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Urgent Action – Yang Jia (China)

Sep 7, 2008

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joanne

in China, Death penalty, Urgent Action

September 5, 2008 UA 246/08 – Death Penalty (PDF) CHINA – Yang Jia (m), aged 28 Unemployed Beijing resident Yang Jia was sentenced to death on 1 September by Shanghai No.2 Intermediate People’s Court, after a closed trial. According to a Xinhua news agency report, he had confessed to premeditated murder. He could be executed…