China's Court in northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has sentenced eight people to death for two terror attacks earlier this year.
Cars drive along a bridge after snowfall in Urumqi, Xinjiang Autonomous region, November 28, 2014
Reportedly, the terrorists had ties to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a radical Islamist organization. The Intermediate People's Court in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has handed out the death penalty to eight people for two bombings, which resulted in the deaths of 46 people, in the far western region of Xinjiang, inhabited by the Uyghur minority.