The parents of a teenager who was wrongly executed have filed a lawsuit against those responsible for their son's case, including police officers, public prosecutors, and judges.
Hugjiltu was sentenced to death for raping and murdering a woman in 1996, but another man confessed to the crime nearly a decade after the teen was put to death.
Last year, a new trial was held and the teen's conviction was overturned.
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has set up a team to investigate the people responsible for this miscarriage of justice, but progress has been slow.
Shang Aiyun, Hugjiltu's mother, says the work of holding those responsible for her son's death to account is far from over.
"The file we submitted doesn't include any names on it. That is to say, from the police to the courts, whoever did anything wrong in whichever part must stand up and admit their mistakes. My requirement is if you did anything wrong, in no matter which part, then you should come out and take your responsibility. My hope is to sound the alarm to the police, the prosecutors and the courts to avoid cases like this in the future."
In the file, the parents write that the officials working on the case were reckless from the initial investigation to the execution of their son.
They want the regional government to conduct a thorough investigation into the officials responsible for their son's case, and they want the results published in a timely fashion.
