Thailand sentences Chinese Uyghurs to death
BANGKOK – Two Chinese Uyghur men were yesterday sentenced to death for carrying out a 2015 attack on a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people, a long-awaited verdict in Thailand’s deadliest bombing case. A Thai court convicted Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed of premeditated and attempted murder for their role in planting a bomb at... The post Thailand sentences Chinese Uyghurs to death appeared first on New Era .
BANGKOK – Two Chinese Uyghur men were yesterday sentenced to death for carrying out a 2015 attack on a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people, a long-awaited verdict in Thailand’s deadliest bombing case.
A Thai court convicted Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed of premeditated and attempted murder for their role in planting a bomb at the popular Erawan Shrine in Bangkok’s commercial heart in August 2015.
The deadly blast tore apart the site where worshippers and tourists had gathered, injuring more than 100 people and leaving the shrine littered with motorbike fragments and singed debris. Multiple Chinese tourists were among the dead when explosives – apparently left in a backpack – detonated.
“The defendants committed a single act that violated multiple laws. The court therefore imposed the harshest penalty available under the law, the death sentence,” one member of the four-judge panel said Thursday as the lengthy verdict was read out.
