Mine bosses punished
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 17, 2010, Wednesday
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FIVE people received sentences from 13 years in jail to the death penalty with a two-year reprieve yesterday after a coal mine blast last year in central China's Henan Province killed 76 people and injured 15 others.
Li Xinjun, the owner of Xinhua No.4 Mine in Xinhua District of Henan's Pingdingshan City, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for endangering public security and forging seals of public institutions, the intermediate people's court in Pingdingshan said yesterday.
The death penalty with a two-year reprieve can be commuted to life imprisonment under Chinese law.
The court also found four mine managers guilty of endangering public security. Han Erjun, who took charge of technology, was also delivered suspended death sentence.
Hou Min, responsible for security, received life imprisonment.
Deng Shujun, who was in charge of production management, was sentenced to 15 years in jail while Yuan Yingzhou, assistant production manager, was sentenced to 13 years behind bars.
All the defendants said they will appeal, saying they should only be charged with committing a major work safety violation, which carries a maximum sentence of seven years in jail. They said most mine bosses were charged with this crime in the past.
The court said the five forced the miners to keep working in the shaft despite a high concentration of gas, which led to an explosion that ripped through the coal pit on September 8, 2009.
Li Xinjun, the owner of Xinhua No.4 Mine in Xinhua District of Henan's Pingdingshan City, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for endangering public security and forging seals of public institutions, the intermediate people's court in Pingdingshan said yesterday.
The death penalty with a two-year reprieve can be commuted to life imprisonment under Chinese law.
The court also found four mine managers guilty of endangering public security. Han Erjun, who took charge of technology, was also delivered suspended death sentence.
Hou Min, responsible for security, received life imprisonment.
Deng Shujun, who was in charge of production management, was sentenced to 15 years in jail while Yuan Yingzhou, assistant production manager, was sentenced to 13 years behind bars.
All the defendants said they will appeal, saying they should only be charged with committing a major work safety violation, which carries a maximum sentence of seven years in jail. They said most mine bosses were charged with this crime in the past.
The court said the five forced the miners to keep working in the shaft despite a high concentration of gas, which led to an explosion that ripped through the coal pit on September 8, 2009.
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