A Chinese man, who was wrongly convicted of murder, has sought from the country's top court 3 million yuan (USD 490,000) in compensation after he refused a local court's previous offer.
The Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced today 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.
Wang was released in 2014 after a judicial review overturned the decision, state-run Xinhua reported.
The Guizhou provincial court offered Wang "compensation for losing 3,729 days of personal freedom" plus an extra solatium of 20 per cent of the freedom compensation, and a public apology, it said.
The court's compensation amounted nearly 900,000 yuan based on Xinhua's calculation according to the State Compensation Law, far less than the 3 million Wang demanded.
The SPC said it was investigating the case.
