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  • Podcast: China sentences former agricultural minister to death

    Podcast: China sentences former agricultural minister to death

    We are in the 21st century, there are many international NGOs dedicated to human rights, and yet the death penalty still exists in some countries. One of them being China, and it is exactly there were the latest death sentence was decreed. 

    On 28 Sep, China’s former minister for agriculture, 63-year-old Tang Renjian, was sentenced to death on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve.  

    But why? What are Chinese citizens views on that? The City aimed to find out in this podcast.