Five get death for July 5 Xinjiang riots

• Source: Global Times
• [17:57 December 03 2009]
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File photo released by the government of Urumqi City in a press conference in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, shows a burnt car in the riot happened on July 5, 2009.
 

Five death penalties and two life-imprisonment sentences were handed down Thursday for murder and other crimes in the deadly July 5 riots in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi.

On October 12, six people were sentenced the death penalty and another life in prison. Three days later, six more were sentenced to death and three others handed life sentences.

Nine people have been executed so far for their involvement in the riots.