Chinese Tomb Robber’s Sentence Eased
A court in western China has given a suspended death sentence to the leader of a gang of tomb robbers, the official New China News Agency said.
last week. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region court upheld a lower court death sentence for Yang Xionglin for encouraging peasants in the Turfan area to rob 86 tombs from the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period (770-221 B.C.).
But the high court said the sentence would be converted to life imprisonment as long as the prisoner demonstrates repentance over the next two years.
The news agency said the peasants sold 90 stolen cultural relics to Yang for $116.
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