Key Facts

• Two Uyghur men, Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili, were sentenced to death by a Thai court for a 2015 bombing in Bangkok.
• The bombing at the Erawan Shrine killed 20 people, including 7 from China and Hong Kong, and injured 120 others.
• The court ruled the men committed premeditated murder and multiple other offenses.
• The suspects deny the charges and will appeal the verdict within a month, according to their lawyers.
• The trial took over 10 years, with many witnesses and difficulties in finding interpreters.
• No group claimed responsibility, but experts say the attack may have been retaliation for Thailand deporting Uyghurs to China.
• China supports the verdict and condemned the bombing as a cruel crime.
• Last year, Thailand again deported 40 Uyghurs to China despite warnings from UN human rights experts about their safety.