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Secessionist jailed

URUMQI (CHINA): A court in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Tuesday sentenced secessionist Ablikim Abdiriyim to nine years in prison on charges of instigating and engaging in secessionist activities. Abdiriyim was also deprived of his political rights for three years, according to a verdict of the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi. The verdict said Abdiriyim had spread secessionist articles over the Internet, turned the public against the Chinese Government and written articles which distorted China's human rights and ethnic policies. Abdiriyim had confessed to the charges during the trial. His legal rights were protected during the trial. — Xinhua

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