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Chinese court upholds life sentence for Uyghur scholar

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ethnic Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti. On Nov. 21, 2014, a Chinese appeals court upheld a sentence of life imprisonment for Tohti, who was convicted of separatism in September, according to his lawyer.

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Chinese court sentences Uyghur scholar to life in prison

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in June 2010 shows Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti. On Sept. 23, 2014, the Urumqi People's Intermediate Court in the western China region of Xinjiang sentenced Tohti to life in prison for separatism, an unusually severe conclusion to a case that has drawn condemnation from around the world. The sentence, which includes the seizure of all of Tohti's assets, is the harshest punishment handed down to a Chinese activist in the recent past.

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Chinese court sentences Uyghur scholar to life in prison

URUMQI, China - The roads around the Urumqi People's Intermediate Court (C back) in the western China region of Xinjiang are blockaded by police on Sept. 23, 2014. The same day, the court sentenced Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti to life in prison for separatism, an unusually severe conclusion to a case that has drawn condemnation from around the world.

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Chinese court sentences Uyghur scholar to life in prison

URUMQI, China - Photo taken Sept. 23, 2014, shows the Urumqi People's Intermediate Court in the western China region of Xinjiang. The same day, the court sentenced Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti to life in prison for separatism, an unusually severe conclusion to a case that has drawn condemnation from around the world.

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Minority Uyghur scholar accused of separatism goes on trial

BEIJING, China - File photo taken in June 2010 shows Ilham Tohti, a prominent scholar of China's Uyghur ethnic minority. Tofti, accused of advocating independence for the country's restive Xinjiang region, went on trial on Sept. 17, 2014, amid a stepped-up crackdown on what Beijing says is terrorism committed by separatists.

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China indicts prominent Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows prominent Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, who was indicted by Chinese prosecutors on July 30, 2014, on charges of inciting separatism. Tohti has denied any wrongdoing and involvement in separatism, his lawyer said late last month after meeting the scholar at a cell in Urumqi, the capital of the far-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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Chinese, Russian presidents meet in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Chinese President Jiang Zemin (R) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (L) have talks at the Diaoyutai Guesthouse in Beijing on Dec. 9. Yeltsin arrived in the Chinese capital earlier in the day for a two-day visit. The leaders offered support for each other's country's opposition to separatism, referring to Chechnya and Taiwan.

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SCO countries discuss regional security, counter-terrorism efforts

STORY: SCO countries discuss regional security, counter-terrorism efforts DATELINE: March 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: Tashkent CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of a meeting held in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Friday STORYLINE: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has discussed regional security, countering terrorism, separatism and extremism in the member countries, the SCO's Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (SCO RATS) said on Friday. At a meeting held in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Friday, the SCO member countries approved India's proposal to hold on its territory this year a joint anti-terror drill of the competent authorities of the SCO member states, the SCO RATS said in a statement. The SCO RATS Council meeting was attended by representatives of its member countries - India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, according to the statement. The SCO RATS Council also supported the proposal of Kazakhstan to conduct a joint border

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