| China's procuratorial
organs enhance supervision on lawsuits (03/11/2003)
China's procuratorial organs have, in the past five years, stepped
up supervision on detection and judgment of criminal cases, on prosecution
of verdicts as well as on lawsuit proceedings of civil and administrative
cases, chief prosecutor Han Zhubin said in Beijing Tuesday.
Han, the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate,
made the remark in his
report on the work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate to the
fourth plenary meeting of the ongoing First Session of the 10th
National People's Congress ( NPC).
In the past five years, he noted, the procuratorial organs in China
have supervised and urged police to file up 36,955 cases in accordance
with law, approved the arrest of 50,863 suspects and lodged lawsuits
against 25,297 suspects, who had previously escaped from the punishment.
Han went on to say that thanks to the enhanced efforts of the procuratorial
organs, 466,357 people proven innocent avoided being arrested and
another 106,715 innocent people were freed from being sued over
the past five years.
The procuratorial organs have lodged disapproval documents concerning
a large number of wrong verdicts or set forth procuratorial proposals
for correction, he acknowledged, thus safeguarding the legitimate
rights and interests of relevant parties.
Meanwhile, the procuratorial organs across China have intensified
their fight against corruption, malpractice of justice and abuse
of power in lawsuit proceedings, and have filed trial against 24,886
staff members of judicial departments, who were suspected of committing
criminal offenses, the procurator-general said.
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