abuse of street vendors ...

    articles.washingtonpost.com › Human Rights Watch
    Mar 31, 2013 · BEIJING — In a country infamous for heavy-handed officials, the government employees who harass and sometimes beat and extort money from streetvendors ...




  • Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide

    www.hrw.org
    China: Cameron Should ... Police Abuses Against Street Vendors in Angola. ... HumanRights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 10118-3299 USA Tel: 1 …


  • China's execution of street vendor sets off outrage - Los ...

    articles.latimes.com › News
    Sep 25, 2013 · Journalists watch pre-recorded testimony by Gu Kailai, ... a humanrights organization. ... Execution of Chinese street vendor sparks Internet outcry


  • Chinese Citizens Share Outrage Online After Government ...

    www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec13/streetvendor_09-26.html
    In China, an unlicensed food vendor was executed by the Chinese government. His crime was killing two policemen after being beaten in custody. In the last 24 hours ...In China, an unlicensed food vendor was executed by the Chinese government. His crime was killing two policemen after being beaten in custody. In the last 24 hours, his name became one of the most searched-for terms in Chinese social media. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the shockwaves caused by this case.The troubles began in 2009, when Xia and his wife were selling kebabs on the street. They say a gang of chengguan, government-sanctioned urban enforcers, began beating Xia for not having a license. Witnesses say the chengguan took Xia back to their offices, where they continued beating him. That's where Xia took out his sausage knife and stabbed three men. Two of them died. Xia was convicted of murder, and his appeals were denied. Witnesses were ready to testify that these murders were an act of self-defense,


  • Death of Watermelon Vendor Sets Off Outcry in China - …

    nytimes.com/2013/07/21/world/asia/death-in-china-stirs-anger-over...
    Jul 21, 2013 · Death of Watermelon Vendor Sets Off Outcry in China By ANDREW JACOBS Published: July 20, 2013 ... according to a recent report by Human RightsWatch.....squabble between an unlicensed watermelon vendor and the widely despised urban management agents who prowl China’s streets looking for scofflaws. Words were exchanged, blows were landed and in the end, the vendor, Deng Zhengjia, 56, lay dead on the pavement in Linwu, a city in central Hunan Province, as angry bystanders photographed his body with their cellphones.


  • .. it has provoked an unusually loud outcry, with some Chinese commentators likening the case to that of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruit seller whose self-immolation two years ago after his cart was confiscated set off the rioting that toppled Tunisia’s president and inspired the Arab Spring revolts.





  • China: Unaccountable “Chengguan” Forces Fuel Public Resentment End Impunity for Chengguan use of Excessive Force, Illegal Detention
    MAY 23, 2012


  • http://www.hrw.org/node/107315 (Hong Kong) – China’s “chengguan,” the para-police agency tasked with enforcing non-criminal urban administrative regulations, is in some circumstances a threat to, rather than a guarantor of, public safety due to the agency’s lack of effective official supervision, training, and discipline, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.

    The 76-page report, “Beat Him, Take Everything Away,” documents abuses by the chengguanUrban Management Law Enforcement (城管执法) forces, including assaults on suspected administrative law violators, some of which lead to serious injury or death, illegal detention, and unlawful forceful confiscation of property.

    “The chengguan’s abusive conduct turns the idea of rule of law on its head,” said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch. “Instead of carrying out clearly defined and limited activities to enforce the law, some chengguan are abusing their authority.”

    Established in 1997, there are now thousands ofchengguan para-police in at least 656 cities across China. In principle, their role is to enforce non-criminal administrative regulations, including rules governing environmental, sanitation, traffic, and urban beautification, and, where legally appropriate, impose fines on violators. They do not have the legal authority to detain or use excessive force against suspected violators of non-criminal administrative regulations.


  • http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/world/asia/death-in-china-stirs-anger-over-urban-rule-enforcers.html Responsible for dealing with sanitation complaints, unlicensed construction and illegal peddling, they often seize goods with impunity, beat those who resist and issue what critics describe as arbitrary fines. Between July 2010 and March 2012, the Chinese news media reported 150 cases of abuse by chengguan, according to a recent report by Human Rights Watch.





  • http://m.ibtimes.co.uk/human-rights-watch-chengguan-china-s-para-344401.html


  • Human Rights Watch Condemns China's Para-Police Force 'Chengguan'

    Human Rights Watch Condemns China's Para-Police Force 'Chengguan'
    Chinese authorities urged to undertake severe action against Chengguan who is exercising such excessive forces against people.
    The rights group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemns China's para-police force Chengguan's involvement in abusive conduct which increased public resentment.
    The group released a 76-page report on Wednesday about the abuses, assaults and illegal detention by the Urban Management Law Enforcement.
    "The chengguan's abusive conduct turns the idea of rule of law on its head,"





  • December 17, 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi - Wikipedia Tarek al-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi (Arabicمحمد البوعزيزي‎; 29 March 1984 – 4 January 2011) was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, in protest of the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation that he reported was inflicted on him by a municipal official and her aides. His act became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution[2] and the wider Arab Spring,



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