Jiangxi Court Overturns 1993 Conviction to End China’s Longest Wrongful Imprisonment

After serving nearly 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, Zhang Yuhuan was finally exonerated on Tuesday. The Jiangxi High People’s Court overturned the 52-year-old man’s conviction for murdering two children in 1993 due to “unclear facts and insufficient evidence,” according to a statement (link in Chinese) released on Tuesday, ending the longest unjust imprisonment on record in China. Zhang, formerly a village carpenter in Jinxian county of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province, returned home on Tuesday after the retrial cleared his name. The provincial high court...