BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhuanet) -- China's procurator-general
Jia Chunwang pledged to strengthen the supervisory functions
of procuratorates and standardize law enforcement in order
to safeguard social equity and justice.
In his report on the work of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
to the ongoing Second Session of the Tenth National People's
Congress (NPC) Wednesday, the procurator-general said that
the Chinese procuratorates would strictly enforce laws and
strengthen prosecution of serious crimes that threaten state
security, social order and the socialist market order and
take an active part in the combination of measures to improve
law and order.
The top prosecutor also said that the procuratorial organs
will keep a close watch on criminal proceedings, civil case
hearings and administrative proceedings to see that the
judgment is fair, the judicial proceedings are not violated
and the right of litigation is not encroached upon and correct
the outstanding problems associated with prison term reduction,
release on probation and receiving medical treatment on
probation, areas in which the people have the most complaints.
Jia promised to do good preparations for revising the
organic law of the people's procuratorates, do a good job
of instating the people's supervisor system, prevent and
correct cases of detentionbeyond the prescribed time limit
and ensure the normal practice oflawyers in criminal proceedings.
Jia admitted that the procuratorates at all levels have
not done enough to check the problems of unfairness in the
enforcementof law and failure to implement law, thus allowing
some corruptioncases that happened at the grassroots to
go unpunished. There are also cases of police officers violating
law and discipline and there are even cases of violating
the law while enforcing the law,Jia said.
Last year, the procuratorial organs in China corrected
22,575 cases that should but were not put on file for investigation;
removed the files of 2,552 cases that should not be put
on file for investigation; disapproved 58,872 arrests that
did not conformto the law provisions; and canceled the prosecution
of 27,957 cases that were not serious enough for prosecution.
In criminal proceedings, prosecutors protested against the
ruling of 2,906 cases they deem misjudged. They also proposed
in writing to correct the judgment of 9,518 cases that they
deemed the litigation rights of the parties concerned were
violated, according to Jia.
In civil and administrative procedures, procuratorial
organs also protested against the rulings of 13,120 cases
involving the rights and interests of peasant-workers in
cities and laid-off workers and advanced proposals for re-hearing
and re-prosecution on 3,316 cases.
China has instituted the "people supervisor" system on
the trial basis to oversee procuratorial organs in their
decisions of canceling prosecution of cases and arrests.
The system has been tried in 10 provinces, autonomous regions
and municipalities. So far, 4,944 people have been recommended
to be "people's supervisors". The system has proved that
law enforcement has become more transparent.
