Official's death reveals rare details of torture in Party's extra-judicial investigations
Source: South China Morning Post
Torture victim Yu Qiyi. Photo: AP
Six Communist Party investigators are expected to stand trial soon in Zhejiang province on charges relating to the death of a Communist Party member during a disciplinary probe earlier this year.
The charges filed against the six investigators relate to the death of Yu Qiyi, the 42-year-old chief engineer of the state-owned Wenzhou Industry Investment Group, in the early morning hours of April 9. The six five employees of the Wenzhou Party Discipline Inspection Commission and one loan officer from the local prosecutors office are accused of torturing him by repeatedly putting his head into a bucket of ice water during questioning shortly before he died, according to the indictment shared by the prosecution with Yus relatives.
The trial has offered a rare insight into the obscure work of party discipline investigators, who can detain suspects without judicial oversight for an unlimited period of time under shuanggui, an abbreviation used to identify a clause in the partys regulations that requires members to explain their offences at a specific time and venue.
Yus widow said she saw her husband for the last time alive at Beijings airport on March 1, when he saw her off on a flight home to Wenzhou. Days later, she received a phone call from his company informing her that Yu has been placed under shuanggui for suspected discipline violations. They didnt say how long it would take, they didnt let me see him, they only said we shouldnt make a fuss about it, she said.
On April 9, she was informed that her husband had died an accidental death.
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