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Court will review student's jail term for selling birds
2015-12-05
A court in Henan province confirmed on Friday that it would review a verdict in which a former college student was sentenced to 10 years in prison for catching and selling endangered falcon chicks.
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Former Yunnan official sentenced for taking bribes
2015-12-03
Shen Peiping, former vice governor of Yunnan Province, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for accepting bribes worth around 16 million yuan (2.5 million U.S. dollars), a Beijing court announced Thursday a guilty verdict.
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Students sentenced to 10 years for illegally trading in birds
2015-12-03
In today's trending, students sentenced for hunting, selling protected birds and tweezers and cigarette lighters found in stomach.
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Police ordered to return illegally-seized millions -- plus interest
2015-12-03
A police force in northeast China has been ordered to pay back 20 million yuan ($3.12 million) it illegally seized from a real estate company along with 830,000 yuan the money would have accrued in interest, in a Chinese legal precedent.
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Ex-environment official charged with corruption
2015-11-28
The former deputy head of the provincial environmental watchdog in Hebei has been charged with taking bribes along with another 10 officials, amid a tide of senior officials in environment authorities being accused of corruption since 2014.
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Reforms may end 20-year legal fight
2015-11-26
After spending 20 years fighting to clear her dead son's name, Zhang Huanzhi is hopeful that a court will soon quash his conviction and grant a posthumous pardon.