China: Dissident Is Reported Beaten

By Edward Wong | The New York Times
January 25, 2011

He Depu, a prominent Chinese democracy advocate who had been jailed for eight years, was beaten by police officers on Monday, just after he was released from jail, according to a report by Human Rights in China. The report, which cited a witness, said that Mr. He had been beaten when he resisted being shoved into a police vehicle. He was given rules to abide by in the next two years, the report said, including not criticizing the government. Mr. He took part in the 1989 movement that ended in the Tiananmen Square massacre and helped form the now-banned China Democracy Party in 1998. After his release on Monday, Mr. He told a friend about being tortured while in prison, the report said.

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