Zhang Chuanqiu, Chain Skin Victim, Pleads For Help

Zhang Chuanqiu, a 27-year-old Chinese man, is hoping to save his hands after he was shackled so tightly in an illegal prison in Hunan that his flesh grew over the chains, the Austrian Times is reporting. According to the paper, Chuanqiu says he is in terrible pain due to the wounds:

They cause me a lot of pain. They are always inflamed and ooze pus all the time. But we have no money so I have to rely on charity or the good heart of a hospital or doctor to save my hands.

Chuanqiu was imprisoned after a falling out over a loan he was using to build his house. He was chained in a cowshed in 2005, says BuzzFeed. He needs a surgery that will cost about $1,600 to remove the chains and to avoid further infection.

You can see the shocking photos of the wounds here and here. Very graphic photo warning.

Comments

[LisaMaria]

07:39 AM on 11/18/2010

If you would like to donate directly to this cause please go to www.journalismwithoutborders.com, This is the registered charity which has taken on this story in a bid to raise the money needed for this operation and to take responsibility that it gets to him.

[gocoastal]

11:47 PM on 11/16/2010

Ah poor guy... seems like debtors prisons are not a thing of the past. If the corporations and banks have their way, we may be seeing similar situations here in the future...

[whoknew42]

01:46 PM on 11/16/2010

OK - wow

I almost upchucked on this one - seriously

[JaxReader]

11:44 AM on 11/15/2010

Wow, the pictures are disgusting. All for defaulting on a home loan. Sad, sad, story.

[vulpecula762mm]

11:41 AM on 11/15/2010

It was not a state prison. It was a "illegal" hill-jack village elder "prison" He will likely loose that hand.

[MrUnlimited]

03:34 AM on 11/15/2010

And to think, that guy was tightly chained and put in harsh conditions after defaulting on a house loan!

[RedWhiteandBlueState]

10:41 AM on 11/14/2010

Yay. Our biggest importer.

Aren't we judged by the company we keep?

Every time you see "Made in China" on a product you buy. Remember this guy.

[drbslurp]

11:27 AM on 11/14/2010

You mean like the forced abortions that have gone on for decades there? The murder of female newborns?

Aren't liberals always saying we need to mind our own biz and stay out of the internal problems of other countries?

[RedWhiteandBlueState]

11:47 AM on 11/14/2010

Yes. Exactly.

You mean hypocritical America - being policeman of the world? Picking and choosing our enemies according to political and corporate winds? This dictator bad, this one OK? This genocide bad, this one OK?

Progressives simply think we ought to have our own house in order before we start telling other cultures what they should do on this planet.

Y'know, lead by example - shining city on the hill? - Let our positive actions speak for us?

And progressives also say we should not export out manufacturing base to a criminal communist country for the sake of CEO and shareholder profit at expense of the middle class and the American blue collar worker.

Outlaw offshore corporate tax shelters and have strict penalties for outsourcing.

Cut 300 Billion off our annual 800 billion defense spending to develop a massive renewable energy infrastructure and the means to deliver and export it. Create hundreds of thousands of jobs, revitalizing our workforce and exporting something positive and earth positive. And reduce the need for a massive outdated ground force military guarding petroleum reserves half way around the world.

You with me?

[RedWhiteandBlueState]

05:45 PM on 11/15/2010

I didn't think you'd respond. And that's disappointing. Seems you GOP'ers spend a lot of time judging and criticizing "liberals" and have absolutely no interest in honest debate. Sad.

[stape45]

09:10 AM on 11/14/2010

It’s stories like this that make a “profits first - people later” philosophy, so scary. And treacherous.

[maclyndon LEE]

08:01 AM on 11/14/2010

I am so sad about his story.Now he has been sent to the Yuanling County Recovery Hospital to get further cure by a special fund. And the Xiaoxiang Morning newspaper and the Anhui tabacco bureau of monoply donate ￥3000 to his cure.

[stape45]

07:48 AM on 11/14/2010

If that practice reaped a profit, we'd probably already see it in our backyards. Greed knows no limits or boundaries these days, it seems.

[maclyndon LEE]

07:43 AM on 11/14/2010

I am Chinese,and here is the whole story!! http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2010-11-08/010721429854.shtml But it is sad you can't read Chinese.I have been realised how it is important to learn another language.
This kind of news on HP is just to pull the readers' hatred to CCP.Nothing new!!

[Harrison Fuerst]

08:40 AM on 11/14/2010

Thank you for linking this. I can read Chinese and was looking for it days ago but had no luck

[SamKnause]

09:51 AM on 11/14/2010

Thanks for the link.

I do not read Chinese, but I don't need to.
I just used the translate click and it worked fine.

Peace and sanity for the world

[maclyndon LEE]

10:18 AM on 11/14/2010

Translation by computer is terrible.But it worked fine with French,Germany and Euro languages like those.

[Howard53545]

06:37 AM on 11/14/2010

He will not last long. China has already picked out a bullet for him, and will harvest his relatively young organs. Must pay your debts in China or else.

[Logos Land]

05:23 AM on 11/14/2010

Damn Communists.

[Harrison Fuerst]

08:44 AM on 11/14/2010

Every time you read about an unarmed young black man being shot dead by our police, is your first reaction - "Damn Capitalists." ?

[topkatnc]

06:14 PM on 11/14/2010

I tell you what .. let's damn everyone who is evil .... and race has nothing to do with that ...

[coburn86]

01:26 AM on 11/14/2010

This is very disturbing to me. Does anyone know how I can make a donation to help him pay for the operation?

[Howard53545]

06:36 AM on 11/14/2010

Send the money to me. I will make sure it gets to him.

[MrUnlimited]

03:40 AM on 11/15/2010

Lol...nice try, buddy. Next you're probably gonna post that you're a deposed Nigerian prince who will send coburn86 money as soon as coburn86 provides an account number and pays a "small processing fee".

Lol

[lizr]

01:22 AM on 11/14/2010

I am so excited that we will be ruled by China in the near future, due to Bush's desire to fight the wars without the ability to pay for them.. and his consequent borrowing of all the money from the BANK OF CHINA..

[MrUnlimited]

03:41 AM on 11/15/2010

Lol...it's never too early to put your kids in Mandarin language class.