Ex-Vice Public Security Minister Sun Lijun Gets Suspended Death Penalty

What’s new: China’s former Vice Public Security Minister Sun Lijun has been given a suspended death sentence for taking bribes worth 646 million yuan ($91 million), following the sentencing of five other former top security officials linked to his case this week.

The verdict released by a local court in Jilin province handed the 53-year-old what’s known as a death sentence with a two-year reprieve, which means that Sun will serve life in prison after two years, with no possibility of getting parole or having the sentence commuted.