www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
China / Cover Story

Reforms aim to stop miscarriages of justice

By Cao Yin (China Daily) Updated: 2016-01-19 07:56

Reforms aim to stop miscarriages of justice

Qian Renfeng wipes away tears on Dec 21, the day her conviction was overturned by the Yunnan Provincial High People's Court. The 30-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment 13 years ago after being wrongfully convicted of poisoning children. Photos provided to China Daily

Changes to China's judicial system are designed to eradicate physical and psychological torture, coercion and other illegal methods of obtaining information and confessions. Cao Yin reports.

For many women, their 20s are the best years of their lives, as they hold down a decent job, fall in love or help to raise a family. For Qian Renfeng, her 20s were a struggle; she spent the entire decade in prison, serving time for a crime she did not commit.

"I lost my best years in prison, but thanks to efforts of my family members and lawyer, the slate was eventually wiped clean," said Qian, who was sentenced to life imprisonment when she was 17 after being wrongfully convicted of poisoning children.

On Dec 21, her conviction was quashed by the Yunnan Provincial High People's Court, 13 years after she was jailed. The court described the case against Qian, now 30, as "flawed".

Qian's case wasn't the only one to make headlines in December. Chen Man, who was given a suspended death sentence for murder and arson, stood trial a second time at a court in Hainan province in an attempt to prove his innocence after serving 16 years in jail. Chen's case is ongoing.

Both said they had provided false confessions after being tortured during interrogation.

According to Yuan Ningning, a legal researcher at Beijing Normal University, the use of torture was commonplace during interrogations in the 1980s and '90s, one of the main reasons for the high rate of miscarriages of justice during the closing decades of the last century.

"At that time, the police had little awareness of human rights protection; they pursued a high clear-up rate, and their investigative skills were inadequate," Yuan said.

He said violent interrogation has become rarer as China moves further along the road of rule of law, and the regulations to prevent coercion and torture have been strengthened since 2012, when the country's top leadership made revision of the legal process a top priority.

Since then, a series of measures has been introduced to eradicate torture, such as stronger judicial interpretations of what constitutes admissible evidence and a stipulation that all interviews must be recorded in their entirety, he said.

In 2014 alone, the revisions resulted in 778 convictions being overturned after evidence was ruled insufficient or inaccurate, according to a work report published by the Supreme People's Court, the nation's top court.

He Jiahong, a law professor at Renmin University of China who specializes in the study of evidence and its collection, said special attention should be paid to new forms of psychological torture, and regulations should be drawn up to ban them.

Previous Page 1 2 3 Next Page

Highlights
Hot Topics
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 毛片女| 成人天堂av | 一区二区三区观看 | 亚洲欧美日韩中文字幕在线一区 | 亚洲精品国产一区二区图片欧美 | 男人天堂男人天堂 | 国产成人丝袜网站在线观看 | 久草在线中文最新视频 | 香港三级88久久经典 | 久久精品二区 | 成年人性网站 | 亚洲精品国产美女在线观看 | 欧美性色黄大片一级毛片视频 | 日韩亚洲欧美综合一区二区三区 | 国产a精品 | 欧美日韩午夜视频 | 欧美一区二区三区日韩免费播 | 韩国精品一区二区三区四区五区 | 亚洲特一级毛片 | 久久国产精品-国产精品 | 日本高清专区一区二无线 | 99精品在线看 | 久久免费观看视频 | 日本道久久 | 免费观看黄色毛片 | 色片在线播放 | 韩国欧美一级毛片 | 亚洲国产一 | 久久午夜国产片 | 美国毛片免费观看 | 成人午夜在线观看国产 | 国产一区二区久久久 | 国产精品情侣久久婷婷文字 | 成人久久18免费网 | 欧美精品a毛片免费观看 | 欧美精品综合一区二区三区 | 欧美成人交tv免费观看 | 国产欧美二区三区 | 久久久久久久国产精品 | 日本高清在线精品一区二区三区 | 成人小视频在线观看免费 |