What's a life worth? Oh, about 70 000 yuan

[Dr_Zoidberg]

From the Communist Broadcasting Corp ( CBC ):

Chinese authorities have for the first time paid compensation to the family of a protester killed during Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy rallies in June 1989.

The Chinese government has largely refused to admit any wrongdoing or blame in the massacre and subsequent crackdown, which saw thousands of people rounded up across the country and thrown into jail. It’s still not known exactly how many people died.

Now a woman has been awarded 70,000 yuan ($9,700 Cdn) as “hardship assistance,” 17 years after her teenage son died in police detention, says a news website run by an activist based in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province.