Abstract
A homicide section chief by the name of Mao of a certain local branch of the Public Security Bureau, in a meeting before the interrogation of prisoners, told his men: "Remember the land reform? Give it all you've got—a broken arm or leg is no big deal. The only thing that matters is that they're still breathing when we hand them to the courts; we wouldn't want these people to take their cases with them into the next world." This man was quoting the spirit of a talk he had with a deputy division chief of the municipal public security bureau. He went on: "Before, when we asked you not to beat up prisoners, you would do so. Now I'm asking you to beat them up, and you're scared. Don't be. Feel free to do what you have to do." Armed with this "pep talk, " interrogators in six different rooms that night used unrestrained force, with the result that one interrogator, Xiong, caused the death of a prisoner named An.
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