Twenty-seven Chinese officials have been penalised for the wrongful execution of a teenager, state news agency Xinhua said.<\/p>\n
Huugjilt was 18 when he was convicted of the rape and murder of a woman in a factory’s public toilet in 1996.<\/p>\n
A serial rapist confessed to the crime in 2005 and Huugjilt was formally exonerated in 2014.<\/p>\n
Acquittals are extremely rare in China and it is even rarer for convictions to be overturned.<\/p>\n
Twenty-six officials were given “administrative penalties, including admonitions and record of demerit”, Xinhua said citing an official statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Feng Zhiming, the other penalised official, was suspected of other crimes related to his job and was being investigated, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The murder happened during an anti-crime drive and detectives in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region admitted being under pressure to secure a conviction. The use of force to get confessions is thought to be widespread in the country.<\/p>\n
Huugjilt’s parents were given 30,000 yuan ($4850; \u00a33080) as an expression of the court’s sympathy, when the conviction was overturned.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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