China executes 8 Tiananmen Square terrorist attackers

According to Xinhua News Agency, eight people who committed terrorism and violence crimes in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Northwest China, were executed on August 23.

The men were sentenced to death for their crimes in five cases, including the terrorist attack at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the illegal manufacture of explosives and intentional homicide in Kashgar, and the establishment of a terrorist organization, the murder of government officials, and the arson of a checkpoint in Hotan County.

Scene of the terrorist attack in Tiananmen Square, Beijing (China), October 2013. (Source: abc.net.au)

Specifically, Huseyin Guxur, Yusup Wherniyas and Yusup Ehmet were sentenced to death for organizing and leading terrorist activities and disturbing public order by many dangerous methods.

The suspects carried out the attack in Tiananmen Square in late October 2013, killing three people and injuring nearly 40 others.

Meanwhile, Rozi Eziz was sentenced on June 28, 2013, for robbing a gun and attacking police in the Aksu district of Xinjiang. Abdusalam Elim was executed for "organizing and leading terrorist activities," raising funds to train terrorists, and manufacturing and storing explosive devices. Memet Tohtiyusup was convicted of "watching audiovisual products about religious extremism" and "murdering civilians" in 2013.

Abdumomin Imin was sentenced to death for organizing terrorist training since March 2008, carrying out an attack on police in 2011 and killing a forestry official in 2013.

The executions were part of a crackdown on terrorism in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region launched by the Chinese government in May, following a terrorist attack in Urumqi that killed 39 people and injured more than 90. In June, 13 people were also executed for terrorism and violence in the northwestern region./.

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