FILE- In this Dec. 1, 2009 file photo, economist Ilham Tohti, from China's predominantly Muslim Xinjiang region speaks to students at the Central Nationalities University in Beijing, China. The outspoken Chinese minority scholar who has been detained since mid-January 2014 was indicted Wednesday, July 30, 2014 on separatism charges amid a renewed flare-up of bloody anti-government violence in the country's far west. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)