Forty-two years ago today, on January 25, 1983 (December 12, 1982 in the lunar calendar), the Criminal Division of the Supreme People's Court commuted the sentences of Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao. Jiang Qing in the early 1930s On January 25, 1983, the Criminal Division of the Supreme People's Court reviewed and, in view of the criminals Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao's lack of resistance to reform during their imprisonment, ruled in accordance with the law that the original sentence of the criminals Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao to death was suspended for 2 years and commuted to life imprisonment; the original sentence of deprivation of political rights remained unchanged for life.