Sui and Tang · Cruel Official

Hou Sizhi 侯思止

Attested AD 689 - AD 697

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Hou Sizhi was a Cruel Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 689 to AD 697 酷吏...典大獄
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 161

Career and standing

cruel official 酷吏
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 161

Events and relationships

Fabricated charges
Legal · Participant
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 161

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 56, passage 161

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 56Volume 56 Treatises 52: Punishment and Law · 1 passage

乃引酷吏周興、來俊臣輩典大獄，與侯思止、王弘義、郭弘霸、李敬仁、康暐、衞遂忠等集告事數百人，共為羅織，構陷無辜。 She then put cruel officials such as Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen in charge of major cases. With Hou Sizhi, Wang Hongyi, Guo Hongba, Li Jingren, Kang Wei, Wei Suizhong, and others, they assembled several hundred informants to weave false charges and frame the innocent.