Family’s appeals for justice brushed aside

Epoch Times
By Gu Qing’er

Eight police officers arrived at Jiang Ming’s home in Qindao City, Shandong Province on Sept. 15. Jiang, 38 years old and healthy, was summoned to the Badaguan Police Station to sign documents related to an incident from 2006 that had never been closed. Two hours later he was dead, leaving behind a young wife, a 9-year-old son, and elderly parents with illnesses.

Jiang’s wife, Gao Lianqiao, had asked to accompany him to the police station but was not allowed. Worried, she went to the station about an hour after he was taken.

“I found my husband tied with iron rods to an interrogation chair with his head hanging down. I called his name, but he did not respond. He was drooling and appeared to be having a convulsion.

“I asked the police why he was still handcuffed. I wanted them to hurry and take him to a hospital, but they said they would have to wait until after their lunch break to get permission for hospitalization from the Municipal Public Security Bureau. My husband was dying! I was crying very loudly,” Gao said.

Epoch Times
Nov 9, 2009
By Fang Xiao

A 23-year-old male employee of a major manufacturer of Apple computer products in China, Foxconn, is alleged to have committed suicide on Nov. 4 after being verbally taunted by his supervisor, according to a blog post on the community portal of the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper.

The post was followed up by a report in the Daily, in print and online. If true, it would be the second suicide by a Foxconn employee in southern China’s city of Shenzhen since last July.

The man alleged to have committed suicide, Tan Guoxi, was an employee of a “large corporate company,” according to the follow-up report on Nov. 6 by the Daily. The Daily’s report did not mention Foxconn by name, but referred to the post on its community portal which did.

The Daily’s report said that a representative of the unnamed company visited the newspaper’s office on Nov. 5 and confirmed that a worker surnamed Tan had jumped off a building due to stress.

The blogger, using the name “black eyes” on the Daily’s community portal, wrote that the Foxconn employee jumped from an 11-story building and died. The man hit another male employee upon landing, the post said, knocking the other unconsciousness before hitting the ground himself.

“That day as he was about to go home the manager insulted him terribly. He, being young, was unable to bear the humiliation and jumped off the building to kill himself and show he was innocent,” the post said. The user “black eyes” didn’t say in the message how he or she had obtained the information.    more …