China jails three Uighur webmasters: report

Security forces fanned out to keep China's Urumqi city in check on Monday, the first anniversary of deadly unrest that laid bare deep-seated ethnic tensions in the far-western Xinjiang region.Urumqi, the regional capital, erupted in violence on July 5 last year between the mainly Muslim Uighur minority and members of China's dominant Han ethnic group, fuelled by Uighur resentment over Beijing's rule of Xinjiang.

Security forces fanned out in China's Urumqi city on Monday, the first anniversary of deadly unrest that laid bare deep-seated ethnic tensions in the country's far-western Xinjiang region.Urumqi, the regional capital, erupted in violence on July 5 last year, as the mainly Muslim Uighur minority vented decades of resentment over Chinese rule of Xinjiang by attacking members of China's dominant Han ethnic group.

Security forces fanned out across China's Urumqi city on Monday, the first anniversary of deadly unrest that laid bare deep-seated ethnic tensions in the country's far-western Xinjiang region.Urumqi, the regional capital, erupted in violence on July 5 last year, as the mainly Muslim Uighur minority vented decades of resentment over Chinese rule of Xinjiang by attacking members of China's dominant Han ethnic group.

The head of the world's largest Muslim grouping urged China on Tuesday to match economic growth in its restive Xinjiang region with more attention to other concerns of its Uighur minority.The carefully worded comments by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), came after he completed a visit to Xinjiang as the July anniversary of deadly ethnic riots approached."We hope development on the cultural field will go hand in hand with the economic field," Ihsanoglu told reporters in Beijing before leaving China.

Chinese police said Thursday they had broken up a "terrorist cell" that carried out lethal attacks in Xinjiang as the restive region braces for the one-year anniversary of deadly ethnic unrest.The announcement was made during a Beijing press conference that came just days ahead of the July 5 anniversary of deadly rioting in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, by the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs.

Chinese police said Thursday they had broken up a "terrorist cell" accused of carrying out lethal attacks in Xinjiang as the restive region braced for the one-year anniversary of deadly ethnic unrest.The announcement was made at a Beijing press conference that came ahead of the July 5 anniversary of rioting in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, by the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs.

A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced four people to death over deadly riots in July, bringing to 26 the number of those condemned to die for the unrest, a government official said.The verdicts were handed down on Monday by a court in the regional capital Urumqi, scene of the violence that pitted mainly Muslim Uighurs against China's Han ethnic majority, leaving nearly 200 dead and over 1,600 injured."They were sentenced yesterday by the Urumqi Intermediate Court," a spokesman at the Xinjiang government who gave only his surname, Li, told AFP.

Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch’s News International were sentenced to up to 32 months in prison on Thursday.