BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Thursday handed down a further five death sentences to people convicted of murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region in July in which almost 200 people died.
The official Xinhua news agency reported that a court in Urumqi, Xinjiang's regional capital, also jailed two defendants for life.
Judging by their names, the five people given the death penalty all appeared to be Uighurs, a Turkic minority that calls Xinjiang its homeland.
"Trials in five other cases connected with the riot will be heard by the court on Friday," Xinhua cited court sources as saying.
Last month, China executed nine people convicted of violent crimes in the ethnic unrest between Uighurs and majority Han Chinese.
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