Strike Hard Against Crime Campaign (1996)
{{Short description|Chinese anti-crime campaign}}
{{See also|Law enforcement in China|Strike Hard Campaign Against Violent Terrorism|Boluan Fanzheng}}
{{History of the People's Republic of China}}
The 1996 "Strike Hard" Anti-Crime Campaign ({{Lang-zh|c=1996年严打:zh:1996年严打/第二次严打|p=}}), the second Strike Hard or Stern Blow Anti-Crime Campaign of 1996, was an anti-crime campaign launched by the People's Republic of China. The initiator was Jiang Zemin, the new General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party who had been groomed by former state leader Deng Xiaoping. The campaign lasted from April 1996 to February 1997.{{Cite web|url=https://qikan.cqvip.com/Qikan/Article/Detail?id=1002085741|title=1996年第二次"严打" }} It was a continuation of the first campaign launched in 1983.
Controversies
= Wrongful convictions =
{{Main list|List of miscarriage of justice cases#China}}
- Huugjilt ({{MongolUnicode|ᠬᠥᠭᠵᠢᠯᠲᠦ}}): A Mongolian male youth was suspected by the Communist Party of involvement in a rape and murder case, coerced into a confession through torture, swiftly convicted, and executed just 62 days later.{{Cite web |last=赫海威 |date=2016-02-04 |title=呼格吉勒图案引争议：中国拒绝严惩冤案制造者 |url=https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160204/c04chinaconvict/ |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=The New York Times |language=zh-cmn-hans}} He was executed by firing squad on 10 June 1996; he was 18 at the time of his death. In 2005, serial killer Zhao Zhihong confessed to the murder. Huugjilt was posthumously exonerated.
- The Xiaoshan Case: In 1995, the Chinese Communist Party convicted five young men, Tian Xiaoping, Chen Jianyang, Tian Weidong, Wang Jianping, and Zhu Youping, of murdering two taxi drivers, Xu Caihua and Chen Jinjiang, in Zhejiang. In 2013, Xiang Shengyuan, a convicted thief, was arrested after his fingerprints matched evidence from the scene, and he confessed to killing Xu Caihua; after spending 18 years in prison, all five men were exonerated and released.{{Cite web |title=Retrial begins in 1995 murder case |url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-05/22/content_16521314.htm |website=China Daily}}{{Cite news |last=Sun |first=Yilei |date=May 27, 2013 |title=Zhejiang man wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years: tortured during interrogation, attempted suicide by biting tongue |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2013-05/27/c_124770351.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418051628/http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2013-05/27/c_124770351.htm |archive-date=April 18, 2017 |accessdate= |work=Yangcheng Evening News}}{{Cite news |last=Liu |first=Yiding |date=May 31, 2013 |title=True killer in Xiaoshan wrongful conviction case receives suspended death sentence; five wrongfully convicted appear at court |url=http://news.sohu.com/20130531/n377584458.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321081330/http://news.sohu.com/20130531/n377584458.shtml |archive-date=March 21, 2017 |accessdate= |work=The Beijing News}}
See also
References
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Category:Abuse of the legal system
Category:Massacres committed by the People's Republic of China