By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 7, 2021 BEIJING — China has sentenced a former education official and a former legal official in the northwestern region of Xinjiang to death with a two-year reprieve on charges including separatism and bribe taking. Sattar Sawut and Shirzat Bawudun are the latest of many Xinjiang bureaucrats, almost all members of the Turkic Uyghur ethnicity native to the region, to be sentenced on national security charges in what China calls a campaign against "two-faced officials" who are seeking to undermine Chinese rule from within the system. Such sentences are usually commuted to life in prison after two years with good behavior. Both men pleaded guilty and neither would file an appeal, said Wang Langtao, vice president of Xinjiang's regional higher people's court. National security cases are heard behind behind closed doors and it wasn't exactly clear when the men had been tried or when their sentences had been handed down.