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This isn’t a China specific thing. The story of Carlos Ghosn is a particularly worrying example out of Japan.

The difference is that your example fled while most likely being guilty and mostly just wanted to evade prosecution, in China there is no need for any actual crime

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

> Reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, including in relation to exit bans, and the risk of wrongful detentions.

He was held in solitary confinement for 108 days for a white collar non-violent first offence. Nobody should be subject to such conditions, for any offence. It is state sponsored torture. The Japanese justice system is dysfunctional, and it has prevented the case from being investigated fairly and appropriately.

No justice system that's actually fair can have a 99.8% conviction rate at trial. It's a process designed to achieve convictions and punishment, not actually discover the truth.

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