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Li Siqiang, the real life of an ordinary person with limited intelligence, was wrongfully sentenced to nine years in prison because of a systematic mistake. Nine years ago, in an inadvertent identity check, Li Siqiang's fate was completely overturned. This intellectually disabled young man from Anhui Province was designated by the Nanjing police as a fugitive from a serious crime Liu Xiwen because he was carrying an ID card that was not his own. When the police lights flashed and the handcuffs closed, Li Siqiang's life seemed to have pressed the pause button.
The trial in the Longhu District People's Court in Shantou City was intense, but all the passion was used to make mistakes. In court, ignoring the fact that Li Siqiang was mentally retarded, the judge erroneously identified him as Liu Xiwen three times in a row. Mr. Li's defense lawyer was powerless to convince the judge to revisit the flawed case.
If prison is a school, Li Siqiang has only learned suffering here. Like Andy in "The Shawshank Redemption", Li Siqiang repeats the same life day after day in prison, except that there is no hope of escape, no dawn of freedom. After being released from prison, illness and psychological trauma cost him his life, and he only stayed in the free world for a short period of two months.
The family's belief in him, Li Siqiang's brother Li Kuixing, the real-life version of Forrest Gump, desperately rushed around and shouted, firmly believing in his brother's innocence. Through social media, news reports, and legal aid, he used every bit of his power to cry out for justice for his brother. Finally, in the retrial of the Guangdong Provincial High Court, the truth of insufficient evidence was revealed, and Li Siqiang was acquitted.
This is not only an ordinary case of miscarriage of justice, but also a profound wake-up call to our judicial system -- when will the balance of the law be truly balanced? The reversal of the verdict in Li Siqiang's case shows the fairness of the law, but more Li Siqiang is still waiting for the light. What we need is not only the joy of changing the verdict, but also the improvement of the system and the return of humanity.
In this seemingly absurd story, every detail is like the plot of a movie, but this is reality, the loss of a life and the pain of a family. What we are looking forward to is not only the text of "not guilty", but also the hope that "justice" will not only arrive late, but will arrive on time every time.
Li Siqiang's story tells us that the weight of the law cannot crush the innocent, and the scale of justice must be accurate. And for those Li Siqiang who are still wandering in the dark, we can no longer let the absurdity repeat itself, and no longer let grievances become the norm.
"They know better than anyone that you were wronged, but they just don't correct it. This sentence is like a hammer, hitting the heart of every Chinese. I hope that in the future, in the pursuit of legal justice, there will be no more tragedies like Li Siqiang, and there will be no more innocent wrongs of the mentally handicapped. Let us look forward to that day together, and hope that in the life of every ordinary person, we can feel the warmth of justice and law.