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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11161

24 September 2014
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 28
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) china
EU condemns prison sentence on Uighur professor Tohti

Brussels, 23/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Union expressed condemnation on Tuesday 23 September of the life imprisonment sentence imposed on prominent Uighur economics professor Ilham Tohti for alleged “separatism”. The sentence handed down by a Xinjiang court is “completely unjustified”, said the spokesman for High Representative Catherine Ashton. The EU “deplores that the due process of law was not respected, in particular with regard to the right to a proper defence”,...

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