More Chinese are willing to challenge legal system - USATODAY.com
More Chinese are willing to challenge legal system - USATODAY.com.
"BEIJING — The parents of 13-year-old Song Shaoyang never told their son he had AIDS before he died last year. His parents learned only a few months earlier, after a blood test, that their son was one of thousands of victims of a government-run blood donation program in the 1990s that infected both donors and recipients with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. "He didn't guess he had AIDS, and we didn't tell him," his father, Song Xintao, says. It "would have brought too much pressure." The Song family's attempt to find justice and compensation may be difficult since China tightly controls its legal system. Several bold grass-roots efforts were launched recently to pressure the communist government to loosen its grip and give people more freedom and legal rights."
Att medborgare törs utmana systemet är ett att de första verkliga tecknen på att en diktatur börjar tappa greppet.







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