Twenty Uighurs aged 15 to 30 were convicted of "separatism"...

Twenty Uighurs aged 15 to 30 were convicted of "separatism" and "manufacture and storage of illegal weapons" by a court in China's Xinjiang region, and one of them had been executed, a court official as well as a Uighur organisation in exile said.
Idris Kadir, 29, was executed on July 19 according to the East Turkestan Information Centre (ETIC) based in Germany. East Turkestan is the name pro-independence groups in Xinjiang use for the state they want carved out of the region in northwest China.
The youths "want to split the country", said a court official in Kargilik district, who confirmed to AFP that the convictions had taken place. "They appealed the convictions but the appeals were rejected on July 19. The main accused was executed the same day," said the official, who declined to give his name.
The other 19 received sentences of three to 10 years in prison. The only woman in the group, Biya Turpu, was handed five years in jail for "acting as a cook for the Party of Islam and serving as their contact", the ETIC statement said.
Amnesty International had said earlier in the month that China was using the global war on terror to justify repression of its Uighur community who faced torture and execution when forcibly returned from neighbouring countries.