Bangkok, June 11, 2026 (AFP) - Court sentences 2 Uyghurs to death for 2015 Bangkok bombing

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2026-06-11

Two Uyghur men were sentenced to death on Thursday for carrying out a 2015 attack on a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people, a long-awaited verdict in Thailand's deadliest bombing case. A Thai court convicted Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed of premeditated and attempted murder for their role in planting a bomb at the popular Erawan Shrine in Bangkok's commercial heart in August 2015. "The defendants committed a single act that violated multip......

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