China has sentenced two former Uyghur officials to death in the northwestern region of Xinjiang on charges including separatism and bribery.
The verdict was handed down on Tuesday, and the execution has been postponed for two years.
Such sentences are usually changed to life imprisonment after two years, with good behavior of the convicts, reports Radio Free Europe.
Former education official Satar Savut and former law official Shirzat Budvin are the latest among many Xinjiang bureaucrats, almost all of whom are members of the Muslim Uyghur minority, to be convicted on charges of endangering national security.
Beijing calls it a campaign against "duplicitous officials who seek to undermine Chinese rule from within."
The vice president of the Xinjiang High People's Court, Wang Langtao, said both defendants had pleaded guilty and would not appeal.
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