Five jailed for separatism in Xinjiang  

新疆喀什5罪犯因分裂国家和危害国家安全罪被严惩

罪犯屯某、斯某和阿某等5案5人均为分裂国家和危害国家安全罪，他们无视国法，分别以煽动分裂国家为目的，从二手手机市场购买内存有反动音视频资料的SD卡进行管控，先后多次给多人灌输“迁徙、圣战”内容，随时准备前往阿富汗、巴基斯坦等地进行圣战[查看全文]

Five people have received jail terms at a court in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for inciting separatism and endangering national security, the official Xinjiang Daily reported on Friday.

Sentences ranged from seven years to 15 years after a trial in the Kashgar Prefecture Intermediate People's Court, according to the report.

They were convicted of using electronic devices to spread video and audio material to incite separatist activities, illegally set up preaching sites to spread religious extremism to children and youths, holding lectures to incite ethnic hatred and plotting to commit crimes with controlled knives, it said.

South Xinjiang's Hotan, Kashgar and Aksu are areas overseas separatist forces attempt to penetrate most, where the majority of the population are Muslim Uygurs.