Three in Tian’anmen terror attack sentenced to death

World Today

Three were sentenced to death on Monday and five others were jailed over a terror attack near Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square in October 2013 by a court in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

In the first-instance verdict, the Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Husanjan Wuxur, Yusup Umarniyaz and Yusup Ahmat to death after convicting them of organizing and leading a terrorist group and endangering public security with dangerous methods.

Gulnar Tuhtiniyaz and Bujanat Abdukadir were sentenced to life in jail and 20 years in prison respectively for the crimes of participating in a terrorist group and endangering public security with dangerous methods.

Three others, Tohti Mehmat, Tursunjan Abliz and Abla Niyaz, would be jailed for ten to five years for participating in a terrorist group, said the court.