China sentences crime boss to 20 years in jail

November 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court issued a notice to the police here Tuesday over the petition filed by underworld don Babloo Srivastava, challenging the charges framed against him under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act(MCOCA). Justice V.K.

November 3rd, 2009 CHONGQING - A court here Tuesday sentenced the head of an organised criminal network to 18 years in prison. Xie Caiping is dubbed as "godmother of the underworld" in southwest China.

November 3rd, 2009 China sentences notorious gang 'godmother'BEIJING — Dubbed the "godmother" of the Chinese underworld, she was notorious for her toughness and a lavish lifestyle that reportedly included luxury villas and a stable of 16 young lovers. Her criminal reign ended Tuesday when Xie Caiping, 46, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for running illegal casinos and bribing government officials.

November 2nd, 2009 JAMMU - An associate professor of the University of Kashmir was stopped from flying to China by immigration authorities in New Delhi after the Chinese visa was granted to him on a separate document and not on his passport. Shakil A. Romshoo of Srinagar's University of Kashmir said in a statement that he had been bestowed the Kasumigaura International Award for his research on Himalayan lakes.

October 25th, 2009 Texas child sex abuser gets 80 life sentencesSAN ANTONIO — A Texas man who confessed to sexually abusing a child over a three year period has been sentenced to 80 life sentences. Scott Lee Zulfer pleaded guilty Friday to 69 charges of aggravated sexual assault and 11 charges of continuous sexual abuse from 2006 to 2008.

October 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - China has reportedly executed four Tibetans this week for taking part in the unrest in Lhasa last year, according to a Dharamsala-based Tibetan human rights group. As per a release issued by the Tibetan government in exile, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy which monitors the situation inside Tibet, had received confirmed information from reliable sources that at least four Tibetans were executed under the supervision of the Lhasa Municipality Intermediate Peoples Court on Tuesday.

October 21st, 2009 China sentences 6 to death in gang crackdownBEIJING — A court in southwest China sentenced six men to death Wednesday for gang-related crimes including blackmail and murder, the first convictions in a monthslong crackdown that has exposed a major city mired in violent organized crime. More than 1,544 suspects have been detained in Chongqing, China's largest municipality, since the gang sweep started in June, with more than a dozen criminal gangs busted.

October 15th, 2009 URUMQI - A court in China sentenced six more people to death for murder and other crimes during riots here in July, officials said Thursday. At least 197 people were killed and more than 1,600 injured during riots in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

October 14th, 2009 China sentences 6 more to death for Xinjiang riotBEIJING — China has sentenced six more people to death for committing murder during deadly riots in the western Xinjiang region in July. Nearly 200 people were killed Urumqi in July, when China's worst riots in decades broke out, and saw Muslim Uighurs attack members of China's dominant Han ethnic group.

September 17th, 2009 URUMQI - A court in China Thursday ordered four people to serve in prison ranging from eight to 15 years for stabbing a pedestrian with a syringe in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi. On Sep 3, Abdulrusul Abdukhadi stabbed a woman in the neck in an underground passage with the help of three others, identified as Ablimit Memet, Rehman Raziq and Abdulkeyum Ayup, according to the Municipal Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

September 16th, 2009 Foul-mouthing boss not grounds for firing in SpainMADRID — A court in Barcelona says insulting your boss with one particularly foul obscenity is not grounds for dismissal, insisting the slight is common in arguments in Spain and not that big a deal. The zinger in question translates as "son of a b----," and was used by a worker against his boss during a January 2008 money dispute in the northeastern city of Gerona.

September 14th, 2009 Mo. woman sentenced for kidnapping of Kansas girlKANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 43-year-old Missouri woman who already has been sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences for a 2006 crime spree has been given another one.

September 12th, 2009 URUMQI - Three people were sentenced to up to 15 years in jail Saturday over a series of needle attacks that triggered a public scare in this capital of China's troubled western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In the first case, a court sentenced Yilipan Yilihamu, 19, to 15 years in prison for stabbing a woman with a hypodermic needle Aug 28.

September 1st, 2009 BEIJING - A court in southern China has sentenced a democracy activist to 13 years in prison after convicting him of subversion through organising a political party, US-based Human Rights in China said Wednesday. The court in the Hunan provincial capital, Changsha, convicted Xie Changfa of "subversion of state power" Tuesday after he helped to organise the Hunan Democracy Party as a local branch of the banned China Democracy Party, the rights group said.

September 1st, 2009 Taiwan court convicts former first lady of perjuryTAIPEI, Taiwan — A court has sentenced Taiwan's former first lady to a year in jail for giving false testimony in a wide-ranging corruption case involving her and her husband, a preliminary verdict in a major trial expected to wrap up later this month. Wu Shu-chen, wife of former President Chen Shui-bian, was convicted on charges of asking her children to lie during a probe into the graft case, the Taipei District Court said in a verdict handed out late Tuesday.