Lawyer must apologize to killer's dad, court says
By Leeann Li |
August 1, 2012, Wednesday
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THE lawyer of a murder victim in northwest China's Shaanxi Province was sentenced yesterday to pay the killer's father 1 yuan (16 US cents) compensation for mental anguish.
Zhang Xian was ordered to pay the money and publish a letter of apology on Sina Weibo, a major Chinese microblogging site, for concessive 30 days for the anguish that Yao Qingwei suffered when Zhang smeared his family's reputation during his son's trial.
The content of the apology letter would be censored by the court and Zhang couldn't delete the letter on Weibo, the Xi'an Yanta District People's Court said.
The court ordered all of Zhang's frivolous, irresponsible and inappropriate public comments regarding the murderer, Yao Jiaxin, should be taken off the Internet within three days, China Central Television Station reported.
The 21-year-old student of the Xi'an Conservatory of Music was executed in June 2011 for stabbing to death a woman, Zhang Miao, he had hit with his car, in order to cover up the October 2010 accident.
But Zhang, a relative of the victim, fanned public anger to influence media coverage of the trial by spreading rumors that Yao's family was related to powerful high-ranking officials or rich business people, Yao said, adding that he was a retired military man and ordinary worker on an average income.
The father filed a lawsuit against Zhang in August 2011, demanding the lawyer cease his defamatory remarks and false allegations.
Zhang Xian was ordered to pay the money and publish a letter of apology on Sina Weibo, a major Chinese microblogging site, for concessive 30 days for the anguish that Yao Qingwei suffered when Zhang smeared his family's reputation during his son's trial.
The content of the apology letter would be censored by the court and Zhang couldn't delete the letter on Weibo, the Xi'an Yanta District People's Court said.
The court ordered all of Zhang's frivolous, irresponsible and inappropriate public comments regarding the murderer, Yao Jiaxin, should be taken off the Internet within three days, China Central Television Station reported.
The 21-year-old student of the Xi'an Conservatory of Music was executed in June 2011 for stabbing to death a woman, Zhang Miao, he had hit with his car, in order to cover up the October 2010 accident.
But Zhang, a relative of the victim, fanned public anger to influence media coverage of the trial by spreading rumors that Yao's family was related to powerful high-ranking officials or rich business people, Yao said, adding that he was a retired military man and ordinary worker on an average income.
The father filed a lawsuit against Zhang in August 2011, demanding the lawyer cease his defamatory remarks and false allegations.
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