{"id":57143,"date":"2010-04-08T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=57143"},"modified":"2010-04-08T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:23:19","slug":"hu-won%e2%80%99t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/04\/hu-won%e2%80%99t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Hu Won\u2019t Appeal Sentence in Rio Case, Lawyer Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Stern Hu will not appeal his guilty verdict for bribery in the Rio Tinto, but at least two of his colleagues will, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-04-08\/hu-won-t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says-update2-.html\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nStern Hu, the former Rio Tinto Group official given 10 years in prison in China for taking bribes and infringing commercial secrets, won\u2019t appeal the sentence, his lawyer Jin Chunqing said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter talking with his lawyers and family, Hu decided not to appeal,\u201d Jin said today after meeting his client. He didn\u2019t elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Hu\u2019s colleagues Liu Caikui, Ge Minqiang and Wang Yong were given prison terms of seven years, eight years and 14 years respectively, Chief Judge Liu Xin said on March 29 in the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People\u2019s Court. Liu will appeal the verdict, his lawyer Tao Wuping said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Bailin, the lawyer representing Wang Yong, said on March 29 that Wang will appeal. Zhai Jian, who represents Ge Minqiang, declined to comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeo.com.cn\/ens\/\/Politics\/2010\/04\/08\/166965.shtml\">Who Bribed Stern Hu?<\/a>&#8221; from the Economic Observer (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danwei.org\/side\/2010\/04\/04-week\/#013698\">Danwei<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Stern Hu will not appeal his guilty verdict for bribery in the Rio Tinto, but at least two of his colleagues will, Bloomberg reports: Stern Hu, the former Rio Tinto Group official given 10 years in prison in China for taking bribes and infringing commercial secrets, won\u2019t appeal the sentence, his lawyer Jin Chunqing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2,10],"tags":[1836,5713,8104],"class_list":["post-57143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-economy","category-law","tag-bribery","tag-rio-tinto","tag-stern-hu","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hu Won\u2019t Appeal Sentence in Rio Case, Lawyer Says<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/04\/hu-won\u2019t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hu Won\u2019t Appeal Sentence in Rio Case, Lawyer Says\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian Stern Hu will not appeal his guilty verdict for bribery in the Rio Tinto, but at least two of his colleagues will, Bloomberg reports: Stern Hu, the former Rio Tinto Group official given 10 years in prison in China for taking bribes and infringing commercial secrets, won\u2019t appeal the sentence, his lawyer Jin Chunqing [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/04\/hu-won\u2019t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-08T20:00:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-04-08T20:23:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/04\/hu-won%e2%80%99t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/04\/hu-won%e2%80%99t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"Hu Won\u2019t Appeal Sentence in Rio Case, Lawyer Says\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-08T20:00:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-04-08T20:23:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2010\/04\/hu-won%e2%80%99t-appeal-sentence-in-rio-case-lawyer-says\/\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"bribery\",\"Rio Tinto\",\"Stern Hu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"China &amp; 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