China sentences six men to death over ethnic riots
The six were convicted of murder and other crimes by a court in the regional capital Urumqi in the first trials over the riots that killed nearly 200 people and left the city riven by ethnic tension.
China Central Television (CCTV) said one other defendant was sentenced to life in prison over the unrest, in which members of the Uighur minority went on a rampage in attacks directed at members of China’s dominant Han ethnic group.
