China Executes 5 Who Infringe Children's RightsChina's Supreme People's Court announced Tuesday that local courts today executed five criminals who had seriously infringed the legal rights of children.Zhang Yong, a 29-year-old farmer in southwest China's Guizhou Province, smuggled 12 children between 1993-97, and Huang Shengzao and Huang Shenggui, two villagers in east China's Jiangxi Province, trafficked in 15 underage people between 1994-99. Bu Xiaogang, an unemployed 23-year-old man in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, abducted a five-year-old boy and demanded 500, 000 yuan in ransom from his parents in July, 1999. Later, the child died after Bu buried him alive to eliminate evidence. Du Honghong, a 28-year-old villager in Shanxi Province in north China, was sentenced to five years in prison in 1987 for rape. In 1997 and 1999, Du broke into a primary school dormitory twice and raped 10 schoolgirls. |
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