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|  |  | surname Xing  |  | 
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|  |  | punishment  / penalty  / sentence  / torture  / corporal punishment  |  | 
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|  |  | to detain as criminal  / criminal detention  |  | 
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|  |  | a criminal  |  | 
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|  |  | to reduce penalty  / shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence  |  | 
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|  |  | Criminal Investigation Bureau  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal; penal  |  | 
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|  |  | imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨 , cutting off the nose 劓 , amputation of one or both feet 刖 , castration 宮|宫 , execution 大辟  /  Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞 , beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖 , forced labor 徒 , exile or banishment 流 , capital punishment 死 |  | 
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|  |  | Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB)  |  | 
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|  |  | torture  / cruel corporal punishment  |  | 
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|  |  | person being executed  / victim of corporal punishment  / person serving a sentence  |  | 
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|  |  | torture and cruel treatment  |  | 
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|  |  | limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal offense  |  | 
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|  |  | prison term  |  | 
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|  |  | Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)  |  | 
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|  |  | Europol (European Police Office)  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal police  / member of the criminal police  |  | 
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|  |  | to sentence (to prison etc)  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal case  |  | 
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|  |  | beaten  / tortured  / executed  |  | 
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|  |  | deferred death sentence  /  abbr. to 死緩|死缓 |  | 
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|  |  | to torture sb using electricity  / electrocution (capital punishment)  |  | 
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|  |  | strict law  / cruel punishment  / to carry out cruel law rigorously  |  | 
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|  |  | to be punished  |  | 
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|  |  | to serve a prison sentence  |  | 
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|  |  | Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝 |  | 
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|  |  | stoning (execution method)  |  | 
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|  |  | suspended sentence  / probation  |  | 
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|  |  | sentence  / penalty  / punishment  |  | 
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|  |  | to extort confession by torture  |  | 
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|  |  | Ministry of Justice (in imperial China)  |  | 
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|  |  | castration (archaic punishment)  |  | 
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|  |  | water-boarding (torture)  |  | 
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|  |  | indiscriminate punishment  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal procedure  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal court  / judiciary court  |  | 
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|  |  | execution ground  |  | 
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|  |  | to complete a prison sentence  |  | 
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|  |  | exile (as form of punishment)  |  | 
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|  |  | International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)  |  | 
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|  |  | cruelty; torture  |  | 
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|  |  | prison sentence  |  | 
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|  |  | to sentence  / to condemn  |  | 
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|  |  | office of punishment  / torture chamber (esp. unofficial)  |  | 
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|  |  | (literary) corporal punishment or execution  |  | 
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|  |  | death penalty; capital punishment  |  | 
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|  |  | water-boarding, interrogation technique used by CIA  |  | 
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|  |  | to carry out a (death) sentence  / execution  |  | 
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|  |  | firing squad  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察 )  |  | 
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|  |  | crucifiction  |  | 
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|  |  | severe punishment  / worst punishment  / to torture  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal to be executed  / to execute a criminal  |  | 
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|  |  | xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害 |  | 
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|  |  | to detain as criminal  /  criminal detention  /  abbr. for 刑事拘留 |  | 
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|  |  | interrogation under torture  / inquisition  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal court  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal investigation  |  | 
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|  |  | xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害  /  the designation for a punishment  |  | 
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|  |  | to humiliate by torture  |  | 
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|  |  | squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)  |  | 
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|  |  | crime and punishment  / penalty for a crime  |  | 
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|  |  | facing execution  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal court (abbr. for 刑事法庭 )  |  | 
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|  |  | legal net  / the long arm of the law  |  | 
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|  |  | (law) to determine the sentence  |  | 
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|  |  | torture  / interrogation by torture  |  | 
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|  |  | corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)  |  | 
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|  |  | castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)  |  | 
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|  |  | corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead  |  | 
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|  |  | removal of the kneecaps (punishment)  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal court  |  | 
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|  |  | caning (corporal punishment)  |  | 
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|  |  | torture  / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)  |  | 
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|  |  | UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)  |  | 
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|  |  | life imprisonment  |  | 
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|  |  | gibbet  / hanging post  |  | 
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|  |  | criminal law  |  | 
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|  |  | torture chamber  |  | 
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|  |  | whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)  |  | 
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|  |  | (law) deprivation of freedom  |  | 
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|  |  | rod used for flogging offenders  |  | 
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|  |  | to sentence (a criminal)  |  | 
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|  |  | supreme penalty  / execution  |  | 
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|  |  | to execute by hanging  |  | 
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|  |  | to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old)  |  | 
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|  |  | execution by fire  / burning at the stake  |  | 
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|  |  | beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)  |  | 
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|  |  | punishment equipment  / torture instrument  |  | 
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|  |  | corporal punishment  |  | 
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