CHINA DENIES IMMINENT EXECUTION OF UIGHUR-CANADIAN

China denied a report that it was about to execute a Uighur-Canadian activist it accused of terrorism, saying his trial was not yet over.
China has waged a harsh campaign in recent years against what it says are violent separatists and Islamic extremists pressing for an independent nation of "East Turkestan" in its far-northwestern region of Xinjiang. Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs account for 8 million of the 19 million people in Xinjiang.
Huseyincan Celil, who fled China in the 1990s, was due to be executed on or before August 10 for "separatist or terrorist activities," Amnesty International said in an emailed statement.
China accuses Huseyincan of taking part in a terrorist attack on a government delegation in Xinjiang in 2000 and of murdering a Uighur in Kyrgyzstan.
Huseyincan, 37, was arrested in Uzbekistan in March and was extradited in June to China, which refused to recognize his Canadian citizenship obtained in 2005, Amnesty said.