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32 jailed for terror audio, video in Xinjiang

(Xinhua) Updated: 2014-07-11 15:07

URUMQI - Courts in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have given 32 people jail terms ranging from four years to life imprisonment for spreading terror-related audio and video and organizing terrorist groups.

The courts in seven cities and prefectures of Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Aksu, Kizilsu Kirgiz, Ili, Hotan, Turpan and Bortala, handed down the verdicts for 11 terror audio and video cases on Thursday.

Of all, three were sentenced to life in jail and the rest 29 were sentenced to four to 15 years in prison, the regional publicity department said in a press release on Friday.

32 jailed for terror audio, video in Xinjiang

32 jailed for terror audio, video in Xinjiang

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