Rape suspect turns himself in

A man has surrendered to police and confessed to raping a young woman who was allegedly under his guard, while she was being held illegally in Beijing to stop her from telling central government officials about her mistreatment back home.

Xu Jian, 26, from Tongbai county in Central China's Henan province, surrendered to the police in his hometown Tuesday morning.

He allegedly raped a 20-year-old woman surnamed Li from Anhui province at the Juyuan Hotel where she claimed she was being held against her will in Beijing on Aug 4, according to a statement from the Beijing public security bureau released Tuesday night.