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Beijing, CHINA: Senior People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, walk past the Monument to the People's Hero's as they arrive at the Great Hall of the People, before a session of the National Peoples Congress in Beijing 11 March 2006. China's courts sentenced 10 percent more people to prison in 2005 compared to the previous year, locking up a total of 844,717 people, the country's top judge said 11 March. Nearly 40 percent of the defendants were convicted of serious crimes, including setting off explosions, committing murder, armed robbery, rape and kidnapping, said Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)
Beijing, CHINA: Senior People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, walk past the Monument to the People's Hero's as they arrive at the Great Hall of the People, before a session of the National Peoples Congress in Beijing 11 March 2006. China's courts sentenced 10 percent more people to prison in 2005 compared to the previous year, locking up a total of 844,717 people, the country's top judge said 11 March. Nearly 40 percent of the defendants were convicted of serious crimes, including setting off explosions, committing murder, armed robbery, rape and kidnapping, said Xiao Yang, president of the Supreme People's Court. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)
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