China Just Jailed its Justice Minister for Life

At one point, Tangjin was one of the most powerful men in China, a guy who'd risen from being a low-level Communist Party official in J. Jiang province to the Minister of Justice for all of China, and he wasn't just a minister. Multiple Chinese outlets described him as a close-aged President Xi Jinping.

And then… well, he lost everything. On the 2nd of February, a court in Fujian province sentenced Yuzhan, who had been indicted on bribery charges to life in prison. The court further ordered that he be stripped of all of his political rights, and for his property to be confiscated and give it to the state treasury.

As this were any other country, at any other time, this wouldn't be that big of a deal after all other than the length of the sentence being a tad extreme. A corrupt official being prosecuted and punished should be routine. In China, corruption cases were the norm.