Suspicions raised over inmate's cause of death
By Zhang Xuanchen |
December 4, 2010, Saturday
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POLICE in southern China's Guangdong Province are investigating the death of an inmate, who a prison guard claims suffocated himself under heavy quilts.
His family said they did not accept that version as the cause of death of the 22-year-old man. Qi Yeqiang was sent to a detention center in Maoming on April 28, reported Xinhua news agency yesterday.
The center's authorities said the health of Qi took a turn for the worse at 1:20am and they rushed him to the nearby Maoming People's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead two hours later on November 25.
The hospital's preliminary investigation showed Qi died of suffocation, caused by blood in his lungs. A guard told the family that Qi might have died while pressing his face into the quilts in his sleep.
The inmate's uncle, who witnessed attempts to save Qi, said they found the cause of death "suspicious" as Qi was strong and healthy.
Qi's death is the latest in the string of unusual inmate deaths in China.
A court in the central Henan Province has upheld its one-and-a-half year custodial sentence against a former head of a re-education center, who forced an inmate to take a cold shower on a chilly morning, which led to his death.
Yang Jianwei was convicted of negligence by a high court in Kaifeng City, reported the local Dahe Daily today.
Yang ordered his colleague, Li Daying, to spray cold water over the 60-year-old prisoner Mu Damin, who suffered from hypertension, as he said Mu "stank," early on the morning of April 13.
His family said they did not accept that version as the cause of death of the 22-year-old man. Qi Yeqiang was sent to a detention center in Maoming on April 28, reported Xinhua news agency yesterday.
The center's authorities said the health of Qi took a turn for the worse at 1:20am and they rushed him to the nearby Maoming People's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead two hours later on November 25.
The hospital's preliminary investigation showed Qi died of suffocation, caused by blood in his lungs. A guard told the family that Qi might have died while pressing his face into the quilts in his sleep.
The inmate's uncle, who witnessed attempts to save Qi, said they found the cause of death "suspicious" as Qi was strong and healthy.
Qi's death is the latest in the string of unusual inmate deaths in China.
A court in the central Henan Province has upheld its one-and-a-half year custodial sentence against a former head of a re-education center, who forced an inmate to take a cold shower on a chilly morning, which led to his death.
Yang Jianwei was convicted of negligence by a high court in Kaifeng City, reported the local Dahe Daily today.
Yang ordered his colleague, Li Daying, to spray cold water over the 60-year-old prisoner Mu Damin, who suffered from hypertension, as he said Mu "stank," early on the morning of April 13.
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