Wrongly jailed man wants more cash

BEIJING - A villager who was wrongly jailed for 11 years for murder is now asking for another 650,000 yuan ($96,000) in compensation after he received the same amount last Thursday.

Zhao Zuohai, 57, said that 650,000 yuan, which the Intermediate People's Court in Shangqiu, Henan province, awarded to him in compensation last week, was not enough to cover his loss - spending 11 years behind bars and returning home to find his wife remarried and his children adopted by other families.

Family members said Zhao agreed to the initial compensation because court officials knocked on his door at midnight and persuaded him to sign documents without clarifying certain details. The next day, Zhao regretted signing the papers, because he considered the amount "too little", they said.