A decades-old murder case in China’s far northeast has been reopened as the defendant professes his innocence and says previous confessions, which had been used as evidence, were tortured out of him.
The case, involving the 1995 rape and murder of a 20-year-old woman in Jiyong county, Jilin province, has already been the subject of three trials, and been put under judicial review twice.
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