Family of wrongfully executed teen gets $335,000

The parents of Hugjiltu, an 18-year-old man of the Mongolian ethnic group, who was wrongly executed 18 years ago are to receive 2.05 million yuan ($335,000) in compensation, the higher court of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region said on Wednesday.

The compensation includes funeral expenses, recompense for detaining the young man for 61 days, and compensation for his death and his parents' loss, according to the decision, which was announced on the court's official Weibo account, a Twitter-like service.

In 1996, Hugjiltu was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a woman in a public restroom in Hohhot, the capital of the region. He was executed 62 days after being charged, despite there being doubts about the evidence.