China’s judges and prosecutors must pay more attention to solving conflicts and ensuring fairness rather than just closing cases, a senior judicial official said in a rare commentary, as authorities reflect on a string of mass killings in recent weeks. Wang Chengguo, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhejiang province, wrote in … Read more
“Afterwards, we accidentally found the criminal court judge of the Haixi intermediate court and the director of the Tianjun county court were remotely giving instructions in a WeChat group,” the letter said, referring to a messaging and social media platform. According to liberal-leaning newspaper Southern Weekly, one of the lawyers involved in the trial, Liu … Read more
The debate generated so much heat that Xu’s sentence was reduced to seven years with a fine of 300,000 yuan on appeal, and authorities eventually punished officials who were previously untouched in the scandal. The case was one of several in the past decade in which Chinese members of the public used the transparency in … Read more
