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In Depth: Why China’s Aid for Victims of Crime Has Fallen Short

By Huang Yuxin and Kelly Wang
2024年02月01日 20:07
Two men convicted in a decades-old fatal poisoning case of seven schoolboys were sentenced to death this month, but the victims’ families were compensated only 49,000 yuan despite demanding 7.6 million yuan
From 2018 to 2022, authorities across China paid out around 2.32 billion yuan of judicial assistance to nearly 200,000 people. That’s an average of about 11,600 yuan per person. Photo: VCG

Twenty-seven years ago, a fatal poisoning case at a martial arts school rocked East China’s Anhui province. Seven young boys died and another 123 people were injured. After decades on the run, the two suspects were caught last year and sentenced in a local court on Jan. 8.

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