In 2006, sex workers and their clients were paraded through the streets in Shenzhen, and the clients’ heads were shaved. In July 2010, police in Dongguan led sex workers on a rope while local television filmed them. In Wuhan, the names of suspects were posted in the street, and the police later admitted that this was “indeed improper.”
Later that month, the Ministry of Public Security ordered the police to stop parading suspects in public. A ban on such parades had already been issued in 1988.