Definition of "Haicheng"

In mid-March, just after the passing of the amended CPL and after nine months of detention, he was finally allowed to meet his family, as prosecutors agreed to change his detention location from a police facility to a residential one, which should have been his home, even under the current CPL guidelines. However, he was instead locked up in a flat in Beihai's Haicheng district - the location of the office of the prosecutor in charge of investigating his case.

2012 April 5, “Amendments to criminal law need greater detail”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on May 20, 2024‎