When lawyer Gongsun Xue heard that Nian Bin, a man on death row, was acquitted and released on Aug 22, she felt a huge sense of relief.
In December 2002, Zhao Zuohai was convicted of murder and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by Shangqiu Intermediate People's Court in Henan province.
China's top prosecuting authority and highest-level court have vowed to avoid wrong judgments and exclude evidence obtained through torture.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will put a detained US citizen on trial on Sept 14, state media said on Sunday, less than a week after Matthew Miller made a highly unusual televised plea for help from Washington.
Supporters of Scottish independence from Britain have taken their first opinion poll lead since the referendum campaign began, indicating a real possibility that they might win, according to a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times newspaper.
Washington said on Sunday it had carried out airstrikes against jihadists in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland, expanding its monthlong air campaign and its involvement in the conflict.
Mooncakes, hairy crabs and Chinese yellow wine; these are the things that automatically come to when one's thoughts turn to the Mid-autumn Festival dinner.
Jinjiang in Fujian province is balancing the preservation of its traditional culture and old residential buildings with urbanization.
Local authorities of Jinjiang, a city that has played a pioneering role in pushing forward human-centered urbanization, has pledged more proactive moves in urban-rural development.
It has been three years, but Li Jia still remembers the day when she looked into her daughter's eyes and saw nothing.
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