China: Life In Prison For Uyghur Asylum Seekers

China: Life In Prison For Uyghur Asylum Seekers   Two Uyghur asylum seekers who were deported back to China by Cambodia have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a punishment imposed in secret by Chinese authorities and described as severe by rights groups.   The duo were among 18 Uyghurs from China’s volatile Xinjiang region who were believed sentenced to various prison terms since Cambodia deported them on December 19, 2009.   The fate of a woman and two infants who were also...

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