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Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting in Xinjiang region that left nearly 200 people dead in July the first suspects put to death in the unrest, Chinese media said Monday.
The nine were put to death recently after a final review of the verdicts by the Supreme Peoples Court as required by law, the official China News Service said.
They had been convicted of murder and other crimes committed during the riots in the western city of Urumqi. The timing of the executions was not especially fast for China, where politically sensitive cases are often decided in weeks.
The news service said another 20 people were indicted on Monday on charges related to the deaths of 18 people and other crimes committed during the riots. All but two of the prisoners listed in the report had Uighur sounding names, with the others appearing to be Han.
Overseas Uighur activist Dilxat Raxit condemned the executions as motivated by politics and the need to appease Urumqis angry Han residents, who marched in the thousands through the city in September to demand trials of those responsible for the July violence and the perpetrators of a bizarre series of hypodermic needle attacks.
We dont think they got a fair trial, and we believe this was a political verdict, said Raxit, who serves as spokesman for the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress.
The United States and the European Union did not put any pressure on China or seek to intervene and for that we are extremely disappointed, he said.
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9 Uighurs executed over Xinjiang riots
The nine were put to death recently after a final review of the verdicts by the Supreme Peoples Court as required by law, the official China News Service said.
They had been convicted of murder and other crimes committed during the riots in the western city of Urumqi. The timing of the executions was not especially fast for China, where politically sensitive cases are often decided in weeks.
The news service said another 20 people were indicted on Monday on charges related to the deaths of 18 people and other crimes committed during the riots. All but two of the prisoners listed in the report had Uighur sounding names, with the others appearing to be Han.
Overseas Uighur activist Dilxat Raxit condemned the executions as motivated by politics and the need to appease Urumqis angry Han residents, who marched in the thousands through the city in September to demand trials of those responsible for the July violence and the perpetrators of a bizarre series of hypodermic needle attacks.
We dont think they got a fair trial, and we believe this was a political verdict, said Raxit, who serves as spokesman for the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress.
The United States and the European Union did not put any pressure on China or seek to intervene and for that we are extremely disappointed, he said.
Here is the link
9 Uighurs executed over Xinjiang riots
