The World - News from Feb. 20, 1986
Two sons of senior Chinese Communist Party officials were executed in Shanghai after they were convicted of raping or molesting 48 women between 1981 and 1984, the official New China News Agency reported. One of the executed, Chen Xiaomeng, and one of those jailed in the case, Chen Binglang, are the sons of Chen Qiwu, former head of the Communist Party propaganda department in Shanghai. The second man executed, Hu Xiaoyang, was the son of Hu Lijiao, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress.
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