Twenty-five people in east China's Anhui province have been sentenced to prison or put under surveillance for administering illegal fetal gender tests and abortions, a local court announced Tuesday.
The People's Court in the Shushan district of the city of Hefei on Monday held a public trial for the suspects, including Liu Caiyun and Wu Chunhong, who were charged with illegally conducting birth control-related medical operations.
Liu was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison and ordered to pay a fine of 150,000 yuan (23,809 U.S. dollars), while Wu was put in jail for two years and three months and fined 100,000 yuan.
Liu and Wu were apprehended on Nov. 17, 2011 while they were conducting abortion surgeries for three women. A subsequent investigation revealed that 23 other people were involved with the pair, marking the largest illegal abortion case to emerge in the province in recent years.
The group offered gender tests and abortions to nearly 100 pregnant women over the last three years, raking in large amounts of money, the court said.
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