China's court cases of the year

Li Tianyi

Li Tianyi, right, is the teenage son of Li Shuangjiang (middle) and Meng Ge (left), who are both well–known PLA singers.[Photo/icpress.cn]

A court in Beijing on Nov 17 upheld the earlier verdict of Li Tianyi, the teenage son of a famous Chinese military singer, giving him a 10 years imprisonment and concluding the case in the national spotlight.

Beijing Haidian District People's Court gave the first-instance verdict for the five defendants in the gang rape case, and the other four received sentences from three years with probation to 12 years in prison, on Sep 26. The No 1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing upheld the verdict in the second trial.

Li Tianyi, 17, gang raped a woman surnamed Yang, 23 in a hotel with four others after getting drunk in a bar on Feb 20, according to Beijing Haidian District People's Court.

Chinese PLA singer Meng Ge, front, wife of PLA singer Li Shuangjiang, arrives at the Beijing Haidian District People's Court for the first-instance verdict of the gang rape charge of her son Li Tianyi in Beijing, Sept 26, 2013.[Photo/icpress]

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