Human rights organisations attack heavy sentence on Uighur journalist who had warned about ethnic violence in Xinjiang
Human rights groups have attacked the heavy sentence a Chinese court has imposed on a Uighur writer who posted critical articles online and spoke to foreign journalists after last year's riots in Xinjiang.
A court jailed Gheyrat Niyaz – known in Chinese as Hailaite Niyazi – for 15 years at a hearing on Friday for endangering state security. The 51-year-old had been detained since October.
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