The amount of state compensation payable for infringement of citizens' personal freedom is to be upped by 20.32 yuan ($3.19) to 162.65 yuan ($25.50) for each day of wrongful imprisonment or detention, said the Supreme People's Court (SPC) on May 29.

The sum is equal to the average daily income of Chinese urbanites in 2011, according to a SPC statement.

The SPC made the adjustment based on figures released the same day by the National Bureau of Statistics.

The State Compensation Law stipulates, "If freedom of a citizen is infringed, compensatory payment for each day shall be assessed in accordance with the state average daily pay of staff and workers in the previous year."