{"id":33229,"date":"2013-03-29T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=33229 "},"modified":"2013-03-29T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:19:00","slug":"33229-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=33229","title":{"rendered":"China jails 20 on terror charges in Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 China has sentenced 20 men to jail terms of up to life imprisonment on charges of terrorism and inciting secession in Xinjiang, state media say.<\/div>
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Some of the men, who are all thought to be members of the ethnic Uighur group who live in the region, were accused of plotting to assassinate local police.<\/div>
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An exiled Uighur group described the sentences as “repressive”.<\/div>
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It said the men had been persecuted for listening to foreign radio broadcasts and forwarding video clips.<\/div>
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The men were convicted of a number of crimes, the local state-run news agency reported. These include circulating extremist religious material and attempting to promote ethnic separatism on the internet.<\/div>
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It is not known whether the 20 accused men pleaded guilty or not. Regardless of their plea, acquittals in China’s party-run court system are rare, says the BBC’s John Sudworth in Shanghai.<\/div>
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Xinjiang is home to about nine million mainly Muslim Uighurs.<\/div>
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But as a result of inward migration over past decades, that number is now almost matched by residents from the Han Chinese majority, our correspondent adds.<\/div>
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Tensions between the two groups have been high since riots in 2009, China’s deadliest ethnic violence in decades.<\/div>
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Exiled Uighur groups accuse the Chinese state of trying to crush their culture and religion.<\/div>
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But the Beijing authorities say they are fighting only violent extremists who want to take over the region and form an independent Islamic state.<\/div>
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