Police officials suspended after students beaten at station in northwest China
Students struck with batons at police base in Gansu province
The head of a police station in northwest China has been suspended and other officers are under investigation after two university students were beaten up by the police, according to a news website report.
Photographs provided by the two students show bruises and wounds to their buttocks, which they said they sustained after a brutal beating by two officers in Lanzhou in Gansu province, News.sohu.com reported.
Family of activist who died in police custody files complaint alleging abuse
One of the students said he got into a dispute with a shop owner on Monday morning and police were called to handle the incident, according to the report.
An officer asked the student to get into a police car and kicked him in the leg after he failed to open the door. The incident was recorded by the other student with his mobile phone, the report said.
When the police officer realised he was being filmed, he demanded the recording be handed over, but the students refused. The brother of the student who was kicked took the phone and left the scene and the two students were brought back to the police station, the report said
The students said they were beaten with batons twice during the night, with each beating lasting for over half an hour.