Six Uygurs have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment for
secessionist activities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Xinhua
News Agency reported Sunday.
They were convicted of engaging in "separatist activities",
"training at a terrorist camp" and "illegally making explosives" by
the intermediate people's court of Kashgar last Thursday.
The six people were believed to be members of the East Turkestan
Islamic Movement, which the UN listed as a terrorist
organization.
Two were sentenced to death, two received death sentences with
two years' reprieve and the other two were jailed for life.
The court heard that the six had engaged in a series of
secessionist activities from August 2005 until this January, when
they were arrested.
Together, they planned, led and organized a terrorist camp and
led two missions aimed at securing explosives.
They made 67 grenades and two bombs that could be used for
suicide attacks with the 16 kg of explosives they had acquired,
Xinhua reported.
(China Daily November 12, 2007)