Former Xinjiang adviser sentenced for bribery

Dou Wangui, a former senior political adviser in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes, a court in southern China announced Wednesday.

The Liuzhou Intermediate People's Court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region also ordered the confiscation of all his personal assets and the transfer of his illicit gains to the State treasury. He was also deprived of his political rights for life.

In China, a suspended death sentence is typically commuted to life in prison if the inmate commits no further crimes during the two-year probation period, and the sentence can be reduced further for good behavior.