A man who was wrongly convicted of murder has asked China's top court for compensation of three million yuan (about $490,000) after he refused a local court's previous offer.
The Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced Saturday that it had accepted the application filed by Wang Yuansong, who served 10 years of a life sentence handed down in 2004 by southwest China's Guizhou provincial higher court, Xinhua reported.
Wang was released in 2014 after a judicial review overturned the decision.
The Guizhou provincial court offered Wang "compensation for losing 3,729 days of personal freedom" plus an extra solatium of 20 percent of the freedom compensation, and a public apology.
The court's compensation amounted to nearly 900,000 yuan based on Xinhua's calculation according to the State Compensation Law, far less than the three million Wang has demanded.
The SPC said it was investigating the case.
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