Violent Death of Chinese College Student Zhao Wei, Triggers Indignation Online

The friends and family of Chinese college student Zhao Wei do not know exactly what happened to him between 3am and 7:20am on Jan. 23 this year, but they believe authorities murdered him. So too do Chinese netizens.
Violent Death of Chinese College Student Zhao Wei, Triggers Indignation Online
Zhao Wei's corpse in the morgue in funerary vestments. A coin is in his mouth with a red string protruding, part of Chinese funerary traditions. The images, taken by the parents and distributed online, have triggered enormous indignation with the authorities. Courtesy of victim's family
Matthew Robertson
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<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/6f4864dbtw6desdoefxypj_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/6f4864dbtw6desdoefxypj_medium.jpg" alt="Zhao Wei's corpse in the morgue in funerary vestments. A coin is in his mouth with a red string protruding, part of Chinese funerary traditions. The images, taken by the parents and distributed online, have triggered enormous indignation with the authorities. (Courtesy of victim's family)" title="Zhao Wei's corpse in the morgue in funerary vestments. A coin is in his mouth with a red string protruding, part of Chinese funerary traditions. The images, taken by the parents and distributed online, have triggered enormous indignation with the authorities. (Courtesy of victim's family)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-121687"/></a>
Zhao Wei's corpse in the morgue in funerary vestments. A coin is in his mouth with a red string protruding, part of Chinese funerary traditions. The images, taken by the parents and distributed online, have triggered enormous indignation with the authorities. (Courtesy of victim's family)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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