A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for "endangering state security."
Rahile Dawut's sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018 conviction, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group.
China has been accused of crimes against humanity against the Uyghur population and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls "re-education camps."
It has sentenced hundreds of thousands to prison terms.
Ms. Dawut's secret trial in December 2018 in a Xinjiang court followed her arrest the previous year for "splittism," a crime of endangering state security.
Dui Hua said Ms. Dawut was among "the long and growing list of Uyghur intellectuals" who have been detained, arrested, and imprisoned since 2016.
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