Chinese Labor Camp Victim-Turned-Activist Dies in Police Custody

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Chinese Labor Camp Victim-Turned-Activist Dies in Police Custody

A rights activist who spoke out about abuses she suffered inside the notorious police-run Masanjia labor camp has died in the custody of authorities from the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, raising suspicions she was murdered.

Chen Shenqun, 58, had been detained while petitioning in Beijing and held at the Majialou detention center on the outskirts of the Chinese capital, before being escorted home by police from her home district of Sujiatun in the provincial capital Liaoyang on Nov. 20.

She died en route sometime before the morning of Nov. 21, and police have reported her death as being caused by a "road accident."

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