China jails syringe attackers.9/17/2009 10:01:49 AM A court in western China's Xinjiang province has sentenced four men to prison terms of eight to 15 years for stabbing a pedestrian with a hypodermic syringe hypodermic syringe n. A syringe with a calibrated barrel, plunger, and tip, used with a hypodermic needle for hypodermic injections and for aspiration. , state media has reported. The attack was part of a wave of similar assaults that China's public security minister blamed on Muslim separatists separatists, in religion, those bodies of Christians who withdrew from the Church of England. They desired freedom from church and civil authority, control of each congregation by its membership, and changes in ritual. In the 16th cent. accused of being behind recent ethnic violence between Han Chinese Han Chinese n. See Han1. and Uighurs in the region. All four men were convicted of "using fake harmful substances," state TV reported. Two of the men were given 15 years imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. , one 12, and the other eight over the attack in an underground pedestrian crossing on September 3. Police in Urumqi, the regional capital, have reported more than 500 syringe attacks since August 17. However, they said that in most cases no harmful substances were used in the attacks and some victims did not have obvious needle wounds. Tense situation Thursday's verdict came five days after three separate syringe attackers were sentenced to up to 15 years in jail. The assaults provoked mass demonstrations earlier this month by Han Chinese demanding that the government improve safety in Urumqi. Xinjiang remains tense despite the presence of a large number of paramilitary par·a·mil·i·tar·y adj. Of, relating to, or being a group of civilians organized in a military fashion, especially to operate in place of or assist regular army troops. n. pl. troops brought in after the July rioting that left almost 200 people dead and 1,700 injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. . The violence started when police cracked down on a group of Uighurs protesting against the deaths of two compatriots at a factory in southern China. Uighurs then attacked the Han Chinese, prompting revenge attacks two days later. Aljazeera.net 2003 - 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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