Zhou Ze, a lawyer, has been complained by the Hefei Public Security Bureau for criticizing the authorities and officials handling the case of Lv Xian San for illegally handling the case and extorting confessions through torture. Beijing Chaoyang District Judicial Bureau intends to suspend Zhou Ze’s business for one year, and Zhou Ze has applied for a hearing.
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The first thing you need to do is to do justice to Zhou Ze’s lawyer, and also to the people who are defending justice. At the beginning of the year, there was Li Wenliang, and at the end of the year, there was Zhou Ze, they are sending a warning to the society with their own power, they should not be “admonished”!
At the end of 2020, the biggest public case I accepted was the case of my colleague Zhou Ze, who was suspended from practicing law for one year for exposing the illegal confessions extracted by torture by the relevant officers of the Hefei Public Security Bureau, which is the essence of the case and the reason why I call it a public case.
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Lawyers in the process of practice, why do you want to publicly expose the torture to extract confessions? The reason is that, on the one hand, torture to extract confessions is very harmful, endangering the safety of everyone in society, you can not see almost all the major wrongful cases, the culprit is torture to extract confessions. Judicial practice shows that torture to extract confessions has led to too many social disasters to not be highly alert. The central government has also strictly prohibited the use of torture to extract confessions, and China has joined the international conventions against torture, which is not to be ignored. On the other hand, the prosecution of forced confessions is often met with resistance from the case units and case workers, as evidenced by the resistance of the Hefei Public Security Bureau and case workers to this issue and the launch of a complaint against lawyer Zhou Ze, who exposed the forced confessions. Therefore, the step-by-step report and complaint are almost useless, and the reply from the Hefei police after Lv Xian San’s family’s complaint: “The problems reflected are not true”. criminal responsibility. Therefore, the public report, reflecting the problem of forced confessions under torture, to attract high-level attention to promote the problem, there is a need, justified.
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Hefei police reply after Lv Xiansan’s family’s complaint: “None of the problems reflected are true”
The problem of forced confessions under torture is not an ordinary illegal case, it is devastating to the dignity and authority of the judiciary, such a problem has a certain public nature and deserves the attention and scrutiny of society as a whole. Zhou Ze lawyer in February this year after the disclosure of the Hefei public security personnel torture video, I was very shocked at the time, as a lawyer who has handled a number of wrongful cases, it can be said that I have seen in recent years the most serious, bad torture to extract confessions, the day before yesterday watched a more complete torture video, I am more difficult to understand, so obvious, serious torture to extract confessions, how to ” The next step will be to take the lawyer’s advice. In the next step, we will continue to report and sue the above-mentioned issue of forced confessions by torture in the name of our lawyers, and suggest that the judicial administrative organs use the results of the issue of forced confessions by torture as the basis for punishing or not punishing Zhou Ze’s lawyers. If the issue of extortion of confession by torture is confirmed, the public report of Zhou Ze’s lawyer is fully justified, there is no so-called “improper way to influence the handling of cases according to the law”, and we also hope that @Ministry of Public Security Criminal Investigation Bureau @Supreme People’s Procuratorate can also attach great importance to the issue of extortion of confession by torture by investigators in Anhui Lv Xian Sanzhong and urge the Anhui side to We hope that @SupremePeople’s Procuratorate will also pay high attention to the issue of forced confessions by torture by investigators in Anhui Lv Xian Sanzhong and urge Anhui to investigate and deal with it. It is the consensus of the whole society that we should fight against and punish the judicial officers for extorting confessions through torture, and it is also the focus of the central government’s “knife edge inward” judicial rectification campaign. Under this consensus, I believe that Zhou Ze’s lawyer will finally get justice in his case!
Some** lawyers commented:**
@RenXingHui:Once Zhou’s lawyer is punished, it means that such a torture is in fact given a proper name and will be greatly engaged in the future, and the lawyer must keep the secret for such a crime, and the criminal justice will become an iron barrel hanging upside down from the investigation, from procedural justice, from substantive justice to constitutional constraints. In terms of criminal justice, the development of exclusion procedures, the popularization of synchronized audio and video recording, the prohibition of criminal interrogation of the power of ten years, I am afraid that will return to zero from the punishment of Zhou lawyers.
@QiuXuYu lawyer: deadly denial, backbiting, evil first, is also their professional tricks!
@YangMingCross: One injustice is worse than ten crimes. This administrative punishment must face the primary problem is: whether torture to force a confession is legal? If the lawful, the lawyer open police torture behavior should be affirmed, because it can encourage more investigators to follow suit; if illegal, the lawyer reveal torture behavior is necessary to fulfill the defense duty, otherwise it is a dereliction of duty. The country has established a system to exclude illegal evidence, which is constructed because of numerous tragic cases of injustice, and it is important to pay lip service to it.
@LiXianFeng lawyer: watched LvXianSan case “owl” interrogation video people feel shocked, this is not torture to force a confession, is called iron handcuff massage? This kind of torture, Hefei public security does not deal with the criminal police, and have the face to complain about lawyers? UN Convention Against Torture [Article 12] Each State Party shall ensure that, where there is reason to believe that an act of torture has been committed in territory under its jurisdiction, its competent authorities shall promptly conduct an impartial investigation thereof.
@LawyerZhouXiaoyang: Concerned about lawyer Zhou Ze, excellent criminal defense lawyers are very scarce and precious, and should be protected more, not punished arbitrarily. The criminal interrogation to force a confession is not punished, and the punishment to expose the criminal interrogation to force a confession, which does not make sense to where.
@JiangsuLiuLuLu lawyer: Brotherly love is like brotherly love, touching to the core. The matter of Zhou Lu should land safely.
@ChichangShengLawyer: [My teacher – Zhou Ze] Those years I was young, I knew I was a small local small lawyer ability is not enough, always looking for lectures everywhere to listen to want to enrich the barren mind. A chance to listen to Zhou Ze’s lectures in Beijing benefited me greatly, and since then I have become his student. Later on, Mr. Zhou was hindered from undertaking the Xiaohe case, so the student was involved in the case that happened in Guiyang. Later, and then the privilege to do the criminal defense work with Mr. Zhou, to learn more from him, really from the heart to admire him such a lawyer, sometimes I feel that are doing lawyers, I and he than the gap is so big it? Zhou Ze, my teacher forever.
The family of Lv Xiansan injustice case speaks out.
Zhou Ze was proposed to be suspended because of the Hefei public security suspected of torture to force a confession of video surprisingly ran inside the file, and then free agent Zhou Ze to its microblogging exposure, and then the Hefei public security to the Chaoyang District Judicial Bureau complaint Zhou Ze. So this move by the Chaoyang District Judicial Bureau makes us ask once again, what is the result of the suspected torture of confessions by the Hefei Public Security Bureau? –I started to report this in March and still have no news!
If I could turn back the clock, I would have given up hiring a lawyer, and I would have let my husband go to jail for 12 years, instead of hiring a lawyer to defend him! Since we are a family of ants, perhaps we should have resigned ourselves to our fate…
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