REAL LIFE TOMB
RAIDERS ARE SENTENCED
Copyright 2006 www.tombraiderchronicles.com
[ August 31st 2006 ]
Two
real life tomb raiders have received suspended
death sentences after a court in China found them
guilty of looting hundreds of artefacts from a
1,000-year-old tomb belonging to the Northern
Song dynasty.
According
to The
Telegraph, China has imposed increasingly
tough penalties for tomb robbing in recent years
in an attempt to stop a thriving trade in stolen
antiquities. Suspended death sentences usually
are commuted later to long prison terms if convicts
are deemed reformed.
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