Ex-top Chinese leader gets life sentence for bribery
Beijing, May 8: Sun Zhengcai, a former top Chinese Communist Party official, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes of over 170 million yuan ($26 million) between 2002 and 2017.
The sentence was announced by the First Intermediate People's Court of Tianjin, reports Xinhua news agency.
He has been deprived of political rights for life and all his personal property will be confiscated, according to the verdict.
His illegal gains and relevant yields will also be seized, the court said.
Sun, 54, was a former member of the ruling Communist Party's Politburo -- China's top decision-making body -- and was considered a future leader at the time of his downfall.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
