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Alan Stepney · Centurion Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 845 Location:

A clever guy!!

(Posted rather than link as some cannot access the BBC.)

Chinese investigators say activist Fu Xiancai, who was paralysed after a severe beating, inflicted the blows himself, according to a rights body.
Mr Fu, who campaigned for people displaced by the Three Gorges Dam, was beaten up returning home after he was summoned by police in Hubei province.

The June beating was so severe he is not expected to walk again, according to Human Rights in China (HRIC).

But an official investigation has ruled the attack was fabricated.

Officials told Mr Fu's son, Fu Bing, that investigators had failed to find anyone else's footprints at the scene of the attack, and had concluded that he must have hit himself.

The blow to the back of his neck was so severe that three of his vertebrae were broken, HRIC said.

HRIC said it was strongly concerned about the independence of the investigation, which was carried out by the same public security bureau that had a record of harassing Mr Fu.

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RahulDG · Scribe Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 1218 Location:

Dang, this musta been what Quasi was talking about. Shocked

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lucky8 · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 Location:

moreover, HOW?

how can anybody hit themselves to cause so much damage? banghead