China jails 25 more people for terror crimes in Xinjiang


  • World
  • Tuesday, 12 Aug 2014

Paramilitary policemen patrol along a street in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, May 27, 2014. . REUTERS/Stringer

BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in China's unruly far western region of Xinjiang has sentenced 25 more people to jail terms ranging from three years to life for terror-related offences, state media said on Tuesday, as the government clamps down on a surge in violence.

China has blamed attacks on Islamist separatists in the region, the traditional home of the Muslim Uighur people, who, it says, want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.

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