Procuratorates nationwide lodged 19,783 criminal protests to courts from 2013 to 2015, up by 16.6 percent over the 2010-2012 period, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) announced on Thursday.
In 13,537 protests that have been concluded by courts, suggestions from procuratorates have been adopted in over 10,700 cases, rising 13.89 percent from the number in 2010-2012, the SPP said.
After protests were filed, the original sentences of 10,502 people in 7,130 cases were changed, up 34.38 percent over the previous period, according to the SPP.
SPP statistics showed there were 3,000 protests filed against job-related criminal cases over the past three years, an increase of nearly 20 percent compared with the period from 2010 to 2012.
According to the SPP, over 87 percent of all protests were lodged under second instance procedures, while the others were filed under procedures for trial supervision.
Protests filed against cases investigated by public and state security agencies accounted for nearly 85 percent of the total, and protests filed against cases investigated by procuratorates accounted for 15 percent, said the SPP.
Procuratorates, according to China's Criminal Procedure Law, shall file protests with courts at the next higher level if they determine there has been an error in sentences or rulings of courts at the same level.
