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State to compensate man wrongly jailed for 5 years
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-09-19 11:02 A 33-year-old man from Hengyang, Hunan province, who was wrongly jailed for five years in a 2002 robbery case, was compensated with 180,000 yuan ($26,363) recently. Kuang Zengwu was sentenced to six years in jail in March 2002. But his father Kuang Daiyun kept appealing in higher courts until he proved his son's innocence. Kuan Zengwu was released from prison in September 2007. The Hengyang intermediate people's court recently ordered relevant departments to pay the victim State compensation valued at 181,979.22 yuan. (China Youth News) |
