2009-04-15

Local Legal Aid Office Helps Over 1,000 Inmates Since 2001

佛山律师9年内为上千服刑人员提供法律援助

Xinhua News, 2009-04-14

Beginning in 2001, the Fushan (Guangzhou Province) Legal Aid Office has sent local lawyers to the municipal jail every month to offer free legal aid to inmates. As the first legal aid center in China to help convicted prisoners, the office has consulted with 1,273 inmates and helped them resolve legal problems involving wages and overtime pay in arrears, property mortgages, the distribution of farm land.

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