according to the Supreme People's Court's "on the implementation of <; People's Republic of China * * * and the Law of Criminal Procedure > According to Article 187 of the Interpretation of Several Issues, in a case of private prosecution accepted by the people's court, if the victim is dead, incapacitated or unable to tell because of coercion or intimidation, or if the person with limited capacity and the reason of old age, illness, blindness, deafness and deafness cannot tell in person, his legal representative and close relatives can tell on his behalf. Therefore, if the criminal private prosecutor has the above circumstances, he may not appear in court to participate in the proceedings.
according to the Supreme People's Court's "on the implementation of <; Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China >: Articles 214, 215 and 176 of the Interpretation of Several Issues and Article 162 of the Criminal Procedure Law stipulate that if the whereabouts of the defendant in a criminal private prosecution case are unknown, the trial shall be suspended. Because the defendant may be declared guilty, he also has the right to defend himself in the trial, and the people's court cannot try and make a judgment without the defendant appearing in court. Therefore, the defendant in a criminal private prosecution case must appear in court for trial and cannot entrust an agent to appear in court to participate in the proceedings.