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5 cops sent to jail for torture crime
By Li Qian |
August 24, 2012, Friday
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FIVE police officers in a rural county in central Henan Province were sentenced to one to two years behind bars for torturing a farmer into admitting a murder and causing him to spend 11 years in jail.
Zhao Zuohai, an innocent farmer in Zhecheng County, was acquitted by the court last May after the man he was believed to have killed turned up alive.
Prosecutors said Zhao was tortured for 33 days during which he was beaten up with a club and threatened with a pistol put in his mouth. The officers would not let him sleep and set off firecrackers on his head.
After his release from prison, the six officers who all got promotions for cracking the murder case in 1999 were investigated and indicted.
The Longting District People's Court in Kaifeng City sentenced Wang Songlin and Guo Shouhai to two years in prison and gave jail terms of 12 to 18 months to Ding Zhongqiu, Luo Mingzhu, and Zhou Minghan.
Si Chongxing, former police squad deputy chief in Zhecheng County was acquitted at the court.
All the convicts have appealed to the court ruling and a second trial will be held at the Kaifeng Intermediate People's Court.
Zhao Zuohai, an innocent farmer in Zhecheng County, was acquitted by the court last May after the man he was believed to have killed turned up alive.
Prosecutors said Zhao was tortured for 33 days during which he was beaten up with a club and threatened with a pistol put in his mouth. The officers would not let him sleep and set off firecrackers on his head.
After his release from prison, the six officers who all got promotions for cracking the murder case in 1999 were investigated and indicted.
The Longting District People's Court in Kaifeng City sentenced Wang Songlin and Guo Shouhai to two years in prison and gave jail terms of 12 to 18 months to Ding Zhongqiu, Luo Mingzhu, and Zhou Minghan.
Si Chongxing, former police squad deputy chief in Zhecheng County was acquitted at the court.
All the convicts have appealed to the court ruling and a second trial will be held at the Kaifeng Intermediate People's Court.
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