Court awards $672,000 for faulty imprisonment

A man who spent 25 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of killing a woman in Northeast China received 4.6 million yuan ($672,000) in compensation on Monday.

Liu Zhonglin, a villager from Liaoyuan, Jilin province, was cleared of the crime on appeal in April. A month later, he applied for 16.6 million yuan in state compensation, including more than 7.87 million yuan for loss of personal freedom and 8 million yuan for mental anguish.

The compensation he obtained on Monday from the Liaoyuan Intermediate People's Court included 2.6 million yuan for his decadeslong wrongful detention and 1.97 million yuan for his mental anguish, according to the court's statement.