Their photos and personal details have been splashed across a giant electronic screen outside a major train station in Changsha city in China’s southern province, Hunan.
Curious onlookers and commuters gathered outside the bustling train station as a series of individual headshots, identity numbers, their offenses and amounts of outstanding court fines rolled across a massive electronic billboard, one after the other, as shown on Chinese state television.
Instead of flashing ads, it serves as a public “wall of shame” for those that failed to pay court-ordered fines for violating property disclosure laws, disobeying court orders or failing to respond to subpoenas.
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“The court has played hardball by exposing these cheaters, well done!” one passerby told local media.
CNN’s intern William Wang in Beijing contributed to this report.
