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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have taken government officials and members of their families on tours of prisons as a "warning" against corruption, the official China Daily newspaper reported on Monday, citing the country's top disciplinary body.
In China's eastern Hubei province, 70 Communist Party leaders,
senior officials and their spouses "visited ex-officials in the city
prison and spent a day in jail as an educational warning", the newspaper
said. President Xi Jinping has made weeding out
corruption a top priority since coming to power more than two years ago,
investigating and arresting senior government officials, military
chiefs and business leaders.
The prison tours, which included visiting former colleagues and
bosses imprisoned for bribery and abuse of power, were a blunt reminder
from Beijing against corruption. The China Daily said photos of interrogations were hanging on prison walls for visitors to see.
"It's a striking image to have watched the ex-officials showing their
deep repentance while they serve their sentences in prison," the paper
quoted one Hubei official as saying.
The Central Commission of Disciplinary Inspection said the visits
were organized to remind officials to "be aware of wrongdoing involving
corruption", the China Daily said.
It said this month some members of China's armed
forces were not taking the fight against corruption seriously. Some
military officers have said graft is so pervasive it could undermine China's ability to wage war.
(Reporting by Adam Jourdan; Editing by Paul Tait)
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