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China defends life sentence for Uighur scholar

By Washington Examiner
Published September 25, 2014 12:56pm ET
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China defends life sentence for Uighur scholar
In this Feb. 4, 2013 photo, Ilham Tohti, an outspoken scholar of China's Uighur minority, gestures as he speaks during an interview at his home in Beijing, China. A Chinese court on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 imposed a harsh life sentence on Ilham Tohti, who championed the country's Uighur minority, the most severe penalty in a decade for anyone in China convicted of illegal political speech. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) | Andy Wong

BEIJING (AP) — China’s state media released the first comprehensive report on evidence used to convict a prominent ethnic minority scholar of separatism and send him to prison for life, as top officials defended the harsh sentence amid criticism abroad.

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