国内英语资讯:Xinhua selects top 10 domestic news events in 2016_时事

国内英语资讯:Xinhua selects top 10 domestic news events in 2016

Issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the guideline pledges to provide equal, comprehensive and law-based protection to all kinds of property rights.

The guideline, which also encourages the participation of the public in the process and requires to solve major problems concerning property rights and to build a long-term mechanism, is regarded as an effort to shore up social confidence and promote social justice.

9. WRONGLY EXECUTED MAN ACQUITTED 21 YEARS AFTER EXECUTION

On Dec. 2, Nie Shubin, a man convicted of raping and murdering a woman on the outskirts of Hebei provincial capital, Shijiazhuang, had his conviction overturned by the Supreme People's Court (SPC), 21 years after he was executed.

Nie was executed at the age of 21 in 1995, while in 2005 another man Wang Shujin, who was given the death sentence in unconnected rape and murder cases, admitted his guilt and said Nie was innocent.

In 2014, the SPC ordered reinvestigation on the case, and based on the investigation, the retrial in 2016 ended with the verdict that the previous conviction was based on insufficient evidence and unclear facts.

A number of wrongful convictions have been publicized and revoked in recent years, including the famous case that an 18-year-old man named Huugjilt was executed for rape and murder in 1996 but acquitted in 2014. The overturn of Nie's conviction is regarded to be of "major historical and realistic significance," and also an implementation of rule of law and a demonstration of social progress and judicial justice.