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In September 2018, a number of social media accounts started sharing a photograph purported to show 26 'corrupt' Chinese politicians moments before their execution: This photograph was not recent in 2018, it did not feature corrupt politicians, and it was not taken during the course of a public execution. This photograph was snapped in Wenzhou, China, in April 2004 and shows Chinese police officers escorting a group of hardcore convicts at a sentencing rally. This picture is available via Getty Images where it is accompanied by the following caption: We attempted to find more information about the crimes committed by the pictured individuals but were unable to uncover news about this specific incident. We suspect that the majority of people seen in this photograph were convicted of drug trafficking offenses, as the China Daily reported in June 2004, two months after this photograph was taken, that dozens of drug dealers had recently been executed in the country, with some of them having been sentenced in Wenzhou: A contemporaneous report from Amnesty International stated that China easily operates the most stringent capital punishment regime and that the the country had executed an estimated 3,400 people in 2004: China was still at the top of Amnesty International's annual report on capital punishment in 2018.
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