Wang Dan did not fulfill his sentence before leaving the country. If he wants to finish his medical parole abroad and apply to return to his country, China's legal departments will handle it in accordance with relevant regulations.
Every year there are more than 10,000 criminals who win medical parole in accordance with Chinese regulations. Therefore, there is no question whatsoever that there was a deal between China and the United States.
Medical parole has traditionally been used only sparingly across the country, despite the savings it could provide for prisons and despite the senselessness of keeping terminally ill men and women behind razor wire.
We just have to let the parole board do their job as they see fit.
I believe that, if the parole board decide it's necessary, such offenders should stay behind bars for the whole of their sentence and then be closely supervised for years after their release.
But transfer of parole care does not mean that the child will be immediately removed from the home of the great- uncle,
We are expecting them to go and visit their parole officers so that we can be informed of their presence in a community. It's outrageous.
We thought that life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was enough. We didn't want to be the judge about somebody else's life. We wanted God to be the judge.
We thought life without parole would be enough. We didn't want to be the judge of someone else's life. We wanted God to do that.
Obviously, he wasn't an outstanding prisoner. That's why he was denied parole four times, but there's certainly nothing about his conduct (in prison) to indicate torture and murder.