Youth dies at Net addiction boot camp.

Kotaku

So in China, where Internet and gaming addiction is said to be reaching epidemic levels, Camp's where people go (or rather, are involuntarily taken to) to kick the addiction are popping up in every province, with some being more "Hard Knocks" than others.

Chen Shi, a 16 year old from Hunan province, was beaten to death at one such camp by three "Instructors" after he refused to do a running exercise. He had only been at the camp for two days when he was killed.

The school then advised his mother to lie about the cause of her son's death, telling her that about 9 out of 10 people there where not told it was a addiction kicking camp before and 1 out of 10 where "Kidnapped" into the program.

The camp has been closed pending investigation.
 

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