In the process of rule of law in our country, it is inevitable that some unjust, false and wrongly decided cases will sometimes occur. Recently, there is a distressing case, that is, the case of the man Zhou Yonggang who was wrongly convicted of raping and killing his sister. Zhou Yonggang was unjustly imprisoned for 21 years, and spent his entire youth behind bars.
On December 20, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region High People's Court revoked the original ruling in the retrial of Zhou Yonggang and intentional homicide and acquitted him. "I was 18 years old at the time of the crime, I am 53 years old this year, and my whole youth has been spent in prison. ”
According to Zhou Yonggang himself, he and his wife married in 1988. In July, his wife and two cousins were raped and killed when they went to dig herbs, and Zhou Yonggang was suspected of being the first to find the body. He also discouraged relatives from coming forward and protecting the scene. But ** said to his father-in-law, "Your son-in-law's suspicion cannot be ruled out." ”
Soon after, Zhou Yonggang was sentenced to death and taken away with a suspended sentence, and was released from prison in December 2009, serving 21 years, 4 months and 4 days in prison. He said that when he was serving his sentence in prison, he used a broom branch to prick his finger to write a bloody book, and asked his cellmate to take it out and hand it over to the procuratorate, "but later the court said it was lost."
From 1991 to 1992, Zhou Yonggang and his parents asked for a new appraisal. ** Evidence of the deceased's secretions taken in court was lost due to moving. The father appealed for his son more than 100 times, judging from the ticket, and his wife always believed in him, raising his daughter alone and never abandoning him, and the father had been dead for 10 years when he was released from prison.
We are gratified to see that China's judicial organs have always adhered to a fair, fair and rigorous attitude in dealing with such cases, and have worked hard to give justice to the parties. However, the occurrence of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases still deserves our reflection. In future judicial practice, we look forward to seeing a more complete system and more professional judicial personnel to ensure that every case can be tried fairly, so that every criminal can be punished as he deserves, and every innocent person will be saved from being wronged.
Li Chunnian's experience is a call for judicial fairness and a spur to the process of rule of law in our country. Let us work together to build a more just and transparent environment for the rule of law. In this process, we must always remember that justice may be late, but it will never be absent. 202103090201 Lee.