Ujimamadi Abbas, a Uighur Muslim leader who campaigned...

Ujimamadi Abbas, a Uighur Muslim leader who campaigned for the establishment of an East Turkestan state, was executed in Xinjiang, the South China Morning Post reported. He was executed after his sentence was confirmed by Xinjiang Higher People's Court. He had been convicted on charges of subversion, organizing terrorist activities and trading in firearms. The newspaper said he had been involved in the separatist movement since 1995, playing a key role in violent riots in Yining in 1997. The US-based Uighur-American Association said Abbas fled to Nepal in 2000 but was repatriated in 2002. The Munich-based East Turkestan National Congress condemned the execution, saying it was an attempt to "terrorise our people into submission".