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Wang Yahui, a 28 year-old male from Lushan County in Henan Province, was arrested and detained by police on suspicion of theft on 18th February 2010. Three days later his family was told that he had died in detention. The cause of death was cited as sickness brought on from drinking boiled water when in custody.
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See BAIKE SOGOU ENCYCLOPEDIA, entry for ‘Death by Drinking Boiled Water’, last updated 28th October 2016, at baike.sogou.com/v8435242.htm?fromTitle=%E5%96%9D%E5%BC%80%E6%B0%B4%E6%AD%BB%E4%BA%A1, retrieved on 28th October 2016.
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See He Jiahong, Lv Zehua, and Liang Kun, ‘The Cultivation and Curbing of Confessions Obtained through Torture—A Discussion Of Two Torture Cases’, Evidence Forum, Volume 14. See also He and He (2008).
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He, Jiahong, and He, Ran. 2008. Problems of Evidence in Wrongful Convictions—Empirical Studies and Economic Analysis. Tribune of Political Science and Law (2), vol. 2008.
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He, J. (2018). The Creation of Presumption Rules. In: Methodology of Judicial Proof and Presumption. Masterpieces of Contemporary Jurisprudents in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8025-8_10
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