Punishing goading in suicide leads to questions

Legal experts have called for police to be more open with information and for legislators to update China's administrative law after two onlookers were punished for applauding a teenager's suicide in Gansu province, sparking discussion over the use of administrative detention.

The woman, 19, identified only as Li, jumped to her death from the eighth floor of a department store in Qingyang on June 20. Footage of her suicide shows that some onlookers were clapping and cheering as Li fell.

Some passers-by also heckled her, shouting, "How come you haven't jumped yet?"