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Court upholds penalties to Xinjiang riot convicts

National
2009-10-30

THE Higher People's Court of Xinjiang upheld today sentences for 21 people who, in six first-instance trials, were convicted of murder and other crimes in the deadly July 5 riot in Urumqi, including death penalty...

4 killed in Xinjiang house fire

National
2009-10-27

FOUR people died when their self-built house caught fire at 2:50 am today in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local police said. The four people included three males and one...

Cotton acreage in Xinjiang shrinks 19%

Business | Textile
2009-10-26

COTTON acreage in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a key cotton production base in northwestern China, shrank to 1.34 million hectares in 2009, down 19.4 percent from 2008. Cotton output in 2009 is expected...

3 more rioters sentenced to die

National
2009-10-16

THREE more people were sentenced to death yesterday for murders committed during the July riots in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, bringing to nine the number of people facing execution so far for their...

China sentences 6 to death over Xinjiang riot

National
2009-10-15

SIX people who were convicted of murder and other crimes in the deadly riot in Xinjiang in July were sentenced to death by a local court today. The Urumqi Intermediate People's Court also sentenced another three...

6 receive death penalty, 1 jailed for life after grim Xinjiang riots

National
2009-10-13

SIX men, who were convicted of murder and other crimes in the July 5 riot in Xinjiang, were sentenced to death yesterday after a first-instance trial, and another man was jailed for life. Abdukerim Abduwayit, Gheni...

Six sentenced to death over Xinjiang riot

National
2009-10-12

SIX people who were convicted of murder and other crimes in the deadly riot in Xinjiang in July were condemned to death by a court today in a first-instance trial, and one person was sentenced to imprisonment for life.

One given death on factory brawl in Guangdong

National
2009-10-10

ONE man was given death sentence, and another life imprisonment over a toy factory brawl on June 26 that left two employees dead in Guangdong Province, court officials announced today in Guangdong provincial capital...

Terrorism saps Xinjiang's progress

National
2009-9-22

VIOLENCE instigated by separatists have hit economic development hard in the northwest China's Xinjiang region, a government policy paper said yesterday. "The 'East Turkistan' forces have seriously interrupted...

Jail terms in needle attack

National
2009-9-18

FOUR people were given hefty sentences ranging from 8 to 15 years in prison yesterday for stabbing a pedestrian with a syringe in Urumqi, triggering a public scare and causing protests in the capital of the Xinjiang...