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Execution Reveals Party's Grip in China: Case Highlights Flaws in Legal System

Date: December 23, 2003
Author: John Pomfret
QUOTE: ...China's highest court upheld a death sentence and then allowed the execution on Monday of an alleged gangster despite testimony from eight prison guards that the man had admitted to ordering a mob killing only after lengthy torture.

ABSTRACT: Under pressure by the Communist Party, the Supreme People's Court of China overturned the decisions of lower courts and ordered the execution of Liu Yong for allegedly ordering the killing of a local cigarette dealer. Yong confessed only under torture, and that confession (the basis for the prosecution's case!) was allowed into evidence even though confessions obtained via torture are not legally admissible.

--- Kathleen Hom

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