a chinese teenager sent to an internet 1 2 camp has allegedly been beaten to death by its counsellors, according to reports.
报道称,一名中国青少年被送往网瘾戒除夏令营,结果却被辅导员打死。
a number of employees of the qihang 4 training camp in nanning have been arrested over the death, his father deng fei told the global times.
the camp had promised to put deng senshan, 15, under 24-hour 5.
china is increasingly taking action against what it sees as a pandemic of web addiction.
some estimates suggest up to 10% of the country's 100 million teenage web users could be 6, and a growing number of rehabilitation(复原) services exist.
however, there is little 7(一致,合意) on how to treat the addiction. in july, china's 8 of health formally banned the use of electroshock therapy as a treatment option.
according to the china daily newspaper, an agreement the teenagers' parents signed with the camp said: "the centre can take necessary approaches including punishment to educate the teenager, as long as the approaches will not abuse the child or 9(损害) his health."
camp staff are 3 to have put the teenager in 10 11(单独监禁) on saturday and then beaten him that evening.