China has sentenced five ethnic Muslims from the country's restive far western region for separatist activities to death Sunday.
Chinese authorities say militants among the Uighurs, which are Turkic-speaking Muslims, are leading a violent Islamic separatist movement in Xinjiang and are seeking to set up an independent state in the Central Asia border province.
However, critics accuse Beijing of using claims of terrorism as an excuse to crack down on peaceful pro-independence sentiment and expressions of Uighur identity.
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