BEIJING, Sept. 22 (Xinhuanet)-- Five executives convicted of organizing prostitution at a hotel within a revolutionary martyrs mausoleum in Sichuan Province have been ordered imprisoned for terms ranging from eight months to 12 years.

    Zhang Chuanhu, the hotel operator, was ordered to serve 12 years in prison, the China News Service reported yesterday.

    Four others who helped arrange the prostitution were sentenced to terms ranging from eight months to 10 years.

    Police who took bribes to look the other way and other officials were punished earlier.

    Zhang organized sexual services and striptease performances at the Zhongshan Hotel inside the Martyrs Mausoleum of Luzhou City. The hotel is located less than 30 meters from a monument.

    The patriotic educational site, built in 1995, is dedicated to 64 people who died in southwest China for the revolutionary cause since 1911. Zhang leased the hotel in December 2000 from the mausoleum management, which has offices near the hotel.

    After an investigation into prostitution at the hotel, a China Central Television reporter called Luzhou's police hot line on January 15. Police ordered an investigation and planned a raid.

    However, Liu Gang, the head of the station, and two policemen tipped off the hotel, which had bribed police.

    Officers reached the hotel nearly two hours after it had prepared for the raid, and everything was in order.

    CCTV exposed sexual services at the hotel on January 18, leading to investigation, arrests and convictions. The case is one of aggressive investigative journalism in China. Enditem