Justice counts in every case
China Daily | Updated: 2015-12-16 08:07
There is a popular assumption that the judiciary is partial to the powerful, as people have seen cases where the law was apparently bent in favor of the privileged.
So the proposal by Beijing's supreme court to commute the death sentences of Gu Kailai and Liu Zhijun to life imprisonment should have triggered rumors of "preferential treatment".
It has not.
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