Legal experts blamed the wrongful arrest of a woman by Qinghai authority on police "carelessness" and said law enforcement across the nation must be more thorough in verifying people's identity before taking them into custody.

On Nov 24, Qinghai police wrongly identified Liu Li as a fugitive and took her away from her home province of Hunan.

She was kept in custody for almost two weeks in Qinghai before her release on Friday.