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By Wang Xiang |
May 26, 2010, Wednesday
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A 65-YEAR-OLD father whose son died during police interrogation was still appealing against a court sentence that exempted two cops from penalties after convicting them of torturing his son.
Qin Chunfa, father of Qin Sanzi, who died two days after he was wrongly arrested in central China's Hunan Province for a robbery in 2007, said he could not believe the "ridiculous verdicts," Beijing-based Democracy and Law reported today.
Jianghua County People's Court found Xie Runlin and Xiao Congbo guilty of torturing Qin Sanzi in the interrogation in the first trial. But they were set free because the "two cops helped to solve several other cases during probation."
The verdict confirmed that Xie and Xiao hanged Qin Sanzi on a beam and beat him up. They also forced Qin Sanzi to maintain a horse stance for a whole night while whipping him, according to the report.
Prosecutors appealed against the sentence. The same court only slightly raised the penalty last month, giving one officer six months in jail with one-year suspension and exempting the other from penalty. If the officer does not break the law again within a year, he will not have to go to jail.
Father Qin Chunfa began taking his case by petition to Beijing in 2008, but was intercepted and sent back home as soon as he got off the train. Local officials promised him that there would be justice if he stayed put at home and waited for the second trial.
He burst into tears after hearing the second trial result and saw the two murderers walk free, the report said.
The head of local prosecutors Song Jun was quoted by the report saying "justice would come hard in this case as police were involved."
Qin Chunfa, father of Qin Sanzi, who died two days after he was wrongly arrested in central China's Hunan Province for a robbery in 2007, said he could not believe the "ridiculous verdicts," Beijing-based Democracy and Law reported today.
Jianghua County People's Court found Xie Runlin and Xiao Congbo guilty of torturing Qin Sanzi in the interrogation in the first trial. But they were set free because the "two cops helped to solve several other cases during probation."
The verdict confirmed that Xie and Xiao hanged Qin Sanzi on a beam and beat him up. They also forced Qin Sanzi to maintain a horse stance for a whole night while whipping him, according to the report.
Prosecutors appealed against the sentence. The same court only slightly raised the penalty last month, giving one officer six months in jail with one-year suspension and exempting the other from penalty. If the officer does not break the law again within a year, he will not have to go to jail.
Father Qin Chunfa began taking his case by petition to Beijing in 2008, but was intercepted and sent back home as soon as he got off the train. Local officials promised him that there would be justice if he stayed put at home and waited for the second trial.
He burst into tears after hearing the second trial result and saw the two murderers walk free, the report said.
The head of local prosecutors Song Jun was quoted by the report saying "justice would come hard in this case as police were involved."
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