Leisure Clothing directors claim double jeopardy
Bin Han and Jia Liu were jailed for six years in 2023 but they claim they had already been tried for the same thing in 2016
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Bin Han and Jia Liu were jailed for six years in 2023 but they claim they had already been tried for the same thing in 2016
Court throws out request for interim release from prison for factory directors charged with human trafficking
Bin Han and Jia Liu had subsequently filed constitutional proceedings in March, claiming a breach of fair trial rights, arguing that because they had been jailed after their acquittal was overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal, the court had not heard evidence or witnesses, nor had it sent the acts back to the Court of Magistrates for the evidence to be heard and evaluated there.
Bin Han and Jia Liu had subsequently filed constitutional proceedings in March, claiming a breach of fair trial rights, arguing that because they had been jailed after their acquittal was overturned by the Court of Criminal Appeal, the court had not heard evidence or witnesses, nor had it sent the acts back to the Court of Magistrates for the evidence to be heard and evaluated there.
The Chinese directors of the now-shuttered Leisure Clothing textiles factory, currently in jail for human trafficking, are claiming to have suffered a breach of human rights