Tim Johnson: Chinese outraged over false convictions
From Detroit Free Press: Internet postings decry police and courts. An unusual heated public debate has arisen in China over the wrongful convictions of two men for murder, one of whom was executed....
View ArticleCrime rising in 2005 – Tian Yu and Bu Yuntong
From Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): The total number of criminal cases handled by local courts and the number of convicts sentenced last year were, respectively 684,000 and...
View ArticleChina Raises Compensation for Wrongful Imprisonment
According to a Xinhua report, the compensation rate for wrongful imprisonment will increase: China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) Friday ordered prosecutors to compensate victims of wrongful...
View ArticleChinese Court Upholds 8-year Sentence for American Citizen
The arrest of Chinese-American geologist Xue Feng on charges of violating state secrets has been a thorny issue for US-China relations ever since his arrest and imprisonment three years ago. Recently,...
View ArticleThe Last Straw for Trust in China’s Courts?
At The Atlantic, Jiabao Du explains how a rape and murder trial in Hebei shows a deep lack of faith in China’s courts following a string of high-profile wrongful convictions. Wang Shujin was sentenced...
View ArticleHalting Wrongful Convictions a “Tough Task”
South China Morning Post’s Mandy Zuo reports on comments by China’s top prosecutor Cao Jianming about avoiding wrongful convictions, which can arise from problems such as political interference and...
View ArticlePolice Reforms Aim to Boost Performance & Popularity
South China Morning Post’s Li Jing and Teddy Ng report on newly announced measures to improve police performance and public approval in the wake of corruption scandals and a string of high-profile...
View ArticleAcquitted Death Row Inmate in Fujian Awarded $186,000
A Fujian court has awarded $186,000 compensation to former death row prisoner Nian Bin for the eight years he spent in prison before his acquittal last August, Xinhua reports: The Intermediate People’s...
View ArticleLessons Learned from Death Row Inmate’s Acquittal?
In a commentary translated at Dui Hua Human Rights Journal, The Beijing News’ Zhu Changjun attacks the Fujian High Court’s efforts to put a positive spin on the acquittal of Nian Bin last August. Nian...
View ArticleJudges Promoted Despite Death Sentence Misjudgment
At People’s Daily Online, Luxiao Zou reports anger over the promotion of two judges who wrongly sentenced Hu Ge—also known as Huugjilt—to death for rape and murder in 1996. Another man’s subsequent...
View Article27 Officials Punished Over Wrongful Execution
In 1996, 18-year-old Huugjilt, known as Hu Ge in Mandarin, was found guilty by the Inner Mongolia People’s Court for the rape and murder of a woman, and executed later that year. In 2005, Zhao Zhihong...
View ArticleMan Released 21 Years After Forced Confession
South China Morning Post’s Jun Mai reports the acquittal of accused murderer Chen Man after 21 years in prison on a suspended death sentence. Chen’s is the latest in a series of wrongful convictions...
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Minitrue: 21 Rules on Coverage of the Two Sessions
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The Central Propaganda Department issued 21 rules for reporting on the...
View ArticleLawyers’ Proposals Raised & Rebutted at Two Sessions
When Finance Minister Lou Jiwei criticized China’s Labor Contract Law for protecting workers too thoroughly at this year’s Two Sessions in Beijing, Xinhua reported that “the widely held belief that the...
View ArticleSlow Progress on Wrongful Convictions
A series of high-profile overturned convictions—some posthumous—has provoked public outrage in recent years. Subsequent moves to address the problem have met with some approval, but critics warn that...
View ArticleDeath Penalty Questioned After Jia Jinglong Verdict
In 2013, as North Gaoying Village, Shijiazhuang, Hubei resident Jia Jinglong was anticipating his upcoming wedding, he learned that his family home had been marked by local authorities for demolition...
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Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒)：Delayed Justice
Cartoonist Rebel Pepper comments on the recent exoneration of Nie Shubin, who was convicted and executed 21 years ago for rape and murder: In Rebel Pepper’s drawing, three people kneel at the foot of a...
View ArticleTransparency vs Retaliation in Handling of Torture Cases
On Monday, China Law Translate highlighted a public notice from county-level public security authorities in Henan regarding the death of a suspect while in custody: On March 12, 2017,a suspect died...
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