Police in western China executed a Tibetan activist...

Police in western China executed a Tibetan activist for a string of bomb attacks in support of Tibetan independence, despite an international outcry over the fairness of his trial, the MISNA news agency website reported.
China said he confessed to being involved in the 1998-2002 bombings. The court said two of the attacks were carried out in the region of Ganzi, near Tibet's eastern border.
Another attack in April 2002 on Sichuan province's capital, Chengdu, left one person dead. Lobsang Dhondup, 28, was executed in the afternoon in Ganzi, a city near the Tibetan border in Sichuan province, immediately after a court upheld his original death sentence.
The Sichuan Provincial High People's Court also rejected an appeal by Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, a 52-year-old senior Buddhist monk, and affirmed his suspended death sentence.
Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche's death sentence was suspended for two years. Correspondents say such sentences are usually commuted to life imprisonment. The two men were convicted in December 2002 of seeking independence for Tibet and involvement in a series of bombings.
Death sentences in China are often carried out immediately after the final verdict, while suspended death sentences are often commuted to long prison terms. An official at the Sichuan Provincial High People's Court, which upheld the sentences, refused to comment on the case.
The town of Ganzi has faced repeated crackdowns by Chinese police trying to root out pro-independence activists. The area has a majority ethnic-Tibetan population and has long been a hotbed of pro-Tibetan independence activity.