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Online Furor as Prosecutors Recommend ‘Leniency’ for Chinese Rail Boss

Over the past 24 hours, the most viral post on Sina Weibo, has been a revelation that prosecutors advised that Liu Zhijun be given a “lenient sentence,” despite his admitted accumulation of 374 houses and over US$100 million. The post itself, which demanded to know “how heaven could accept” leniency toward Liu, was retweeted over 120,000 times, with almost unanimous opposition to leniency in Liu’s case.

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Topics: 
Law, Society
Keywords: 
Sina Weibo, Corruption