What kind of pain has she endured to make a woman feel that prison will make her feel more at ease than at home?
The woman in the photo wearing a prison uniform with a broken eye is called An Ruihua. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing her husband more than 20 times at the age of 43.
When the reporter asked her if she had any regrets, she just calmly said that "prison makes her feel at ease", where she does not have to be beaten and her eyes can be well treated.
She said her eyes were stabbed in the eye by her husband with a wine bottle. The man had not yet allowed her to go for treatment. Although An Ruihua was in pain, she still endured it, because she had been beaten by her husband like this for "twenty years".
Once her husband was drunk and punched and kicked her, she touched her eyes that were about to go blind, and suddenly she had the idea of resisting, and she didn't know where the strength came from, she pushed people away, took a knife from the kitchen and slashed at the drunk man, and vented the grievances she had suffered over the years. By the time she came to her senses, her husband had already lost his breath.
After being arrested, she never defended herself, she was silent. But the people in the same village were wronged for her, and more than 700 people in the village wrote a joint letter together, pleading for her, hoping that her punishment would be lighter.
Even her mother-in-law said that she didn't blame her, and said that her son not only beat his wife but also everyone in the family, including her mother, who was also beaten by him more than once, so she felt that her son deserved to be stabbed to death by his daughter-in-law.
When An Ruihua's daughter was asked how her father usually beat her mother, she only said four words: "Extremely cruel"!
What An Ruihua said the most was "she is not a bad person, she is really not a bad person".
Obviously she didn't do anything wrong, but she committed a crime because she resisted the man who beat him. It is not said that she is right to kill, but if she does not resist, she will be beaten all the time, and even her husband will be beaten to death.
Two female lawyers defended a wife who had killed her husband by saying:
It wasn't until this moment that I really understood that in the movie "Article 20", it would be so difficult to determine legitimate defense!
An Rui has spent more than 20 years suffering from her husband's violence, and the only time she resisted was to protect herself from harm, but the price was indeed the loss of freedom?