Four more death sentences handed down after Chinese ethnic riots

China sentenced four more people to death for involvement in ethnic rioting last year in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, a state news agency said.

The July 5 violence began as Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking minority ethnic group, protested the deaths of Uighur factory workers in an earlier brawl in southern China and then clashed with police in the Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi.