Monday, April 04, 2005
Reuters: Man freed after wife turns up alive
Beijing- A Chinese man was freed from prison after his wife turned up alive. She had been living with another man in another province.
She Xianglin was arrested and coerced into "confessing" to the crime. A woman's body was found in a local reservoir but had been so badly decomposed that the body could not be identified. She was takend to a remote house and interrogated for 11 days.
He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to 15 years. He was severely beaten while in jail and his legs and fingers broken.
Upon release She said he wanted compensation for his years in jail and that justice be done.
She Xianglin was arrested and coerced into "confessing" to the crime. A woman's body was found in a local reservoir but had been so badly decomposed that the body could not be identified. She was takend to a remote house and interrogated for 11 days.
He was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to 15 years. He was severely beaten while in jail and his legs and fingers broken.
Upon release She said he wanted compensation for his years in jail and that justice be done.
