He was suspected of being a classmate who was jealous of his beauty and talent, but was cleared of the charges.
Speculation was raised that “he was exempted from prosecution and protected due to his grandfather’s political background”
Chinese public security “investigation according to law…” “There was no compromise and there was no obstruction of the investigation.”
Zhu Ling, a Chinese woman who was the victim of a mysterious poisoning in 1994, died at the age of 50 in Beijing on the 22nd, Tsinghua University, which she attended, announced on the university’s Weibo account on the 23rd.
According to the BBC, Zhu Ling, a chemistry student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, was poisoned by the highly toxic chemical thallium, which left him paralyzed, nearly blind, and brain damaged, requiring 24-hour parental care.
Despite the serious harm caused by poisoning, no one has been charged in connection with this. Sun Wei, a chemistry major who was Zhu Ling’s roommate, was investigated but not indicted.
Sun Wei was investigated by police as a suspect in 1997, but was acquitted due to insufficient evidence. She claimed her innocence several times through her social media handles and even changed her name.
Zhu Ling began suffering from stomachaches and hair loss in late 1994, and fell into a coma a few months later. Doctors at Beijing Tongren Hospital diagnosed her on April 28, 1995, with poisoning from colorless and odorless thallium.
Chinese media reports at the time claimed that Sun Wei had access to thallium compounds at Tsinghua University, but that she was not the only student with access to thallium.
Zhu Ling’s family and supporters suspected that Sun Wei’s motive for the crime may have been jealousy of Zhu Ling’s beauty and musical and academic achievements. Sun Wei, however, denied the crime, saying there was no animosity between him and Zhu Ling.
In 2013, a petition was posted on the White House website in the United States, where Sun Wei lived at the time, demanding that the United States investigate Sun Wei and deport him from the United States. The petition claimed that Sun Wei’s grandfather and her Tang Sook had powerful political backgrounds, and that she had both the authority and the motivation to gain access to thallium.
“No young person should have to suffer like Juring, and we understand the heartbreak of those close to her,” the White House said. “Zhu Ling’s poisoning is a tragedy,” he said, but did not address her calls for an investigation and deportation of Sun Wei-ae.
That year, China’s Public Security Bureau said it would be difficult to reopen the investigation into the case because there was little evidence and so much time had passed since it occurred.
According to media reports, there was speculation that Sun Wei was not indicted and was protected by public security because his grandfather, Sun Yuecha, and another relative who served as deputy mayor of Beijing.
However, Chinese police denied claims that the 2013 investigation was influenced by others, saying, “The investigation team worked in accordance with the law, and the investigation was not compromised or hindered in any way.”
Source: Donga
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