Outcry as Chinese police chief accused of detaining primary schoolteacher for punishing his daughter
- Teacher’s complaint that officers dragged her from classroom and locked up for several hours prompts public outrage
- Officer involved suspended from duty and placed under investigation
A police chief in central China has been suspended after he was accused of detaining a teacher who had punished his daughter, mainland media outlets reported.
The teacher, surnamed He, said a group of police officers turned up at Yuhong Primary School in Hunan province at 8am on Tuesday and took her to the police station. She was eventually released at 3pm.
The day before the daughter of the vice-director of the police station in Zhuzhou county had been punished in front of her classmates for being late for school.
The 27-year-old teacher’s claims ignited an outpouring of public anger prompted by growing concerns about high-handed behaviour by the police.
The police officer, surnamed Zhao, was now been suspended from duty and the local Communist Party’s disciplinary watchdog has started an investigation, the news portal Thepaper.cn reported, citing a local official.
“What did I do wrong?” the teacher wrote in a WeChat group after she was released. “Who gave the police station’s vice-director such powers?”