Justice denied?

Chinese security guards escorting an elderly woman holding a petition about what she claimed was the illegal arrest of her two sons and various abuses by officials, from a busy street in Chongqing, yesterday. Nearly 100 officials have been tried, with...

Chinese security guards escorting an elderly woman holding a petition about what she claimed was the illegal arrest of her two sons and various abuses by officials, from a busy street in Chongqing, yesterday. Nearly 100 officials have been tried, with more than 3,300 detentions and hundreds of prosecutions after police in 2009 exposed the impunity enjoyed by Mafia bosses who terrorised Chongqing – and the officials who protected them.

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