Published by: THE WORLD UYGHUR NETWORK NEWS, June 17, 1997

Eastern Turkistan Information Center, 6/14/97

According to Ismail Cengiz, the chairman of the Eastern Turkistan National Center in Turkey, the Chinese authorities continue to conduct fabricated trials of the Uyghurs arrested after the Uyghur youth clashed with the armed police in Gulje city of Eastern Turkistan on February 4-6. He reported to an ETIC correspondent that, on June 11, 3 more Uyghurs were convicted in causing social disturbances and hooliganism and executed in Ghulje. By his estimates, the total number of killed on and after the Ghulje events reached 162 people, and about 1600 people have been arrested. [Abduljelil, Istanbul]