Portal:Current events/2019 December 30 - Wikipedia

Law and crime

• Lulu and Nana controversy
  • Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports that He Jiankui, who last year announced the birth of babies with modified DNA, is sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine of 3 million yuan, for "illegal medical practice". Two other defendants are sentenced to a lesser degree. (CNN)
  • The court in Shenzhen confirms his claim that a second women was impregnated, and reveals that three gene-edited babies were born instead of two. (New Scientist)
• A Sudanese court sentences 29 people to hang for the killing of a teacher in detention in February during protests that led to the overthrow of former president Omar al-Bashir. (BBC)
• A Yemeni man, suspected to be an Al-Qaeda militant, is sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for a terror attack that he carried out nearly two months ago against a group of Spanish theatre actors, wounding three of them. An accomplice is sentenced to 12 years of jail. (BBC)