Nine executed over rioting in China
Updated on 09 November 2009
Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death over the unrest, the official China News Service has reported.
The nine were put to death recently after a final review of the verdicts by the Supreme People's Court as required by law, the news service said, but gave no specific date or other details.
They had been convicted of murder and other crimes committed during the riots in the western city of Urumqi in China's worst ethnic violence in decades.
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