61.   However, China never admitted to holding or charging Chadrel until it announced his sentence Wednesday.

62.   It denounced the practice of announcing death sentences at public gatherings at which the condemned are present before being taken to the execution site.

63.   Both men could have been sentenced to a maxiumum of life in prison, but still looked shaken when their four-year sentences were announced.

64.   Cries went up in the courtroom when the death sentence was announced.

65.   The sentence was announced at a public hearing by the three military judges, who found him guilty and met prosecution demands for the death penalty.

66.   The trial is expected to last one day and the sentence should be announced later Friday, the official said.

67.   There were gasps from the crowded courtroom as the sentence was announced.

68.   Yang, spokesman for the Shanghai-based Chinese Human Rights Association, had been in police detention for five months before his sentence was finally announced.

69.   Judicial authorities announced the sentences Friday of four members of a computer chip robbery gang that stole chips at gun point.

70.   Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reiterated his demand for the wanted men, plus one other, on Thursday immediately after the sentences were announced.