Wang Benyu walks in his dilapidated home after spending 18 years behind bars, in Xinqiao town of Suining city, Southwest China's Sichuan province on April 6, 2014.[Photo/CFP]

Wang Benyu was wrongfully sentenced to death with reprieve for rape and murder by the High People's Court in Inner Mongolia in 1994. In 2013 he was set free, a year after the actual criminal was caught in Beijing. Wang said he was tortured into confessing to the crime of murder instead of his real crime of concealing the murder. He appealed three times during his sentence in prison. When Beijing police turned to him for evidence, he told the police that he "stopped appealing for fear of affecting commutation".

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