China will compensate a woman who was held in a disused morgue as punishment for going to Beijing to petition against her husband’s jailing, the state media said Friday, in an unusual case of the government overturning an extrajudicial detention. The woman, Chen Qingxia, was held for three years in an abandoned bungalow once used to store bodies in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang after being abducted from Beijing by security officials, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. She had gone to the capital to seek redress for her husband, Song Lisheng, who she said was mistreated while serving an 18-month sentence at a labor camp, Xinhua said. The government will now pay the medical bills and living expenses for Ms. Chen and her husband and step up efforts to find their young son, who became separated from Ms. Chen when she was abducted in Beijing, Xinhua reported. The amount of compensation has yet to be decided.
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