03/09/10: The New York Times reports that Sweden sentenced a Uighur man to 16 months in prison on Monday for spying on a community of Uighur refugees and passing information to China. The man, Babur Maihesuti, 62, was convicted of
handing information about the health, travels and political leanings of
other Uighurs to a journalist and diplomat who was a Chinese intelligence officer.

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