Su Huiyu

Su Huiyu (; 17 September 1934 – 19 June 2019) was a Chinese legal scholar and a distinguished professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law. A specialist in criminal law, he was named a "National Distinguished Legal Scholar", the highest honour of the China Law Society.

Biography Su was born on 17 September 1934 in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Republic of China. After graduating from the Department of Law of Peking University in 1959, he was hired as a faculty member by the university. From 1963, he worked as a legal researcher at the Jiangsu Superior People's Court. In April 1965, he became a faculty member of the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai. In 1996, he participated in the revision of China's criminal code. He was in poor health at the time, and the award was presented to him at Ruijin Hospital where he was hospitalized. He died less than a month later, on 19 June 2019, at the age of 84. During the trial, Su and Zhang did not deny the charge that Li was "one of the principal culprits of the Lin Biao counter-revolutionary clique", and Li admitted that he framed marshals Ye Jianying and He Long, and general Luo Ruiqing, who were all persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. However, Su and Zhang argued that Li was merely following Lin Biao's orders and that he later took the initiative to reveal his own crimes. In the end, Li was sentenced to 17 years in prison.