A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced five people to death for murder and other crimes over deadly ethnic riots in July, state media said. Two other people were sentenced to life imprisonment, Xinhua news agency said. Nine people were executed last month over the riots in which nearly 200 ...
China sentences six to death over Xinjiang riots
BEIJING, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A Chinese court in the restive far western region of Xinjiang on Monday sentenced six people to death for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic rioting in July in which almost 200 people were killed. It was not immediately clear from the brief report by the ...
Standoff Over Death in Custody
HONG KONG—Relatives of a man who died in police custody in China’s remote Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are in a tense standoff with authorities over their demand for an inquiry into how he died, villagers and the local police chief said. One villager, contacted by telephone, said eight trucks ...