Beijing News, 2009-08-10
At a meeting of the “Anti-Mafia Special Struggle Leadership Small-Group,” Supreme People's Court Vice-President Zhang Jun called for courts to “respect legal-defined procedures, and strictly keep check on facts, evidence and the application of law” while “adjudicating cases involving underworld forces.” At the same time, Zhang called for courts to “come down hard” on the leaders of organized crime and those—presumably in government—who protect them: “in deciding punishment, be strict; in implementing punishments, be strict.” Of the nearly 700 decided cases in the current anti-mafia campaign, 3,089 defendants have been sentenced to over five years imprisonment, life imprisonment or capital punishment, allowing the courts to boast of a “heavy punishment rate” of 46.55%.
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