News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Six people were sentenced to death Thursday for their involvement in a deadly ethnic riot in western China in July, the official Chinese news agency reported. Three of the convicts had their sentences suspended for two years. Three defendants were...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Nearly 200 people died and 1,700 were injured in the unrest that erupted on July 5, as members of the Uighur ethnic Turkic minority rioted in protest at Beijing rule. The rash of death sentences this week highlights the determination of the...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
China sentenced three people to death Thursday over murders committed during riots in the western Xinjiang region in July, bringing the number of people facing the death penalty for the riots to nine. Nearly 200 people were killed when riots erupted...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
Three of the six were given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, a sentence usually commuted to life in prison, over the riots that the government says left 197 dead, in the worst ethnic violence in China in decades. A court in the regional...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
The convictions bring to 12 the number facing execution over the unrest, after six other defendants were sentenced to death on Monday. Three others were given sentences of life in jail for their role in the July 5 unrest, the state-run Xinhua news...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
A Chinese court on Thursday handed out a further three death sentences to people convicted of violent crimes during ethnic rioting in far western Xinjiang in July in which almost 200 people died. The official Xinhua news agency reported that a court...