China says it detains 94 who fled July rioting

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

BEIJING — China said Wednesday that police had detained 94 people who fled the western region of Xinjiang after deadly rioting there in July — the country's worst communal violence in decades.

China continues to pursue and punish people involved in the violence, which it says left more than 200 dead, most of them from the majority Han ethnic group.

As of Friday, China has handed down 17 death sentences over the rioting.

A monthlong "strike hard" campaign in November caught the latest 94 people, police in Xinjiang said Wednesday.

A woman answering the telephone in the Xinjiang region's police office said no further details were available, including how many of the 94 were Muslim Uighurs and how many were Han. The woman gave her surname as Li.



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[David__77]

1. I hope the Han nationality chauvinists are being prosecuted fully.

A small handful of separatists engaging in terrorism is no excuse for masses of Han Chinese to form a virtual lynch mob, striking fear into the Uighur residents.