20 December 2005 :
a court in Manila, the Philippines, sentenced 8 men to death for kidnapping a Chinese Filipino national. According to the ABS-CBN TV Channel, the Antipolo Regional Trial Court made a decision to sentence the eight to die by lethal injection. The convicts were accused of kidnapping a certain Joseph Uy on February 1, 2001, the court said. According to the court, the suspects were arrested during an operation of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force in a safe house in Antipolo, two days after the abduction.(Sources: Xinhuanet, 19/12/2005)
