Deng Yujiao incident

Badong County police subsequently arrested Deng Yujiao, charged her with homicide, and refused to grant her bail.

[6] Deng Yujiao, a native of Mulongya village (木龙垭村), Yesanguan Town [zh] (野三关镇), Badong County,[7] was a 21-year-old pedicure worker at the Dream Fantasy City (梦幻城) bath center at Xiongfeng Hotel (雄风宾馆), when the incident occurred.

[6] According to Deng Yujiao's statement, Huang Dezhi then tried to remove her jeans and underwear by force, which she believed indicated that he intended to sexually assault her.

[8][9] Deng Yujiao pulled out a 3-inch knife and stabbed him four times, including once in the neck, causing him to bleed to death at the scene.

[8][9] Badong County police subsequently arrested Deng Yujiao, charged her with homicide, and refused to grant her bail.

[12] The case was popularized on the internet by a blogger, Wu Gan, resulting in a groundswell of support from Chinese citizens angry about corruption and poor behavior by Communist Party officials.

"[13][14] On 22 May, Beijing censors and the State Council Information Office ordered websites to adhere to official statements about the case, remove user-generated posts or polls about it, and dilute any coverage with other news.

[16] According to the lawyers, "Our hotel rooms were bugged, our movements in the town were closely watched by many plain-clothes police, and reporters were beaten or forced to leave".

Xinhua reported that the Badong County Communist Party Discipline Inspection Committee removed Huang Dezhi from the post of vice director of the office of business delegations of Yesanguan Township, and stripped him of his CPC membership as a result of his actions.

The lenient sentence was on account of diminished responsibility, and because she had surrendered to police and the officials involved had made a major mistake.