09 July 2025 :

Dou Wangui, a former senior political advisor of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, was sentenced on July 7, 2025 to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting bribes.
Dou, a former member of the leading Party members group and vice chairman of the Xinjiang regional committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was also stripped of his political rights for life, and all of his personal property will be confiscated, according to the court verdict.
The case was tried at the intermediate people's court of Liuzhou in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China.
A disciplinary and supervisory investigation into Dou was launched in March 2024, and he was arrested in October 2024.
The court stated that between 2003 and 2022, Dou took advantage of his various positions in Xinjiang to benefit others in matters related to project contracts, mineral exploitation, business operation and personal promotion, and accepted money and valuables worth 229 million yuan (about 32 million U.S. dollars) in return.
The court decided that Dou's offenses had caused particularly serious losses to the interests of the state and the people, yet he was given a lenient sentence due to several mitigating factors, including his confession and remorse, and proactive return of his ill-gotten gains.