Chinese police pull a live baby from a shallow grave

Chinese police found a newborn baby alive in a shallow grave. The baby was buried alive in a cardboard box. The baby boy’s grandmothers were arrested for planning the boy’s murder.

A women collecting herbs near a hillside graveyard heard the sound of crying. It was then that she rushed to get help and the rescue operation began.

The rescuers found a baby boy a few centimeters below the surface. He had been buried loosely enough for air and water to reach the box.

The baby was taken to the hospital where he was throwing up mud.

A total of five people were arrested for the attempted murder – three of which are relatives of the baby boy.

Torture a maintained routine in Chinese Prisions

Torture is still a routine activity practiced in Chinese prisons. The police have regulations to exclude evidence and confessions of the torture acts.

Relatives of the detainees said that abuse included prisoners being electrocuted and beaten with batons. Prisoners are also deprived of sleep and spend hours shackled and hung from their wrists.

It has been said that some prisoners were also sprayed with chili oil on sensitive areas. They were also starved and frozen.

Human Rights Watch has interviewed families of those that died while imprisoned. To hide the cause of the deaths, the police said that every death that happened to the detainees were due to natural causes. This goes against the evidence of mistreatment.

In the attempts to view full videos of the detained, relatives were blocked.

A northern Heilongjiang police officer said, “Torture to extract confession has become an unspoken rule, it is very common.”