China Jails Former Top Judge for Corruption

A former Supreme Court judge has been sentenced to life in prison for embezzlement and accepting bribes. AP reports:

Huang Songyou, the court’s former vice-president, is the first judicial official of his stature to be tried and convicted on such charges, part of a continuing Communist party campaign against deep-seated and high-level corruption.

Formally known as the supreme people’s court, the body is the highest judicial panel in China with wide-ranging powers including overseeing lower courts and reviewing death sentences. The court has 13 members, with its grand justice also sitting on the party’s decision-making central committee.

Huang’s entire property also was confiscated under the ruling, according to the official China News Service.