Experts point to crackdown on national security and legal system that encourages guilty pleas
, broadening their scope in a manner that legal experts warned could further heighten risk to foreign individuals and organisations operating in the country.working in the due diligence and consulting field with raids and arrests, and in recent years dozens of foreigners or Chinese people working for foreign organisations have been detained on national security grounds.
Dr Enshen Li, a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Queensland, said the jump in prosecutions could reflect a trend seen around the world of overcriminalisation by governments, and to a system in place since 2016 that encourages defendants to plead guilty in exchange for a lenient sentence.
“The Chinese system has always been as much about resolution as about punishment and deterrence,” said Jeremy Daum, a research scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. But the data also showed a significant jump in the number of appeals lodged against criminal judgments, which Li said referred only to appeals by prosecutors against convictions or sentences.
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