sentenced
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Hui, 67, was sentenced by a Shenzhen court to life imprisonment and ordered to forfeit all of his personal assets, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Hui Ka Yan, once one of China’s most prominent property tycoons, has been sentenced to life in prison for charges including fraud and financial misconduct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
His wife was sentenced to one year and a day.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Voters have been sentenced in eight of the office’s cases; seven others are pending.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The heliograms struggled to project, frozen in a sheet of ice while shuffling through her previous “faces” before she'd been sentenced to life in prison.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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