http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ N/A zarapshan@gmail.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:49:30 -0800 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2409/1/Another-TibetUighur-Mirrors-the-Issues-in-Tibet/index.html The Uighurs, a nine million Muslim minority, residing in Eastern Turkistan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, are one of the worst abused people at the hands of the Chinese regime. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2408/1/A-New-Year-Message-to-Barack-Obama-Free-the-Guantanamo-Uyghurs/index.html Andy Worthington, acclaimed author and journalist in the field of human rights outlines to the UNPO his urgent request to Barack Obama to free the acquitted Uyghur detainees. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2407/1/51-Christians-Detained-in-Xinjiang-One-Young-Mother-Sentenced/index.html At 1 p.m. local time on January 2, 2009, a house church in Shayibake District of Urimuqi city, Xinjiang Autonomous Region was raided by a number of Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2406/1/-China-Is-Intimidating-Democracy-Charter-Supporters-Group-Says/index.html China is stepping up intimidation of activists who signed a letter calling for democratic reform and police have questioned or harassed at least 86 of them, China Human Rights Defenders said in an e-mailed statement today. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2405/1/Report-China-faces-wave-of-unrest-in-2009/index.html China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from a sharp economic downturn. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2404/1/The-Great-Dragon-Awakens-China-Challenges-American-Hegemony/index.html Nowadays, most International Relations analysts acknowledge China’s potential to achieve superpower status over the course of the next decades due to its impressive economic growth, which was triggered by Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms program. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2403/1/Massive-rise-in-state-security-arrests-in-East-Turkestan-in-2008/index.html The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) believes that a rise in reported arrests for terrorism, extremism and other state security charges in East Turkestan in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 2008 represents a concerted campaign to stamp out all forms of dissent among Uyghurs in the region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2402/1/Out-of-the-Closet-Chinas-Other-Tibet/index.html The 2008 Olympics held in Beijing helped bring into the limelight the plight of ethnic minorities in China, subject to 'gross human rights violations', according to Amnesty International. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2401/1/Arrests-Increased-in-Chinese-Region/index.html In the first official statistics on China’s security crackdown last year in advance of the Beijing Olympics, a report published Sunday in an official newspaper said that more than 1,100 people had been indicted in the western region of Xinjiang on suspicion of “endangering state security” in the first 11 months of last year. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2400/1/China-says-arrested-1300-Uighurs-during-2008/index.html East Turkistan is home to more than eight million Uighur population, Muslims who have complained for decades of political oppression. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800