Officers sentenced

• Source: Global Times
• [01:55 November 18 2009]
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Four policemen were given sentences of 1 to 2 years for torturing a man into confessing. The man later died, according to the spokesman from Baita district People's Court in Liaoyang, Liaoning Province.

Officers Niu Dongsheng, Xu Songshan, Zhen Weimin and Song Guangzhou were sentenced November 3 with reprieves of 2 or 3 years each, the spokesman said.

The four officers were convicted of using electric batons to shock the man surnamed Zhai, who was suspected of being part of an illegal pyramid selling scheme.

The officers were interrogating Zhai in a hotel in April and they claimed he refused to cooperate, the spokesman said. The four officers had shown remorse for their crime.

Global Times/Agencies