During the Boluan Fanzheng period, Hu Yaobang, then General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, was assigned by Deng Xiaoping to take charge of the rehabilitation of the victims who were persecuted in the so-called "unjust, false, erroneous cases (冤假错案)" since the Anti-rightist Campaign in 1957.[1][53][54] Within a few years after 1978, victims of over 3 million such cases were rehabilitated.[55] Some of the notable victims included: