Chen Man, who was jailed for 23 years for a crime he didn't commit, making him China's longest-serving wrongfully convicted prisoner, is demanding compensation of 9.65 million yuan ($1.48 million), thepaper.cn reported.
The 53-year-old also wants a public apology from the Hainan Provincial High People's Court, it reported.
He is asking for 1.85 million yuan from the court for infringing on his personal freedom, 3 million yuan for damage to his mental health, and 100,000 yuan to cover the cost of his treatment for a severe gastric ulcer that he developed in prison.
He also wants 3.7 million yuan to compensate for the loss of his career as a construction company boss and 1 million yuan to cover the cost of challenging his conviction, it reported.
Chen was arrested in Haikou City, capital of Hainan, in 1992, after being accused of burning down a house in which Zhong Zuokuan, his former landlord, died. In 1994, he was given a suspended death penalty by Haikou Intermediate People's Court and the verdict was upheld by the provincial higher court in 1999.
Chen insisted that the police used torture to extract a false confession from him, and he lodged an appeal with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, which in turn appealed to the Supreme People's Court in February last year.
The top court ordered the Zhejiang Provincial High People's Court to review the case and he was acquitted and released on Febuary 1.
