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"I heard that they took her underwear away and spent five hours beating her up and taking naked pictures of her..."

Chinese society has been shocked by a senseless case of Red Guard-style violence among women college students.

According to a Xinhua News report on the 25th, the incident took place at a university in Kunming City in Yunnan Province in April.

It was then that a female student, Tang (唐), noticed that her underwear had disappeared from her dormitory. She accused another female student living in the dorm, Gung (宮), of taking it. But Gung denied having anything to do with it.

Furious someone would steal her underwear even though her name was in it, Tang called nine friends at midnight. They then kidnapped Gung and spent five hours interrogating her. There was no difference between what they did and what the Red Guard did to falsely accused innocent citizens in the Cultural Revolution, beating and threatening her.

Tang and her friends poured water on Gung's head and forced her to drink water leftover from ramen. They forced her to strip naked and sing songs. They scrawled terrible insults on her body. Eventually they used their cellular phones to take pictures and videos of her naked. They wanted to completely sexually humiliate her.

They beat her when she protested that she hadn't stolen the underwear. Afterwards she was treated for contusions in the hospital.

With injuries over her entire body Gung reported Tang and the nine others to the police. After a one-month investigation police arrested all ten on charges of battery and slander.

Local police announced, "this has been a shocking crime because of the methods used by the women college students who committed it." Police have taken the extraordinary step of requesting authorities at the school to "strengthen education on the rule of law."