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Representing purged “tigers” in court isn’t glamorous or pays well, but Chinese lawyers do it anyway.

Following the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 18th Party Congress, held in late 2012, a disproportionate number of Chinese officials have “died of unnatural causes,” according to a recent notice by the Party’s Organization Department.

Six communist party officials responsible for the drowning of Yu Qiyi, an executive who worked for a state-run company, are now standing trial in China.

Lü Zijiang, local official from Zhejiang, is a victim of the violence being perpetrated in the anticorruption campaign launched early this year by the new Party administration.