China jails or executes 876 serious offenders for human trafficking, sexual assault of underage
Xinhua, March 12, 2015 Adjust font size:
Chinese courts convicted 876 criminals for smuggling women and children or sexually assaulting the underage, according to the work report of the Supreme People's Court Thursday.
The sentences handed down to them ranged from five years in prison to death penalty, said the report to be delivered to the national legislature at the ongoing annual session.
There were other convicts serving imprisonment of less than five years but the report did not reveal the number. Endi