Zhang Mo gets 6 months in drug case
- By Zhang Rui
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Chinese actor Zhang Mo, son of household TV actor and director Zhang Guoli, stands on trial at the Haidian District Court in Beijing, January 27, 2015. [Photo: weibo.com/Beijing Haidian District Court] |
However, prosecutors noted that Zhang surrendered and confessed other details to the police that helped the case. They consequently asked the court to sentence him to a shorter prison term as a reward.
The court later sentenced Zhang to six months in prison and fined him 5,000 yuan (US$800).
Because Zhang has been detained and in prison without bail since July 29, 2014 while he waited for trial, the six months of his sentence have already been served. Therefore, he will probably be released from prison on Jan. 29, 2015.
Earlier this month, Jaycee Chan, son of kung fu megastar Jackie Chan, was given a sentence of six months in jail for the crime of sheltering others taking drugs. He was also fined 2,000 yuan (US$322). Chan will be a free man sometime around Valentine's Day this year.
Zhang and Chan were not the only high-profile figures arrested for drug use in 2014. There were several more, including singer Li Daimo, director Zhang Yuan, actors Gao Hu and Roy Cheung, screenwriter Ning Caishen, TV hostess Wang Jing and popular Chinese singer Yin Xiangjie.
China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television even released a circular on Sept. 29 asking TV stations and film companies at all levels to urgently ban actors, directors and screen writers who have records of criminal misdeeds, including drug-related and prostitution-related offenses.
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