BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court sentenced five more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting earlier this year in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang region, a local government spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The new trial, not reported in national Chinese media, brings the number of death sentences for the rioting to at least 22, of which at least nine have already been carried out.
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