Portal:Current events/2019 December 30: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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*[[Lulu and Nana controversy]]

**[[China|Chinese]] state news agency [[Xinhua News Agency|Xinhua]] reports that [[He Jiankui]], who last year announced the birth of babies with modified [[DNA]], iswas sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine of 3 million [[Renminbi|yuan]], for "[[medicalMedical malpractice|illegal medical practice]]". Two other defendants are sentenced to agiven lesser degreesentences. [https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/30/china/gene-scientist-china-intl-hnk/index.html (CNN)]

**The court in [[Shenzhen]] confirms his claim that a second woman was impregnated, and reveals that three [[genome editing|gene-edited]] babies were born instead of the previously believed two. [https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228710-scientist-behind-worlds-first-gene-edited-babies-sentenced-to-prison/ (New Scientist)]

*A [[Sudan|Sudanese]] court sentences 29 people to be hanged for the killing of a teacher in detention in February during protests that led to the overthrow of former president [[Omar al-Bashir]]. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50945224 (BBC)]

*A [[Yemenis|Yemeni]] man, suspected to be an [[Al-Qaeda]] militant, is sentenced to death in [[Saudi Arabia]] for a November 11 [[terror attack]] against a group of Spanish theatre actors in [[Riyadh]], wounding three of them. An accomplice is sentenced to 12 years of jail. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-50947324 (BBC)]