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Local gov't admits mistakes after woman held at mortuary
By Li Qian |
January 28, 2013, Monday
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Chen Qingxia has been released from an abandoned funeral home after being held for years as authorities in Heilongjiang Province admitted making mistakes in dealing with how she protested her sick husband's jail term, China National Radio reported today.
Chen will receive both physical treatment and psychological counseling since she had been forced to live in the dilapidated funeral home for more than three years and was not permitted contact with others, the report said.
If Chen isn't satisfied with the official arrangement she will be transferred to a well-equipped hospital, Yu Xingyu, deputy Party chief in Dailing District of Yichun City in Heilongjiang Province, was cited as saying.
Local authorities responded after the case was exposed in the media last week.
Chen and her family lodged complaints to higher authorities in Beijing in 2007 after her husband, who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, was sentenced to 21 months in a labor camp for destroying public property in 2003. Chen believed his mental condition should have been taken into consideration for the sentence, the report said.
While in Beijing her then 12-year-old son Song Jide went missing and she herself was later put in a labor camp as punishment for protesting. Although she was permitted to leave the labor camp in 2010, the Dailing government held her in the abandoned mortuary, the report said.
Yu said the government has sent officials to Beijing to search for her son.
Chen will receive both physical treatment and psychological counseling since she had been forced to live in the dilapidated funeral home for more than three years and was not permitted contact with others, the report said.
If Chen isn't satisfied with the official arrangement she will be transferred to a well-equipped hospital, Yu Xingyu, deputy Party chief in Dailing District of Yichun City in Heilongjiang Province, was cited as saying.
Local authorities responded after the case was exposed in the media last week.
Chen and her family lodged complaints to higher authorities in Beijing in 2007 after her husband, who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, was sentenced to 21 months in a labor camp for destroying public property in 2003. Chen believed his mental condition should have been taken into consideration for the sentence, the report said.
While in Beijing her then 12-year-old son Song Jide went missing and she herself was later put in a labor camp as punishment for protesting. Although she was permitted to leave the labor camp in 2010, the Dailing government held her in the abandoned mortuary, the report said.
Yu said the government has sent officials to Beijing to search for her son.
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