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Chinese court sentences U.S. citizen to death for murder – CCTV

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Updated: Apr 22, 2022, 01:06 UTC

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced U.S. citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death for intentional homicide of a 21-year-old woman, his former girlfriend, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Chinese court sentences U.S. citizen to death for murder – CCTV

BEIJING (Reuters) -A Chinese court sentenced U.S. citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death on Thursday for intentional homicide of a 21-year-old woman, his former girlfriend, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

In its verdict the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court in Zhejiang Province found that after a disagreement over the pair’s break-up in June 2019 the defendant arranged to meet and talk with the victim, a Chinese woman surnamed Chen, at a bus stop in Ningbo before killing her with a “folding knife”.

The court held that the defendant’s “premeditated revenge killing, stabbing and cutting Chen’s face and neck several times, resulting in Chen’s death, was motivated by vile motives, resolute intent and cruel means, and the circumstances of the crime were particularly bad and the consequences particularly serious, and should be punished according to law,” CCTV reported.

An official with the U.S. State Department said it was monitoring the matter but would not comment further due to privacy considerations.

(Reporting by Martin Quin PollardEditing by Raissa Kasolowsky and Cynthia Osterman)

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