Five more Chongqing cadres in sex videos, says whistle-blower

A whistle-blower whose release of a sex-video clip forced a district-level party boss in Chongqing to step down last week said there were more sex videos featuring at least five other senior Chongqing party cadres.

Zhu Ruifeng, a citizen journalist who claimed to have received the sex videos from a source with the Chongqing police, said four of the five cadres in the sex videos remain in their positions, and the other was sacked after the scandal involving the municipality's disgraced former party boss, Bo Xilai, The Beijing News reported yesterday.

Zhu has also asked Beijing police for protection, saying his life was threatened after his disclosure, according to a statement yesterday by the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, a Hong-Kong based human rights group.

Zhu's release last week of a five-year-old video showing the Beibei district party secretary, Lei Zhengfu, now 54, having sex with his then 18-year-old mistress saw Lei depart on Friday.

Chongqing party disciplinary authorities confirmed on Friday that the naked man in the sex video was Lei, faulting him for keeping mistresses, a practice prohibited by party rules.

The Chongqing government said yesterday that they were still investigating the case. "Our attitude is zero tolerance" for such behaviour, Xinhua quoted an unidentified disciplinary official in Chongqing as saying.