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Urgent: China's chief justice expresses self-reproach for wrong convictions

Xinhua, March 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

China's Chief Justice Zhou Qiang on Thursday expressed self-reproach for wrong convictions and urged fellow judges to learn from them.

"We deeply reproach ourselves for letting wrong convictions happen. Courts of all levels should learn a serious lesson from these cases," said Zhou, when delivering the work report of the Supreme People's Court to the national legislature at the ongoing annual session. Endi