Scalpers selling registration numbers at major hospitals, escorted by police officers undergo a public trial in front of a hospital and a jeering crowd in Beijing December 13. Nine members of a scalping gang, headed by Lan Huimin and Yuan Hongwei were found guilty of racketeering and affray and given chastisements ranging from four-year to ten-year sentence in prison.

(chinacourt.org December 16, 2006)