Thursday, March 11, 2010

China's Supreme People's Court Issues Annual Work Report


China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has issued its annual work report to the National People’s Congress – the legislature which is the highest governmental authority. The numbers are, well, huge.  But for an increase in transparency we’ll have to wait another year.  Death sentences, executions, numbers of prisoners, detentions, etc. that we would expect to be able to find through the Bureau of Justice Statistics and private organizations like the Death Penalty Information Center are absent, at least in the highlights.
-- The SPC dealt with 13,318 cases of various types and concluded 11,749 cases, up 26.2 percent and 52.1 percent year on year, respectively. Local courts at various levels handled 11.37 million cases of various types, up by 6.3 percent.
-- Chinese courts concluded 767,000 criminal cases and sentenced 997,000 criminals, down by 0.2 percent and 1.1 percent respectively.
- - 5.797 million civil cases, up by 7.7 percent over 2008.

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