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The Chinese government reportedly has backed down amid international outrage, reversing a decision to force a Uighur woman who is six months pregnant to abort her child under Beijing’s notorious population control policies.
Here's a situation that ought to be an easy test of moral character: Let's say your country's authorities have arrested a group of men and held them in prison for years without charges and without evidence, until they had to admit that there were no grounds to hold the men further.
Authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) released from the hospital a Uyghur woman who is six months pregnant with her third child, after cancelling plans to subject her to a forced abortion for violating the region's population planning regulations, according to reports from RFA.
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts is calling on China to halt its efforts to perform a forced abortion on a Muslim Uighur woman who is four months pregnant with her third child.
An exhibit on the first floor of the museum here gives the government’s unambiguous take on the history of this border region: “Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of the territory of China,” says one prominent sign.
A local government’s decision to move its administrative headquarters from one city to another has provoked two days of unrest in northwest China, according to state media and witnesses who said protesters had burned police cars and looted government offices.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has just finished its eighth summit meeting, with the "Five Day War" between Georgia and Russia proving to be a point of contention. Sreeram Chaulia looks at these differences — as well as differing views among other international organizations.
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A Uyghur woman in China avoids a forced abortion, in a case that has drawn international attention.