Freed Chinese prisoner uses cartoons to illustrate torture claims

A man wrongly jailed for murder has commissioned a series of cartoons to illustrate his claims that he was tortured and forced to confess to killing a village official.

"I still feel frightened whenever I recall my time in jail," he said. "My life was worse than being dead, and I kept thinking of committing suicide."

Liu was held by investigators in December 2008 after the deputy director of his village committee was shot dead, the website reported.

In August 2010, the Luliang intermediate court found Liu guilty of murder and gave him a suspended death sentence.

Liu appealed against the verdict, saying he had been tortured into confessing. The court cleared Liu in a third retrial in December 2013, ruling there was not enough evidence against him.