Courts' duty to fairly interpret the law

ZHAO CHUNHUA, a woman in North China's Tianjin municipality, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the local people's court because she ran a stall where people could pay to shoot balloons with toy guns. In another case, Wang Lijun, a farmer from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, was found guilty of illegal trading, because he purchased corn from local farmers and resold them to companies. Beijing News comments:

In both cases, the defendants are ordinary residents who live at the bottom of the society, and all they want to do is make some money. According to reports, they even do not know that their businesses are considered illegal, let alone deliberately committing a crime.

It is fair to say they pose little danger to society.