{"id":47537,"date":"2015-06-10T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47537 "},"modified":"2015-06-10T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T23:11:00","slug":"47537-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47537","title":{"rendered":"Clashes in China\\&#8217;s Jiangxi After Teen\\&#8217;s Body is Found Near Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>2015-06-09<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/23\/2015610image(19).jpg\" alt=\"2015610image(19).jpg (620&#215;408)\" \/><\/div><div>Two victims of a police assault on protesters, Gongqingcheng, Jiangxi, June 8, 2015.<\/div><div>Photo courtesy of an RFA listener<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi have detained and beaten more than 10 people following clashes with relatives of a teenage factory worker who died in mysterious circumstances earlier this month, relatives said on Tuesday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The body of Chen Zhizhao, 17, was found in a pond near the Fengyuda Electronics Factory in Jiangxi&#8217;s Gongqingcheng city on Sunday after the youth disappeared at the beginning of the month.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;The police found the body on June 6 in a pond, decomposed and full of maggots,&#8221; Chen&#8217;s cousin Zhou Qiming told RFA on Tuesday. &#8220;DNA tests showed that it was my cousin.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;We don&#8217;t even know how he died, nor who it was who threw his body in the pond, and the local government is in cahoots with the factory management,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>More than 10 of Chen&#8217;s relatives and supporters were detained and beaten by police on Monday after protesting at their local police station over what they said was a lack of progress in the investigation, Zhou said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;All those who were detained were beaten and injured, and those who were released were also injured,&#8221; Zhou said. &#8220;I got injured, too.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>He said some people remain behind bars, and police are putting pressure on Chen&#8217;s family to accept compensation of 100,000 yuan (U.S.$16,000) in return for their release.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;We have no way to visit those who are still in detention, and we don&#8217;t know how badly they are hurt,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;All of those detained were the brothers and sisters, aunts, and cousins of the youth who died,&#8221; Zhou said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Unanswered questions<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A resident of Chen&#8217;s home village of Sujiadang surnamed Cheng said local people are angry at what they see as a lack of police action in the case.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>But he said the factory management should also take some responsibility for the unexplained death of their employee.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;He was working in their factory, and then he is found dead, his body thrown into a pond next to the factory under mysterious circumstances,&#8221; Cheng said. &#8220;Ten days later, they still haven&#8217;t even called his family.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;It was the family who went to seek him out; it was only then that we found out he had disappeared, and then we reported it to the police immediately,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;The very next day, they find the body. There are a lot of unanswered questions.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>A secretary surnamed Bi who relatives said was given the job of liaising with them on behalf of the Fengyuda factory said on Tuesday that &#8220;no such person&#8221; worked there, when asked about Chen.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Called on a separate occasion, she confirmed her identity, before replying: &#8220;You have the wrong number.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>An official who answered the phone at the nearby Gongqingcheng city government declined to comment.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;This doesn&#8217;t come under our jurisdiction,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;We only deal with civil matters here; for criminal matters you will have to ask the courts.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/clashes-06092015144105.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;The body of Chen Zhizhao, 17, was found in a pond near the Fengyuda Electronics Factory in Jiangxi&#39;s Gongqingcheng city on Sunday after the youth disappeared at the beginning of the month. &quot;The police found the body on June 6 in a pond, decomposed and full of maggots,&quot; Chen&#39;s cousin Zhou Qiming told RFA on Tuesday. &quot;DNA tests showed that it was my cousin.&quot;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}