Qi，Bo ：Henan savers’ rights protection was violently abused by the authorities, which caused public outrage
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Date: 7/14/2022 4:30:04 PM
Sender: Qi，Bo
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Qi，Bo ：Henan savers’ rights protection was violently abused by the authorities, which caused public outrage
齐波（Qi，Bo）
Since April 2022, the deposits of four village and township banks in Henan have been frozen, and about 400,000 depositors have been unable to withdraw cash. They wanted to go to Henan to retrieve their deposits in June, but they were given a red code by the government and could not travel. The incident has attracted great attention, involving an amount of nearly 40 billion yuan. The group of depositors gathered outside the Zhengzhou branch of the Chinese Bank on July 10 to protest. As a result, the authorities sent nearly a thousand police officers and unidentified personnel to besiege the demonstrators. Online videos and photos showed a large number of unidentified people in civilian clothes rushing into the demonstrators, punching and kicking the depositors, violently pulling. The scene was chaotic. Some people were beaten to bleeding on the body, and disabled people were beaten to a coma. The white-clad men also forcibly dragged many savers away from the protest scene, and some of them were dragged onto police buses. After the bloodshed broke out, photos and videos of officials using unidentified people to attack ordinary people quickly spread on social media, that provoking the anger of netizens. They questioned whether these unidentified plainclothes people were underworld and whether collusion with the authorities was involved. The Chinese government immediately blocked the news and strictly silenced the voice. The relevant topics on social platforms were blocked, artificially reducing the heat of the incident. The messages on WeChat and Zhihu were also blocked. But they still triggered a large number of netizens＇ solidarity and reprimands to the local authorities in Henan for brutally suppressing the rights defenders. The depositors of Henan Bank are just a group of ordinary depositors. They are not speculators, not investors who have lost money or failed to speculate in stocks, nor are victims of greed in fund-raising fraud cases. They chose to invest because they were told it was a deposit savings, a bank backed by government credit. But what happened to them? They are encountering a red code for no reason. The health code used to reflect the health status during the infectious disease period has become a tool for brutally solving social events. And the innocent depositors who are given red codes have nowhere to solve it. The protection of their reasonable and legitimate rights and interests has been labeled as "unhealthy", which is absurd in itself. After trying many ways, they are choosing such a public and so confrontational way to defend the rights and interests of individuals because there is really no better choice. The officially informed remedy path can no longer be solved. Even so, they have to suffer such violence, why should they be guilty? The ownership of their own property is not guaranteed. So what power do the people have?
Qi，Bo
July 14, 2022
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