British Drug Smuggler’s Death Sentence, Netizen Reactions – digg china

Recently, a British drug smuggler’s death sentence was upheld by the Supreme People’s Court in China. News on Xinhuanet.com:

Death penalty on British drug dealer in line with Chinese law: spokesman

BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese court’s sentence of death penalty on a British drug trafficker is in line with Chinese laws, said a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.

Akmal Shaikh, 53, male, was sentenced to death in the first instance trial by the Intermediate People’s Court of Urumqi Municipality in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Oct. 29, 2008, said Ma Zhaoxu, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a regular news briefing.

The case is currently being reviewed by China’s Supreme People’s Court, Ma said.

“All the procedures have been in line with relevant Chinese laws. During the trial, The accused and the counsel had freely exercised their rights of defense, and translation service had been provided to the accused. His legal rights had been fully guaranteed,” he said.

According to Ma, the British embassy in China and a British organization had proposed to organize mental disease examinations on Akmal Shaikh, while offering no evidence that he may be suffering from mental disease.

The accused had said that he and his family members had no history of mental diseases, Ma said.

The case is under examination, he said.

So what do Chinese people think of the sentence online? A survey from Huanqiu.com shows that among the netizens who took the survey:

• 98.8% (3528 votes) support the Supreme People’s Court's sentence;
• 96.7% (3737 votes) think the British media is interfering in China's internal affairs.

In another survey that asks "What do you think of British media's report on this incident":

• 53.9% (1924 votes) think these reports show Britain still has an outdated colonial mindset;
• 30.1% (1074 votes) think the British media is using "human rights" as an excuse;
• 16.0% (569 votes) think they are sensationalizing this incident with malicious intentions.

English coverage can be found on Google News.

Following are some translated Chinese comments from various source:

From Huanqiu.com:

Of course I support. No matter if he's Chinese or a foreigner, on Chinese land, he should obey Chinese laws.

Mercy to drug smugglers is a crime against the people.

People's rights are based on the fact that everyone should be equal in front of laws. If we released this British criminal, what should we do to Chinese drug dealers? Should we abandon the death penalty? These scrum [drug dealers] would even risk their lives to smuggle drugs. If there's no death penalty, what will they be afraid of?

So if Hitler had "delusional psychosis and bipolar disorder", why do British people dig him from his grave every year [sarcasm]? That's so "lack of human rights".

The Chinese government should not pay much attention to British pressure. Drug smugglers deserve death penalty.

PRC government is not the same government in Qing Dynasty. We have judicial supremacy.

British dude, do you know? In ancient China the law is much more cruel. If you cheat in an exam, you die.

From Netease.com:

From Chengdu, Sichuan:

Britain should thank us for saving them from yet another drug dealer.

From Guangzhou, Guangdong:

The one who has "delusional psychosis and bipolar disorder" is the British media.

From Nanjing, Jiangsu:

International drug smugglers come commit crimes against the Chinese people. One comes, we kill one. Two come, we shoot a pair. Bullets for these scum are plenty. I support the Supreme People’s Court's sentence. He should pay a price for violating Chinese laws.

From Changsha:

What he's sentenced with is not the death sentence but loneliness.

From Qinzhou:

Akmal must die. We are collecting signatures to support his death penalty.

From Macfans.com.cn:

Ghmily from Guangzhou:

Wow! Four kilograms! And he put 4k heroin in his hand band just like that and tried to enter China? Is that too ignorant/arrogant?

Bfee:

I'm fed up with those people who use "mental disorder" as an excuse [to evade punishment from laws]. If you are mentally sick you don't have to pay a price for your crime? Everyone on the planet has some level of "disorder" in mind so we are all free from responsibilities …

Spirit of Six Strings:

[He] should be executed in public. "Pong" and China’s drug smuggling will drop by 30% immediately. Or we inject all 4kg heroin into his vein at once. If he can still survive then we let him go.

Jambillking:

4 kg! He deserves several deaths. [Smuggling 50 gram heroin is the threshold for a death penalty in China.]

British Drug Smuggler’s Death Sentence, Netizen Reactions – digg china

Recently, a British drug smuggler’s death sentence was upheld by the Supreme People’s Court in China. News on Xinhuanet.com:

Death penalty on British drug dealer in line with Chinese law: spokesman

BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese court’s sentence of death penalty on a British drug trafficker is in line with Chinese laws, said a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday.

Akmal Shaikh, 53, male, was sentenced to death in the first instance trial by the Intermediate People’s Court of Urumqi Municipality in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Oct. 29, 2008, said Ma Zhaoxu, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a regular news briefing.

The case is currently being reviewed by China’s Supreme People’s Court, Ma said.

“All the procedures have been in line with relevant Chinese laws. During the trial, The accused and the counsel had freely exercised their rights of defense, and translation service had been provided to the accused. His legal rights had been fully guaranteed,” he said.

According to Ma, the British embassy in China and a British organization had proposed to organize mental disease examinations on Akmal Shaikh, while offering no evidence that he may be suffering from mental disease.

The accused had said that he and his family members had no history of mental diseases, Ma said.

The case is under examination, he said.

So what do Chinese people think of the sentence online? A survey from Huanqiu.com shows that among the netizens who took the survey:

• 98.8% (3528 votes) support the Supreme People’s Court's sentence;
• 96.7% (3737 votes) think the British media is interfering in China's internal affairs.

In another survey that asks "What do you think of British media's report on this incident":

• 53.9% (1924 votes) think these reports show Britain still has an outdated colonial mindset;
• 30.1% (1074 votes) think the British media is using "human rights" as an excuse;
• 16.0% (569 votes) think they are sensationalizing this incident with malicious intentions.

English coverage can be found on Google News.

Following are some translated Chinese comments from various source:

From Huanqiu.com:

Of course I support. No matter if he's Chinese or a foreigner, on Chinese land, he should obey Chinese laws.

Mercy to drug smugglers is a crime against the people.

People's rights are based on the fact that everyone should be equal in front of laws. If we released this British criminal, what should we do to Chinese drug dealers? Should we abandon the death penalty? These scrum [drug dealers] would even risk their lives to smuggle drugs. If there's no death penalty, what will they be afraid of?

So if Hitler had "delusional psychosis and bipolar disorder", why do British people dig him from his grave every year [sarcasm]? That's so "lack of human rights".

The Chinese government should not pay much attention to British pressure. Drug smugglers deserve death penalty.

PRC government is not the same government in Qing Dynasty. We have judicial supremacy.

British dude, do you know? In ancient China the law is much more cruel. If you cheat in an exam, you die.

From Netease.com:

From Chengdu, Sichuan:

Britain should thank us for saving them from yet another drug dealer.

From Guangzhou, Guangdong:

The one who has "delusional psychosis and bipolar disorder" is the British media.

From Nanjing, Jiangsu:

International drug smugglers come commit crimes against the Chinese people. One comes, we kill one. Two come, we shoot a pair. Bullets for these scum are plenty. I support the Supreme People’s Court's sentence. He should pay a price for violating Chinese laws.

From Changsha:

What he's sentenced with is not the death sentence but loneliness.

From Qinzhou:

Akmal must die. We are collecting signatures to support his death penalty.

From Macfans.com.cn:

Ghmily from Guangzhou:

Wow! Four kilograms! And he put 4k heroin in his hand band just like that and tried to enter China? Is that too ignorant/arrogant?

Bfee:

I'm fed up with those people who use "mental disorder" as an excuse [to evade punishment from laws]. If you are mentally sick you don't have to pay a price for your crime? Everyone on the planet has some level of "disorder" in mind so we are all free from responsibilities …

Spirit of Six Strings:

[He] should be executed in public. "Pong" and China’s drug smuggling will drop by 30% immediately. Or we inject all 4kg heroin into his vein at once. If he can still survive then we let him go.

Jambillking:

4 kg! He deserves several deaths. [Smuggling 50 gram heroin is the threshold for a death penalty in China.]

Nude Undeground Rafting By Chinese Girl & Black Man – digg china

Here is a set of pictures taken by one perspicacious tourist showing a Chinese woman and black man rafting in an underground cavern. This couple subsequently took the liberty of stripping down for all to see; at least until park attendants stepped in to prevent any further salacious acts. Predictably, the reaction from netizens were not all too kind.

From Mop:

Beautiful girl and laowai black devil take off clothes to go nude rafting in scenic area

Last weekend I went with a couple of friends to have a good time at the newly opened underground cave rafting in Qingyuan, Guangdong. It has been said that it is the longest underground river in the world.

We never imagined that a Chinese beauty and a [black man] publicly rafting nude in a tourist spot would be photographed by us.

Our party of 3 people walked about 1 kilometer on the embankment until we arrived at a photographing area, the first buffer zone [slower, more calm area of river?].

The two people as they drifted into the buffer zone I was in. They even treated me as a worker meant to photograph them. At this time, they were still honestly wearing their clothes and life-jackets.

Unexpectedly, the two people began fooling around to the point they started taking off their clothes.

In the end, with all their clothes removed, fooling around without regard for anyone else, completely not caring about the surrounding peoples’ looks of disgust.

In the end, only when the “Shen Bi Shan” [name of the scenic area/attraction] staff used hooks to pull them back to shore were they finally willing to put their clothes back on.

To tell the truth, “Shen Bi Shan” staff are pretty responsible, at least stopping two people this quickly.

Comments from Tiexue:

热血忠魂:

Truly fucking shameless, do they still have face?

73生人:

Laowai’s [penis] are big, especially black people’s.

军刀88:

They are just settling a [sex] deal!!!

刑事犯:

Shameless, losing face for Chinese people. If the workers didn’t stop them they were probably about to xxoo.

东王殿下:

The replies here are all insults. *sweat*

振兴中华ARNO:

That woman is Japanese!!! I’ll never believe she is Chinese even if you kill me!!!

欣欣向荣铭:

Support, foreign devils are taking Chinese babes, [so our] fellow countrymen should also take their “babes”. Black ones are fine too.

无线军迷:

I propose we human flesh search this shameless woman.

smokingfish1977:

Sooner or later will get AIDS.

胤礽:

Let's not discriminate against sex workers!

佛山凌峰:

I reckon it is the scenic area is using a hot topic to advertise; now this place is famous.

Comments on Mop:

人生若只如初见！:

Black people are very powerful, she must have experienced it.

我干，你随意:

The worker has nothing better to do, why not sit and watch animals have sex.

特洛一木马:

Chinese women today are all so low class.

bit913:

These days, laowai all know that it is cheap to come to China to fuck B [pussy].

爆草泥马菊花:

Unbelievable, are Laowai’s that great, I don’t think so.

Discarded Food Waste Slop Recycled Into Cheap Cooking Oil – digg china

Slop oil is “refined” from slop or swill, which is the leftover “food” that people and restaurants throw away. Usually, slop or swill is fed to pigs but some unscrupulous people will gather the slop and “recycle” the oil in the slop to sell as cooking oil. Of course, this cooking oil is known as “slop oil” and it is cheaper than fresh cooking oil. Many street vendors who cook snacks (especially fried foods) may use this “slop oil” to save money and keep their costs low.

From NetEase:

Why has harmful slop oil once again flooded Wuhan?

(The bold black-hearted boss even guarantees: “Slop oil is safe to eat”). In March of this year, the internet exposed the Wuhan slop oil public health safety incident (refer to relevant report: “My god! Malicious Wuhan oil factories selling slop oil guarantee safe to eat“). The problem attracted heated discussion and criticism from netizens around the country. The problem also very quickly attracted the Wuhan city government’s attention and the relevant department committed additional people and man hours, conducting a city-wide special rectification operation that lasted over a month and investigated a large amount of slop oil (refer to relevant report: “Wuhan emergency seige of slop oil scenes (follow-up report)“). Yet, right when the people feel they can relax, who would have thought that illegal refining of slop oil would stage a comeback, and flood Wuhan.

At the end of September to beginning of October, 《王浩峰聚焦》["Wang Hao Feng Focus"] once again conducted an undercover investigation, witnessing large numbers of hideouts for the illegal refining of slop oil, with the hideouts on one street in the HongShan district being so numerous as to be innumerable; when it comes to refining slop oil, there are no procedures, and whoever offers the highest price is whoever it will be sold to.

This quickly, the problem has resurged. There are city residents who say this is not strange, is common, and is expected. With the supervision of some supervisory departments these days being “a gust of wind”, a problem is exposed, the leadership [government officials] will make some comments, there will be some on-site investigations, but they will see how the wind blows as they investigate and if no one continues asking and no one is after their positions/jobs, the investigations will stop there. Then, they will continue their own (tenured) lives of officialdom. [They will] let the same old problems wait until the next time they are exposed before saying anything. If they are not exposed, [they] won’t say anything.

Comments from NetEase:

3698988:

Fuck TMD, making money with a deadly thing.

nnnnnmn:

These people should all die. The officials should also all die. Who will truly come supervise/manage this important problem of the people?

wt0019:

What place doesn’t have this kind of business, there are few hotels of medium-price and below that completely purchase cooking oil through proper channels!!!

昔日的黑马:

May the relevant [government] departments use all their might to crack down on this black-hearted [unscrupulous] businessmen. When people have not yet died from eating this, don’t just punish them a little, because only treating it seriously when after people have died from eating this will be too late. (Recommendation: Make these black-hearted businessmen drink all of this oil themselves.)

水木李凡:

Disgusting!!! MLGB!

侗乡风情郎:

Unable to extinguish, send in the chengguan…

hpwufeng:

You are all overreacting…this is simply how it is in Wuhan…
MLGB..
When I have money, I must leave this city.

8.waiting.love

Only when life is impoverished will people become desperate!!

penyuanjian:

Ultimately this is — a problem created by the rich-poor gap.
Money has captured the majority of people’s hearts, and a minority have become too deeply poisoned; which is how this kind of reasoning has appeared: That as long a money can be made, no fear of people die; that the bold will get rich while the meek will starve to death reasoning; Then consider further: Big businesses are all doings this, so you cannot really ask why these [people] will do the same;
Quality — seems to have become a fairy tale.

tomli_alpha:

Fucking what kind of people are these people? Arrest these kind of people and execute them. Making money should still involve finding a good line of work! Poor ignorant moral-less peasants. [I] strongly condemn [this/them]!!!

tantianshuod:

Let me say a something that is not impulsive: Taking these people out and shooting them would not be out of line.

小何也流水:

Slop oil should indeed be stopped, no wonder it is easy to have reactions sometimes when eating out, probably most due to slop oil.
However, from a different side, our country should also promote not wasting food, reducing oil, and only ordering as much as appropriate. For example, the “shui zhu yu” [water boiled fish] dish, after the few pieces of fish are eaten is a dish full of oil gone to waste. I refuse to believe that the restaurant would throw away this dish of oil and immediately using it again is entirely possible; With other people eating a big table of food, most will go into the drain. [There are also people who collect oil/slop from drains.]

Nude Undeground Rafting By Chinese Girl & Black Man – digg china

Here is a set of pictures taken by one perspicacious tourist showing a Chinese woman and black man rafting in an underground cavern. This couple subsequently took the liberty of stripping down for all to see; at least until park attendants stepped in to prevent any further salacious acts. Predictably, the reaction from netizens were not all too kind.

From Mop:

Beautiful girl and laowai black devil take off clothes to go nude rafting in scenic area

Last weekend I went with a couple of friends to have a good time at the newly opened underground cave rafting in Qingyuan, Guangdong. It has been said that it is the longest underground river in the world.

We never imagined that a Chinese beauty and a [black man] publicly rafting nude in a tourist spot would be photographed by us.

Our party of 3 people walked about 1 kilometer on the embankment until we arrived at a photographing area, the first buffer zone [slower, more calm area of river?].

The two people as they drifted into the buffer zone I was in. They even treated me as a worker meant to photograph them. At this time, they were still honestly wearing their clothes and life-jackets.

Unexpectedly, the two people began fooling around to the point they started taking off their clothes.

In the end, with all their clothes removed, fooling around without regard for anyone else, completely not caring about the surrounding peoples’ looks of disgust.

In the end, only when the “Shen Bi Shan” [name of the scenic area/attraction] staff used hooks to pull them back to shore were they finally willing to put their clothes back on.

To tell the truth, “Shen Bi Shan” staff are pretty responsible, at least stopping two people this quickly.

Comments from Tiexue:

热血忠魂:

Truly fucking shameless, do they still have face?

73生人:

Laowai’s [penis] are big, especially black people’s.

军刀88:

They are just settling a [sex] deal!!!

刑事犯:

Shameless, losing face for Chinese people. If the workers didn’t stop them they were probably about to xxoo.

东王殿下:

The replies here are all insults. *sweat*

振兴中华ARNO:

That woman is Japanese!!! I’ll never believe she is Chinese even if you kill me!!!

欣欣向荣铭:

Support, foreign devils are taking Chinese babes, [so our] fellow countrymen should also take their “babes”. Black ones are fine too.

无线军迷:

I propose we human flesh search this shameless woman.

smokingfish1977:

Sooner or later will get AIDS.

胤礽:

Let's not discriminate against sex workers!

佛山凌峰:

I reckon it is the scenic area is using a hot topic to advertise; now this place is famous.

Comments on Mop:

人生若只如初见！:

Black people are very powerful, she must have experienced it.

我干，你随意:

The worker has nothing better to do, why not sit and watch animals have sex.

特洛一木马:

Chinese women today are all so low class.

bit913:

These days, laowai all know that it is cheap to come to China to fuck B [pussy].

爆草泥马菊花:

Unbelievable, are Laowai’s that great, I don’t think so.

Discarded Food Waste Slop Recycled Into Cheap Cooking Oil – digg china

Slop oil is “refined” from slop or swill, which is the leftover “food” that people and restaurants throw away. Usually, slop or swill is fed to pigs but some unscrupulous people will gather the slop and “recycle” the oil in the slop to sell as cooking oil. Of course, this cooking oil is known as “slop oil” and it is cheaper than fresh cooking oil. Many street vendors who cook snacks (especially fried foods) may use this “slop oil” to save money and keep their costs low.

From NetEase:

Why has harmful slop oil once again flooded Wuhan?

(The bold black-hearted boss even guarantees: “Slop oil is safe to eat”). In March of this year, the internet exposed the Wuhan slop oil public health safety incident (refer to relevant report: “My god! Malicious Wuhan oil factories selling slop oil guarantee safe to eat“). The problem attracted heated discussion and criticism from netizens around the country. The problem also very quickly attracted the Wuhan city government’s attention and the relevant department committed additional people and man hours, conducting a city-wide special rectification operation that lasted over a month and investigated a large amount of slop oil (refer to relevant report: “Wuhan emergency seige of slop oil scenes (follow-up report)“). Yet, right when the people feel they can relax, who would have thought that illegal refining of slop oil would stage a comeback, and flood Wuhan.

At the end of September to beginning of October, 《王浩峰聚焦》["Wang Hao Feng Focus"] once again conducted an undercover investigation, witnessing large numbers of hideouts for the illegal refining of slop oil, with the hideouts on one street in the HongShan district being so numerous as to be innumerable; when it comes to refining slop oil, there are no procedures, and whoever offers the highest price is whoever it will be sold to.

This quickly, the problem has resurged. There are city residents who say this is not strange, is common, and is expected. With the supervision of some supervisory departments these days being “a gust of wind”, a problem is exposed, the leadership [government officials] will make some comments, there will be some on-site investigations, but they will see how the wind blows as they investigate and if no one continues asking and no one is after their positions/jobs, the investigations will stop there. Then, they will continue their own (tenured) lives of officialdom. [They will] let the same old problems wait until the next time they are exposed before saying anything. If they are not exposed, [they] won’t say anything.

Comments from NetEase:

3698988:

Fuck TMD, making money with a deadly thing.

nnnnnmn:

These people should all die. The officials should also all die. Who will truly come supervise/manage this important problem of the people?

wt0019:

What place doesn’t have this kind of business, there are few hotels of medium-price and below that completely purchase cooking oil through proper channels!!!

昔日的黑马:

May the relevant [government] departments use all their might to crack down on this black-hearted [unscrupulous] businessmen. When people have not yet died from eating this, don’t just punish them a little, because only treating it seriously when after people have died from eating this will be too late. (Recommendation: Make these black-hearted businessmen drink all of this oil themselves.)

水木李凡:

Disgusting!!! MLGB!

侗乡风情郎:

Unable to extinguish, send in the chengguan…

hpwufeng:

You are all overreacting…this is simply how it is in Wuhan…
MLGB..
When I have money, I must leave this city.

8.waiting.love

Only when life is impoverished will people become desperate!!

penyuanjian:

Ultimately this is — a problem created by the rich-poor gap.
Money has captured the majority of people’s hearts, and a minority have become too deeply poisoned; which is how this kind of reasoning has appeared: That as long a money can be made, no fear of people die; that the bold will get rich while the meek will starve to death reasoning; Then consider further: Big businesses are all doings this, so you cannot really ask why these [people] will do the same;
Quality — seems to have become a fairy tale.

tomli_alpha:

Fucking what kind of people are these people? Arrest these kind of people and execute them. Making money should still involve finding a good line of work! Poor ignorant moral-less peasants. [I] strongly condemn [this/them]!!!

tantianshuod:

Let me say a something that is not impulsive: Taking these people out and shooting them would not be out of line.

小何也流水:

Slop oil should indeed be stopped, no wonder it is easy to have reactions sometimes when eating out, probably most due to slop oil.
However, from a different side, our country should also promote not wasting food, reducing oil, and only ordering as much as appropriate. For example, the “shui zhu yu” [water boiled fish] dish, after the few pieces of fish are eaten is a dish full of oil gone to waste. I refuse to believe that the restaurant would throw away this dish of oil and immediately using it again is entirely possible; With other people eating a big table of food, most will go into the drain. [There are also people who collect oil/slop from drains.]