Courts in China's ethnically-divided Xinjiang, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have sentenced 113 people to jail on mostly terrorism-related offences, as authorities press a crackdown following several deadly attacks.
Four suspects have been sentenced to life, while 109 others were given sentences for crimes ranging from "organising and leading terrorist groups" to "bigamy and drug dealing", Xinjiang's government web portal Tianshan said on Sunday.
Beijing has vowed a year-long nationwide crackdown on terrorism after attackers killed 39 people in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi last month, one of several high-profile attacks blamed on militants from the far-western region.
The report did not state the ethnicities of those sentenced, but names provided suggested they were Uighurs.
Two men found guilty of "viewing terrorist videos" and "organising terrorist training" and were sentenced to life.
One of the suspects was jailed for 10 years for receiving messages from "foreign terrorist organisations" and sharing them with seven others using the mobile messaging platform Wechat, it added.
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