Not only has Hu’s administration failed to protect the rights of the poor and the oppressed, but police and government-hired thugs now frequently harass lawyers and other activists who lobby on behalf of the country’s dispossessed. Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer – famous for exposing a forced abortion scandal in Shandong – was given a four-year jail term on the dubious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic.”
胡锦涛当局不仅没有保护穷人和受压迫人的权利，而且，警察和政府雇佣的痞子现在经常骚扰维权的律师和其他活动份子。盲人律师陈光诚因揭露山东的强制性流产丑闻而著名，他由于“聚众扰乱交通”莫须有的罪名被判刑四年。