2009-05-15

Community Service Volunteer Receives Reduced Sentence

抗震志愿者盗窃获缓刑

Beijing News, 2009-05-12

Following the defense's assertion and prosecution's confirmation that a 22 year old man found guilty of theft was stealing in order to repay a 1,500RMB loan used to support his volunteer disaster-relief work in Sichuan after last year's earthquake, the Mentougou (Beijing) Court gave him a reduced sentence of three year's probation. Besides participating in earthquake relief, the man, identified by only by the pseudonym “Shi Feng,” had also volunteered in other “public interest activities”such as searching for a suspect wanted by the police and a missing teacher.

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