Son of exiled Muslim sentenced
The son of a prominent U.S.-based Chinese Muslim activist was sentenced to nine years in prison on subversion charges, state media reported.
Ablikim Abdureyim was sentenced in Urumqi, capital of the Muslim Xinjiang region in China’s far west, after reportedly confessing to charges of “instigating and engaging in secessionist activities.” Abdureyim’s mother, Rebiya Kadeer, once a prominent businesswoman, became a critic of the Communist government’s treatment of Xinjiang’s Turkic-speaking Uighurs and was jailed. She was released to the U.S. in 2005.
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