China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) has urged the establishment of state relief system for victims of crime as many of them are unable to obtain compensation from criminals.
An SPC decision on improving criminal trials requires local courts to carry out the practice of granting relief funds for victims of violent crimes or their families if they cannot get compensation from the convicted criminals.
The SPC said most of the victims or their families were unable to extract compensation because the criminals were usually from poor families and unable to afford the compensation.
The SPC said a sample survey showed few victims or their families ever received compensation in line with the corresponding verdicts.
It cited the cases of serial killer Huang Yong, who was executed in 2003 for the killings of 17 children; Ma Jiajue, who murdered four students at Yunnan University in 2004; and Yang Xinhai who slew 67 people in four provinces over four years before his arrest in 2004.
Since 2001, about two million victims annually have been denied compensation ordered by courts annually, according to figures from Policing Study, a magazine run by the Ministry of Public Security.
Statistics from Guangdong Province show 75 percent victims are unable to get compensation.
The Beijing Youth Daily has reported 10 provinces have begun to grant relief funds to needy victims' families and around 7.8 million yuan was given to 378 victims or victims' families last year.
Source: Xinhua
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