The amount of compensation paid to wrongly detained victims of
miscarriages of justice in China has been raised by 10.36 yuan to
83.66 yuan (US$10.86) per day.
A circular issued by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP)
said the daily wage of urban workers was 83.66 yuan in 2006, and
the criminal compensation standard would be raised accordingly.
People who are illegally detained by China's procuratorates are
entitled to claim compensation.
The most well-known recipient of compensation is She Xianglin,
who was wrongly jailed for 11 years for a murder that never
happened. He and his family received more than 450,000 yuan in both
state compensation and social security allowances from a local
public security bureau in central China's Hubei Province in
2005.
(Xinhua News Agency March 28, 2007)