China executes corrupt Hangzhou and Suzhou officials

[Rachel]

China has executed two officials from eastern cities after convicting them of corruption.
Xu Maiyong, a former vice-mayor of Hangzhou, and Jiang Renjie, who was vice-mayor of Suzhou, were put to death after their appeals were rejected.


Several high-profile officials have been executed in recent years - including Shanghai's former party boss, and a former head of the country's main nuclear firm.


Full story - BBC News Online

[DaveMoff]

China's capital punishment policy is merely part of what appears to be a horrific criminal "justice" system. We do not know what China's prison population is. Of the roughly 1200 provinces in China (correct me if I'm wrong on that figure as I am going by memory), only 200 have ever been so much as visited by any Westerner. Satellite photos and rumors strongly indicate that the interior of the country contains prisons and labor camps larger than anything the Soviet Union ever imagined.

And do you know what Chinese prisoners do in those labor camps? They manufacture products for sale in foreign markets, including the United States. Even though the sale of prison-made products is unlawful in the U.S., no one truly knows the source of any number of Chinese products.

In other words, when you but Chinese, you just might be supporting their gulag.