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A Chinese court has upheld the death sentence for a woman who trafficked more than a dozen children in the 1990s, in a case that has gripped the country, state media report.

Yu Huaying was sentenced to death again on Friday, after a re-trial that considered additional evidence found that she sold 17 children, not 11 as the 2023 trial had found.

The case first came to light in 2022, when a woman whom she trafficked for 3,500 yuan ($491; £378) in 1995 reported her ordeal to police in Guiyang, in China's south-west.

Yang Niuhua, who was already in her early 30s by that time, was looking for her family and documented her search on Douyin, China's version of TikTok.

Ms Yang was eventually reunited with her relatives following a DNA test, only to be told both her parents had died a few years after she was snatched in Guizhou province.

Ms Yang's report led police to arrest Yu, who was in court during Friday's sentencing.

The court also stripped Yu of all political rights for life and ordered the confiscation of all her property.

“Yu Huaying's subjective malice is extremely deep, her criminal behavior is particularly heinous, and the consequences of her actions are severe, warranting harsh punishment. Although she confessed, this is insufficient to justify a lighter sentence,” the court said.

According to state media reports, Yu's first victim was her own son, whom she sold for 5,000 yuan when she was in her 20s.

The boy's father, Gong Xianliang, would eventually become Yu's cohort in child trafficking. Gong died after Yu was arrested.

Luo Xingzhen - whose two children were snatched by Yu in 1996 - previously revealed how she had spent two decades waiting for her children to come home to the family's shoe repair stall, the same spot where they were taken.

"The pain the traffickers have caused me is unspeakable, and the break in my family can never be repaired," she said in November last year, according to the English-language Global Times.

State media report that some parents of Yu's victims suffered from depression and the ordeal had led families to break apart.

The court said Yu built a "complete criminal chain" of child trafficking, finding children in the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan and the municipality of Chongqing in the south and selling them up north in Hebei through intermediaries, according to reports.

Yu was detained for two months in 2000 for child abduction and in 2004 was jailed for eight years for a similar offence.

Human trafficking has long been a concern in China and cases draw outrage when they are exposed, such as when a woman, who was trafficked for marriage, was

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When China's one-child policy was in force, a cultural preference for male children led to the trafficking of unwanted baby girls.

 

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By Zou Shuo | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-10-28

Forty-eight government officials in Panjin, Liaoning province, including the city's Party chief and mayor have been given Party disciplinary and administrative punishments after an explosion at a chemical company killed 13 people and injured 35 others in January last year, according to an investigation report released on Monday.

The punishments vary from educational talk to demotion and removal from the post, the report said.

The incident happened at Panjin Haoye Chemical on Jan 15, 2023, killing 13 people and injured another 35, with a direct economic loss of 87.99 million yuan ($12.34 million).

An investigation by experts and the police has determined that the incident was caused by a major safety accident in production and not by deliberate sabotage or natural disaster.

Local authorities have given a combined fine of 59.57 million yuan ($8.35 million) to three involved enterprises and 11 people. The fines have been paid in full.

Law enforcement authorities have also handed out criminal punishment to 14 people, and the cases have been concluded.

 

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Shanghai police detain Halloween party-goers​

 

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Oh... so SOMEONE took down that video..never fear! There are other sources!!

Shanghai police crack down on Halloween costumes over political satire fears​

The last video is 14 minutes...Lots of foreigners arrested

 

[Equation]

Let's see if the US MSM will show anyone dressed up as and IDF killing Palestinians for Halloween.

 

[Bellum_Romanum]

Oh... so SOMEONE took down that video..never fear! There are other sources!!

Shanghai police crack down on Halloween costumes over political satire fears​

The last video is 14 minutes...Lots of foreigners arrested

Why is the government of Shanghai banning or limiting Halloween festivities anyway? What's the big deal? Why can't they assigned an area where it's allowed and designate the areas as off limits. This type of actions create the perception or reinforce the well-established criticism against Chinese gov't overt meddling into the personal businesses of its people when the celebration or practice of a well known western costume dress up in my opinion doesn't call for the down fall of the CPC.

What's exactly the problem here other than what I heard and read that people living in the rich neighborhood don't like such event.

 

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What's exactly the problem here other than what I heard and read that people living in the rich neighborhood don't like such event.

Most people in any neighbourhood don't like that event, rich or poor. It's noisy, streets get blocked, it's a nightmare to drive to your garage or get dropped off. It's hard to walk or bike back home. Only plus side is lots of cute girls dressed up, I still wouldn't want it in my neighbourhood though.

 

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Most people in any neighbourhood don't like that event, rich or poor. It's noisy, streets get blocked, it's a nightmare to drive to your garage or get dropped off. It's hard to walk or bike back home. Only plus side is lots of cute girls dressed up, I still wouldn't want it in my neighbourhood though.

Also risk of crowd crush event, see Seoul 2022

Don't see why the Halloween organisers can't book a convention center like any anime convention

 

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Why is the government of Shanghai banning or limiting Halloween festivities anyway? What's the big deal? Why can't they assigned an area where it's allowed and designate the areas as off limits. This type of actions create the perception or reinforce the well-established criticism against Chinese gov't overt meddling into the personal businesses of its people when the celebration or practice of a well known western costume dress up in my opinion doesn't call for the down fall of the CPC.

What's exactly the problem here other than what I heard and read that people living in the rich neighborhood don't like such event.

There's a video showing that Japan's popular districts have banned Halloween celebrations completely. A lot of locals don't like it apparently. So it's not just Shanghai.

 

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Why is the government of Shanghai banning or limiting Halloween festivities anyway? What's the big deal? Why can't they assigned an area where it's allowed and designate the areas as off limits.

Concerns of overcrowding like what Seoul demonstrated.

This type of actions create the perception or reinforce the well-established criticism

"well established"? I'm sorry but what?

It's "well established criticism" by the NK government that Americans have to eat snow to survive, it's "well established criticism" by the 1930s German government that Jews use the blood of goyim to make matzo bread. I don't see these "well established criticisms" by non credible hostile state actors as deserving of any attention more than you'd give to any other deranged lunatic with a chip on their shoulder.