Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Their Faces and Names

Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Their Faces and Names

  • May 6, 2018
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Debtors in China Shamed on Highway Billboard Featuring Their Faces and Names

The Hefei Railway Transport Court, responsible for handling transport-related legal disputes, went a step further on the May 1 holiday, with broadcasts at 15 railway stations provincewide of debtors’ names and information – the first such use of screens at stations across an entire province.

Source: scmp.com

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