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China drops death penalty for some economic crimes

March 3, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly Leave a Comment

BEIJING (AP) — China dropped the death penalty for more than a dozen nonviolent crimes Friday and banned capital punishment for offenders over the age of 75

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Beijing, China, Chinese, Criminal Law, Dui Hua Foundation, Joshua Rosenzweig, Lang Sheng, National People, Standing Committee, Vol 30 No 10 | March 5 - March 11, Xinhua News Agency

China executes European citizen, stirring anger

December 30, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly 2 Comments

URUMQI, China (AP) — China charged Akmal Shaikh with smuggling drugs and executed him on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 29. But family and acquaintances say the 53-year-old Briton, originally from Pakistan, was mentally unstable and was lured to China from a life on the street in Poland by men playing on his dreams to record a pop song for world peace.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Akmal Shaikh, Beijing, China, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Dui Hua Foundation, Ivan Lewis, Jiang Yu, London, Pakistan, Poland, Premier Wen, President Hu, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Soohail Shaikh, Two British, URUMQI, Vol 29 No 1 | January 2 - January 8

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