Hospital refuses to release the recent condition of the woman victim of Tangshan incident on the pretext of privacy, prompting media questions

Tangshan beating incident has passed for many days, but until now there is still no further news about the injured girl, nor have we seen any news about the other three girls, the media interviewed in the hospital of the North China University of Technology, where the injured woman was admitted, the hospital propaganda and United Front Work Department and the party office staff said that the current hospitalization of the injured, belong to the patient’s personal privacy, not convenient to disclose to the outside world The hospitalization of the injured is private and cannot be disclosed. The silence of the Tangshan authorities on the four women’s injuries and other key information is actually an indirect injury. It hurts the four women’s right to timely social support and the public’s right to know.

According to Article 9 of the Regulations on the Disclosure of Government Information of the Communist Party of China, administrative organs shall take the initiative to disclose government information that meets one of the following basic requirements (a total of four): (i) relates to the vital interests of citizens, legal persons or other organizations; (ii) requires wide public knowledge or participation. The Regulations also stipulate that if the government information disclosure obligations are not fulfilled in accordance with the law, and if the content of the government information disclosed is not updated in a timely manner, the supervisory organs and higher authorities shall order them to make corrections.

However, what we see is that the laws of the Chinese Communist State are written on paper and are very difficult to enforce. This is a symptom of all dictatorships.