"It's the victim wot did it"

Fu Xiancai in the People's Hospital in Yichang, Hubei on 16 June (BBC News)

Police in Zigui county, in China's Hubei province, have concluded their investigation into the beating of Three Gorges activist Fu Xiancai on 8 June that left him paralysed.

This attack had followed a string of other incidents of harassment and assault, in which the same county police appear to have been complicit.

Perhaps it is this last fact that makes the result of their investigation less stupefying.

Human Rights in China reported yesterday that the Zigui county police have found that Fu Xiancai beat himself up.

Oh China.

As read on BBC News today.