Trial in China tests limits of legal system reform

BEIJING - Attorney in one case has galvanized defense lawyers in China and a window that fragile can display legal system of the country such as the next generation of leaders, went on trial Tuesday with the production of testimony to its customers.

The lawyer, Li Zhuang, a 50-year-old man from Beijing, incitement has been accused of a client on fake certificate. Mr Li was sentenced on similar charges after one of his clients before, a convicted gangster from the Western City of Chongqing, against him late last witnessed the year. Mr Li is currently 18 months in prison.

But some Chinese commentators appear to believe that Mr Li is guilty in both cases. Many think that he was framed to combat what they see as a raw campaign against corruption.

"Li Zhuang case is so important because it is on the judicial reform, is an indicator, to what extent China come", law professor Beijing University, said he Weifang, which also a sharp criticism has posted the case on his blog. "It will be 30 years China's legal reform back."

The unusual case started in the year 2007, as one of the most popular politicians of the country, Bo Xilai, free of charge from Chongqing, a large community of 30 million people in the Western China took over. The appointment was considered a challenge for Bo Lord, the son of one of the most powerful leaders of China. It was also as characters widely, the Bo Lord fishing was for a top job.

He was Minister for trade, so it was a remarkable movement because Chongqing was poor and suffered from some of the most serious environmental problems in China and a plague of organised crime.

But Mr Bo embarked on a number of spectacular actions in national spotlight to stay. Using methods reminiscent of political campaigns in the early period of Communist rule, he mobilized neighborhood cleanups and greetings to residents with old-style of Communist slogans, although via SMS messages sent. In particular, he began a wild raid against organised crime.

Caught in the campaign, Gong was Gangmo, the Familie end of 2009 that to defend him Mr Li had rented. Mr LI, a successful lawyer, previously which had defended against organised crime, travelled to Chongqing and met with Mr Gong. A few days later, said Mr Gong prosecutors that Mr Li advised him, falsely to testify that he was beaten for eight days and nights.

Within a month, Mr Li had tried and been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. This was reduced to one and a half years, because Mr Li worked. At the sentencing, but Chinese news reports said that Mr Li called angry that he was framed had.

On Tuesday, Mr Li went back to court. Prosecutors say that he was involved in fraud and that he attracted to fabricate witness evidence.

Many Chinese say they are appalled at what seems a crude use of the courts for political gain. In both studies, Chinese court case was ignored. Mr Li was not confronted his accuser, for example, in the location, and interrogated, his lawyers could not take it.

Newspapers and magazines with far in this case, for example, one of the leading magazines of the country, Caixin, devoted a cover story reported it and an editorial in the latest issue. Minute by minute coverage had several sites. Many say that if Mr Li is condemned, it will be to defend their customers impossible for other lawyers. "Li Zhuang defend defense is, the right to work as a lawyer in China and the ideal of Justice," Wei Rujiu, one of his lawyers, wrote in his blog on Tuesday.

The advertising is in contrast, the many lawyers who have been rounded up in a recent political crackdown in quiet. A statement, analysts say, is that Mr Li not political dissidents, so that it acceptable for the Chinese media on the issue to report.

But it can also signal that forces Bo Lord use efforts, are against Chongqing as a springboard back to Beijing, and possibly of the Politburo Standing Committee.

"Bo not undisputed in the party,", said Joshua Rosenzweig of the DUI Hua Foundation, a group in Hong Kong human rights monitoring. "It feeds in concern about how Bo has dealt with criminal justice in Chongqing."

Could have wider implications for China Bo Lord, he should win a seat of the Standing Committee, should be brought for law and order. Mr LI could make treatment a harbinger for the next Government view of the legal system.

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Japan sets radiation safety limits for fish

The Japanese Government has imposed a legal limit for radioactive iodine in fish. Workers at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima pumps have radioactive water in the ocean. Movement has concerns about marine life in the country, according to where a major source of protein is seafood.

Japan on Tuesday imposed a permitted for radioactive iodine in fish, as the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plants toxic water for a second day in the Pacific Ocean pumped.

The Government also said it would look, cover expanding their tests, to a greater range of radioactive iodine into a small fish caught off Ibaraki Prefecture elevated levels, discovered south of the plant.

The move came as shares in Tokyo Electric Power Co. to a new low of 362 Yen stürzte-- their lowest ever level-in the midst of concerns that the operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant huge compensation bills will be exposed to.

The embattled company has lost more than 80 percent of its value since the March 11 Quake and tsunami reactor knocked cooling systems explosions and releasing radiation on the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, triggering.

On Monday, low-level radioactive water into the sea to much-needed safe storage for water began as toxic free crucial being repairs curb its operators.

The company has said it concerns the cause of marine life in the island nation, where seafood is an important source of protein to dump 11,500 tons or more than four Olympic pools worth, the radioactive liquid.

Some radioactive runoff increase the iodine-131 to more than 4,000 times the permitted is leaked in a measure already in the Pacific Ocean.

On Tuesday chief Government spokesman Yukio Edano announced 2,000 becquerels per kilogram for radioactive iodine in seafood legal maximum, the first time, which it has imposed such a restriction on fish.

"Because it has no set limit for radioactive iodine in fish, the Government decided, temporarily take the same limit for vegetables," he said at a press conference.

The move came more than twice as high for radioactive iodine that concentration in a variety of small fish, known surprised was detected as Konago or sand Lance, Ibaraki Prefecture, South of the plant.

Fishing of the species was local, held at media reports that, but no larger ban was issued.

Radioactive iodine about legal limits in the dairy products, vegetables, mushrooms, triggering sending detected prohibitions, but officials had said, seafood was less at risk, because dilute sea currents and tides of the dangerous isotopes.

Fishermen in the area expressed outrage over the decision to dump radioactive water in the ocean, saying they had not been consulted.

"We have been reported..." You can believe? ", said Yoshihiro Niizuma Fukushima fisheries cooperative." "Was we heard, radioactive substances into the sea leaking." "Now they dumping are contaminated water on purpose."

Seoul questioned the decision, pump radioactive water in the ocean, say that made close to the two neighbors of Japan's action "a pressing issue" for South Korea.

Fishing is prohibited within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the affected plant, matching the radius of the evacuation zone in the country, where tens of thousands of residents from have been moved.

The Yomiuri Shimbun on the Tuesday reported TEPCO has decided to offer preliminary damage payments inhabitants and farmers in the vicinity of the plant before the official damage amounts later be estimated.

But the dumping of radioactive water into the sea has also post concerns the result of the fishing industry, and some analysts estimate that TEPCO was claims for damages of more than 10 trillion yen ($ 120 billion).

The company said last week it had secured a 2 trillion yen ($ 24 billion) in funding but warned that this would be not enough.

The larger economic impact of Japan's triple Calamity--the massive March 11 earthquake, huge tsunami and the nuclear crisis-probably said a survey of economists drive the country into recession in the coming months.

The disaster which has left more than 12,000 dead and missing of 15,000, has taken also exports, business confidence and consumer spending, the Nikkei said daily in the overview of the 11 large private economic institutions.

On Tuesday, would Tokyo two police, arrested for the sale of one drug use, which protect them alleged people leaking from the radiation from the plant.

The couple, a 50-year old health food retailer and his assistant, 29-year-old the unlicensed sale of medicine accused, a police spokesman said.

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