Topic: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment
A 20-year-old factory worker who joined a banned political party because he was unhappy with one-party rule in China was sentenced to jail for 18 months Wednesday, his mother said. A court in southern China's boomtown city of Shenzhen found Xue Mingkai guilty of subversion of state ...
A Myanmar court ordered a U.S. citizen Wednesday to serve three years in prison for entering the military-ruled country with forged documents and undeclared foreign currency. Nyi Nyi Aung, who was born in Myanmar and has campaigned for democracy in the country from abroad, faced a ...
China's highest court has issued new guidelines on the death penalty that instruct lower courts to limit its use to a small number of "extremely serious" cases. The Supreme People's Court told courts to use a policy of "justice tempered with mercy" that takes into ...
