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Six more sentenced to death for Urumqi riots

Xinhua reports via AP hosted on Google: The official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday that six new defendants were sentenced to death and three other people were given life sentences by the Urumqi Intermediate People's Court. Link... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Thu, Oct 15 2009

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