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Death row for doctor s attacker By Yang Zekun | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-03 09:04 Share
Man who injured ophthalmologist gets suspended capital punishment Tao Yong, director of the ophthalmology department of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, performs an eye operation.[Photo provided to China Daily]
A man who injured four people in a knife attack at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital in January last year was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on Tuesday for intentional homicide and deprived of his political rights for life.
Beijing No 3 Intermediate People s Court said Cui Zhenguo, 37, was resentful at ophthalmologist Tao Yong and other doctors at the hospital because his eye treatment failed to meet his expectations and took retaliatory action on Jan 20,2020.
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2021-02-02 09:35:26 GMT2021-02-02 17:35:26(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) A Beijing court on Tuesday handed a death sentence with a two-year reprieve to a man who injured four people with a knife at a hospital in the city.
Cui Zhenguo was convicted of intentional homicide in the first instance, according to the Third Intermediate People s Court of Beijing Municipality.
At Chaoyang Hospital on Jan. 20, 2020, Cui, then 36, attacked Tao Yong, a doctor at the hospital, with a kitchen knife as he was not satisfied with the effect of Tao s treatment on his eyes, said the court.
Tao was seriously injured, and three others who were attempting to stop Cui sustained minor injuries.