CHINA sentenced three more people to death yesterday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bringing to nine the number of people facing execution for the unrest.

CHINA sentenced six people to death yesterday over deadly July riots in its restive Xinjiang region, delivering on a vow of harsh retribution over the ethnic unrest.

Authorities have arrested more than 90 members of a Muslim ethnic minority in China’s far west and are torturing some of them following a series of bombings that left a dozen people dead, an activist alleged today.