“China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents” (NYT)
After his daughter died when her high school collapsed in the May 12th earthquake, Yu Tingyun began organizing other grieving parents. He was looking for answers about the construction of the school. What he got was a police interrogation and a pay-off:
In exchange for his silence and for affirming that the ruling Communist Party “mobilized society to help us,” he would get a cash payment and a pension.
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