冤狱 (yuān yù) — miscarriage of justice; wrongful conviction
Definición
A formal, written term for a wrongful criminal case in which an innocent person is convicted and punished. More literary and legal-sounding than everyday phrasings like 冤枉的案子.
noun
miscarriage of justicewrongful conviction
Ejemplos
- 冤狱。Zhè qǐ yuān yù zuì zhōng dé dào le píng fǎn.This miscarriage of justice was eventually overturned.
- 冤狱。Lì shǐ shàng yǒu hěn duō zhù míng de yuān yù.There are many famous wrongful convictions in history.
- 冤狱。Tā yīn wèi yuān yù zuò le shí nián láo.He spent ten years in prison because of a miscarriage of justice.
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