in September 2004, Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan disclosed...

in September 2004, Xinjiang Party Secretary Wang Lequan disclosed that in the first eight months of the year, Chinese authorities had prosecuted twenty-two cases of groups and individuals for alleged “separatist and terrorist activities.” He said that courts in Xinjiang had passed fifty sentences, including an unspecified number of death sentences?tia50¹⁷⁹ Because stringent state secrets regulations apply to religious and ethnic affairs, more time will be needed before the true picture of the scale and intensity of the most recent campaigns emerges.