Chinese Wrongly Jailed for 11 Years Given $96,000

Source: ABC News

Man who spent 11 years in China jail after being tortured into false confession given $96,000

A Chinese man who spent 11 years in jail after being tortured into confessing to the murder of a man who wasn't even dead has been given $96,000 in government compensation, state media reported Thursday.

Zhao Zuohai, 57, received the money Thursday morning from judicial officials in Shangqiu City in central Henan province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Zhao was recently released from prison after the man he was convicted of killing more than a decade ago reappeared in their home village last month.

After his release, Zhao said he had been forced to confess to murder because police had beaten him up during interrogations and made him stay awake for days.

"It was better to be dead than alive," he told the Beijing News.

The incident has raised concerns about torture, which is believed to be widely used by Chinese police in criminal cases.

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I mean it got him to confess, right?

:sarcasm:

The only difference between this and Texas is that by now, Rick Perry would have signed the guy's execution
order, and his next of kin would have received a computer-generated letter of apology.