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The body of Huugjilt, who was executed in a controversial 1996 rape and murder case in north China's Inner Mongolia, has been reburied in a new tomb built 20 kilometers away from his original tomb on Friday morning.

In April 1996, Huugjilt, who was then 18, called the police after discovering a body at a textile factory. Two days later, however, he was arrested after undergoing a two-day interrogation, which had forced him to confess to the killing.

Huugjilt was sentenced to death and executed in June 1996.

Yet the case was reopened almost 10 years later, when in 2005, another alleged serial rapist and killer, Zhao Zhihong, confessed to the murder after he was arrested.

In December 2014, Deputy Chief of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Higher People's Court, Zhao Jianping, announced the innocence of Huugjilt, and apologized to his parents after giving a new verdict at the retrial. Huugjilt is finally cleared of guilt 18 years of his death.