By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-14 10:06:29 | Updated at 2025-01-14 22:32:37
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A woman in China who endured a campaign of domestic violence during a two-year marriage which left her needing to use a colostomy bag for life has started live-streaming to help others who face a similar fate.
Xie Yumei, 30, from Sichuan province in southwestern China, also says her online work helps her peers to seek legal justice.
Xie shocked the nation in June 2023 when she shared her ordeal on social media.
She revealed that her husband, He Zhongyang, had physically assaulted her 16 times since their marriage in 2021, including attacks during her pregnancy.
The final assault in April 2023 was so severe that doctors said she could have died if she had arrived at the hospital just 20 minutes later than she did.
The last attack took place after Xie summoned the courage to file for divorce and request a protection order against her husband.
