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Song said she always knew that Zhang was no murderer and should be freed. So his acquittal last Tuesday from the highest court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi did not come as a surprise. Instead, it was more mission accomplished and time to move on after almost three very long decades. In October 1993, in a village in Jinxian county, the bodies of two boys, aged six and four, were found in a reservoir. The police determined that they had been “murdered”. Zhang, a carpenter from the same village, was taken away by the police.

2020 August 10, Guo Rui, “Family of Chinese man cleared of murder exhausted by media glare and accusations”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020, China/People & Culture