Public executions in Games lead-up
Rowan Callick; 21/7/08
China has reverted to public executions on the eve of the Olympics as part of a massive security operation mounted to protect the Beijing Games from what Communist Party authorities describe as an urgent threat of violence and anti-government protest. The Washington Post reported at the weekend that three young men were shot shortly after dawn in the city of Yengishahar in Xinjiang - the mainly Muslim region of north-western China. “The local government bused several thousand students and office workers into a public square and lined them up in front of a vocational school,” the Post reported. “As the spectators watched, witnesses said, three prisoners were brought out. “Then an execution squad fired rifles at the three point-blank, killing them on the spot.”
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24048775-25837,00.html
Tags: Capital Punishment, China