Li Jun, sentenced to death for killing a neighbouring...

Li Jun, sentenced to death for killing a neighbouring businessman in the market he had worked in for several years, was allowed to meet with his wife in the meeting room of the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People's Court. To allow prisoners facing imminent execution to meet with their family members before the sentence is carried out was a new humanitarian measure introduced by the Beijing judicial system. Judge Zheng Weiyang said the fact that prisoners facing death sentences were allowed to meet with family members showed that the human rights of prisoners were respected in China.