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 China Executes Two  Uyghur Youth without Formal Charges
From: Uyghurs@aol.com
China Executes Two Uyghur Youth without Formal Charges   Washington, Jan. 10 (UIA) -- Two Uyghur youth who were allegedly involved in a clash in April 1998 with Chinese security forces in Ghulja City were secretly
executed this morning, sources from Ghulja reported today. According to the friends of the executed, Chinese
paramilitary police, after informing and allowing their  parents and relatives to pay a last-chance visit in
Yengi Hayat Prison this morning, executed Abduhalik Abdureshet and Jur'at Nuri in Ghulja City.  China usually carries out death sentences immediately  after the public or secret trials. Most executions are  carried out with a small-caliber bullet fired into the  spinal column of the prisoner.
Both Abduhalik Abdureshet and Jur'at Nuri were from Kepekyuzi village near Ghulja City. Both of them were
arrested in April 1998 after a violent clash between six Uyghur youth and the Chinese paramilitary forces in
which all of the six were shot dead.
According to Amnesty International report on "Xinjiang issued in April 1999, Abduhalik Abdureshet and Jur'at
Nuri had nothing to do with the clash but were among the scores of villagers arrested after the clash. In July 1999, a Chinese court in Ghulja City gave
Abduhalik Abdureshet and Jur'at Nuri suspended death penalty without formal charges at a secret trial,
friends said. China relies on stiff sentencing as a pillar of its strategy in clamping down the Uyghur dissent. China usually charges all the Uyghurs who express their  dissent to the Chinese policies in one way or another as "separatist", "splittist", "subverting state power" and "terrorist". Abduhalik Abdureshet is 22-year old while Jur'at Nuri  is 23 this year.  According to the Amnesty report, the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region is the only region of People's  Republic of China where political prisoners have been executed in large numbers in recent years. Since
January 1997 [until the report was issued], Amnesty International recorded at least 210 death sentences in
the region. Chinese police on October 17 tortured Abduhelil Abdumijit, a lead organizer of the Ili Mashrap Movement, to death in the notorious Chapchal Prison in Ili Prefecture.

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