People's Republic of China (PRC): Death penalty / Fear of imminent execution, Abdulmejid, Abdulahmad, three others

Index Number: ASA 17/034/2001
Date Published: 17 October 2001
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, China

Five ethnic Uighurs were sentenced to death on 15 October in the city of Gulja, known in chinese as Yining, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in the northwest of China.