Legal Experts Criticize Fujian Police for Reopening Murder Case

(Beijing) – Legal experts have criticized a police decision to reopen a 2006 case involving a shop owner who was declared innocent of murder by a province's high court after spending six years on death row.

Police in Pingtan County, an island area in the eastern province of Fujian, confirmed on November 25 that they reopened the case after discovering new evidence against Nian. They did not say what that evidence is.