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Chinese police arrested nine people suspected of having beaten several women who had turned them away at a restaurant in the city of Tangshan (north), an event that generated a wave of indignation in the Asian country.
The attack, which took place in the early hours of last Friday, occurred later a diner refuses a man who has approached her and touched her without her consent.
A group of men then began to beat her and another woman who was in the restaurant, dragged them out of the premises and continued to beat. which included kicks when victims were lying on the ground.
A group of women was brutally beaten in a Chinese restaurant.
The attackers also assaulted two other women who were nearby and, due to their injuries, two women had to be hospitalized, although they are stable, local media reported.
The alleged attackers left the scene after the event and some of them fled to Jiangsu province (east), but by Saturday They had all been arrested according to state media.
Thus she remained one of the victims of gender-based violence.
The video of the attack, taken by local security cameras, went viral in the following hours on Chinese social networks as the equivalent of Twitter, Weibo, where hashtags related to the case accumulate hundreds of millions of visits.
Some users protested the feeling of lack of protection against sexist attacks and complained the lack of help received by the victims from people who were nearby.
Furthermore, they criticized a double standard in judging events that occur under the influence of alcohol: “Saying that he is drunk is used to justify a man who does bad things. Saying that he was drunk is used to justify things happening to her. ugly “, says a slogan widely spread on the networks.
A woman lying on the floor outside the Chinese restaurant.
The Tangshan government has promised to “severely punish the attackers, do justice to the victims and maintain social order” after the incidents, reports the Xinhua news agency.
Violence against women and girls is a serious violation of human rights and the right of women to live without violence is recognized in international agreements. Globally, only 40% of women seek help after experiencing violence, forcing institutions to promote prevention and aid policies.
Source: Clarin
