Is there a charge for criminal complaints?

There is no charge for criminal cases. Criminal appeal refers to the appeal against the criminal decision made by the people's procuratorate at the end of the lawsuit and the legally effective criminal judgment and ruling (including criminal incidental civil judgment and ruling) of the people's court. Those who are qualified as the subject of criminal appeal are the parties to the original case and their legal representatives and close relatives; The entrusted lawyer can also represent the complaint. If the complainant in a criminal case files a complaint within two years after the execution of the penalty, the people's court shall accept it; If the complaint has been filed for more than two years, it shall be accepted under any of the following circumstances: (1) The defendant in the original trial may be acquitted; (2) The defendant in the original trial filed a complaint with the people's court within the time limit stipulated in this article, and the people's court refused to accept it; (3) Difficult, complicated or major cases. If it does not conform to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the people's court shall not accept it.

Legal basis: Rules of Criminal Procedure of People's Procuratorate (Trial)

Article 593 If a party, his legal representative or his near relatives think that a legally effective criminal judgment or ruling of the people's court is indeed wrong and lodge a complaint with the people's procuratorate, it shall be handled by the criminal complaint procuratorial department of the people's procuratorate at the same level of the people's court that made the effective judgment or ruling according to law. If the parties concerned and their legal representatives or close relatives directly appeal to the people's procuratorate at a higher level, the people's procuratorate at a higher level may submit the appeal to the people's procuratorate at the same level of the people's court that made the effective judgment or ruling; If the case is serious, difficult or complicated, the people's procuratorate at a higher level may directly accept it. If the parties, their legal representatives and close relatives lodge a complaint against the legally effective judgment or ruling of the people's court, and the people's procuratorate decides not to protest after review, the people's procuratorate at the next higher level shall accept it. The appeal against the final judgment or ruling that the people's court has sentenced to death has not been executed shall be handled by the prison procuratorial department.