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Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR935.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 28/07/2010
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down today to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province.
He was arrested in October 2009 following ethnic unrest in Xinjiang in July 2009 and found guilty of #threatening national security# after criticising Chinese official policy towards the Uyghurs, sending news about the riots to foreign journalists and contributing to a website accused of inciting violence.
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