الصين: الحكم على أربعة من مسلمي الإيجور بالإعدام

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

قضت محكمة صينية بإقليم "شنغيانغ" ذي الغالبية المسلمة على أربعة من مسلمي الإيجور بالإعدام، على خلفية إدانتهم بالضلوع في أحداث العنف التي ضربت مدينتي "كاشجر وهوتن" الصيف الماضي مما أسفر عن وفاة 32 قتيلاً.

وقد أشارت المحكمة في حيثيات الحكم أن مسؤولية الحادث تقع على عاتق المسلمين الإيجور والأصوليين أصحاب المساعي الانفصالية من أجل إقامة دولة "تركستان الشرقية".

وقد استنكر مجلس الإيجور العالمي بمنفاه بـ"ألمانيا" الحكم، مُؤكدًا تَعَرُّض المسلمين الأربعة لعمليات تعذيب بالسجن، وأن المحاكمة العلنية نوع من الخداع الحكومي؛ حيث إنه لم يتم السماح للمسلمين إلا بعدد محدود من المحامين. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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China court sentences four Uighur men to death

Men convicted over violence in Kashgar and Hotan during the summer which resulted in 32 deaths, says Chinese government

Four people have been sentenced to death by courts in China's western region of Xinjiang, over violence in two cities during the summer which left 32 people dead, a government website said.

The Chinese government blamed the incidents in Kashgar and Hotan – both in the majority Uighur southern part of Xinjiang – on religious extremists and separatists who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.

Many Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to Xinjiang, resent Chinese rule and controls on their religion, culture and language.

The courts in the two cities found the four, who all had Uighur names, to be guilty of crimes including involvement in terrorism, arson and murder, the Xinjiang government website said.

"Both cases were heard in open courts in accordance with the law, with representatives from all walks of life attending," the report said. "During the trial, the accused … confessed everything."

But the Germany-based exile group the World Uyghur Congress said the four had been tortured while in detention and were given only very limited access to lawyers.

"The so-called open trial is a special type of Chinese political swindle," a spokesman, Dilxat Raxit, said in an emailed statement.

The incidents were the worst violence Xinjiang has experienced since 2009 riots in regional capital, Urumqi, when clashes between Han Chinese and Uighurs killed nearly 200 people, many of them Han.

Xinjiang is strategically vital to China and Beijing has shown no sign of loosening its grip on the territory, which accounts for one-sixth of China's land mass and holds rich deposits of oil and gas and borders Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia.

Beijing, wary of instability and the threat to the Communist Party's grip on power, often blames what it calls violent separatist groups in Xinjiang for attacks on police or other government targets.

It says they work with al-Qaida or central Asian militants, though experts doubt the extent of those contacts.