Zhou Li: Attorney General should pay attention to and safeguard justice

Honored President of the Association of Chinese Prosecutors:

I am the Party Secretary of the People's Procuratorate of Pyeongchang Prefecture, and the legal adviser of Chief Prosecutor Huang Li and his wife Guo Jiang. In the name of a legal adviser, I submitted this letter to the General Assembly, entrusted by Guo Jiang, the wife of the People's Procuratorate.

The Association of Prosecutors is the spiritual home of the national prosecutors. Today, as a legal adviser, I report to the Association a fact that does not have to happen but is true to a prosecutor. I hope that this letter will enable every prosecutor who reads it to consider a question: If he can be treated like this, then who can guarantee who will be next?

Mr. Xi Jinping, you have made important instructions on the work of the People's Prosecutor's Office in Pyeongchang County in

1. After seeing the instructions, Mr. Xi Jinping, the first time to organize the school of police, said to his colleagues: "The highest prosecutor's affirmation is the greatest encouragement for our prosecutors in Pyeongchang." He was excited for several days, taking your instructions as the most valuable recognition of his career. He did not think of it anyway, the instructions were issued for less than six months, and he himself was imprisoned, imprisoned in the Wuhan City Commission Discipline Supervision Center, and sentenced to nine years in prison.

In this regard, the Chinese Association of Prosecutors, which serves as the spiritual home of the national prosecutors, is eager to pay attention to the serious misconduct and the profound lesson of the Yuli military case.

Yuan Li, male, born in March 1964, served as a party member, deputy prosecutor, deputy secretary of the party group, deputy prosecutor-general of Yuan Yuan District People's Procuratorate Party group, in August 2016, as a party secretary, prosecutor-general and senior prosecutor at the third level of the Pyongyang County People's Procuratorate Party group. On September 3, 2021, Yuan Li was investigated by the Yuan City Disciplinary Commission on suspicion of bribery and bribery crime. On January 9, 2024, the Yuan Li People's Court of Ningbo Province sentenced Yuan Li to eight years and six months in prison for bribery, sentenced to one year in prison, and sentenced to nine years in prison. On March 27, 2024, the

As a legal advisor, I reviewed all the facts of the case. I think: The Yellow Army does not constitute a criminal offence, the facts determined by the original trial are seriously inconsistent with the objective evidence in the volume, and the Yellow Army is deliberately confounded and wrongly prosecuted by others.

Comrade Huang Li has been in charge of the prosecution for 38 years, has long rooted in the grassroots prosecution line, and has held leadership positions in the People's Procuratorate of the Zhejiang District and the People's Procuratorate of the Pyongyang County, always adhering to duty, diligence and practicality, cultivating the main responsibility, and courageously assuming the role, and making positive contributions to the development of the prosecutor's cause in different positions.

From 1995 to 2016, Comrade Huang Li was in charge of anti-corruption and prosecution work during the period, he adhered to the advance of the case, the first line of performance, the struggle to overcome the difficulties, strictly fight corruption, and successfully investigated the bribes of Wu Wen Huang. the case is marked, its work method is promoted by the media, and has become an excellent example of the precise handling of cases and effective performance of the grassroots prosecution organs.

From 2016 to 2021, Comrade Huang Li served as Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of Pyeongchang Prefecture. During his tenure, he led the whole house to pursue and promote the high-quality development of various prosecutors:

He led the deployment of the national civilization unit creation work, actively targeted the advanced learning experience, formulated the three-year action plan for the creation, and successfully promoted the 6th "National civilization unit" of the People's Procuratorate of Pyongyang County.

He led the special struggle to promote black-blowing, establish normalization of negotiations, investigation and work mechanisms, strictly standardize judicial proceedings, adhere to the bottom line of the rule of law, accurately handle cases involving black-blowing, vigorously deter the evil forces, safeguard social stability, and the Prosecutor's Office of the province has been rated as an advanced collective for the special struggle against black-blowing.

He attaches great importance to the judicial protection of minors, leads the establishment of the first judicial protection center for minors in the city in several units across the county, introduces public-interest forces, normalizes the rule of law and campus activities, and builds a comprehensive and diverse judicial protection system for minors.

He focused on public interest lawsuits, actively promoted the effectiveness of prosecution and public interest lawsuits, innovated the use of new cases such as drone evidence collection, solidly carried out special tasks such as the ecological environment, the protection of state-owned assets, and successfully revitalized inefficient land, and repaired the hidden hazards of drinking water resource reserves, cumulatively saving the country for economic losses of 2.136 billion yuan.

Adhere to the development of private aviation economy, focus on the urgent problems of enterprises, lead the multi-departmental joint efforts to correct the corruption of enterprises, effectively reduce enterprise operating losses, effectively optimize the rule of law and business environment in the jurisdiction. during the prevention and control of epidemics, he took the lead, established a temporary party branch, led the whole house of police to adhere to the prevention and control of the epidemic line, and served the masses with courage, highlighting the responsibility of prosecutors.

Under his leadership, the overall level of work of the People's Procuratorate of Pyeongchang County has been significantly improved, and has won many honors such as advanced grass-roots procuratorates throughout the country, the province, and the city, and has won collective first-class achievements, many work results are bright and outstanding, and has vigorously promoted the standardization and high-quality development of grass-roots prosecutors.

However, when the honorary certificates were yet to be removed on the wall, the chief prosecutor who led the whole house to receive these honorary certificates had already stood in prison dress on the defendant’s table.

Guo Jiang, a retired staff member of the People's Procuratorate in Shui Yuan District, has devoted his youth and strength to the prosecutor's cause for many years in the prosecutor's system. She and Huang Li know the prosecutor's position, and the husband and wife are fighting for the prosecutor's cause together for dozens of years. After Huang Li was wrongly prosecuted, Huang Li, despite his old age, continued to complain, collected evidence from many parties, and made unremitting efforts to preserve justice and restore the truth of the case.

Based on the fact of a large number of cases, there are the following serious problems in the process of handling the cases involved in the Yulia Army:

(a) Key evidence of innocence has been hidden, illegal evidence has been collected

The report on the review of the prosecution case made by the Prosecutor's Office on November 15, 2009 stated that the "first offender" of the Prosecutor's Office, recommended the application of a simplified procedure for trial, and recommended punishment for two to three years. In the meantime, the Yellow Army Division of Anti-Bullying Office, three and a half months later, the Yellow Army Division of Public Prosecution Department, and the fact that the Yellow Army "consulted to deliberately injure the prosecution" is in direct contradiction with the fact that the Yellow Army "consulted to deliberately injure the prosecution", can be produced directly to prove the Yellow Army's signature process.

The record of the party division meeting of the Yuan District People's Procuratorate in the original volume of the Yuan Boo case can directly prove that before February 2010, the Yuan Li Army was responsible for the murder investigation rather than prosecution, the prosecution was administered by Chen Zhen, the deputy prosecutor general. The record was rejected because of the "archive management problem was not found", until the second trial was selectively provided part of the document. The false confession submitted by the Yuan Boo lawyer on March 8, 2010 (claims that Yuan Boo did not participate in the fight, suggested to take the preservation trial), was in direct contradiction with Yuan Zhen's confession in the imprisonment report "Seek the Yuan Army before the Spring Festival to call for the murder

The signature of the "Julian Army" on the testimony of the prosecution was verified against the non-Julian Army penalty; the penalty examination report proved that the prosecution was modified and the penalty was written by the Chief of the Department of Criminal Sciences, Gong, and not by the Julian Army penalty, and the case officers concealed the conclusion of this examination for months.

The key documents mentioned above were sufficient to overthrow all the allegations against the Zhou Army, but were deliberately concealed.

(II) Illegal evidence collection issues highlighted

During the period of detention, according to Huang Li, the officers of the case obtained oral confession through exhaustion (less than four hours of sleep per day for a long time), personal insults and physical punishment, and illegal means such as child coercion.Synchronous video of the key interrogation process was not transferred, and no proof was presented in the court.The above acts are suspected of serious violation of Article 41 of the People's Republic of China Supervision Law and the relevant provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China.

(3) Several witnesses were forced to testify false

Huang Yingming (the deputy dean of the court in the Yunnan District District) doubled confession at the court, and made clear that the testimony he had previously indicated that the Huang Li Army had greeted the person in the case, under the pressure of corporal punishment, threats of honor, and dismissing the daughter's work, the court replied to the prosecutor: "The Huang Li Army has not found me for painting the spring wave."

Yuan Chun (formerly a lawyer for the defense of Yuan Boo) confessed in court that he was forced to make 3,000 yuan bribes to the Yuan Army and requested to dispose of the false confession of Yuan Boo, which led to three attempts to commit suicide.

Wang益民 (the chairman of the court in the Yangtze District) made a clear statement to his fellow supervisors after the judgment in the first instance: the supervisory commission's investigators were partly charged with retaining 2 million bribes, and promised to make a reward in the event that the case was ordered by the person in charge.

The recorded evidence of Penli (the head of the prosecution department of the Yunnan District Prosecutor's Office) proved that the prosecutor-general of the time gave up the prosecution as a condition in exchange for his testimony unfavorable to the Yunnan army.

The testimony of the four witnesses mentioned above has significant credibility doubts: the two have clearly duplicated confessions or self-confessions, and the testimony of the two is made under major exchange of interests or personal coercion.The original judgment used such testimony as an important basis for determining the fact that the Yulia Army has committed criminal offences, the evidence base is not sufficient to obtain credibility in accordance with law.

(a) Violation of the Procedure

In the second instance, in the second instance, the people's court of the city of Yangsha (2024) sentence 234 No. 234 criminal decision not to be heard, the judgment to maintain the original judgment, and the defendant and the defendant of the case to the facts and evidence to raise major objections, belongs to the case should be tried in accordance with the law. there is a major contradiction between the testimony of several key witnesses, and some witnesses in the court confess, but the first and second instance did not inform the key witnesses to testify.

Based on the examination of the facts of all cases, I submit the following legal opinions:

First, the Huang Li Army does not constitute a criminal offence. The original trial found that the Huang Li Army "caused him to be prosecuted against those who knew that he was innocent" "intentionally embraced those who knew that he was guilty and did not cause him to be prosecuted" was seriously inconsistent with the objective evidence in the volume

• the case of Liu Xiaobo, the real responsible person in the case of Liu Xiaobo was another person, and there were objective evidence such as the party group work meeting records, the review report of the public prosecution case, the report of the authorship, and the return of the certificate.

Second, the main evidence for the original trial was obtained illegally and should be excluded in accordance with the law. The statements of the Zhou Li Army and several witnesses were made under the illegal means of evidence collection, and the absence of synchronous recording and video footage, the double confession of witnesses in court further demonstrated the existence of illegal evidence collection.

Third, the original trial procedure is seriously illegal. Unlawfully designated residence surveillance residence, second trial should be held but not held, key witnesses should appear but not appear, illegal evidence should be excluded but not excluded (first trial, second trial concealed several key evidence of innocence, prosecutor did not submit a certificate, judgment with false witness testimony, erroneous facts, erroneous conviction constitutes a crime).

Fourth, this case is in accordance with the provisions of Article 253 of the Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China *

The purpose of the Association of Prosecutors of China is to "unite prosecutors throughout the country, promote prosecutor information and academic exchange, study prosecutor theory, improve the business level of prosecutors; promote the dedication of prosecutors to cleanliness and strict law enforcement, improve the professional ethics of prosecutors; promote the nature and tasks of people's prosecutors and prosecutors in the construction of democracy and the legal system in China".

Mr. Xi Jinping, President and colleagues of the National Association of Prosecutors, Mr. Xi Jinping used to wear the same badge as you, with the same belief, and to fight for the protection of fairness and justice.

I don’t know if he can wear that badge again, but I know that if he knew that the National Prosecutor’s Association had said a word and done one thing for him, then his thirty-eight years of prosecutor’s career, all his persistence and payments, would not be blamed.

As a legal adviser to Ms. Guo Liu, I urge you to:

First, focusing on the serious issues of illegal evidence, hidden evidence, and procedural violations exposed in the Yuli military case, and providing supervisory advice to relevant departments from the perspective of safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of prosecutors and judicial fairness. Today is he, and who may be tomorrow? If we can’t face the issue of exposure in this case, then every prosecutor may be the next Yuli army.

Second, pay attention to the illegal evidence gathering of prosecutors in the case process, promote the investigation of relevant responsible persons, and maintain the professional image and credibility of the prosecutors.

Third, pay attention to the process of re-examination of the Yuli military case, promote the case to start the trial supervision procedure in accordance with the law, also the facts to the truth, also the law to the dignity, and the Yuli army to the innocence.

The Public Prosecutor’s Association is the place where prosecutors understand. Only prosecutors understand the hardship of prosecutors. Yuri and Guo have given their best years to the prosecutor’s cause, and now they have difficulty, and where I can think and speak, is this spiritual home of prosecutors. As their legal advisors, I beg you to light a light for these two old prosecutors who have been running for the prosecutor’s cause all their lives.

Huang Li had said: He just accepted the truth and did not accept blame. I believe that under the care and supervision of the Assembly, the truth will eventually be revealed, and justice will eventually come.

Legal person: East Sea

24 August 2026

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Open Letter to the Association of Chinese Prosecutors

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