Beijing, July 28: Two men in China have been sentenced to jail and fined thousands of yuan for organising homosexual prostitution.
The men, surnamed Xiao and Liu, had hired eight young men to offer sexual services to gay men from October to November 2008 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, said Sun Xia, a spokeswoman for the Pingjiang District People’s Court in Suzhou.
Xiao was sentenced to seven years in jail and fined 30,000 yuan and Liu was sentenced to two years and nine months and fined 10,000 yuan, she said. Xiao and Liu had drawn customers through the Internet, Sun said.
The eight sex workers were not gay themselves, but they had wanted to make money, she said. They were ordered to turn in 30 per cent of their earnings to Xiao and Liu for every client, she said.
–Agencies