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BEIJING (AP) - China has punished dozens of low-level officials for allowing brick kilns to operate using slave labor, but cleared higher-ranking officials of wrongdoing and dismissed allegations of corruption, a party discipline committee member said Monday.
The Communist Party disciplined 95 officials at the county level or lower for malfeasance, said Yang Senlin, vice secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Discipline Inspection Committee.
Three were expelled from the party and 33 were fired, while the others were demoted or received either a warning or black marks on their records, Yang said, according to a transcript of the news conference in Shanxi posted online.
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