Being put on trial in China seems to be equivalent to having all the numbers in a lottery, since he 99,9% of those processed in 2015 were found guilty, it was officially reported.
The president of the Supreme People's Court, Zhou Qiang, in his annual report to Congress, confirmed that in 2015 were convicted 1,23 millions of chinese, that is to say, he 99,92%.
In return, just 1.039 received the very rare benefit of a not guilty verdict.
The harshness of Chinese courts, in a country where the use of force and coercion to extract confessions remains widespread, It is also linked to the fact that suspects usually lack an effective defense in their trials., according to various human rights organizations.
El país debe "mejorar mecanismos efectivos para impedir condenas erróneas", Zhou said in his report, who evoked that in 2015 were corrected 1.357 failures. In February it was reported that five men accused of a homicide were found not guilty. The modification of the ruling came after those convicted by mistake passed 20 years in prison.
El Partido Comunista se ha comprometido ha "garantizar el cumplimiento de la ley de acuerdo con la idiosincrasia china". Un homenaje al aforismo latino 'Dura lex, sit the law' (The law is harsh, pero es la ley')
On the other hand, the number of convictions for crimes against security, incluyendo "el terrorismo violento", doubled last year in China, in the heat of a repressive campaign in the Muslim region of Xinjiang (west), according to an official report published this Sunday.
in 2015, Chinese courts sentenced 1.419 personas por "amenaza a la seguridad nacional" y "terrorismo violento", indicated the president of the Supreme.
one year before, China had condemned 712 people with similar positions, como "ataques terroristas violentos" o "separatismo".
In China, references to terrorism and separatism are often associated with the situation in Xinjiang, an immense western region on the edge of Central Asia, cradle of the Uyghur population, a Turkish-speaking Muslim minority reluctant to be under the tutelage of Beijing.
El espectacular aumento de condenas de un año para otro deja en evidencia "el papel activo" desempeñado por los tribunales "en la lucha antiterrorista, y antisecesionista", highlighted the president of the Supreme Court. Of those 1.419 convictions, 1.084 fueron pronunciadas por "terrorismo violento" and 335 por "amenaza a la seguridad nacional". The report does not specify which convictions are grouped in this category.
"Si uno mira la lista de delitos vinculados con la seguridad nacional, constatará que se ha condenado a algunos defensores de los derechos humanos", comments Susan Finder, specialist in the Chinese judicial system.
Under President Xi Jinping, China has notably toughened its repression against critical voices, imprisoning both lawyers and defenders of freedoms and simple bloggers and intellectuals.
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