At the time of the Chinese authorities’ zero corona policy, a female teacher in China who violated quarantine rules to visit her mother-in-law in the hospital was sentenced to prison, lost her job, and even divorced her husband, paying a harsh price.
According to Chinese local media reports such as ‘Phoenix Net’ on the 27th, Hu Hong (32), a female teacher who lived in Gushi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, China, asked her husband, who was working in Jiangsu Province, to visit her mother-in-law on her behalf on April 13 last year. received. Her mother-in-law lived in Huoqiu County, Liu’an City, Anhui Province, about 15 km from her residence in Huhong.
At the time, as Corona 19 spread throughout China, Chinese authorities were completely banning travel between provinces. However, her mother-in-law thought that she had to see her mother-in-law, who was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, at a time when all her in-laws, including her husband, were out of the country. went to visit her mother-in-law in the hospital.
On this day, Huhong and his party left without staying at their mother-in-law’s house for less than an hour. However, 8 days later, starting with his father, 28 of his family and villagers were infected with Corona 19, and 1843 people were classified as close contacts and were quarantined.
As a result, the school where Hu Hong worked was closed and factories were closed all at once, and Hu Hong was designated as a ‘public enemy’ in the region. As a result, Hu Hung’s father, who was the village secretary, and Hu Hung, who was an elementary school teacher, were all dismissed and their party memberships revoked.
In addition, as he was charged with violating quarantine rules, his father was sentenced to two years in prison, and Huhong was sentenced to one year and six months in prison with two years of probation. Her husband was also sentenced to two years in prison. Due to these processes, the Huhong couple even divorced.
Following the easing of quarantine, China’s Supreme People’s Court decided last month to no longer punish violations of COVID-19 quarantine, but these women were excluded from relief because a first-instance judgment had already been issued. Huhong and his wife are continuing their court battle by appealing, claiming that the sentences against them were excessive and that it is difficult to see that they contributed to the mass infection of the villagers.
However, apart from this, they are hurt by the resentment and cold stares of the local residents, and plan to leave their hometown and move to a faraway place as soon as the lawsuit is over.
Source: Donga
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