Beijing (HRNW) Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang have handed out death sentences to two former government officials from the local Uyghur minority group, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
The two men from the Muslim Turkic minority group were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on Tuesday for carrying out “separatist activities” as well as accepting bribes.
Reprieve sentences, like those given to the two convicted men, are often commuted to life imprisonment.
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