China: Prevent executions for Uighur unrest

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Index Number: ASA 17/061/2009
Date Published: 2 November 2009
Categories: China

Nine people (apparently, eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese) have been sentenced to death for involvement in unrest earlier this year in western China. They have exhausted all their appeals, and could be executed within days once their sentences are approved by the Supreme Court.