Chinese authorities sentenced 81 people on terror-related charges — nine
of them to death — and made 29 new arrests in a huge crackdown in the
far west following deadly attacks blamed on Muslim extremists, state
media and officials said Thursday.
Four high-profile attacks on civilians since late October have handed a
major security challenge to President Xi Jinping during his first 15
months in office. The attacks have been blamed on extremists from the
Xinjiang region's native Turkic-speaking Uighurs seeking to overthrow
Chinese rule and inspired by global jihadi ideology.
