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Police have swooped 18,372 entertainment venues, including 3,592 karaoke bars and 4,201 saunas in the province. [photo / sun0769.com]
A total of 920 suspects had been apprehended as of Wednesday in a crackdown on the illegal sex trade in south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities said.
Police have swooped 18,372 entertainment venues, including 3,592 karaoke bars and 4,201 saunas in the province. A total of 38 Karaoke bars and 156 saunas and massage parlors have been closed, said the provincial public security bureau.
The new crackdown came hours after a China Central Television (CCTV) program on Sunday revealed that a dozen hotels in Dongguan City were offering sex services.
A total of 920 suspects are apprehended as of Wednesday in a crackdown on the illegal sex trade in south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities said.
[photo / sun0769.com]
Police detain suspects in an alleged sex establishment in Dongguan. However, several officers have been accused of negligence in handling tip-offs about prostitution activity in the area. Photo: Reuters
Guangdong party authorities sacked Dongguan deputy mayor and police chief Yan Xiaokang yesterday for failing to curb rampant prostitution in the industrial hub.
Ten more police officers have been punished in the wake of massive raids earlier this week.
"During Yan Xiaokang's tenure as Dongguan's deputy mayor and public security bureau chief, he did not carry out his duties properly. As a result, the illegal activities of prostitution continued despite several crackdowns, and it has had an extremely bad impact inside and outside the country," CCTV reported the Guangdong party committee as saying.
Yan, 50, was made deputy mayor in 2008 and appointed police chief in February 2012. He will be replaced by Yang Jianghua, the head of criminal investigation for the provincial police.
Following CCTV's exposé of the prostitution networks in Dongguan at the weekend, the city government vowed to root out any forces protecting the syndicates.
Yan's sacking came after 10 police officers were punished for negligence in handling public complaints about prostitution.
Alleged sex workers and clients detained by Chinese police after a raid on an entertainment center in Dongguan in early February. Photo: AFP
Two officers were sacked, three were demoted and the rest were given demerits, the municipal discipline committee said.
Seven police officers who were sent to areas in question did not handle the matter competently, but the committee did not offer details.
CCTV accused local police of turning a blind eye to prostitution rackets operating out of luxury hotels and saunas, which were backed by "untouchable" businessmen.
The officers were from police stations in the towns of Zhongtang and Huangjiang, a few kilometres apart. The chiefs - Zhang Weibin, head of the Dongbo precinct in Zhongtang, and Huangjiang police station chief Ye Yuxin - had already been removed from their posts.
More than 6,500 police officers took part in the raid on almost 2,000 venues but only 67 people were initially detained, leading some to question if the syndicates had been tipped off.
Some people posted comments online saying Yan was a convenient victim.
"The first scapegoat has been announced," said online user Huo Liang, a lawyer.
In an earlier notification, the city's discipline committee warned town party chiefs and rural police heads that they could be sacked or face severe punishment if prostitution re-emerged in their jurisdictions. The same applied to party cadres who protected such establishments.
501 suspects captured in Dongguan sex trade crackdown
Xinhua and Staff Reporter
2014-02-18
Suspected sex workers are arrested in Dongguan, Feb. 9. (Photo/CFP)
Chinese police have captured 501 suspects and busted 73 gangs during a crackdown on prostitution and pornography, the Ministry of Public Security said on Monday.
More than 1,300 cases of sexual services being provided or offered have been uncovered by police, and 2,410 locations involved in the illegal sex trade — mostly hotels, karaoke bars and saunas — have had their businesses shut down, the ministry said.
The large-scale crackdown came hours after a China Central Television (CCTV) program on Feb. 9 revealed that hotels in the southern city of Dongguan were offering sexual services illegally.
Yan Xiaokang, vice mayor of Dongguan and head of the city's Public Security Bureau, has been removed from his post for dereliction of duty, as the sex trade is illegal in China.
An unidentified official with the ministry said public security organs at different levels should learn lessons from the Dongguan case and carry out a profound and persistent crackdown on crimes involving prostitution.
The official asked them to focus on organizers, operators under the "protective umbrella" of the sex trade.
The ministry reiterated its stance on prostitution, saying that leaders of public security organs will be held accountable if they are found to be in dereliction of duty.
Statistics from the ministry showed that last year police apprehended 19,000 suspects and broke up 6,323 pornography-related gangs, with 12,000 cases solved.
The student doctored footage from CCTV to allege his headmaster had been caught in the police raid on the Dongguan sex trade. Here an unaltered image shows police officers during the crackkdown Photo: SCMP
A student who spread online rumours that his own headmaster had been arrested in the Dongguan sex trade crackdown has escaped punishment.
The 17-year-old, who has not been named, Photoshopped an image of the headmaster on to footage of the raid and posted the doctored picture online, along with the name of the headmaster and high school in Yibin city, Sichuan province.
The student superimposed a photo of the headmaster, Liu Bin, on to a screengrab of a CCTV presenter announcing the raid and even altered a headline to read as though the headmaster had been arrested.
The boy, who disliked school, had hoped his plan would delay the start of the spring term.
After uploading the image on to the internet, it spread so quickly he deleted the post and even wrote another post to counter the rumour – but he was powerless to stop the viral sharing of the photo.
Liu said that a friend called him to warn him about the photo. Furious, he reported the incident to local education authorities and the police, the West China City Daily reported.
Later, it was reported Liu received a tip-off that the photo was made by one of his own students.
School officials said they finally disproved the rumour by hosting an opening ceremony on time. The student’s original post had claimed that since the headmaster had been caught in the raid the spring ceremony had been cancelled.
The headmaster even gave a speech at the ceremony – without mentioning the rumours – and the school later posted photos of day online.
The student behind the rumours escaped punishment from both the authorities and the school.
Instead, school officials advised his parents to let him “calm down” at home after he reportedly suffered anxiety and guilt following the incident, according to the West China City Daily.
Yuan Baocheng (left) is surrounded by reporters after a meeting at the Capital Hotel in Beijing. Photo: SCMP Pictures
The mayor of Dongguan city – which made headlines after its rampant sex trade was exposed, prompting a belated effort by authorities to clamp down on the vice – evaded questions about the crackdown’s progress when confronted by dozens of reporters on Tuesday.
Yuan Baocheng, who is also deputy party secretary for the city, was noncommittal when he was ambushed by a scrum of journalists at the Capital Hotel in Beijing, The Beijing News daily reported.
He was there for Guangdong officials' first meeting to select the head of the provincial delegation for the upcoming parliamentary talks in the Chinese capital.
Journalists on Tuesday wanted to know how the anti-vice operations were progressing, but Yuan largely kept mum, even when he was chased from the meeting room to the lift by reporters who shouted questions.
He mumbled repeatedly, “Thank you [reporters] … you are working so hard.”
Watch: Dongguan mayor keeps the media guessing
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He was also besieged by photographers while waiting for the lift. Yuan then pointed out that fellow delegates might not be able to get to the elevators through the crowd. "Thank you, you are blocking the way," he said.
“Why does it take so long for the lift to go downstairs?” he was heard muttering to himself.
Since state-run China Central Television last month exposed Dongguan’s sex industry – and the failure of its police force to halt the trade operating under the neon lights of saunas, hotels and massage parlours – more than 6,000 police officers have raided nearly 2,000 entertainment venues. More than 900 people have been detained.
Police round up people suspected of being involved in the sex trade at a hotel in Dongguan in early February. Photo: AP
Unable to press the mayor for details on the vice crackdown, reporters switched to questions about the economy.
They asked if Yuan was confident that Dongguan could reach its GDP growth target of 9 per cent and if the city was experiencing unemployment, as reports have stated. The raids on the sex industry are expected to result in some 50 billion yuan (HK$63.5 billion) in losses for businesses across the city, according to Xinhua.
But Yuan stuck to his line: “Thank you [reporters].”
Dongguan’s deputy mayor and police chief, Yan Xiaokang, was sacked last month for failing to curb rampant prostitution. Ten more senior police officers have also been punished, some by demerits and others by being fired.
The Ministry of Public Security ordered that the crackdown on the sex trade should be made a national campaign next month.
