China scored 99.9 percent conviction rate last year
“Of the 1.16 million people put on trial last year, Chinese courts returned a guilty verdict for all but 825 of them. You did the math right: That’s a 99.93 percent conviction rate. Though sometimes, Zhou Qiang, head of the Supreme People’s Court, admitted in a rare report delivered to the National People’s Congress this week, things did get a little out of hand. ’The rulings in some cases were not fair… which harmed the interests of the litigants and undermined the credibility of the law,’ he said.”