BEIJING: Rights groups condemned China on Wednesday for charging a prominent Uighur critic of government policy towards the mostly Muslim minority with separatism—which can carry the death penalty.

Ilham Tohti, an economics lecturer at a university in Beijing, has been formally accused of the offense, his wife Guzaili Nu’er said.

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