Court sentences two Uyghurs to death for 2015 Bangkok bombing

FILE PHOTO: Thai soldiers inspect the scene after a bomb exploded at the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok on August 17, 2015. On June 11, 2026 a Thai court convicted Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed of premeditated and attempted murder for their role in planting a bomb at the shrine. - AFP

BANGKOK: Two Uyghur men were sentenced to death on Thursday (June 11) for carrying out a 2015 attack on a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people, a long-awaited verdict in Thailand's deadliest bombing case.

A Thai court convicted Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed of premeditated and attempted murder for their role in planting a bomb at the popular Erawan Shrine in Bangkok's commercial heart in August 2015.

"The defendants committed a single act that violated multiple laws. The court therefore imposed the harshest penalty available under the law, the death sentence," one member of the four-judge panel said. - AFP