9778 days lost... CCTV interviews Zhang Yuhuan and Song Xiaonv: Is it okay to be held accountable? Is it too much? !
In Zhangjia Village, Jinxian County, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, 53-year-old Zhang Yuhuan returned home without charge after being detained for 9778 days.
Zhang Yuhuan: This is the room where I slept. It's all rotten now and there is nothing left. This place is the scene of the crime.
This dilapidated old house was once Zhang Yuhuan's warm home, but it was also the beginning of a nightmare. In 1993, 27 years ago, Zhang Yuhuan was found by the police to kill two boys from the same village and throw their bodies into the reservoir. During the court trial, Zhang Yuhuan kept calling out injustice, saying that he had been tortured to extract a confession by the police. In the absence of strong objective material evidence and the inconsistency of the two guilty confessions, the Nanchang Intermediate People's Court made two guilty verdicts in 1995 and 2001 and sentenced him to death with a two-year suspension of execution.
Zhang Yuhuan: They all call me Peanuts by the nickname, which means I was going to be shot. I committed suicide twice after being locked up for a long time. At that time, I was sentenced to death, and then I fainted, crying desperately, calling me wronged, and fainted. When the bailiff carried me on the road to the detention center, he said you can appeal.
Zhang Yuhuan's brother Zhang Minqiang: After waiting in the detention center for eight years, no one can see or see. I have always been angry, as if if he hadn't killed someone, he shouldn't have recruited, nor would he have killed him. In 2001, when the second court session was held, he saw the file and restored all the cases. The material evidence and the confession were inconsistent. It was indeed confirmed that he was wronged.
Zhang Yuhuan: I don't know how to write. I asked an educated person to write, and that person was still a college student, so I looked for him and copied it like that. The rest of them are playing cards, I don’t have one, I’m just writing, because I think so. Appeals are my top priority. Once I die, I die with regret.
Zhang Yuhuan sent five to six hundred appeal letters to various units, but almost all of them fell to the ground. In addition to the torture of grievances and grievances, he also has to endure the pain of family fragmentation. The old mother can't respect his wife and children. He can only see the growth of the child from the photos sent by his family. The eldest son once wrote on the back of the photo: Dad, I didn't take the photo this time. We will take the photo together when you come home.
Zhang Yuhuan: I felt so sad when I saw his writing. The biggest regret is that I didn't see the growth of children. My second son, he visited me twice. Especially the elder son feels unfamiliar. I have been there for 19 years and I have never seen him. I feel very unfamiliar.
The burden of the family fell on the shoulders of his wife Song Xiaonv. While helping Zhang Yuhuan to defend her grievances, she also worked to make a living. Unfortunately, she suffered from uterine fibroids and developed cervical cancer. In order to survive, she divorced and remarried Zhang Yuhuan. others. Before remarrying, she made three conditions to her current husband, which was good to Zhang Yuhuan's two sons; she was not prevented from visiting Zhang Yuhuan's mother; she was not prevented from visiting Zhang Yuhuan.
Zhang Yuhuan’s ex-wife Song Xiaonv: He (Zhang Yuhuan) loves me so much, shouldn’t I do anything for him? His business is mine. Every time I go to see him, I want to hug, and every time I feel so sad and helpless, I think this way, if Zhang Yuhuan is here, how good would a hug to relieve pressure and go see him At that time, I thought of Zhang Yuhuan, if I had a hug.
In 2017, the intervention of the two lawyers gave the Zhang Yuhuan case a turning point for filing and review. After another three years of waiting, this unjust case with only guilty confession and no direct evidence was finally rehabilitated. On August 4, the Jiangxi Higher People’s Court revoked the original judgment and declared Zhang Yuhuan not guilty. The time of detention in China is known. The longest victim was finally innocent.
Zhang Yuhuan: What I thought about was seeing my mother and didn't respect her for a long time. She must miss me very much. She burst into tears when she hugged my mother. Song Xiaonv fainted, she was very excited, she didn't know why. I told my son that I can't hug her tomorrow. I want to hug in my heart, but I think she can't accept it.
Zhang Yuhuan’s ex-wife Song Xiaonv: I just said this to Zhang Yuhuan. It doesn’t matter if you don’t hug, but you have to remember that you owe me a hug, because my hug is not a hug for no reason. My hug is not something to tell you. Give me a hug, love hug, my hug is so complicated and complicated.
He used a BP machine 27 years ago. After 27 years, he touched a mobile phone for the first time and touched an air conditioner remote control for the first time. He is out of touch with society and has no intention of catching up with the times. He is already content to sleep on his own bed and take a photo with his family as he wishes. He hopes that his ex-wife and son will return to their families. He only needs to allocate a few acres of farmland, and then become a farmer to honor his old mother. For the future, he is preparing to apply for state compensation, as well as those who abused their power and ignored the law, and the accountability should begin.
Zhang Yuhuan's ex-wife Song Xiaonv: Many people interviewed Zhang Yuhuan and asked Zhang Yuhuan to be held accountable. I also want to hold them accountable, because they hurt my three mothers and the whole family, Zhang Yuhuan, is too pitiful. Is it okay to be held accountable? Is my request excessive?
Bai Yansong: Zhang Yuhuan was wronged for 27 years. The starting point was in 1993. I think about myself. I was 25 years old that year. I walked into Eastern Space and served as a host. I am 52 years old this year. If I think about the earth-shaking changes in my life in these 27 years, I am even more capable. Understand how much Zhang Yuhuan has lost in his life in the past 27 years? I wish Zhang Yuhuan a smoother life in the future, more happiness, and hope that such wrong cases will not happen again in the future. Some of them in the past can be corrected quickly, and no one can withstand the toss of life.