http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org/ N/A zarapshan@gmail.com Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:12:54 -0700 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2049/1/Federal-court-denies-transfer-for-Uighur-Gitmo-detainees/index.html A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia last week denied a request made by six ethnic Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be transferred to less restrictive facilities within the base. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2048/1/Exiles-claim-China-planning-crackdown-on-Xinjiang-during-Ramadan/index.html A group of exiles from China's Muslim ethnic Uighur minority alleged Tuesday that police were planning to crack down on the Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks were carried out during the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2047/1/Chinas-ethnic-minorities-have-little-taste-for-Olympics/index.html Olympic fever that has swept most of China seems to have limited influence in Lanzhou, considered the geometrical centre of China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2039/1/Olympic-Terror-Clampdown-Targets-Beijing-Uighurs-After-Attacks-/index.html The 31-year-old musician knew something had changed when two Beijing policemen kept coming to his apartment. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2034/1/Pilots-from-rebel-Uighur-region-grounded-over-Chinese-terror-fears/index.html The three Uighur airline pilots in the Chinese aviation fleet have been ordered from their cockpits by authorities anxious to maintain security during the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2033/1/Anger-turns-to-uprising-along-the-Silk-Road/index.html It was just one month before the Olympic Games when Chinese guards led three men away to execution, somewhere amid the apple orchards, at the end of an open-air trial watched by 7,000 local Muslims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2029/1/Chinese-Officials-Defend-Dealings-with-Tibetans-Uighur-Muslims-/index.html Chinese officials say the recent attacks by Uighur separatists in the Western province of Xinjiang are not a sign of wider unrest in the region. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Beijing, officials who met with reporters Saturday defended China's dealings with ethnic minority populations, including Tibetans. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2020/1/Few-answers-in-violence-hit-Xinjiang/index.html Chen Aibao was fast asleep when the first explosions shook the centre of Kuqa – a dusty commercial oasis in the arid plains of central Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2018/1/Crackdown-on-Xinjiang-Mosques-Religion-/index.html  Communist Party document sets out new curbs on Muslim Uyghurs after a spate of attacks zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2017/1/China-faces-life-or-death-struggle-say-Communists/index.html Even though China has been ramping up security across its restive Xinjiang region for months, the local Communist Party boss has said the authorities face a life or death struggle to quell terrorism in the mainly Muslim area. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2015/1/China-Steps-Up-Scrutiny-of-a-Minority-in-Beijing/index.html The police come to the small room the young Uighur cook shares with several other Uighurs to check their papers — and to see if there are new arrivals from his homeland of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2014/1/China-warns-of-quotlife-and-deathquot-battle-with-terror/index.html The leader of China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang has warned of a "life and death struggle" against terrorism, following a series of attacks that raised fears of threats to the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2013/1/-Large-Scale-Arrest-of-Uyghurs-Following-Bombings/index.html Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities launched a large-scale search and arrest of Uyghurs following last week’s bombings in Kuqa County in China’s northwest, group says. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2009/1/Political-killings-rock-Chinas-north-west-/index.html While the world's greatest sporting festival continues in Beijing, in north-west China's Xinjiang Province there has been more political killing, the likes of which has not been seen for years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2004/1/Attack-in-West-China-Kills-3-Security-Officers-/index.html Three security officers were killed and one was wounded in a stabbing attack on Tuesday at a road checkpoint near Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road oasis in the far west of China, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2003/1/Three-Security-Officials-Killed-in-W-China/index.html Stabbings at Checkpoint Are 3rd Deadly Incident in Xinjiang Region in Days zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2002/1/Three-police-officers-slain-in-western-China/index.html An attack on a security checkpoint in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region killed three members of the security force and wounded a fourth, state media reported Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/2001/1/Early-in-the-Games-Glimpses-Of-Chinas-Security-Struggles/index.html Violence and bloodshed marring the first two days of the Beijing Olympics provided a dramatic reminder that there is no such thing as perfect security in a country as vast as China, with so many people nursing grievances against the authoritarian government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1999/1/Xinjiangs-Strife-Reverberates-in-Beijing/index.html Though far from home, Xinjiang residents in Beijing felt the effects of the deadly terrorist blasts in their home territory in northwestern Xinjiang early Sunday morning. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1998/1/Violence-taints-the-Beijing-Games/index.html Saturday's attack on American tourists, and continued unrest in Xinjiang, have tested the trouble-free Olympics Chinese officials sought. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1997/1/Violence-mars-Games-opening-weekend/index.html Bomb blasts leave 11 dead in western China; American tourist stabbed to death at Beijing landmark zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1995/1/New-Spasm-of-Violence-in-Western-China-as-11-Die-in-Wave-of-Bombing/index.html The violence in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang rose sharply Sunday morning with the deaths of a security guard and at least 10 suspects after a daring series of bombings that began with a predawn assault on a police station, the state news media reported. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1994/1/Bombing-spree-exposes-ethnic-divisions-in-China/index.html Donkeys pulled melon-laden carts through the streets and women sold bowls of yogurt Monday in the market of this mostly Muslim city in a remote corner of China, the day after militant bombings left a dozen people dead. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1993/1/How-big-is-the-Xinjiang-threat--/index.html China has for months been warning that Xinjiang terrorists were planning attacks during the Olympics - fears that now appear well-founded. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1992/1/Several-blasts-in-Chinas-northwestern-Xinjiang-state-media/index.html Several explosions rocked the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang early Sunday, state media said, citing witnesses who said they saw flashes of fire and sporadic gunshots afterwards. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1990/1/Man-sets-himself-alight-in-anti-China-protest/index.html  A man doused himself with gasoline and set himself alight during a protest Friday by ethnic Uighurs outside the Chinese Embassy in Turkey. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1979/1/Security-tightens-more-as-Olympics-get-under-way/index.html Security forces squeezed their grip on China a notch tighter Friday for the start of the Olympics, edging up restrictions in the capital and imposing much tougher ones in a restive Muslim area in the country's far west. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1977/1/China-tightens-grip-on-western-province-Xinjiang-/index.html Chinese police tightened their grip on the far-west Xinjiang province, where new terrorism threats emerged just hours before the Olympic opening ceremony. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1970/1/Chinas-Uighurs-Wary-Worried-After-Attack/index.html Fear and caution pervaded the warren of mud-brick homes and shops of this northwestern city's ethnic Uighur neighborhood Tuesday, a day after an attack on a paramilitary police unit that killed 16 officers. Residents said they feared they would be blamed because the two assailants arrested at the scene were identified by police as Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority already subject to strict security measures. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1969/1/Town-in-China-Returns-to-Normal-a-Day-After-a-Bold-Attack-/index.html Old men on donkey carts drove through this ancient city’s warren of sand-colored alleys, foreign backpackers haggled with salesmen over wool carpets, and shops and markets were open for business. A few policemen wandered around, and the faithful flocked to mosques. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1967/1/The-reality-of-Chinas-jihadist-threat/index.html The Chinese government is blaming the attack in Kashgar on Islamic terrorists. But there is very little evidence that al-Qaida is backing them. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1966/1/Jihad-in-Chinas-Far-West/index.html Kashgar is about as far as one can get from the Chinese capital of Beijing and still be in China. In fact, there is little to indicate one is still in China. Most of the people in this desert town are Uighurs, an Islamic minority group that has clashed again and again with rule of China's majority Han ethnicity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1965/1/Uighur-challenge-to-Chinese-hegemony/index.html The ancient city of Kashgar, commercial crossroads of the medieval Silk Road and home to the world's largest and most exotic Sunday market, seems an unlikely site for a terrorist atrocity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1962/1/Chinas-Olympics-must-embrace-all-of-the-nations-people/index.html Dozens of people were killed or injured in Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China, after an attack on a military police unit. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1961/1/BBC-World-Service-Interviews-Mr-Alim-Seytoff-on-the-Kashgar-Incident/index.html Mr. Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uyghur American Association, was interviewed by BBC World Service at 2:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m. London) on August 5 regarding Monday's attack on Chinese police in Kashgar. Mr. Seytoff, accepting the interview on behalf of Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer, has presented the position of UAA on the incident. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1960/1/China-how-desperation-destroyed-ideas-of-harmony-on-the-New-Frontier-/index.html Until dawn on Monday, when the peace of the city of Kashgar was broken by explosions, it would have been easy to believe in the Chinese Government’s version of the happy land of Xinjiang. The name means New Frontier, a vast area of desert and mountains remote even to most Chinese, with all the trappings of an archetypal mysterious East. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1957/1/Olympics-Clampdown-After-Attack/index.html A massive police and military operation is now under way in the far reaches of China抯 Empire in the run-up to the Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1956/1/Chinese-Muslims-cower-under-secret-police-crackdown/index.html Launching a terrorist attack in Kashgar, according to the Chinese government, is as pointless as throwing an egg at a stone. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1954/1/16-Dead-in-Xinjiang-Attack/index.html Days ahead of the Olympics, assailants reportedly kill 16 paramilitary officers in Xinjiang zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1952/1/Attack-in-China-Kills-16-Border-Patrol-Officers-/index.html Two men armed with knives and explosives ambushed a military police unit in China’s majority Muslim northwest Monday morning, killing 16 officers and wounding 16 others before being arrested, according to the state media. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1951/1/Truck-Grenade-Attack-in-China-Kills-16-Policemen-/index.html Two assailants crashed a dump truck into a paramilitary police station in the restive Xinjiang region Monday and tossed out two grenades, killing 16 policemen and wounding 16 others in an apparent terrorist attack, the official New China News Agency reported. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1946/1/-Freedom-to-travel-in-China/index.html As international journalists jet in to Beijing for the start of the Olympic Games, Hugh Sykes takes a rather slower route on the overnight train from the west of China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1945/1/There-are-three-types-of-tourist-two-can-go-home/index.html South of Beijing is an old steel town called Handan where bicycles outnumber cars. It has a nostalgic, industrial charm and spruiks itself as an "excellent tourist city" with "splendid culture". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1944/1/Citys-signs-suggest-a-house-divided-/index.html Beijing keeps wary watch on a restive region as the opening of Olympics nears, writes the Tribune's Evan Osnos. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1938/1/Travel-Restrictions-for-China-Muslims-/index.html With the clock ticking for the opening of Beijing Olympics, Chinese Muslims are complaining of travel restrictions and being picked up for strip searches before boarding. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1932/1/Chinas-credibility-on-terror-in-focus-as-Games-near/index.html For months, Chinese authorities have been publicising the threat from separatist militants in the northwest region of Xinjiang, saying members of its Muslim, Uighur minority were bent on disrupting the Beijing Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1931/1/Uighur-boxer-seeking-Olympic-glory-/index.html In the far west of China, there is a place called Yizebah. It means Orchard Village in the local Uighur language. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1928/1/Radical-Islam-stirs-in-Chinas-remote-west/index.html  In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1926/1/Agency-ordered-to-restore-benefits-to-Celils-wife/index.html A federal minister moved quickly on the weekend to reverse the Canada Revenue Agency decision that cut off benefits to the wife of a Canadian jailed in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1918/1/Homes-Raided-in-Xinjiang/index.html Chinese authorities in Gulja, which saw an armed crackdown on protests in 1997, are raiding homes in a security campaign they say is aimed at the country's huge migrant population but which activists abroad say targets minority Muslim Uyghurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1915/1/Kazakh-jazz-singer-tackles-East-Turkistan-issue-with-her-music/index.html Although Kazakh musician Saadet T&uumlrköz occasionally took to the stage to sing songs at local festivals at the age of 29 or 30, if someone had told her that one day she would become a musician who binds continents together, she would not have believed it. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1913/1/Celil-pleads-for-transfer-from-isolation/index.html In solitary confinement in China, prisoner tells relatives he's so desperate for sunlight and human contact he'll go anywhere, including a forced labour camp. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1911/1/Racial-profiling-at-Shanghais-Tomorrow-Square/index.html A guest at Tomorrow Square on People's Square has alerted us to this document entitled "Safety measures for the tenants of Tomorrow Square for the Olympic period" posted in the building. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1895/1/Uyghurs-Jailed-From-Guantanamo-to-Beijing-/index.html As a federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. military improperly labeled a Chinese Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay an "enemy combatant" and ordered that he be released, transferred, or granted a new hearing, an influential congressional committee delivered a scathing criticism of China's closed trial of 15 men on terrorism charges – resulting in the immediate execution of two defendants, three suspended death sentences, and 10 sentences of life imprisonment. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1892/1/Free-at-Last-Free-at-Last-Or-Not/index.html Could there be any more compelling commentary on America's loss of credibility among the international community then the inability of the Bush administration to find countries willing to accept Guantanamo prisoners who are scheduled for release because they have been judged by the U.S. military to have never had any ties to terrorism? zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1891/1/US-lawmakers-condemn-crackdown-on-Chinas-minority-Muslims-/index.html US lawmakers on Friday "strongly condemned" what they called Beijing's harsh pre-Olympic crackdown in China's Muslim-populated far northwest Xinjiang region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1888/1/Chinas-Treatment-of-Muslims-Under-Fire/index.html US lawmakers on Friday, July 11, denounced China's harsh crackdowns in the Muslim-majority northwest Xinjiang region ahead of the Olympic Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1886/1/China-Executes-Two-Uyghurs/index.html Authorities in Xinjiang execute two Uyghurs for alleged terror links. Fifteen others are sentenced. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1883/1/Uyghurs-Killed-in-Raid/index.html Chinese police stage a dramatic raid on a flat occupied by ethnic Uyghurs in the restive Xinjiang region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1882/1/Muslim-terrorists-killed-in-China-raid/index.html Chinese police killed five people they said were Muslim terrorists preparing to fight a "holy war" for control of China's western regions, state media said zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1881/1/Gitmo-cases-to-start-with-detainees-held-first/index.html A federal judge said Tuesday that those Guantanamo detainees who have been held the longest likely will be the first to have their cases heard in U.S. District Court, depending on security concerns and their health. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1875/1/Guantanamo-Crumbles-/index.html A federal court strikes another blow against the flimsy process used to justify detentions of 'enemy combatants.' zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1873/1/Radical-Islam-stirs-in-Chinas-remote-west/index.html In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, the Chinese government has been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1871/1/Guantanamo-Detainees-shorter-wait/index.html Last month's Supreme Court ruling sets new rules for judges examining habeas corpus challenges from detainees. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1870/1/Guantanamo-as-Alice-in-Wonderland/index.html Some of us have known for years that the US administration's basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the "War on Terror" has more to do with a fantasy world in which nonsense masquerades as truth, logic is skewed, and nothing that is uttered remotely resembles evidence that would stand up in a court of law. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1868/1/-Uighurs-at-Guantanamo-/index.html In a ruling that is years late, but is nonetheless brave and important, a federal appellate court held last week that a prisoner at Guantanamo has been wrongly deemed an “enemy combatant.” Huzaifa Parhat, the prisoner whose fate was at issue in the case, has been in US custody at Guantanamo for over six years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1867/1/Evidence-Faulted-in-Detainee-Case-/index.html In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1865/1/Human-Rights-protesters-make-a-song-and-dance-of-slamming-Beijing-Olympics/index.html CAMPAIGNERS for human rights held a ‘Jump For Justice’ protest carnival against the Chinese authorities in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics opening in August. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1863/1/No-longer-enemy-combatants-but-still-stuck/index.html The first time, we talked over strong coffee and sweet sodas in a small cafe on the outskirts of Tirana, Albania, ignoring the strong smell of decay that permeates the fringes of a desperately poor city. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1858/1/East-Turkestan-Uyghurs-Hold-Demonstration-in-Brussels-/index.html On 25 June 2008 about 150 Uyghurs from various EU countries led by their charismatic leader Rebiya Kadeer gathered with other supporters for a demonstration organized by the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in the European district in Brussels. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1854/1/AIDS-Activists-Dream-Died/index.html A young undergraduate in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang describes how authorities dismantled a grassroots organization he founded to educate people about AIDS. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1852/1/Demonstration-for-the-Rights-of-the-Uighurs-in-China/index.html “I personally invite you to participate in the demonstration the World Uighur Congress is organizing in the European district of Brussels. I will be very happy to meet you there.” zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1844/1/Court-Voids-Finding-on-Guantanamo-Detainee/index.html In the first civilian judicial review of the government’s evidence for holding any of the Guantánamo Bay detainees, a federal appeals court has ordered that one of them be released or given a new military hearing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1843/1/Appeals-Court-Invalidates-Detainees-Enemy-Status/index.html A federal appeals court in Washington has invalidated the Bush administration's finding that a detainee held for more than six years in the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba is an "enemy combatant," and has ordered the government to release him, transfer him or offer him a new hearing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1841/1/-Court-rules-on-Guantanamo-inmate/index.html In the first ruling of its kind, a US court has overturned the designation of an inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as an "enemy combatant". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1840/1/Faking-the-Olympic-Spirit-in-Chinas-Muslim-Region/index.html The Olympic torch is in China's far West and security is tight. Still, there are some who came out to celebrate the event -- 200 invited guests and a handful of well-trained Uighar schoolchildren. Journalists were watched closely. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1839/1/Foreign-media-curbed-as-Olympic-flame-passes-through-Xinjiang-and-Tibet/index.html Reporters Without Borders today accused China of breaking its promises to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by preventing foreign journalists from freely covering the journey of the Olympic flame through Xinjiang and Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1838/1/China-jails-five-clerics-for-organizing-Mecca-trips-group-says/index.html A court in China's far-western region of Xinjiang has sentenced five Muslim clerics to seven years in prison for illegally organizing haj pilgrimages to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the World Uighur Congress said on Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1833/1/Appeals-court-rules-for-Guantanamo-detainee/index.html  A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1832/1/Protest-for-prisoner-in-China/index.html Beneath a gathering storm on the outskirts of Chinatown, and across the street from the Chinese consulate, protesters gathered yesterday to urge the release of a Burlington man serving a life sentence in a Chinese jail. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1826/1/Former-Guantanamo-prisoner-deported/index.html A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner from China is to be deported from Sweden, according to a decision by the Swedish Migration Board. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1824/1/Olympics-add-to-security-misery-in-Chinas-far-west/index.html There is little doubt that in large swathes of the world's most populous country, the Beijing Olympics are being keenly anticipated as a chance to show off China's new global standing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1823/1/Olympic-torch-paraded-through-military-city-in-Chinas-northwest/index.html The Beijing Olympic torch paraded through a major military city in China's Muslim-dominated northwestern region of Xinjiang Thursday where police patrolled for terrorist activities, the government said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1821/1/Silk-Road-city-clamps-down-for-Olympic-torch-relay-/index.html Chinese soldiers lined the streets of Kashgar ahead of Wednesday's Olympic torch relay through the sensitive former Silk Road city, populated by ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1820/1/Media-freedom-pledge-ignored-in-Chinas-far-west-/index.html When China applied to host the 2008 Olympic Games, organisers famously pledged complete media freedom, to the general bemusement of rights groups who regularly berate the Communist state for locking up reporters. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1813/1/Chinas-Kashgar-locked-down-ahead-of-torch-relay/index.html China locked down the far-western city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic Muslim Uighurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1811/1/Police-out-as-torch-hits-Xinjiang-/index.html Security was tight as the Olympic torch began passing through China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, on a highly sensitive part of its trip to Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1809/1/Canadian-Imprisoned-in-China-needs-Government-Help-Amnesty-/index.html At an Amnesty International press conference in Toronto on Friday the wife of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen imprisoned in China, asked the Canadian government to step up efforts to secure her husband's release from jail in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1808/1/Exiled-Uighurs-oppose-Olympic-torch-legs-in-disputed-China-region/index.html Exiled Uighurs stepped up their opposition to Olympic torch relay legs through China's far west on Monday, one day before the flame is scheduled to be paraded in the vast Central Asian region of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1807/1/Chinese-officials-urge-Xinjiang-residents-to-skip-torch-relay-/index.html The authorities in the troubled far-western Chinese region of Xinjiang are telling people who want to watch the Olympic torch as it passes through the area to stay at home and tune in to the television instead. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1806/1/Why-US-is-quietly-pressing-for-Celils-release/index.html The United States has quietly become one of the most aggressive advocates for Huseyin Celil after Washington politicians risked the ire of Beijing and made him the subject of two motions calling for his release. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1805/1/AUSTRALIA-Olympics-Terror-Threat-a-Bogy---Experts/index.html With less than two months to go before the Beijing Olympics begin, analysts have rejected claims that terrorism is a major threat to the Games, despite recent reports from China of militant activity. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1798/1/Uyghur-Web-Site-Shut-Down/index.html “My main agenda is to promote understanding between Uyghurs and Han Chinese,” a Uyghur professor says after authorities shut down his Web site. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1797/1/Shifting-sands-tell-the-tale-of-the-Chinese-west-/index.html There has never been a marker on the ground in this area, and had there been, it would have been long ago removed, but through much of its long history, the country we know today as China has largely petered out somewhere in the vicinity of this Silk Road outpost. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1764/1/Lawmakers-demand-freedom-for-Chinese-held-at-Gitmo/index.html Lawmakers chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for allowing the Chinese government to interrogate Chinese Muslim detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and demanded they be freed in the United States. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1761/1/East-Turkestan-Senator-Brown-Speaks-Out-Over-Detained-Uyghurs/index.html Further to a resolution put before the United States Senate, Senator Brown has called on the United States to push China to make major improvements in its human rights record. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1760/1/China-Crackdown-Hits-House-Churches-Hard/index.html House churches across China have been hit by a wave of arrests and detentions, says China Aid Association, the leading support group for China’s persecuted Christians. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1759/1/Tibet-isnt-the-only-captive-nation-in-Beijings-empire/index.html The international attention being focused on China's thuggish military occupation of Tibet in the run up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing is well-deserved, but it should be remembered that Tibetans are by no means the only group in western China living under the heel of the Beijing imperialists. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1758/1/Celil-Guantanamo-Bay-and-the-rejected-refugees/index.html Languishing behind prison walls somewhere in China, Huseyin Celil may never know how much impact he has had on the continuing plight of a group of his brethren held in a controversial prison on the other side of the planet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1756/1/A-prisoners-plea---Freeing-Huseyin-Celil/index.html This month's appearance of a letter purportedly written by Burlington resident Huseyin Celil from a Chinese prison is disturbing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1751/1/Scream-in-Chinas-face-or-whisper-in-its-ear/index.html One speaker passionately insisted that quiet diplomacy is a cop-out. Another was just as strong in his conviction that it's the only way to effect change. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1747/1/China-Ethnically-diverse-forum-shut-down/index.html On May 15, Uighur Online, the main online forum serving to bridge the huge communication gap between China’s Muslim population, other minority ethnic groups, and Han Chinese, was shut down. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1746/1/Quiet-diplomacy-fails-Canadians/index.html The Canadian government likes to claim that it cares about citizens who are in trouble in foreign lands. In fact, Canada's record of assisting citizens in trouble is abysmal -- a record that stretches over the years, be it Liberal or Conservative governments. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1742/1/Suspicious-Ending-in-Trial-Concerning-Uyghur-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html Suspicious Ending in Trial Concerning Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti/ Central Government Gives Major Funds to Ministry of Public Security to Dismantle House Churches Across China zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1740/1/Combating-a-dire-China-AIDS-crisis/index.html This month, as earthquakes roiled southern China, Penn researcher David Metzger left Philadelphia to deal with a health crisis in yet another part of China - a remote city on the edge of the Gobi Desert. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1735/1/Detainee-treatment-new-details/index.html At the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military guards called their sleep-disruption efforts for detainees the "frequent-flier program." This involved constant cell changes meant to disrupt prisoners' rest and lower their resistance to interrogations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1734/1/Pray-for-me-Celil-asks-in-first-letter-from-prison/index.html For the first time, imprisoned Canadian Huseyin Celil has spoken out in his own words about his 2½-year ordeal in the Chinese legal system, saying he is quickly losing hope that he will ever see the outside world again. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1730/1/Report-US-Soldiers-Did-Dirty-Work-for-Chinese-Interrogators/index.html U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men -- or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1713/1/Formal-Court-Date-set-for-Persecuted-Uyghur-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html Xinjiang-CAA has learned that the case against persecuted Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti has progressed. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1703/1/Guantanamo-Attorneys-to-Congress-Resettle-Imprisoned-Refugees/index.html CCR Expert, Other Guantánamo Attorneys Ask Elected Officials to Move with Utmost Speed in Relocating Refugees Still Detained zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1697/1/Circle-of-steel-around-the-silk-road-/index.html He was arrested as he arrived at the school gate, in full view of fellow students and his teachers. Taken away by police, the Uygur teenager remains in jail three months later. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1695/1/Ducking-terrorism-specter-China-official-says-restive-west-safe-for-business/index.html Chinese officials sought Friday to reassure investors that the restive western territory of Xinjiang is a safe place to do business, despite alleged terrorist plots and protests among its native Turkic Muslim population. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1691/1/China-Tibet-and-the-Strategic-Power-of-Water-Pollution-and-Global-Warming-Threaten-Asias-Most-Important-Freshwater-Source/index.html Almost two years after a 710-mile (1,100 kilometer)railroad across the world's highest plateau opened from central China to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1690/1/Update-on-Prosecution-of-Uyghur-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html CAA has recently learned that the case against Uyghur Christian limujiang Yimiti, has been formally transferred to Kashi District Intermediate People's Court for formal prosecution. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1683/1/Torch-relay-worsens-China-crackdown-Rebiya-Kadeer-/index.html The planned route of the Olympic torch through China's restive Xinjiang region is worsening Chinese repression there and should be cancelled, a leader of the area's ethnic Uighur population has said. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1682/1/Chinese-Uighur-exile-urges-Olympic-boycott-over-genocide/index.html A senior exiled leader of China's Muslim Uighur minority has urged a boycott of the Olympics, accusing Beijing of "cultural genocide" alongside its crackdown in Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1678/1/-In-Chinas-wild-wild-west-/index.html Beyond the stereotypical notions of dragons and daggers, kung-fu and Confucius, lies another, less-known face of China and the people of China. In the narrow alleys and bylanes of China's glittering cosmos, you can spot people who share few facial similarities with the Chinese or Han people, and who speak Mandarin with a rough and garbled accent, if at all. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1677/1/Appeal-to-Interpol-Do-not-allow-yourselves-to-be-misused-for-Chinas-anti-terror-war-Terror-charges-against-Uighurs-are-exaggerated/index.html The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) appealed on Friday to Interpol not to allow itself to be misused for China’s anti-terror war and to reject as exaggerated Peking’s complaints of terror against Uighurs. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1676/1/There-are-other-Tibets/index.html In Xinjiang, as in Tibet, the government tries to bend unwilling subjects to its will, rather than accommodate the disparate cultures and beliefs zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1668/1/UNPO--OST-Use-Plein-To-Castigate-China-/index.html UNPO and the East Turkestan Foundation joined forces to hold a protest against China's ethnic policies outside the Dutch Parliament in The Hague's Plein on 26 April 2008. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1660/1/Uyghur-Leadership-Empowerd-by-Training-Seminar--/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) organized their second leadership training seminar in two years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1658/1/Uighurs-struggle-in-a-world-reshaped-by-Chinese-influx/index.html In China's far west, the Muslim ethnic group finds itself relegated to menial jobs. Chinese officials also restrict religious practice and use of their language in schools. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1656/1/Its-not-just-Tibet/index.html Lindsey Hilsum evades minders and a shadowy, silver Mitsubishi on the trail of the independence-seeking Uighur. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1651/1/An-Olympic-Torch-With-a-Different-Meaning/index.html The North Church at Market Square is a well-know local spot to bring your message to the public—especially one that mainstream media is not covering in depth. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1649/1/Exiled-Uyghurs-call-for-Olympics-boycott-at-Berlin-congress-/index.html An association of Uyghurs in exile accused China of "cultural genocide" and called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics at the start of a Uyghur congress in Berlin on Monday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1648/1/Uighur-rejects-terror-claims/index.html A leading activist for ethnic Uighurs denied Chinese accusations the Muslim minority group is planning terrorist attacks tied to the Beijing Olympics, saying Monday that Chinese leaders are trying to distract attention from their problems with Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1647/1/First-Day-WUC-Training-a-Great-Succes/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) together with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) organized their second leadership training seminar in two years, which opened today the 21st of April 2008. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1644/1/Restive-Xinjiang-Chinas-next-trouble-spot-after-Tibet/index.html The two young women trying on headscarves at a dusty market stall have heard of the recent unrest in Tibet's capital Lhasa, but they say the same could never happen here in China's border region of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1639/1/A-second-restive-minority-faces-Chinas-heavy-hand/index.html Almost unnoticed amid the wide-scale protests by Tibetans over the past month is the social unrest among the roughly 8 million Muslim Uighurs in China's resource-rich far western territory. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1638/1/A-Uighur-in-Guantanamo-with-no-place-to-go-/index.html A Chinese Muslim who has been a prisoner at Guantánamo since 2002 has finally gotten a hearing before a three-judge panel in Washington on the question of whether he was properly classified as an enemy combatant. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1637/1/Disappointment-and-Hope/index.html The Olympic Torch came to San Francisco on Wednesday, and was met with crowds of protesters and supporters, waving brightly-colored flags and banners. Tibetans, Darfur activists, Uyghurs, Taiwanese, as well as those loyal to mainland China all had a lot to say, turning the scenic Embarcadero roadway into quite a spectacle. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1636/1/China-Court-Reconsidering-Labor-Camp-Sentence-For-Frail-Christian----/index.html A Chinese court will reconsider whether a Uygur House Church Christian is to remain in a labor camp in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, amid worries about his health, his supporters and family said Monday, April 14. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1630/1/A-Uighur-without-a-country/index.html A Chinese Muslim who has been a prisoner at Guantanamo since 2002 has finally gotten a hearing before a three-judge panel in Washington on the question of whether he was properly classified as an enemy combatant. Certainly based on the unclassified evidence offered at the hearing last week, the judges have no choice but to relieve Huzaifa Parhat of the enemy combatant designation and order his release. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1629/1/IOC-in-the-dark-about-Beijing-terror-plots-official/index.html The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says it has received no information from China about alleged terrorist plots targeting the Beijing Games, but expressed confidence about security plans. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1628/1/China-says-it-thwarted-Olympic-terrorist-plot/index.html Cells from Xinjiang province intended to kidnap athletes, tourists and journalists, officials say, but they offer little evidence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1627/1/Curfew-in-Xinjiang-Town-After-Police-Raids/index.html Chinese authorities in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed a curfew following a series of police raids near the city of Gulja (in Chinese, Yining) looking for weapons and explosives, local residents say. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1625/1/Chinas-multiple-victims-include-its-own-public/index.html Ihad hardly finished writing a news article on repression in Xinjiang last week when word reached me of the violent suppression of yet another protest by Tibetan monks in western Sichuan Province. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1623/1/Amid-Tibet-unrest-Xinjiang-also-seethes/index.html While the world focuses on unrest in Tibet and a resulting Chinese crackdown, Beijing's leaders also face simmering tension in Xinjiang, where the reservoir of anti-China sentiment seems as deep as the region's vast oil deposits. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1622/1/China-claims-to-have-foiled-Olympic-kidnap-plot/index.html China has uncovered two terrorist gangs aiming to kidnap athletes at this summer's Olympics and attack tourist hotels, the Ministry of Public Security said today - prompting calls for officials to reveal more of their evidence. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1621/1/Uyghur-Christian-Faces-Possible-Execution-for-Subversion-of-National-Government/index.html China Aid Association has learned that Mr. Alimujiang Yimiti, a Uyghur Christian and father of two, may soon face execution. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1620/1/China-faces-Muslim-resentment-in-west/index.html There was no sign of dissent in the bazaar, where men wove through the crowd on motorcycles with freshly butchered sheep draped behind them. But a Muslim merchant pinched his lips together with his fingers to show he could not talk freely. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1618/1/Quiet-death-in-Xinjiang/index.html The Dalai Lama has been called many things in his time. Rupert Murdoch once described him as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes", while CNN's Larry King mistakenly identified the political and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people as a prominent Muslim activist. However, until last week, nobody had ever called him a terrorist. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1616/1/Months-later-Xinjiang-terror-raid-remains-a-mystery/index.html Mystery continues to surround official reports of a deadly raid in Urumqi that saved the Beijing Olympics from a terrorist attack. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1615/1/Free-Tibet-later/index.html While it is admitted here that the people of Tibet have a history that goes back 3,000 years and the Chinese did not officially claim sovereignty over the Tibetan Plateau until around 1900, the realities of the 21st century make the liberation of Tibet from Chinese rule almost an impossible dream. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1613/1/Tibet-isnt-Chinas-only-problem-resentment-still-simmers-among-Muslims-in-Xinjiang/index.html The chirpy Chinese coffee shop waitress smiled Saturday as she rattled off sites travelers should see in this jade-trading Silk Road town in Xinjiang _ a vast western region of China that like Tibet has a long history of unrest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1612/1/Beijing-Targets-Uighurs-In-Apparent-Crackdown/index.html Chinese paramilitary police sealed off a market town in central China last month and detained dozens of ethnic Uighurs, local residents and a government official said, in the latest sign of widening tension with the country's ethnic minorities. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1608/1/Chinas-Muslim-west-sees-prayers-sparks-of-unrest/index.html Thousands of Muslims gathered for prayers on Friday in southern Xinjiang, the restive border region where China fears separatist challenges, with low-key security that belied recent sparks of unrest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1607/1/Muslims-Chinese-tense-neighbours-in-ancient-Kashgar/index.html The muezzin's call to prayer at Kashgar's main Id Kah mosque is a loud reminder that millions of Muslims here in China's far west answer to a higher authority than the Communist Party. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1606/1/China-confident-of-maintaining-stability-in-Xinjiang---/index.html China said yesterday it was confident of maintaining stability in its north-western region of Xinjiang, after local authorities reported an attempted uprising there by Muslim "extremists". zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1603/1/CHINA-Minority-Outbursts-Hurt-More-Than-Olympics-PR/index.html As the outburst of anger among China’s restive ethnic minorities spreads, the danger for Chinese communist leadership is more than a a public relations fiasco ahead of the all-important Beijing Olympic games but a serious threat to its mandate, analysts here say. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1601/1/Uighur-Protest-in-Turkey-Against-China/index.html Police detained at least six Uighur Muslims on Thursday at an anti-China protest during the Olympic torch ceremony near one of Turkey's most famous tourist destinations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1600/1/BACKGROUND-China-equates-pro-independence-Uighurs-with-terrorists/index.html China's ruling Communist Party has intensified its ideological battle with members of its Uighur minority who seek an independent state in the Central Asian region known by Beijing as Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1599/1/Now-a-rebellion-in-Chinas-west/index.html China has accused Muslims in the nation's northwest of trying to start a rebellion after protests broke out in the Xinjiang province. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1597/1/Chinese-Police-Raid-Houses-in-Xinjiang/index.html Chinese police have conducted raids on several houses in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, possibly looking for weapons, sources in the area have told Radio Free Asia (RFA). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1596/1/Tackling-China-/index.html Curfews, headscarf bans and mass detentions. A Uighur activist discusses the protests against Beijing. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1595/1/Police-arrest-70-in-Chinas-restive-Xinjiang-group/index.html Police have arrested 70 people from China's minority Uighur ethnic group in the Silk Road oasis city of Kashgar, fearing trouble when the Olympic torch passes through the city in June, an exile group said on Thursday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1594/1/Muslim-separatists-protest-as-unrest-spreads-in-China/index.html Muslim Uighurs have held anti-government protests in the far western region of Xinjiang, Chinese officials have acknowledged, blaming separatists inspired by the unrest in Tibet. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1593/1/West-China-Tibet-Unrest-Tests-Beijing/index.html Unrest was reported Wednesday among Muslims in far western China, a headache for Beijing as it tries to squelch Tibetan protests and another sign that neither investment nor repression has ended anti-government feeling in the hinterlands. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1591/1/Tibetan-Protests-Appear-To-Inspire-Further-Dissent/index.html  Antigovernment unrest that began among Tibetans now appears to be inspiring protests by members of another large ethnic-minority group, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim people who live in the northwestern border province of Xinjiang. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1590/1/China-Admits-Recent-Protest-in-Muslim-Province-/index.html Acknowledging a recent protest in the Muslim, northwestern province of Xinjian, the Chinese government has announced that Islamic separatist groups are seeking to foment unrest there. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1589/1/Uyghurs-Protest-in-Chinas-Remote-Xinjiang-Region-/index.html Several hundred ethnic Uyghurs have staged protests in China’s remote and restive Xinjiang region following the death in custody of a prominent Uyghur businessman and philanthropist. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1578/1/Family-seeks-whereabouts-of-jailed-Chinese-Canadian-activist/index.html Human rights activists and family of Huseyin Celil are calling on Ottawa to put more pressure on China to reveal where the 38-year-old Canadian citizen is being imprisoned. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1577/1/Guantanamos-Uighurs-No-Justice-in-Solitary/index.html JURIST Guest Columnist Seema Saifee, a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York representing several Uighurs detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, says the US government continues to damage its own image by holding the men - all cleared for release - in complete isolation in the supermax-style facility known as "Camp VI" ... zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1576/1/A-Chinese-Muslims-Desperate-Plea-from-Guantanamo/index.html The stories of the Uyghurs in Guantánamo -- Muslims from the oppressed Xinjiang province of China, formerly known as East Turkistan -- have long demonstrated chronic injustice on the part of the US authorities to those who know of them, although they have only sporadically registered on the media's radar. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1561/1/China-detains-people-over-Xinjiang-blast-rumours/index.html  Chinese police in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have dismissed speculation there had been bus explosions in the regional capital Urumqi and detained those spreading the rumour, state media said on Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1546/1/The-other-thorn-in-Chinas-side/index.html As Chinese troops have been fanning out across Tibetan regions inside China in an attempt to quell spreading anti-government riots, another restive group has also come under intense police scrutiny in the country's northwest. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1545/1/Ethnic-repression-in-Tibet-masterminded-by-faceless-trio/index.html The architects of Chinese repression in Tibet are three senior bureaucrats little known to the outside world but destined to be the focus of condemnation from human rights groups in the months ahead. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1537/1/Chinese-Muslims-issue-plea-for-freedom-as-Guantanamo-release-stalls-/index.html In a rare direct appeal from Guantanamo Bay, a prisoner from western China says the U.S. is holding him and fellow Chinese Muslims in harsh conditions, even though authorities told them years ago they are innocent and would be released. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1536/1/Uighur-inmate-in-Guantanamo-plea-/index.html A rare letter has been published from a Guantanamo Bay detainee, belonging to the Uighur ethnic group in China, outlining harsh conditions. Abdulghappar Turkistani, 35, is one of a group of 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held at the US camp for six years. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1508/1/Interview-with-Rebiya-Kadeer/index.html George Negus catches up with Rebiya Kadeer, known as the mother of the Uyghur people, a little-known repressed Muslim minority living in far north-west China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1506/1/Ethnic-Unrest-Flares/index.html Despite Beijing’s efforts to tighten control over dissent in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, ethnic tensions involving independence-minded Tibetans and also Muslim Uighurs are flaring up dramatically. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1489/1/UNPO-Discusses-East-Turkestan-With-Martijn-van-Dam-MP-/index.html The issues of free speech, women’s rights, and religious freedom were all discussed in a meeting between UNPO and Dutch MP Martijn van Dam held today, 12 March 2008.  UNPO urged Mr. van Dam to raise the issue of East Turkestan at a forthcoming discussion of China’s human rights record.  Speaking of the meeting, Mr. van Dam declared that it had given him valuable insights into the region and issues at stake. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1488/1/Terror-Arrests-in-China-Draw-Concern-About-Crackdown-on-Dissent-/index.html On a freezing January day, Chinese police stormed an apartment building 2,000 miles west of Beijing to break up what regional government officials said was a Muslim separatist group planning to attack the Summer Olympics. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1487/1/Chinese-claim-of-foiling-terror-on-jet-doubted/index.html Terrorism and security experts dispute China's assertion that it foiled an attack last week on a commercial airliner by an Islamic suicide squad, saying the claim is filled with inconsistencies. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1485/1/MEP-Appeal-For-Respect-of-Rights-/index.html It has been a week in which the Chinese authorities have used the banner of terrorism ahead of the Beijing Olympics as a means of suppressing the rights of minorities such as the Uyghurs of East Turkestan. In response, Members of the European Parliament have taken the opportunity to express their solidarity and support for the ongoing work of Rebiya Kadeer, a campaigner at the forefront of attempts to win the freedoms supposedly guaranteed by China's constitution. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1482/1/Chinas-Curious-Olympic-Terror-Threat-/index.html The dramatic news came in the midst of China's staid and boring annual legislature: a terrorist hijacking plot, perhaps meant to mar the coming Olympic Games, had been stopped. Security forces had thwarted a plot to "create an air disaster," Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, told reporters at the ongoing session of the National People's Congress (NPC). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1479/1/Critics-question-Chinas-handling-of-alleged-terror-plot/index.html Since Chinese authorities arrested two airline passengers for allegedly plotting to blow up a domestic flight, some analysts and activists are casting doubt on the state's claim that it had thwarted a pre-Olympics terrorist plot. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1477/1/China-fabricated-terror-plots-Uighur-leader-in-US/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Monday accused China of fabricating alleged plots against the Olympics, and even of scheming to carry out its own terror attacks, to blacken her community's name. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1476/1/China-goes-quiet-over-Olympic-terror-claim/index.html China today began to retreat from a claim that a Muslim nationalist terror cell had been plotting attacks on this summer's Beijing Olympics. The claim was made on Sunday by the Communist Party secretary of the Xinjiang autonomous region of western China, which has a substantial population of Muslim ethnic minority groups. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1475/1/Olympic-terror-plot-foiled-Beijing-says/index.html Chinese authorities have revealed two alleged terrorist plots, including one targeting the Beijing Olympics, sparking new fears that militants could be escalating their activities in the lead-up to the Games. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1473/1/Recent-incidents-add-to-Chinas-edginess-about-terror/index.html A Chinese passenger jet en route to Beijing from the heavily Muslim Xinjiang region was forced to make an emergency landing Friday after the flight crew prevented at least two passengers from trying to crash the airplane, state media reported Sunday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1472/1/China-parliament-delegates-call-for-Xinjiang-crackdown-report/index.html Delegates to China's parliament have vowed to step up a crackdown on ethnic unrest, separatism and religious extremism in the western region of Xinjiang, state press said Saturday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1471/1/Uyghur-activisit-China-is-making-quotA-frontal-attack-on-our-ethnic-identityquot/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, a human rights activist for the Uighur people of northwestern China, spent six years in jail in China for "leaking state secrets" ?in fact sending local newspaper articles to her husband in the US. She was released in 2005 and has since then made her home in the Washington, D.C. area, where she advocates for Uighur rights and for greater US support of Uighur issues. In 2006, Ms. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1466/1/Chinas-minorities-should-get-self-determination--group/index.html China should grant its minority peoples the right to self determination at its annual meeting of parliament and also rename the far western region of Xinjiang as East Turkistan, an exiled group said on Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1463/1/11-Minors-Detained-in-Xinjiang-Province-for-Attending-Bible-Study/index.html CAA has learned that 11 minors and 2 adults have been detained by Xinjiang PSB officials while attending a House Church Bible Study in Huocheng County, Qingshuihe township. At 9:00pm on February 28, 2008 zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1462/1/Tortured-Abroad-Forgotten-At-Home/index.html In three different corners of the world – China, Egypt and Ethiopia – three Canadian citizens languish in prison. Each has very likely been tortured. Each is at very real risk of being tortured again. None faces any prospect of gaining their freedom soon. All seem to have been forgotten. Each deserves more from their government. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1461/1/Plight-of-Chinas-Uighur-Minority-Brought-to-Australia/index.html The Chinese dissident Rebiya Kadeer is in Australia to raise awareness about the plight of China's Uighur people. She joins the Dalai Lama and Steven Spielberg in trying to use the Beijing Olympics to turn global attention to China's human rights record. Kadeer spoke briefly to Phil Mercer, who sends this report from Sydney. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1459/1/Nomination-tally-for-2008-Nobel-Peace-Prize-hits-a-high/index.html In all 197, nominations have been made for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, the second highest to date, the Norwegian Nobel Institute said Wednesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1455/1/Fighting-for-her-peoples-rights-Rebiya-Kadeer-visits-Australia/index.html Celebrated Uighur human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and former prisoner of conscience Rebiya Kadeer has arrived in Australia on her first visit to the country. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1453/1/Tracing-human-diversity-through-the-ages/index.html A coalition of Stanford scientists has released the most detailed road map yet of human diversity, offering insight into the emergence and restless migration of the world's populations. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1451/1/Exiled-voice-wants-Games-to-cast-light-on-repression/index.html As a career woman, Rebiya Kadeer once seemed to have it all: a successful trading store that made her the 11-richest business person in China, and no less than 11 children. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1450/1/Rights-group-demands-inquiry-on-deadly-China-raid/index.html A US-based rights group called Wednesday for an independent investigation into the police killings of two suspected Muslim separatists and the arrest of 15 others in China's restive Xinjiang region. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1447/1/China-kills-two-quotterroristsquot-in-Xinjiang-raid/index.html Chinese police shot and killed two members of a "terrorist gang" and rounded up 15 others during a raid last month in the restive northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1456/1/Workers-Take-on-Chinas-Power-in-Xinjiang/Workers-Take-on-Chinas-Power-in-Xinjiang.html Small groups of Chinese migrant workers in the northwestern region of Xinjiang are challenging the might of oil powers and paramilitary farming and mining concerns in a bid to win back money they say is owed to them. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1435/1/UNPO-Meets-Dutch-MP-Van-Baalen-VVD-/index.html UNPO met Dutch MP Hans Van Baalen (VVD) to ask him to intervene at meetings planned for March 2008 between the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.  The meetings will discuss Dutch human rights policy and relations with China – topics of particular importance to UNPO Members. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1434/1/Work-could-start-on-Xinjiang-railways---NDRC/index.html Construction could start this year on three railways in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, sources with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said Tuesday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1429/1/CHINA-UYGHUR-CHRISTIANS-ARRESTED-JAILED-IN-XINJIANG/index.html Last January 12, state security officials arrived at the home of Alimjan Yimit, a Muslim convert, ethnic Uyghur and Christian house church leader in Xinjiang province, northwest China. They detained Alimjan (Uyghurs are known in most cases by a single name), telling family members that the arrest was a “national security issue,” according to China Aid Association (CAA). zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1426/1/Tom-Lantos-1928-2008-/index.html The Uyghur American Association (UAA) was deeply saddened this morning to learn of the death of Representative Tom Lantos.  zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1406/1/-Death-Stalks-Persecuted-Uyghurs-in-Dam-Square/index.html UNPO and the East Turkestan Foundation (ETF) marked the eleventh anniversary of the Gulja massacre with a vigil in front of Amsterdam’s Royal Palace on Sunday 3 February. Amid moving speeches and energetic drumming, Uyghurs sought to raise awareness of the repression and state sponsored violence that is faced everyday in East Turkestan. As the figure of Death stalked victims of the Uyghur die-in, passers-by learned of the Uyghur plight from conversations with UNPO and ETF volunteers and the hundreds of flyers that were handed out. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1392/1/China-Now-Pays-Troops-Involved-in-Nuclear-Tests/index.html China has begun paying military personnel involved in nuclear tests, as part of its effort to improve benefits for veterans, the state news media reported over the weekend. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1391/1/Senior-Party-official-Xinjiangs-stability-has-national-strategic-value-/index.html A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) urged the government of Xinjiang to be highly vigilant for splittist activities, infiltration and sabotage during an inspection tour to the region from Jan 24 to 27 zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1379/1/Northwest-Chinas-Xinjiang-elects-senior-govt-officials/index.html Nur Bekri was elected chairman of the government of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday and Arken Imirbaki senior legislator at the regional People's Congress. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1378/1/Northwest-Chinas-Xinjiang-elects-senior-govt-officials.html Nur Bekri was elected chairman of the government of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday and Arken Imirbaki senior legislator at the regional People's Congress. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1359/1/Case-Shows-Plight-of-Uyghurs-in-China-/index.html Ahmet Ablikim, a 31 year old Uyghur activist, faces deportation from the Netherlands back to China in the coming days as he awaits the outcome of his final appeal under the appeals process. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1353/1/Xinjiangs-oil-and-gas-equivalent-ranks-number-one-in-China-/index.html According to China News.com, the latest statistics from Xinjiang Oilfield Enterprises show that in 2007, Xinjiang produced 26.4 million tons of crude oil and 21.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas: ranking first in the nation for a total oil and gas equivalent of 43.3 million tons. It has become China's largest oil and gas producting area. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1349/1/Xinjiang-leads-China-in-oil-gas-production-for-1st-time-in-2007--/index.html Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China has for the first time outstripped Heilongjiang Province, in the northeast, as China's top natural gas and oil producer. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1347/1/In-surprise-move-China-lets-Celil-meet-sister/index.html In a rare event, Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil was allowed to meet one of his family members last week, as he continues to serve a life sentence in China. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1339/1/Nur-Bekri-appointed-acting-chairman-of-Xinjiang-Uygur-Autonomous-Region-/index.html Nur Bekri was appointed acting chairman of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Friday. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1312/1/--Exiled-Uighur-leader-worried-over-ailing-son-jailed-in-China/index.html The exiled leader of China's Uighur Muslims Rebiya Kadeer said Tuesday she feared for the life of her ailing son languishing in a Chinese prison. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1311/1/East-Turkestan-First-Hajj-Campaign-a-Success-/index.html This year again, large numbers of China’s Muslims will not be allowed to conduct the pilgrimage to Mecca. One of the five pillars of Islam, the Hajj is a fundamental duty for all able-bodied Muslims, but Chinese law, while theoretically protecting freedom of religion, operates a de facto selection of candidates to the Hajj on the basis of political beliefs and wealth. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1310/1/UNPO-Participates-in-Nonviolent-Radical-Party-Conference-/index.html UNPO General Secretary and Members participated in the three day conference in Brussels, co hosted by ALDE and NRP, on topics such as nonviolent strategies and the first world Satyagraha, the situation in the Middle East and enlargement of the EU. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1294/1/Oil-Money-Flows-and-City-Prospers-/index.html ON most Friday nights in Almaty, the Uzbek-themed night spot known as the Car Wash — an ornately decorated rooftop restaurant with enviable mountain views — is packed with well-heeled Kazakhs smoking water pipes, drinking, dancing and eating extravagantly. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1293/1/Lake-shrinks-desert-expands--/index.html Due to shrinking surface area, Xinjiang's largest salt lake, Aibi Lake, has increased the desertification of the area and subsequently transformed into one of China's major sandstorm sources. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1288/1/The-Supreme-Court-ponders-habeas-rights-for-Guantanamo-prisoners-/index.html J. Wells Dixon [Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights and lawyer for several Guantanamo prisoners]: "The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) returned to the United States Supreme Court yesterday for arguments in Al Odah v. United States and Boumediene v. Bush, which will likely decide the fate of about 300 men held without charge or trial in Guantanamo Bay. zarapshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org//articles/1251/1/Odyssey-for-Chinese-Muslim-ends-with-hope-for-asylum-in-Sweden/inde