A senior government official in Myanmar expressed support on Tuesday for a Two-Child Policy for the Muslim Rohingya minority. First implemented in 2005, the policy aims to control the Muslim population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
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JINHUA, Zhejiang, China—When Baby 59’s unmarried mother delivered him in her bathroom, she thought her child would remain a secret. But after the baby slipped from her hands into the sewer pipe, her secret became global news.
The mother, 22, hid her pregnancy because it is illegal for unmarried Chinese women to have children. On May 25, she unexpectedly gave birth over the toilet in her apartment’s shared bathroom. Before calling for help, she flushed the remaining blood down the toilet to hide evidence of the birth...
YUYUE, Hubei, China—All Girls Allowed was able this past weekend to reach the uncle of Zhang Ping, the mother who died of hemorraghic bleeding following a late-term forced abortion. (Click here for the original report.) In the phone conversation, which you can listen to below (in Chinese only), Zhang's uncle said that the situation was resolved, that the government had paid them 350,000 Chinese yuan ($57,080 USD) to compensate them for Zhang's death. He claimed that Zhang voluntarily submitted to a late-term abortion. However, Zhang's uncle also mentioned that their relatives were not given their jobs back, suggesting that perhaps some of Zhang...
LONDON — ZHANG YIMOU, the celebrated film director and arranger of the 2008 Summer Olympics’ opening ceremony in Beijing, was accused last week of being the latest high-profile violator of China’s one-child policy. The People’s Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, alleged that Mr. Zhang had fathered seven children with four different women.
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SHANDONG, China – In April 2013, a group of Family Planning officials ambushed a man and his pregnant wife (Mr. and Mrs. T) while they were returning home after visiting her relatives. Eight of the officials took Mrs. T’s husband to a small, undisclosed hotel while the remaining six officials forced Mrs. T into a van. Since they had been traveling with their three-year-old son, the officials...
HONG KONG—According to the South China Morning Post, Officials on the Chinese mainland have lifted a six-year ban on a book that exposes the consequences of the One-Child Policy.
Yi Fuxian, a doctor and expert on the One-Child Policy, was only able to publish A Big Country in an Empty Nest in Hong Kong in 2007 because the book was banned on the Chinese mainland. Last month, authorities lifted the mainland ban and cleared the way for his book to be published there for the first time.
On April 28, Dr. Yi gave an interview with Hong Kong-...
CHUZHOU, Anhui, China—In the latest development in the forced abortion case of Ms. Lü, All Girls Allowed spoke last night with Fengyang County's Family Planning Office and received official acknoweldgment and confirmation of the forced abortion on March 22, 2013. In the conversation, which occurred last night at 11:43pm EDT (11:43am Beijing time), the Family Planning Official admitted that the case was being dealt with by the local county government. The full translated text of the interview is below:
Family Planning Official: Hello, who is...
CHUZHOU, Anhui, China—The graphic photograph of an aborted 7-month boy is widely circulating China’s internet waves following a forced abortion that took place on March 22, 2013, in Chuzhou City, Anhui Province.
Ms. Lü, a 33-year-old Chinese woman whose husband reported the case and released the photograph, was pregnant with an over-quota child, an illegal act under China’s One-Child Policy. Local Family...
TAIKANG, Henan, China—A 42-year-old mother took her life last week inside a local Family Planning Office after two botched forced sterilizations. Yang Yuzhi, the mother of four, was forced to undergo sterilization surgery in 1995. However, the operation failed, and she was forced again in 2006 to undergo a second sterilization surgery. The surgery failed and led to infections in her intestines, leading to chronic pain and requiring regular doses of medication. Due to the financial burdens, Ms. Yang frequently petitioned the Family Planning Commission (FPC), but to no avail.
At around noon on March 13, 2013, Ms. Yang left home in a normal...
