(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Ijing July 12 (QNA) - Courts in China's Xinjiang region have jailed 32 people on charges of spreading extremist content online and organising terror groups.
Three were sentenced to life in prison and the remaining 29 were sentenced to between four and 15 years in prison Chinese (Xinhua) news agency reported.
Chinese officials have blamed militant Uighur groups for a growing number of violent attacks across the country.
In October last year a car ploughed into pedestrians in Tiananmen The suspects were found to have used phones and the Internet to store download and spread religious extremism and violent terror audio and video files said the statement.
They were convicted of using the materials to lead and organize terrorist groups illegally make explosives instigate ethnic hatred and discrimination and teach criminal methods it said.
Terrorist attacks have spread to other parts of the country with an attack near Tian'anmen Square in Beijing on October 28 and another at a train station in the southwestern city of Kunming on March 1 killing 29 and injuring 143. (QNA)
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