High-profile criminal executed after ruling from top court
2020-02-21
About two decades after being sentenced to death for multiple crimes, Sun Xiaoguo was executed by a court in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, on Feb 20 after China's top court approved his death penalty.
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Death penalty for man who killed doctor upheld
2020-02-17
The death penalty given to Sun Wenbin, who killed a doctor at a hospital in Beijing, was upheld by the Beijing High People's Court on on Feb 14.
Retrial frees man serving life for rape conviction
2020-01-14
Zhang Zhichao, who served 14 years in prison for rape, was found not guilty in a retrial by a court in Shandong province on Jan 13 due to insufficient evidence.
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Health products boss jailed for 9 years for pyramid sales scheme
2020-01-09
Shu Yuhui, chairman and founder of Tianjin-based health products manufacturer Quanjian Nature Medicine Technology Development, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Jan 8 for organizing and leading pyramid sales activities.
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Court rules AI-written article has copyright
2020-01-09
A court in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, ruled recently that a work generated by artificial intelligence qualified for copyright protection.
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Court orders confiscation of couple's assets
2020-01-06
A court in Hunan province has ordered the confiscation of the illegal assets of fugitive couple Peng Xufeng and Jia Siyu, who are on Interpol's Red Notice list.
He Jiankui gets 3 years for illegal human embryo gene-editing
2019-12-31
Chinese researcher He Jiankui was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan ($430,000) for illegally carrying out the human embryo gene-editing experiments, in which three genetically edited babies were born.
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Death sentence upheld for Shanghai man for killing students
2019-12-31
Shanghai Municipal Higher People's Court on Dec 30 upheld the death sentence for a man who stabbed and killed two school children outside a primary school in Shanghai last year.
