Kin of wrongly executed Chinese man demands state compensation

The family of a Chinese man who was executed after being wrongly convicted of murder and rape today submitted an application to a court demanding over USD 2 million in state compensation and public apology.
Nie Shubin was 21 when he was executed after being found guilty in 1995 of the rape and murder of a woman on the outskirts of Hebei provincial capital, Shijiazhuang. The application was handed in to the Higher People's Court of Hebei Province in north China, Xinhua news agency reported.
Earlier this month, the Supreme People's Court, China's top court, acquitted Nie, ruling that the previous conviction was based on insufficient evidence and unclear facts.

The family is asking for compensation of 13.91 million yuan (more than USD 2 million) including 12 million yuan for "mental anguish," over 1.26 million yuan for Nie's death and funeral expenses, as well as 600,000 yuan that the family spent on their efforts to overturn the verdict.
The family also requested that those who made the initial wrong conviction send a letter publicly apologising for wrongly executing Nie.
Nie's case reemerged in 2005 when another man, Wang Shujin, confessed to the crimes Nie was convicted of. Wang, 49, was given a death sentence in unconnected rape and murder cases.

In December 2014, the Supreme People's Court assigned the higher court of Shandong Province to review the case, which found there were too many questions about the previous trial to uphold the conviction.
The Supreme People's Court decided to retry the case in June 2016.