Imprisoned recruiter for extremist group voices regrets

Gulaman Abudula, 34, said she now is sorry now for leading many women in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region into an illegal religious extremist group because their families might be destroyed, just as hers was.

The mother of a young girl, Gulaman received a 13-year prison sentence for secession and began serving her time in 2008.

She was a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, or the Party of Liberation, which aims to unite Muslims around the world in the creation of an Islamic state, or caliphate, ruled by Islamic law.