A female judge in the metropolis of Chongqing, southwestern China, was injured in a knife attack by a man who had recently been released from prison, the latest in a string of violent crimes against judges that highlight longstanding troubles in China’s legal system. A police officer was also injured in the Nov. 22 attack.
Chinese judges are frequent targets for assault, and many ordinary Chinese applaud those who take vengeance on judges, police, and other officials because of rampant corruption and frequent miscarriages of justice, current affairs commentator Yu Qingxin wrote in a 2016 analysis published by the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times. She says this abnormal social phenomenon is rooted in the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party.
