When a family in eastern China took their 3-year-old son to the hospital to treat a slight fever, they didn’t expect that he would be dead in less than an hour.
Even less expected was the veritable platoon of special police that quickly came to seize the body and hush things up. A struggle between the grief-stricken parents, police officers, and hospital staff ensured. Controversy erupted on the Chinese Internet on Jan. 24 when details of the unnamed child’s death and the following fight began to surface on blog posts, an 80-second video, and police announcements.
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