Cases of violence against judges

• Jiangsu:

Zhou Long, a judge in Shuyang county, was run down by a car and stabbed multiple times by Hu Xiaogan as he walked to work on Feb 17, last year. Zhou survived after being taken to a hospital. Hu said he attacked Zhou because he was dissatisfied with a ruling by the judge. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Nov 30 at Xuzhou Intermediate People’s Court for attempted homicide.

• Guangxi:

Fu Mingsheng, a retired judge in Luchuan county, was stabbed to death in his home on Jan 26, last year, by Long Jiancai, the defendant in a divorce case handled by Fu in 1994. Long was sentenced to death for homicide on Aug 25 at Yulin Intermediate People’s Court.

• Beijing:

Ma Caiyun, a judge in the capital’s Changping district, was shot in the stomach and face at home by two attackers on Jan 26, 2016. An investigation found one of the killers had been upset by the division of property in his divorce case. The two offenders killed themselves after fleeing to Beijing’s Yanqing district.

• Liaoning:

Shahekou District People’s Court in Dalian sentenced a man to eight months in prison in July 2016 for disrupting order in a court the previous year. He had torn up written records of his case and hit a judge on Nov 18, 2015, because he was dissatisfied with the judge’s ruling in a divorce case.

• Hunan:

Zhu Jun, a security guard at a post office in Yongzhou, shot three judges dead and injured three others on June 1, 2010, because he believed the court had delayed his compensation payment in a dispute. Zhu then committed suicide.