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China courts sentence drug suspects
2015-07-15
China destroyed tonnes of drugs and sentenced hundreds of people in its crackdown on narcotics ahead of International Day Against Drug Abuse which falls on June 26.
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Why this sentence must be handled with caution
2015-07-09
As a legal reporter, I've written about a number of fatal tragedies over the past five years. But the case when a young man was convicted of killing his roommate by spiking drinking water with toxic chemicals in Shanghai in 2013 was a rare incident that made me want to know more.
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Supreme court reopens insider trading case
2015-07-08
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) reopened one of the country's biggest insider trading cases on Wednessday after procurators protested lenient penalties handed out by lower courts.
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Lawyer in student poison case hands in 7 petitions
2015-06-26
The new lawyer for Lin Senhao, a former university student who was convicted of killing his roommate with poison, handed seven petitions to the nation's highest court on Thursday after the court started reviewing his death sentence.
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Zhou Yongkang sentenced to life imprisonment
2015-06-12
Zhou Yongkang was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for accepting bribes, abusing his power and deliberately disclosing State secrets, Tianjin Municipal No. 1 Intermediate People's Court ruled.
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Review of high-profile China rape and murder case prolonged
2015-06-11
The higher people's court in East China's Shandong province has decided to extend the review of a rape and murder case in which a young man was executed 20 years ago, only to have another man confess to the crime years later.
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