Detainee death adds to widespread trend
By Jane Chen |
March 5, 2010, Friday
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A DETAINEE has died in an east China detention house with blood filling his nose and mouth, the latest in a nationwide string of inmate deaths in custody.
Officials with the Wuyi County Detention House in Zhejiang Province have ruled out police and inmate involvement in the death, which they said was probably a result of a heart attack in his sleep, yesterday's Modern Express reported.
Procuratorate authorities of Wuyi and Jinhua City, under which Wuyi is administrated, are investigating.
He Shebiao, 32, a Wuyi native farmer, was put into the detention house last December for stealing 3,000 yuan (US$439.47) worth of grain, his mother told the newspaper.
House officers found him having difficulty breathing on the night of February 17 and sent him to a local hospital where he later died, according to Wu Cuijie, Wuyi police's vice political commissar.
Wu said they checked surveillance videos and found no bullying by other inmates, not police mistreatment.
He's family challenged the explanation, saying they had found blood on He's pillow in hospital as well as in his nose and mouth.
Wu said police had suggested an autopsy and was awaiting family approval.
He had asked the family to send more money to him, his mother told the newspaper.
In a letter to his mother, He wrote: "I can't survive here without money."
The family had sent 1,200 yuan to him in the past 50-plus days in the detention house, she said.
She said her son had been in good health before being detained by police.
Officials with the Wuyi County Detention House in Zhejiang Province have ruled out police and inmate involvement in the death, which they said was probably a result of a heart attack in his sleep, yesterday's Modern Express reported.
Procuratorate authorities of Wuyi and Jinhua City, under which Wuyi is administrated, are investigating.
He Shebiao, 32, a Wuyi native farmer, was put into the detention house last December for stealing 3,000 yuan (US$439.47) worth of grain, his mother told the newspaper.
House officers found him having difficulty breathing on the night of February 17 and sent him to a local hospital where he later died, according to Wu Cuijie, Wuyi police's vice political commissar.
Wu said they checked surveillance videos and found no bullying by other inmates, not police mistreatment.
He's family challenged the explanation, saying they had found blood on He's pillow in hospital as well as in his nose and mouth.
Wu said police had suggested an autopsy and was awaiting family approval.
He had asked the family to send more money to him, his mother told the newspaper.
In a letter to his mother, He wrote: "I can't survive here without money."
The family had sent 1,200 yuan to him in the past 50-plus days in the detention house, she said.
She said her son had been in good health before being detained by police.
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