Report: Courts aim to correct injustice

Acquittals of wrongly convicted defendants build public trust, senior judge says

In a bid to improve the protection of human rights, Chinese courts have been asked to make the hearing of cases a priority and increase efforts to avoid wrongful verdicts, an official of the top court said.

A report of judicial reforms, which was issued by the Supreme People's Court on Monday, said that 2,369 defendants had been found innocent and 23 wrongful verdicts were corrected over the past three years.