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...Supreme People's Court in Beijing, which recommended a retrial, as did several lower courts. In all, the case has been retried five times. Yet all four men remain in jail 13 years later. "Even for China, this is an unusual case," says law professor Xu Zhiyong, a legal adviser to the defendants' families, "because it is so clear that these men are innocent...
...Xu, the academic who is advising the prisoners' families, says that the treatment received by Zhu and his co-defendants was typical. "The same judges are not supposed to try the same case twice, but in this case they tried the case three times," he says. Xu says there were many other errors. According to documents lodged by the Chengde People's Procurate, the government alleged four men flagged down a taxi at the Chengde railway station on the night of the murder. After one asked the driver to stop so that he could relieve himself, all four attacked...
...NumbersART 9.2 million Amount paid at auction for Put Down Your Whip, a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong-the most ever for a painting by a Chinese artist $190 million Total sales of Asian contemporary art by auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's last year, up from $22 million...
...with reporting by Neel Chowdhury / Singapore, Ling Woo Liu / Hong Hong, Yuki Oda and Michiko Toyama / Tokyo, Benjamin Siegel / New Delhi, Natalie Tso / Taipei, Jennifer Veale / Seoul and Jodi Xu / Beijing
...year's controversial presidential election with just 36% of the vote, the conservative Calderon has worked his way to a 58% approval rating. That might be enough cover to delve deeper into new initiatives for Mexico's development, whether in microbanks, health care or schools. Across the street from Xu Nuu Ndavi, a $300,000 church is rising in Santa Cruz. Some residents see it as a sign of the village's resurrection. Others call it a lavish vanity. But either way, Santa Cruz has a rich new faith in the power of poor people's money...