A court in Inner Mongolia has been urged repeatedly to reopen the case of the brutal rape and murder of a woman in 1996, in which an innocent man was executed and another man who confessed to the murder sits in jail with no future trial in sight.

Hugejiletu was put to death in June 1996 on charges of rape and murder of a woman in the bathroom of a textile factory in Hohhot, capital of the northern region of Inner Mongolia, according to the Guangzhou-based Nanfengchuang Magazine this week.

Hugejiletu's elderly parents have been petitioning the High People's Court of Inner Mongolia every Wednesday to begin prosecution of the man who confessed to the crime in 2005 and amend the family's loss.