Out of Bounds
Avideo of a woman with an iron chain around her neck, confined to a hut in a village in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, has been making the online rounds since late January.
The mentally ill woman was wearing light clothing and eating poor-quality food, and was found to have borne eight children. Many netizens have demanded a thorough investigation of the case.
Responding to widespread public concern, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Jiangsu Provincial Committee and the Jiangsu Provincial Government formed an investigative team on February 17. Their investigation led them to seek out and review over 1,000 documents, and to interview over 4,600 people in Jiangsu, Yunnan and Anhui provinces.
The investigation revealed that the woman in the video
