BEIJING: China found almost 100 percent of criminal defendants guilty last year, figures from the country’s top court showed Sunday, even as authorities pledged to reduce wrongful convictions.
A total of 1,039 accused were “declared innocent” by Chinese courts in 2015, Zhou Qiang, head of the Supreme People’s Court, said in a report to the annual session of the Communist-controlled National People’s Congress (NPC) legislature.
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