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China Activist's Son Sentenced to Prison
2007-04-18
BEIJING (AP) - The son of a prominent U.S.-based Chinese Muslim activist was sentenced Tuesday 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 confessing to charges of "instigating and engaging in secessionist activities," the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Abdureyim's mother, Rebiya Kadeer, once was one of China's most prominent businesswomen but became a critic of the communist government's treatment of Uighurs, Turkic-speaking Muslims in Xinjiang. She was detained in 1999 and sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of endangering state security but was allowed to leave for the United States in 2005.

Kadeer said she had not been informed by the Chinese government or the court about the sentence and denounced the trial process and Abdureyim's conviction. She said her son was innocent. "They would not appoint a lawyer for him and didn't give him an opportunity to defend himself, and they held the hearing in secret," Kadeer said in a telephone interview from her home in Washington, D.C. "On what basis are they convicting my son?"
"He was a good boy, always kind to his mother, always shared his ammo ..."
The Urumqi court convicted Abdureyim of spreading secessionist articles over the Internet, instigating the public against the government and writing articles that distorted China's human rights and ethnic policies, the report said. He will also be denied political rights for three years, Xinhua said. Under Chinese law, political rights include free speech and the ability to gather or protest.

Abdureyim's two brothers were convicted of tax evasion last year.
Runs in the family, does it?
Alim Abdureyim was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $62,500 while his older brother, Kahar, was fined $12,500 but not jailed. Kadeer has said the charges are all false and her sons are innocent.
"Lies! All lies!"
The Washington-based Uyghur American Association, of which Kadeer is president, said in November that during his detention, Abdureyim had been carried out of the Tianshan Detention Center in Urumqi on a stretcher, and that the group feared he may have been "beaten or tortured."
Posted by:Steve White

#5  We should discuss this with the Chinese after the Islam has submitted/gone. Just as we had to tolerate Stalin to defeat Hitler, so we will have to choose here. I nominate the Chinese as the lesser and more rational (only by comparison) evil. They can be dealt with later as was the former Soviet Union.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-04-18 07:54  

#4  The Chinese treat the Uighurs pretty shabbily, as they do all non-Chinese. They've been trying to "rid" China of these "unwanted elements" for the last hundred years, regardless of who's in power. Momma causes China to "lose face", so the Chinese government takes it out on her children. There IS an insurgency in Xinjiang province, but the majority of it is being waged by Uighurs and Tatars from China's neighbors to the west.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-04-18 07:41  

#3  Gromky, a friend of mine is Uighur and I still have my bicycle. He's always been a decent and very interesting guy; I learn a lot about China from him.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-04-18 07:05  

#2  Freaking Xinjiang people. Pickpockets and bicycle thieves, they are.
Posted by: gromky   2007-04-18 04:58  

#1  IONews. MARIANAS VARIETY > US Cdr - TAIWAN is the reason for the US military buildup on Guam and Pacific regions; + CHIN MIL FORUM Poster > claims all of China's PLAN XIA Sub missles are all pointed only at Guam, ergo no need for China to target US mainland. *The USA is hurting China's feelings by NOT getting out of future Chinese territory in Guam-Marianas-WEST/CENTPAC [besides also HAWAII + 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-04-18 01:25  

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