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Former China provincial governor tried for graft
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Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2015


China vows crackdown on strippers at funerals
Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2015 - Chinese authorities on Thursday bared the details of their latest anti-vice sweep: a campaign to halt the hiring of strippers at funerals

In a statement posted on its website, China's Ministry of Culture pledged a "crackdown" on the practice, which it said has become increasingly common in rural areas.

"From time to time, 'stripteases' and other illegal performances have occurred in the countryside," the statement said, adding that authorities will "promptly investigate and punish" businesses and individuals involved in the risque shows.

China's official Xinhua news agency said such performances are typically organised in order to draw a larger crowd at last rites.

One example cited by the Ministry of Culture was a funeral in north China's Hebei province.

"Two strippers wearing revealing clothes danced on a stage at a public square in our village at night on February 15," an eyewitness surnamed Zhang told the state-run Global Times newspaper earlier this month.

"They first danced passionately and then took off their clothes piece by piece," the man said. "Behind them, an electronic screen was displaying a picture of the deceased with elegiac couplets on either side."

In another case later that month, a troupe in east China's Jiangsu province was detained for funeral performances that drew crowds of as many as 500 local residents, according to provincial news site xichu.net.

The troupe engaged in "erotic performances on the stage with sexual organs exposed and imitating sexual acts," police officer Tang Jinyang told the news site.

Such shows "disrupt the order of the rural cultural market and corrupt the social atmosphere," China's Ministry of Culture said.

The former deputy Communist chief of China's Sichuan province was tried for corruption Thursday, a court said, the latest senior figure prosecuted in President Xi Jinping's high-profile anti-corruption campaign.

Li Chuncheng, who spent the past 15 years in various government positions in the southwestern province, was accused of accepting bribes and abuse of power, the Xianning Intermediate People's Court in Hubei said on a verified account on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo.

Li used his position to benefit others in land development and project contracts, prosecutors said according to the official Xinhua news agency. He was also accused of accepting money and other goods directly and through his wife.

Li did not contest the allegations, Xinhua said after the one-day hearing ended. A panel of judges will now decide on a verdict, although a date for it was unclear.

He is seen as a close associate of Zhou Yongkang, once a member of China's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee who amassed vast power as head of China's internal security apparatus.

In December Zhou was arrested, ousted from the party and placed under judicial investigation on charges including bribe-taking and "leaking state secrets".

Another Zhou ally, Jiang Jiemin, who was charged at the same time as Li, confessed to corruption at his trial last week, television pictures showed.

Communist Party authorities have waged a much-publicised campaign against endemic graft since Xi ascended to the organisation's leadership two years ago.

But critics say no systemic reforms have been introduced to increase transparency and help battle the problem, leaving the drive open to being used for factional in-fighting, while anti-corruption demonstrators have been jailed.

Corruption trials of former officials in China are closely managed by the ruling party, which retains control of China's police, prosecution and courts.


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