Court retries rape case of petitioner's daughter

A higher court in central China's Hunan Province on Friday retried the rape case of the daughter of Tang Hui, a social campaigner.

Qin Xing, one of the defendants, who was found guilty of forcing others into and organizing prostitution, had his case retried at Hunan provincial higher court.

After an eight-hour trial, the judge announced the verdict will be released at a later date.

The victim's mother, Tang, was put into China's now defunct reeducation through labor program for petitioning for harsher punishments for Qin and Zhou Junhui, another defendant.

They were guilty of forcing Tang's daughter, who is surnamed Zhang and was 10 years old in 2006, into prostitution with violence and threats of violence.

Zhou and Qin were sentenced to death on June 5, 2012 by the provincial higher court. But a collegiate bench of the Supreme People's Court annulled the death penalty for the two in June this year.

Details of Zhou's case are unavailable.