Yang Jia | |
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Born | Beijing, China | 27 August 1980
Died | 26 November 2008 Shanghai, China | (aged 28)
Cause of death | Execution by lethal injection |
Occupation | Unemployed |
Criminal penalty | Death penalty |
Details | |
Date | 1 July 2008 |
Location(s) | Shanghai, China |
Target(s) | Police officers |
Killed | 6 |
Injured | 4 |
Weapons | Knife Molotov cocktails |
Yang Jia (simplified Chinese: 杨佳; traditional Chinese: 楊佳; pinyin: Yáng Jiā; 27 August 1980[1] – 26 November 2008) was a Chinese citizen executed for murdering six Shanghai police officers with a knife.
Yang received international media attention for the public sympathy accorded to him in China, where, according to exiled writer Ma Jian, Yang has become "a sort of national hero."[2] Beijing lawyer and blogger Liu Xiaoyuan prominently defended Yang.[3]