Stay tuned! What should you do if you are assaulted or sexually harassed? You must know these things

Expert of this article: Zhu Guangsi, science writer, member of Beijing Science Writers Association

Recently, the "Tangshan beating" incident has continued to attract attention. On June 12, the Guangyang Branch of the Langfang Municipal Public Security Bureau issued a notice that nine suspects had been arrested.

Source: @Xinhua News Agency

When you are out, the word "safety" is always a concern. Personal safety, traffic safety, property safety, etc. In addition to paying attention to yourself at all times, it is inevitable that others will threaten or even harm our own safety.

While paying attention to the truth of the incident, everyone needs to know how to protect themselves to the greatest extent possible when their own safety is threatened or even harmed.

Beating

If you are beaten or mobbed in public, the most important thing is to minimize your own injuries. First, consider fleeing the scene to a safe area. If you cannot escape, you need to shout for help.

Sometimes the bystander effect, also known as the diffusion of responsibility effect, occurs among onlookers.

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So you can try to point to a bystander one by one and ask for help. If this does not help you avoid being beaten, you should protect your key parts, usually by holding the back of your head and neck with both hands, curling up, and protecting your face, neck, and ribs with your arms. Fold your legs to protect your abdomen, adopt a pangolin-like posture, and adjust the protection parts at any time.

sexual harassment

Common sexual harassment includes making sexual jokes, making sexual comments (usually accusatory or negative) or gestures, requesting or offering sexual acts, touching or physically touching someone in a sexually suggestive way. More serious cases, forcing someone to have sex are sexual assault or rape.

When faced with criminals who sexually assault them, women can exercise self-defense without being held criminally responsible.

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If you cannot escape and the other party does not have a clear physical advantage, you can attack the other party's vulnerable parts such as the eyes, or you can use the surrounding sand, bricks and stones to attack; if the attack is ineffective, you can use vomiting, excretion and other methods to make the other party lose their motive for committing a crime, or you can pretend to agree and take the opportunity to escape when the other party takes off his clothes.

If you really cannot escape or resist, you need to protect the scene and keep the other party's semen sample as evidence for reporting the case.

Domestic violence

Domestic violence has a certain degree of privacy compared to other crimes because it usually occurs at home and is often treated as an internal conflict, preventing outsiders from interfering.

If you are experiencing domestic violence, you should report it to the local public security agency immediately to avoid secondary injury. If the injury is serious, you should also ask the police to help you get a medical report and go to a designated hospital for identification. At the same time, you can also seek help from grassroots organizations such as village committees, neighborhood committees, streets, and women's federations.

Following, dragging, etc. on the street

In many cases, criminals will pretend to be acquaintances and drag women in the street, and even have others help them, disguising the crime as a "family matter." Compared with beating in the street, this behavior of "pulling your wife home" makes it more difficult for bystanders to intervene.

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If you are entangled by criminals in public places and no one comes to your rescue, you can create some damage by overturning surrounding objects such as stalls, etc. Vendors who have suffered property losses will block the way to prevent criminals from leaving.

Secret photography of privacy

In recent years, there have been frequent cases of voyeurism, and even a black industry chain has been formed. For women, be careful to protect yourself in crowded places. Be alert to areas where eavesdropping and peeping equipment may be installed.

If you have been secretly photographed, call the police immediately. If the secretly photographed content has been spread, the police will deal with it immediately and take relevant measures to minimize the spread.

The above contents have a common key point of self-help: remember the characteristics of criminals, including but not limited to facial features, body shape, license plate number, etc., so as to provide evidence for the police. If you are unfortunately hurt, do not be afraid to call the police because of your shame or fear of criminals.

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