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| The World Uighur Network News 2002 |
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China: Uighurs
given prison terms of 7 to 20 years in Xinjiang
Hong Kong, 14 April: Ten young
Uighurs [Uyghurs] were given seven to 20 years in
prison in a public trial held recently in Moyu County
in the Hotian prefecture of Xinjiang
on charges of attempting to "separate the country by
force," an informed source said here Sunday [14
April]. An official of the East Turkestan Information
Centre, a Uighur group advocating
Xinjiang independence, told CNA that the
week-long public trial began on 4 April, and that they
were accused of illegally storing weapons, making
bombs, helping prisoners escape from jail, conducting
secret military training, and establishing radical
Muslim groups in Xinjiang. He also said that mainland Chinese authorities in
the Kaxgar prefecture of Xinjiang
arrested 52 people on 28 March, and that 21 of them
were accused of "engaging in illegal religious
activities." BBC Monitoring/ ¸ BBC /BBC Monitoring/ © BBC. All Material Subject to Copyright
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