Huugjilt

On 5 December 2006, ten years after the execution, Zhao Zhihong wrote the Petition of my Death Penalty admitting he had committed the crime.

[4] A woman surnamed Yang[5] was raped and murdered inside a public toilet[2] in a Hohhot textile factory, on 9 April 1996.

[5] Several media reports released after the execution stated that the court system used incorrect information, and several legal experts concurred with this thesis.

[9] Zhao Zhihong, who had committed thirteen rapes of women and girls and murders of ten individuals from 1996 to 2005,[10] confessed to killing Yang in 2005.

The retrial of Huugjilt in the High People's Court of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region took place from November through December 2014, concluding with his exoneration.

Feng Zhiming (冯志明), the Hohhot Public Security Bureau Xincheng District branch head, was blacklisted,[3] and he had the possibility of being criminally tried.

[citation needed] According to Beijing Foreign Studies University professor of journalism Zhan Jiang, the public sympathised with Huugjilt since he was young at the time of his death.

[1] Javier C. Hernández of The New York Times wrote that the authorities in China feared instability in governance and so did not pursue accountability measures against the people who prosecuted Huugjlt.