What’s the best way to deal with 32 wild monkeys seized in an animal trafficking case?
It’s not the kind of question that judges in China have spent much time considering. Still, it’s one that Xu Xiaoshuang, a judge on the Chengdu Railway Transportation Intermediate Court, contemplated in the run-up to an August 2022 ruling that sentenced 13 people to prison for their roles in trafficking 158 macaques.