In China, forced confessions are widespread and more than 99 percent of criminal defendants are found guilty. - AFP/File / Ed Jones
Shanghai (AFP) - A man jailed in China more than two decades ago for murder was acquitted on Monday, the latest in a series of wrongful convictions overturned in the country.
Chen Man was handed a suspended death sentence for killing a man on China's southern island province Hainan in November 1994.
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