Justice ‘disgraced’ by wrong convictions
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CHINA’S judicial organs pledged to draw lessons from wrongful convictions and prevent such cases amid efforts to advance the rule of law, said a work report of the Supreme People’s Court yesterday.
“Wrongful convictions disgrace justice and the lessons are profound,” according to the report delivered by Chief Justice Zhou Qiang at a plenary meeting of the National People’s Congress annual session.
The report said 1,076 defendants were found not guilty in China last year and courts at all levels intensified supervision over trials and rectified 1,376 criminal cases after retrials.
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate also supervised problematic lawsuits, corrected mistakes, intensified supervision and rectified wrongful convictions to ensure fairness and justice in every case, according to the SPP work report delivered by Procurator-General Cao Jianming.
Procuratorates across the country will reflect on the lessons of loopholes during prosecution and improve the long-term mechanism of reporting, reviewing, supervision and compensation, the report said.
Last year witnessed the rectification of a case involving Nie Shubin, who was executed in 1995 for raping and murdering a woman in Shijiazhuang City in north China.
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