Attack That Disfigured Teen Highlights Abuse of Power in China

After a 17-year-old girl was doused with kerosene and set aflame by the young man who had been courting her, the anger of the Chinese public centered as much on the grotesqueness of the crime as to who had carried it out: the son of an official, or a “guan er dai.”
Attack That Disfigured Teen Highlights Abuse of Power in China
The 17-year-old Zhou Yan before suffering horrendous burns. Picture by Zhou Yan's mother, Li Cong
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.