According to a newswire report Communist China sentenced four more people to death Tuesday January 26, for participating in protests in Urumchi, East Turkestan, on July 5, 2009. The four appear to be Uyghurs. The sentence reached by what was little more than a show trial, in which the accused are denied any fair and independent legal process, brings the number of death sentences linked to the Urumchi demonstrations to 26. Nine executions have already taken place. A report by communist China’s mouthpiece, Xinhua said another person was given the death penalty with a reprive of two-years (normally commuted to a life sentence). A further eight people receivev a range prison sentences. Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress condemned the sentences: “Since July 5, China hasn’t stopped using these heartless methods to raise the pressure on Uighurs, we think that these trials respond to a political need in China.”
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