Uyghur Sentenced for Spying 2010-03-09 Political refugee—a former mayor—collected information for China. AFP Stockholm harbor, Jan. 27, 2010. STOCKLHOLM—A Swedish court has sentenced an ethnic Uyghur refugee to 16 months in prison for spying on fellow Uyghur refugees and passing information ...
CHINA has begun sentencing 20 more ethnic Uighurs - some to death - for their part in riots which left 197 people dead in the remote western city of Urumqi on July 5, as the second batch of trials of more than 1200 people arrested as a result of the carnage began today, with at least one man sent ...