Recently, the “Zhang Yunlong Rape Criminal Ruling of Second Instance” released by China’s Judicial Documents website has caused quiet discussions among netizens on the mainland, which was originally a way for the Chinese Communist Party to show off the achievements of the rule of law, but accidentally overturned, once again bringing the darkness of the Chinese Communist Party’s police and judicial system to the public.
The case started when Hefei police officer Zhang Yunlong repeatedly imprisoned the female victim indoors on the pretext of investigating a case. During this period, the former police officer Zhang Yunlong cried out for injustice and asked the court to find him not guilty, firmly denying his illegal facts. It is worth mentioning that the local media in Hefei once described Zhang Yunlong as a “good police officer of the people” who is dedicated to his duties.
The famous mainland media person six gods Leilei with Jin Yong’s novel to give an example, we all know that Tian Bo Guang is in the “laughing pride of the jianghu” is a big evil person, on behalf of justice will be brought to justice, but if Linghu Chong take the opportunity to catch Tian Bo Guang misconduct only to be punished with three glasses of wine, then the balance of the jianghu under Jin Yong’s pen will be broken, who can still believe in the morality of the jianghu. The six gods have not dared to say that the fairness and justice of the society under the Chinese Communist Party have been smashed to pieces, and Zhang Yunlong is not the only rat.
In an interview with Look at China, a domestic human rights lawyer said that Zhang Yunlong’s crime was very bad and serious in many ways, and that he had committed rape several times. During the trial, he did not show remorse, and he did not really bother to admit his guilt. The result was that both trial verdicts resulted in a sentence of 4 years and 6 months. In fact, Zhang Yunlong did not have any statutory mitigating or discretionary mitigating circumstances that could mitigate the punishment, but instead, during the plea process, he was suspected of new crimes.
This is because it is a citizen’s right to defend oneself or plead in the face of charges. Zhang Yunlong as a defendant certainly has this right, but the defense can not produce new crimes, in fact, Zhang Yunlong’s defense can be said to be suspected of false accusations. Zhang Yunlong can say that he felt influenced or tempted, but from the published information, Zhang Yunlong asked the court to find him not guilty, saying that he was lured by the victim, which is actually a new false accusation, from the case itself, Zhang Yunlong is suspected of using strong violence and intentionally destroying evidence, obviously he has a clear understanding of his criminal behavior, and in the side of the implementation of the crime, while apparently hiding evidence. Such a very sober implementation of criminal behavior, but also said that others lured him, so that he did not have any mitigating circumstances, and this continuous criminal behavior, indicating that the whole process he did not have any fear, regret behavior, including the defense process to generate new false accusations.
Chinese criminal procedure law public security organs for criminal cases, police interrogation need to be brought to a specific interrogation site for interrogation; in the process of interrogation should be two people present, not one person for interrogation, interrogation must be recorded, one person interrogation a record, two people need to be present at the same time to ensure mutual supervision. If a woman is interrogated, it is best to have a female case officer present. Zhang Yunlong said the interrogation itself is full of doubts.
Human rights lawyers say the case proves once again that China’s judicial system, including the courts, is completely unreliable. During the whole process of the case, there was an unspoken tacit agreement among the other police officers, which obviously condoned Zhang Yunlong’s criminal behavior, and the other police officers should be disciplined.
In addition, regarding Zhang Yunlong’s defense, the lawyer said that Chinese police officers have law enforcement recorders on them everywhere they go, and the recorders are to protect the legal rights of citizens, and also to protect the rights and interests of police officers, and these key pieces of evidence did not appear in court. At the same time, the most favorable evidence for Zhang Yunlong is the arrest certificate he issued to arrest people, but Zhang Yunlong’s defense attorney did not provide it, which also shows that Zhang Yunlong’s criminal behavior is a great subjective factor.
Human rights lawyers point out that Zhang Yunlong’s case involved extreme violence, and that torture to extract confessions is a common tactic used by the Chinese Communist Party police. This is especially true for dissidents, including human rights lawyers, religious believers, and those who are vulnerable and marginalized. This is often encouraged by law enforcement officials, who often use the phrase “death for nothing” against Falun Gong practitioners, for example.
The general public tends to think of police violence as the individual actions of grassroots officers, which is very wrong. For example, the top authorized, no matter how to make him account, including a variety of explicit implication or indifference, as long as the results, what way you think, which has the police on the dissidents almost crazy torture to extract confessions.
The police at the grassroots level will do anything to get things done, the whole system can provide them with protection, in the process there will be a large number of violations, such as illegal appropriation of property, through the seizure, search directly into the victim’s pocket, there is a large number of torture, residential surveillance, the actual residential surveillance is to facilitate the torture, is to bend into confession. So for those who endangered the status of the Communist Party, human rights violations became a common practice for law enforcement officers.
The “1226” case, for example, was ordered from above, and the charges had to be brought regardless of the means. So often the bigger the case, the more public attention, should be done beautifully, but in the eyes of the world, there will still be serious torture to extract confessions.
Whether it is Zhang Yunlong’s case or any of the many human rights cases, the Communist Party’s bloody violence, which is top-down, threatens every Chinese person.
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