2009-04-09 Associated Press
By ALEXA OLESEN
BEIJING – China executed two members of a Muslim minority on Thursday after finding the men guilty of killing 17 police in an attack last year in the country's far west that Beijing said was an attempt to sabotage the Beijing Olympics.
An overseas activist group called for an investigation of the men's trial and allegations that they were tortured in custody.
The executions in China's Xinjiang region came a day after two Tibetans were sentenced to death for arson during riots in Lhasa last spring, showing the government's determination to tamp down unrest in regions that have chafed under its rule. An overseas group said security has been tightened in cities in Xinjiang with house-to-house searches of residents.