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US$1.45m claim after forced confession

FORMER nurse Qian Renfeng, from southwest China’s Yunnan Province, is seeking compensa­tion after being wrongfully convicted of murder.

Qian’s lawyer has filed her claim with Yunnan Provincial Higher People’s Court, demand­ing up to 9.55 million yuan (US$1.45 million) in damages.

Qian was just 17 when she was stripped of her freedom. The sentence was quashed in December last year, because it lacked sufficient evidence.

In February 2002, at a nurs­ery where Qian was working, a toddler died of food poisoning and two other children had to be treated in hospital.

Qian, who had prepared the children’s meals that day, was forced to confess she had mixed rat poison in the food. It was on the basis of this forced confes­sion she was found guilty.

“The interrogators made me kneel for hours, cuffed my hands behind my back,” she said after her release. “In a state of fury, extreme pain and ex­haustion, I said I was guilty.”

In prison she wrote many petitions about her case but to little effect.

However, her luck changed in 2010 when a group of lawyers visited No. 2 Prison for Women in Yunnan Province to offer free legal advice.

“Their visit was a glimmer of hope in the darkness. That was when I shared my story with the lawyer Yang Zhu,” she said.


 

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