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Fri 10 Oct 2009Triad crackdown brings gangsters into China's courts
THE SUSPECTS line up in chains, in groups of four or five, many shaven-headed and scowling as the list of charges are read out – murder, extortion, prostitution, corruption and violent assault.
Modern-day China’s biggest and most lurid mob trials are under way in the southwestern city of Chongqing, and the whole country is fascinated and horrified as the first suspects of many hundreds arrested – gangsters, prominent businessmen and 14 high-ranking officials – shuffle into court.
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