Media personalities Zhou Yukou and Cai Yuzhen were commuted to prison terms by the High Court for defaming Zhang Shujuan. Zhou Yukou was restricted from leaving the country for 8 months.

[Reporter Yang Xinhui/Report from Taipei] Media personalities Zhou Yukou and Cai Yuzhen accused Miss China Zhang Shujuan on a program four years ago of being the heroine of Jiang Xiaoyan's "Jinghua Bed Rolling Case". Zhang sued for aggravated defamation and was sentenced to one year and six months in the first instance. After the case was appealed, the High Court the day before yesterday (29th) commuted the sentence of Zhou Yukou to nine months and Cai Yuzhen to six months in prison. The collegial panel of the High Court ruled that the Zhou women were suspected of serious crimes, had the financial and living ability to stay overseas for a long time, and had a high possibility of fleeing overseas to avoid subsequent trials and executions of penalties. They ruled that they were restricted from leaving the country and going to sea for 8 months.

Media personality Zhou Yukou was restricted from leaving the country and overseas for 8 months. (File photo)

Zhou Yukou was involved in the crime of illegal use of personal data by non-public agencies under the Personal Data Protection Act, as well as defamation and dissemination of libel. On September 29, the High Court sentenced Zhou Yukou to nine months in prison in accordance with the provisions of consecutive offenders and imaginary competing offenders.

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The collegial bench of the High Court found that Zhou Yukou's criminal suspicion was serious. Considering that she had good financial ability and had entered and exited the country many times in the past, she had the financial and living ability to stay overseas for a long time based on her personal qualifications, intelligence, social experience and network. She had denied the crime from the beginning. She was sentenced to nine months in prison this time, which was not subject to a fine. It can be expected that the possibility of her escaping to avoid trial procedures and penalty execution was very high, so there was considerable reason to believe that she was in danger of fleeing.

The High Court considered the extent of the proceedings in this case, the circumstances of the crime and the degree of infringement of legal rights caused, and after weighing Zhou Yukou's freedom of movement and the exercise of national judicial power, it believed that it was necessary to restrict leaving the country and sea to ensure subsequent trials and execution of penalties. Therefore, in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law, it ruled that Zhou Yukou was restricted from leaving the country and sea for 8 months.

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