What is the background of Zhuang Li’s case?

In 2009, Gong Gangmo, the main suspect of a gangland organization in Chongqing, China, was prosecuted. The original defense lawyer was Zhuang Li. The local procuratorate suspected that Zhuang Li instigated criminal suspects and witnesses to forge evidence, so that the criminal suspects falsely claimed that they had been tortured by the police to extract confessions. The procuratorate subsequently prosecuted him for destroying evidence, fabricating evidence, and obstructing testimony.

This criminal case is called the Zhuang Li perjury case, often referred to as the Zhuang Li case. The case was reported by many domestic media. Its controversies regarding the rule of law, judicial independence and procedural justice, lawyers' professional ethics and personal rights, financial interests and corruption, media "press releases" and more insider controversies have gained a lot of attention in society, especially in Chinese law. caused a lot of discussion in the world.

The case was held in the first and second instance at the end of 2009 and early 2010, and Zhuang Li was sentenced to one year and six months in prison. In April 2011, Zhuang Li's case of not committing a crime was tried, but the prosecution eventually dropped the case due to doubts about the evidence. Zhuang Li was released from prison on June 6.