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Subtitle website founder jailed for film piracy
2021-11-24
The Shanghai No 3 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liang Yongping, the founder of a website that hosted pirated films with Chinese subtitles, to three years and six months in prison on Monday for copyright infringement and also fined him 1.5 million yuan ($235,000).
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Woman sentenced to death for series of killings
2021-09-13
A woman who spent about 20 years on the run after being involved in multiple killings has been sentenced to death by a court in Jiangxi province.
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26-year-old matricide seeks to appeal death sentence
2021-08-31
Wu Xieyu, a former Peking University student who was sentenced to death for multiple offenses last week, expressed his dissatisfaction with the judgment and will appeal to a higher court, his lawyer said.
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Court rejects claim against livestream host
2021-08-18
A woman who became an internet celebrity while using her cousin's livestreaming account and then transferred the account to her own name has been cleared of infringing virtual property rights by a court in Guangdong province.
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Court rejects appeal by Canadian drug smuggler
2021-08-12
The high court in Northeast China's Liaoning province rejected an appeal by a Canadian drug smuggler on Tuesday and upheld his death sentence.
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China court issues first ruling on personal bankruptcy
2021-07-20
China's first ruling on personal bankruptcy cases took effect on Monday, about four months after the country's first local regulation on personal bankruptcy went into effect in March.
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Environment cases benefit from IT use
2021-05-31
Judicial participants at an international meeting have called for increased use of information technology in handling environment related cases to promote ecological and environmental governance.
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Wrongfully jailed man gets more compensation for his mental anguish
2021-04-30
China's top court on Tuesday granted 520,000 yuan ($80,200) more in compensation for mental anguish to a man who was wrongfully jailed for more than 15 years.
