After unsuccessful appeals, flamboyant Chinese mining billionaire, Liu Han and four others, including his brother, Liu Wei were executed on Monday for tyrannical mafia-type crimes including murder.
Since taking office two years ago, President Xi Jinping has come down hard on corruption and Liu Han came under the hammer, especially after a drive-by shooting alerted the authorities to his and colleagues' activities.
On a positive note, the court allowed the five men to meet with their families according to press releases (their poor mothers!).
'The executed criminals' legal rights were fully protected,' the court said!
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ReplyDeleteI might have misinterpreted things, but if someone is about to be executed lawfully, then the person has no rights. The most fundamental human right is the right to life. Must check out if that exists in China.
DeleteTo say the executed criminal's rights were fully protected doesn't make sense. If they had rights, they'd be punished in other ways, not executed.
I hope that makes sense.
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ReplyDeleteFifty per cent of the worlds buddhists live in China. I suspect President Xi Jinping is not one of them.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I don't know much about political systems, but Buddhism would conflict big time with Communism, I think, on several fronts.
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