China denied on Friday that detained Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip was secretly tried and sentenced to death, after UN experts demanded answers from Beijing.
Amnesty International said in September that it feared Tiyip, a prominent geographer, faced imminent execution after being"convicted in a secret and grossly unfair trial". The experts said they had asked Beijing for clarification on Tiyip's current location and situation and also called for his family to be allowed to visit him.
The UN experts said that"incommunicado detention, enforced disappearances and secret trials have no place in a country governed by the rule of law".
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