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Court orders confiscation of couple's assets
2020-01-06
A court in Hunan province has ordered the confiscation of the illegal assets of fugitive couple Peng Xufeng and Jia Siyu, who are on Interpol's Red Notice list.
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He Jiankui gets 3 years for illegal human embryo gene-editing
2019-12-31
Chinese researcher He Jiankui was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan ($430,000) for illegally carrying out the human embryo gene-editing experiments, in which three genetically edited babies were born.
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Death sentence upheld for Shanghai man for killing students
2019-12-31
Shanghai Municipal Higher People's Court on Dec 30 upheld the death sentence for a man who stabbed and killed two school children outside a primary school in Shanghai last year.
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Death penalty upheld for gang leader in rape cases
2019-12-24
Twenty-one years after being sentenced to death for rapes and other crimes, Sun Xiaoguo had his death penalty upheld by the Yunnan High People's Court on Dec 23.
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Two sentenced in killing of man, burial in schoolyard
2019-12-19
Du Shaoping, who killed a man and buried him under a school sports ground in Huaihua, Hunan province, more than 16 years ago was convicted and sentenced to death by a local court for intentional homicide on Dec 18.
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Court hears case of homicide, schoolyard burial
2019-12-18
A high-profile case in which the body of a man was found buried under a school sports ground for more than 16 years in Huaihua, Hunan province, started to be heard at a local court at 9 am on Tuesday.
