From Radio Free Asia, via Topix.com:
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have executed two ethnic minority Uyghurs and sentenced 15 others for alleged terrorist links, local sources have told Radio Free Asia (RFA).
The Kashgar Intermediate Court sentenced two men-identified as Mukhtar Setiwaldi and Abduweli Imin-to death and immediately executed them after a public trial July 9 in Yengi Sheher county, Kashgar, Uyghur sources and a local official said.
Three others Uyghurs were handed two-year suspended death sentences and the rest were sentenced to jail terms ranging from 10 years to life, the sources said.
All 17 were charged as members of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which Beijing accuses of terrorist ties. ETIM denies the allegation.
