If we are going to criticize the Islamocensors, should we not also cpndemn the murderous practices of the government of Red China?

A newspaper editor who was severely beaten by police about three months ago has died from multiple injuries, his wife and former colleagues said on Monday.

"He died on February 2," said a former colleague of Wu Xianghu, who was deputy editor at the Taizhou Wanbao newspaper in east China's Zhejiang province.

"It must be related to the beating... our newspaper might take action," the journalist, who declined to give his name, said.

"We're all really angry about it."

Mr Wu's wife, who did not want to give her first name but is also surnamed Wu, confirmed his death, although she declined to elaborate exactly what he had died of.

"I am not able to say," she said. "It is not convenient for me to say over the phone... in the end, it was due to his liver problems."

The official Xinhua news agency had earlier reported on the incident in which Wu was beaten.

Up to 50 police raided the newspaper's office on October 20, a day after it published an article criticising traffic police over charging arbitrary fees for electrical bicycle licences.

Up to eight police beat and kicked Mr Wu, before hurling him out of his office and bundling him into a police car, Xinhua reported the next day.

The Xinhua report said Mr Wu had a liver transplant two years earlier and the beating caused severe damage to his liver, as well as other injuries.

Another journalist at Taizhou Wanbao, who also declined to be named, said Mr Wu had remained in hospital following the beatings on October 20.

He added that newspaper staff had been warned against discussing the incident with outsiders.

Officers at the Taizhou city Communist Party office and Jiaojiang district traffic police branch both refused to comment on Monday.

In other words, the price of exposing official corruption in China might be ones own life -- exactly the same punishment that the Islamofascist mobs seek to impose on those who daret o depict the Muhammad.

But this is not the only act of violence committed against those who speak against oppressive tactics by Red Chinese officials.

In another incident of police-related brutality reported on Monday, a leading Chinese rights activist was allegedly beaten outside a police station in the southern province of Guangdong as police officers looked on.

Unidentified men beat Yang Maodong, also known by his pen name of Guo Feixiong, after he lodged a complaint at a police station in Guangzhou city on Saturday about plain-clothed police officers following him, China Rights Defenders said in a statement.

Yes, we must oppose the evils of the Islamofascists, but we must not forget the 1/5 of the world's population that lives under this brutal Communist dictatorship.

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