Just a year ago, Zhang P. graduated from the school when the mine station wagon, in which he worked in the province of Ankhoy, got out of control and crashed into him, which led to injuries that ended his brief career as coal production. Since 1999, he had an accident, Zhang lived thanks to disability benefits, which his former employer in the city of Huayanan, the capital of coal in Anhui. Until 2024, they sent him back to the hospital. This time to psychiatry.
In June 2024, Zhang spent 22 days hospitalized after protest in front of the office of his former employee, for which he demanded an increase in disability benefits. “I survived more than 20 days of humiliation, I did not have a phone, and they took my belt and shoe cords,” he said recently during an interview with the Chinese media. Zhang explained that he was forced to take medicines and tie him to sleep for several hours every day. After three weeks in the hospital, he was sentenced to eight days of administrative detention for “finding the struggle and provoking problems.”