• Subtitle website founder jailed for film piracy

    2021-11-24

    The Shanghai No 3 Intermediate People's Court sentenced Liang Yongping, the founder of a website that hosted pirated films with Chinese subtitles, to three years and six months in prison on Monday for copyright infringement and also fined him 1.5 million yuan ($235,000).

  • Woman sentenced to death for series of killings

    2021-09-13

    A woman who spent about 20 years on the run after being involved in multiple killings has been sentenced to death by a court in Jiangxi province.

  • 26-year-old matricide seeks to appeal death sentence

    2021-08-31

    Wu Xieyu, a former Peking University student who was sentenced to death for multiple offenses last week, expressed his dissatisfaction with the judgment and will appeal to a higher court, his lawyer said.

  • Court rejects claim against livestream host

    2021-08-18

    A woman who became an internet celebrity while using her cousin's livestreaming account and then transferred the account to her own name has been cleared of infringing virtual property rights by a court in Guangdong province.

  • Court rejects appeal by Canadian drug smuggler

    2021-08-12

    The high court in Northeast China's Liaoning province rejected an appeal by a Canadian drug smuggler on Tuesday and upheld his death sentence.

  • China court issues first ruling on personal bankruptcy

    2021-07-20

    China's first ruling on personal bankruptcy cases took effect on Monday, about four months after the country's first local regulation on personal bankruptcy went into effect in March.