The court in the city of Dessau found that the 21-year-old defendants, named only as Sebastian F. and Xenia I., lured the 25-year-old architecture student to an empty apartment in May last year, DPA news agency reported. They submitted their victim to a horrific ordeal that led to her death. After news of the murder spread, hundreds of Chinese students and local residents held a rally in Li's memory to demand justice. The couple was arrested two weeks after the crime and went on trial last November. Sebastian F. is also accused of at least one further rape committed in the summer of 2013 in Dessau which only came to light in the course of the investigation.

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 04, 2017 09:56 UTC