Court owes victim of miscarriage of justice an apology

Editors note: Last year, Liu Zhonglin, from Northeast China's Jilin province, had his conviction for murder overturned. On Jan 7, he received 4.6 million yuan ($680,202) in compensation from the government. Beijing News comments:

Liu was set free in 2016. Before that, he had already been imprisoned for 9,217 days, or over 20 years.

It is not hard to imagine how much Liu suffered. According to reports, he had tirelessly been filing complaints about being wrongfully convicted both in prison and after being set free, and his relatives also worked hard to have his innocence recognized by the court for more than 10 years.