A farmer is battling Foxconn Technology Group, which makes parts for Apple's iPads and iPhones, over the suspicious death of his teenage son in a Shenzhen factory.
Ma Zishan, 58, says the wounds on the body of Ma Xiangqian, 18, suggest he had been beaten to death, though local police have ruled out homicide.
Xiangqian is among four young Foxconn workers who have died this year. Two other workers were severely injured in suicide attempts.
The Ma family's repeated requests to see closed-circuit television footage from the building where Xiangqian died have been denied. So have their requests to read the reports of the first two examinations of the body performed by coroners.
'I cried my eyes out as he was my only son,' said Ma, who planted evergreen trees in a village in Xuchang , Henan province. 'I regret letting my son join the wrong factory. I'll regret it for the rest of my life.'
Xiangqian, who joined the company in November, was found dead at 4.50am on January 23 in a dormitory building in a Guanlan plant, which Foxconn says is its training centre in southern China. He is survived by his parents and three sisters.
