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Reports: Uyghur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia sentenced to life, 17 years in prison
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 According to a January 25 Radio Free Asia (RFA) report, citing local sources, Musa Muhammad, one of 20 Uyghur asylum seekers who was deported from Cambodia on December 19, 2009, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison by a Chinese court during a closed trial.
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2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review
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 Calls for independent and international investigations into Chinese claims of Uyghur terrorism receive very short shrift from Beijing.
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They Can’t Send Me Back: Uyghur Asylum Seekers in Europe
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 A new report by the UHRP documents the challenges faced by Uyghur asylum seekers in Europe, and examines the reasons why they fled East Turkestan or Central Asia.
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“Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”
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A new report, “Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”, examines the Chinese government’s relationships with the governments of predominantly Muslim countries, and how these relationships have muted the Muslim world’s response to China’s repression of the Uyghur people.
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Latest Articles
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Life In Prison for Asylum Seekers
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Two Uyghur asylum seekers who were deported back to China by Cambodia have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a punishment imposed in secret by Chinese authorities and described as severe by rights groups.
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What Is behind Hu Jintao’s Caution against “Western Cultural Infiltration”?
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In an article published in early January 2012 in the Communist Party policy magazine Qiushi (求是), Chinese President Hu Jintao cautioned against Western culture infiltrating and subverting China.
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PM Well-Positioned to Raise Rights in China
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As Prime Minister Stephen Harper prepares to talk energy in China, the Chinese regime faces increasing unrest that could give Canada a strong position to push for human rights.
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China: Spotlight Rights in US Summit with Xi Jinping
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United States President Barack Obama should publicly and privately challenge China’s Vice President Xi Jinping on the deteriorating human rights environment in China during Xi’s February 14 visit to Washington, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today. Xi is expected to assume leadership of the Chinese government later this year.
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Canada-China energy link a 'win-win'
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Chinese ambassador touts 'partnership' as Harper visit nears
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China Set for Goldilocks Landing?
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China will likely manage a soft landing in 2012. But economic imbalances in the Year of the Dragon will challenge the Chinese Communist Party.
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Beijing Foreign Policy Hurts China
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The Chinese Communist Party’s placement of regime security over national security interests is typical of autocracies. It’s also very dangerous.
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World Report 2012: China
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 This 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
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Hundreds Missing In Riot Aftermath
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More than two years after ethnic riots rocked China’s northwestern Xinjiang, hundreds of minority Uyghurs remain missing, casting a shadow over developments in the volatile autonomous region, a human rights group says in a report.
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Engaging Beijing With Universal Values
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Mao championed “the death of God.” Churches were banned. After his death, restrictions were loosened.
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Stopping Genocide: The Responsibility to Protect
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Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings?
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From Guantánamo to Palau - Exchanging One Prison for Another
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Ahmad Tourson spent eight years in Guantánamo as an innocent man. Then, in 2009, he was shipped off to the tiny island nation of Palau. His new situation, though, is untenable -- but the US government seems unwilling to do anything about it.
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Can China Control Social Media?
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Chinese state media bid 2011 adieu with a steady drumbeat for name registration on Weibo, the most popular micro-blogging site.
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Visit of Pakistan Army Chief to China
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“Chin-Pak dosti zandabad!” – this closing remark by Liu Jian, in an article in the Pakistan daily `The Nation` on January 10, 2011, is a telling statement about China-Pakistan relations during the past year.
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Letter from China: Taste of home
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We scrape and squeal our way through the permafrosted outskirts of Urumqi. It is midwinter, half past nine at night. Nadira is putting the finishing touches to her plans for a getaway to China's southern shores.
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Unending Plight for Uyghur Petitioners
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Local authorities in China’s troubled Xinjiang region prefer to spend tens of thousands of dollars on dragging home Uyghurs who travel to Beijing to highlight their problems instead of using the money to help alleviate their plight, an RFA investigation revealed.
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Kids Dancing in the Rain for Chinese Officials
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Photos of a group of second and third graders dancing for local communist party leaders in the rain with frigid temperatures during a New Year celebration drew critical comments from Chinese netizens.
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UNPO General Secretary States New Year Needs Resolve on Uyghur Rights
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As Chinese New Year approaches, the international community must stand ready to renew its pressure on Beijing, both to uphold the rights of its citizens but also to end the policies that are discriminating and marginalisaing Uyghurs throughout East Turkestan and China.
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Woman Shot After Self-Immolation
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Chinese security forces are believed to have shot dead a Tibetan woman in southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday in a confrontation following another self-immolation to protest Beijing's rule, according to advocacy groups and exile sources.
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China must stop genocide in East Turkestan: IGBS
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East Turkestan is a region inhabited by the Uighurs and remains in Chinese occupation against the will of its people.
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