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China's Xinjiang to step up security spending: report

AFP Asian Edition 28 days ago

Funding for public security in China's restive Xinjiang region will nearly double in 2010, state media said Wednesday, following ethnic unrest that left nearly 200 people dead last year. A budget proposal placed before Xinjiang's legislature on Tuesday called for 2.89 billion ...

Family urges inquest for Briton executed in China

AFP Asian Edition 37 days ago

The family of a Briton executed in China have written to the government in London demanding an inquest into his death, their lawyers said. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father-of-three whom supporters say was mentally ill, was executed on Tuesday for drug smuggling ...

Relatives visit Briton on death row in China

AP Features 43 days ago

Relatives made a last-minute plea for mercy Monday for a Briton scheduled to be executed in China for drug smuggling after visiting the man whom they say may be mentally ill. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father of three, was not aware that ...

China to execute five more for Xinjiang unrest

AFP Global Edition 47 days ago

Five more people have been sentenced to death over ethnic violence in July in China's Xinjiang region, an official said Thursday, as Beijing's human rights record comes under a harsh new spotlight. The sentences bring to 22 the number of people condemned ...

China sentences five more to death for Xinjiang riot

Reuters US Online Report World News 48 days ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court sentenced five more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting earlier this year in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang region, a local government spokeswoman said on Thursday. The new trial, not ...

China Wind Inc

AP News 65 days ago

FILE - In this July 18, 2009 file photo, wind turbines produced by Goldwind Science & Technology Ltd. are seen at the Da Bancheng Wind Farm, south of Urumqi, in Xinjiang, China. Goldwind and other Chinese wind energy companies have grown rapidly ...

China sentences 3 more to death over Xinjiang riots: Xinhua

AFP Asian Edition 67 days ago

A court in China's restive Xinjiang sentenced three more people to death Friday for their roles in July ethnic violence, state media said, raising the total condemned to die or executed to 17. The court in the regional capital Urumqi sentenced another ...

China sentences five more to death over riots: state media

AFP Asian Edition 68 days ago

A court in China's restive Xinjiang region sentenced five people to death on Thursday for murder and other crimes committed during deadly unrest in July, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. Two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in ...

China 'sentences five to death' over Urumqi riots

AFP Global Edition 68 days ago

A court in China's restive Xinjiang region sentenced five people to death on Thursday for murder and other crimes committed during deadly unrest in July, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. Two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in ...

China announces more death sentences for Xinjiang riot

Reuters US Online Report World News 68 days ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Thursday handed down a further five death sentences to people convicted of murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region in July in which almost 200 people died. The official ...

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