By Malcolm Moore , Shanghai. Wang Ziqi, the madam of the Bright Spot Teahouse in Chongqing's grimy Yuzhong district, forced, sometimes violently, hundreds of women to work as prostitutes. Ms Wang, who ran the brothel with her sister, Wang Wanning, was also reputed to be the mistress of Wen Qiang, the year-old deputy police commissioner and justice bureau chief who was secretly also one of the city's most powerful mafia godfathers. A Chinese court heard that more than women had been victims of the Wang sisters between and , with seven dying in mysterious circumstances.
The women were beaten if they refused to work and their earnings and identity cards were stolen. Some of her victims allegedly went insane after being made to endure long periods of solitary confinement. In one of her victims was left paralysed after jumping from an 8th floor window at the tea house.
Ms Wang was arrested after an enormous crackdown on organised crime in Chongqing in , when 25, police men were charged with cleaning up one of China's most corrupt cities. Nearly 3, other gang members were also rounded up, as Bo Xilai, the city's Communist party secretary, attempted to purge the city of a mafia network that stretched up to the very highest levels of officialdom. Hilton hotel closed in China over prostitution charges. Siri refuses abortion clinic location.
Ms Wang was sentenced to death in after being convicted of organising and leading a criminal organisation. However, she appealed the verdict and earned herself a temporary stay of execution. By contrast, Mr Wen was quickly sentenced to death and executed, despite threatening to name names if he went down. Mr Bo has been catapulted to widespread fame by the success of his anti-mafia campaign and is now angling for a position on China's all-powerful politburo standing committee when the country's leadership reshuffles next year.
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