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Government officials forbid strangers from entering rural village after disabled couple attempt to draw attention to “abduction” of their baby in 1995
Communist Party officials have placed a rural village in northern China under “curfew” after a disabled couple accused the local government of masterminding the abduction of their 11-day-old baby, the couple’s son and lawyer have claimed.
Liu Laogen, 64, and his 50-year-old wife, Xia Fengge, say they have been seeking justice ever since the afternoon of June 8, 1995 when they claim their daughter was snatched from them by two women they believe were working for the local family planning bureau.
The baby was Ms Xia’s third and relatives believe family planning officials decided to take away the child in order to discourage other locals from breaking China’s one-child policy.
Eighteen years on, with the baby’s whereabouts still a mystery, the couple has decided to speak out as they attempt to sue local authorities over the disappearance and uncover the truth.
“We don’t expect to get our child back. We just want to know whether she is still alive,” a weeping Ms Xia was quoted as saying by the Legal Evening News.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...own-after-claims-officials-abducted-baby.html