(Selected from the translated work titled The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, authored by Robert Zhang and Steve Li, criminal defense lawyers registered in Shanghai, China.)
Article 88 [Extension of Statute of Limitations] Where an offender evades investigation or trial after their case has been filed by a people's procuratorate, police authority, or national security authority for investigation or accepted by a people's court for trial, the statute of limitations for prosecution shall not apply to the case.
Where a victim has requested to file a criminal case within the statute of limitations, but the people's court, people's procuratorate, or police authority should have but refused to file a case, the statute of limitations for prosecution shall not apply to the case.
