http://www.uyghuramerican.org en-us http://www.uyghuramerican.org N/A zerepshan@gmail.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:02:35 -0800 20 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6738/1/PM-expected-to-ask-about-Burlington-man-in-Chinese-jail-/index.html The plight of a Burlington man in a Chinese jail for what supporters say are trumped-up terrorism charges is expected to be raised by Prime Minister Stephen Harper during his visit to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6733/1/Rafto-worried-about-the-persecution-of-Uyghurs/index.html The Rafto Foundation calls on the Norwegian MFA to raise the issue of Uyghur asylum seekers sentenced to life in prison and long prison terms in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6732/1/School-Merger-Results-In-Dropouts/index.html A countywide middle school consolidation in China’s volatile Xinjiang region has led to ethnic Uyghur students dropping out of classes as local authorities move to implement a bilingual education system based on the Uyghur and the official Mandarin Chinese languages.   zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6731/1/Group-Slams-Xinjiang-Terror-Tactics/index.html An exile Uyghur group has slammed recent moves by the Chinese government to boost police numbers in rural areas of the troubled Xinjiang region, which has been rocked by ethnic strife in recent years between Turkic-speaking Muslims and Han Chinese migrants. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6729/1/China-says-to-increase-police-in-Xinjiang-for-stability/index.html China will boost police forces in its western Xinjiang region, state media said on Monday, in an effort to tackle unsanctioned religious activities in the region, which has been beset by ethnic strife and sometimes violent unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6728/1/Uncertainty-over-Uighurs-/index.html The United States is attempting to confirm recent media reports that as many as four of the 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia to China in 2009 have been sentenced to life in prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6726/1/Brothers-Look-To-Sue-Ministry/index.html Two ethnic Uyghur co-founders of a Pakistan-based rights group plan to sue the country’s Ministry of Interior for placing them under a travel ban last year, which they say was the result of pressure from Chinese authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6725/1/Two-More-Uyghurs-Get-Life-Sentences/index.html Chinese authorities have sent another two Uyghurs to life imprisonment after Cambodia deported them to China, family members and lawyers said Friday, as more details emerged regarding 21 Uyghur asylum seekers who were forcibly sent home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6724/1/-Life-In-Prison-for-Asylum-Seekers/index.html 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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6714/1/Hundreds-Missing-In-Riot-Aftermath/index.html 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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6707/1/Unending-Plight-for-Uyghur-Petitioners/index.html 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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6700/1/Guantanamo-Bay-prison-Inmates-cleared-for-release-continue-to-languish-/index.html Ten years ago today, the United States government began transporting men (and more than a few boys) from different parts of the world to an interrogation facility that had been constructed at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6699/1/Freed-from-Guantanamo-Uighur-makes-pizzas-in-Tirana/index.html Abu Bakker Qassim, a Chinese Muslim freed from Guantanamo and granted asylum in Albania, now makes pizzas in Tirana as he looks forward to being a father again, but with no hope of returning to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6696/1/Banned-Uighur-film-for-overseas-network-/index.html THE ABC has declared it will screen the controversial Australian-made documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer on the Australia Network this year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6695/1/Australia-Broadcaster-Kowtows-to-China-/index.html Australia is forever lecturing other countries, particularly small ones like Fiji, on rights and freedoms so it is particularly shocking to learn of the censorship practiced by the state-funded Australia Network to please China, largest buyer of its minerals. The domestic Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) may also be implicated. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6694/1/6-year-old-Missing-After-Terror-Incident/index.html New details emerge about the seven Uyghurs killed in a hostage incident in China’s restive Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6692/1/Sweden-Deports-Uyghurs-to-China/index.html Authorities in Sweden have deported two Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs to China after their request for political asylum was refused, sparking fears among other Uyghur asylum-seekers that they will also be sent home where they may be persecuted. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6691/1/China-must-reveal-whereabouts-of-Uighur-children-detained-after-deadly-clash/index.html The Chinese authorities must reveal the whereabouts of up to five Uighur children reportedly detained after a deadly clash with police on 28 December in Hotan, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in western China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6690/1/China-Faces-Ongoing-Tension-in-Restive-Xinjiang/index.html China's far northwestern Xinjiang region is settled primarily by the Muslim Uighurs who have long chafed under Chinese rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6685/1/Children-Caught-In-Crossfire/index.html Five children remain detained in a village in China's Xinjiang region five days after a fight between police and ethnic Uyghurs.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6683/1/Shot-terrorists-may-have-been-religious-refugees/index.html A group of seven alleged kidnappers killed by Chinese police in the troubled Xinjiang region last week were ethnic Uighurs trying to flee the province, a new report claims. It also says that women and children were caught in the crossfire. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6680/1/Women-Killed-Children-Captured-In-Standoff/index.html New details emerging from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region indicate that at least two of seven ethnic Uyghurs killed in a confrontation with police were women, and that children as young as seven years old were among those detained following the violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6679/1/Reports-Describe-Deadly-Clash-in-Restive-China-Region/index.html Police officers killed seven people they accused of being kidnappers in a remote mountainous area of Xinjiang on China’s turbulent western frontier, according to state-run news organizations on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6678/1/Trafficking-Victims-Mother-Seeks-Redress/index.html A Uyghur woman in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region who believes her child was sexually abused by human traffickers is seeking intervention from the United Nations after she says she was discriminated against by local officials who would not take on her case. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6677/1/Armed-Clashes-in-Xinjiang-/index.html Armed clashes between police and ethnic minority Uyghurs in China's troubled Xinjiang region have left at least eight people dead, police sources said, as an overseas Uyghur group questioned the veracity of official reports on the incident. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6676/1/China-Uighurs-offer-different-account-of-deadly-shooting/index.html Chinese officials said they killed seven members of the Uighur ethnic group in the restive western region of Xinjiang in order to free two hostages -- an account the Uighurs disputed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6675/1/Pakistani-Officials-Acknowledge-Closer-Ties-with-China/index.html During a year marked by increasing strain on the relationship between Pakistan and the United States, Pakistani officials publicly emphasized closer ties with China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6672/1/China-police-kill-seven-hostage-takers-in-Xinjiang/index.html China said Thursday police killed seven "terrorists" who took hostages in the nation's restive Xinjiang region during a rescue operation that left one police officer dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6671/1/Uyghurs-Held-After-House-Searches/index.html Authorities in China's troubled northwestern Xinjiang region have stepped up security checks on citizens, an overseas rights group said on Tuesday, as at least five ethnic minority Uyghurs are detained for possession of material deemed subversive by Beijing zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6670/1/Han-Students-Beat-Uyghur-Teacher/index.html Han Chinese students in China’s northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region beat an ethnic Uyghur teacher while his Han colleagues stood by in a large scale fight which may have been fueled by state propaganda, according to various sources. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6669/1/Two-years-later-Uyghur-deportees-status-a-mystery-/index.html TWO years after Cambodia sent 20 Uyghurs seeking refugee status back to China against their will, grave concerns about their whereabouts remain, rights groups said this week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6665/1/Former-Uighur-Surgeon-Discloses-Live-Organ-Harvesting-in-China/index.html A Uighur refugee and former surgeon, Enver Tohti, spoke with NTD about how he harvested organs from Uighur prisoners who were still alive.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6658/1/Dozens-Disappeared-After-Assault/index.html More than 20 ethnic minority Uyghurs have been reported missing in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region following a police crackdown launched after a Uyghur man went on a bloody rampage, according to residents. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6655/1/Neighborhood-in-far-west-China-tries-veil-ban/index.html A city district in heavily Muslim western China is trying to tamp down religious fervor by prohibiting people from wearing veils, traditional Arab dress or growing long beards. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6653/1/Western-China-city-seeks-to-banish-Muslim-veil/index.html A city in heavily Muslim far western China has begun a campaign to discourage veils and growing long beards in a bid to “dilute religious consciousness”, media reports said on Thursday.     zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6642/1/Uighur-film-too-hot-for-ABC-Asia/index.html THE Australia Network, which has this week been permanently placed in the hands of the ABC, has failed to screen controversial Australian-made film The 10 Conditions of Love, about the exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6644/1/Azad-Kashmir-East-Turkistan-and-Gilgit-Baltistan-The-Unknown-Lands/index.html Hosted by Ms. Kristiina Ojuland and Jürgen Creutzmann, Members of the European Parliament, with the support of the Friends of Gilgit Baltistan in the European Parliament and the SADF, the European Parliament debated the situation of Azad Kashmir, East Turkistan and Gilgit Baltistan on Wednesday Morning. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6641/1/Seven-Detained-Over-Kadeer-DVDs/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have detained seven ethnic minority Uyghurs after police raids confiscated DVDs featuring exiled Uyghur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer, whom Beijing has blamed for ethnic violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6640/1/Chinas-jailed-Uighurs-Out-of-sight-not-out-of-mind/index.html For the first time in more than a decade, China is not the world's worst jailer of the press in CPJ's annual census of imprisoned journalists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6639/1/UNPO-Co-Hosts-Panel-Discussion-At-Forum-On-Minority-Issues/index.html Panel organized by UNPO and Minority Rights Group discusses violence against minority women and their access to justice zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6638/1/Uyghur-Youth-Dies-in-Jail/index.html A young Uyghur died in a Chinese jail in Xinjiang last month shortly after a visit from his mother, who reported signs of abuse, the young man’s father said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6631/1/UNPO-Representatives-Prominent-At-UN-Forum-On-Minority-Issues/index.html UNPO Members strongly represented at annual UN Forum for the discussion of issues facing minority populations worldwide zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6625/1/Worlds-oldest-waterway-featured-in-documentary/index.html Turkish journalist and researcher Dursun Özden has made a documentary revealing the world's oldest waterways and historical water structures in Anatolia during a six-month visit to 66 Turkish provinces. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6620/1/China-rushes-thousands-of-police-to-restive-Xinjiang/index.html China has rushed thousands of special police forces to Urumqi, capital city of northwestern Xinjiang province, where it is battling to contain separatist East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) militants. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6619/1/Pakistan-and-China-hold-joint-military-exercises/index.html Islamabad:  Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said on Thursday that Pakistan has done its utmost to eliminate the threat to China posed by militants operating in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6614/1/Parents-Seek-Apology-Compensation/index.html Parents of Muslim Uyghur students in northwestern China are calling for an apology and compensation to cover medical expenses after their children were hospitalized in an attack by Han Chinese schoolmates that some say was racially motivated. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6597/1/Come-My-Dark-Eyed-One-to-receive-its-DC-premiere-by-The-Washington-Chorus/index.html In addition to Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, the audience of The Washington Chorus’ season opening concert on November 18 will experience the Washington, D. C. premiere of Julian Wachner’s Come, My Dark Eyed One.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6588/1/Cultural-Relics-Recovered-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Police in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have recovered over 3,600 historical relics from China's western region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6577/1/China-blames-incidents-in-Tibet-and-Xinjiang-on-separatists/index.html A senior Chinese official blamed Tibetan separatists for encouraging young people to commit suicide, noting that monks and nuns who set themselves on fire were not acting voluntarily in the autonomous region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6551/1/Uyghur-Refugee-Threatened/index.html A Pakistan-born Uyghur who fled to Afghanistan after being harassed for rejecting China’s offer to be a spy says he is facing pressure from Beijing-friendly groups to return to Pakistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6542/1/Anti-Terror-Law-Changes-Raise-Concern-/index.html Ethnic Uyghurs in China's far western Xinjiang region are expected to face the brunt of a beefed up anti-terrorism law which together with plans to legalize secret detention can further stifle dissent, rights groups and experts say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6533/1/Xinjiang-keen-on-reviving-historic-trade-ties-with-India/index.html The regional government of China's far-western Xinjiang region is keen to revive the frontier trade with India that once flourished along the disputed western section of the border and is courting Indian involvement in plans to develop a special economic zone in the border town of Kashgar, officials have told The Hindu. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6527/1/CPC-elects-new-party-chief-for-Xinjiang-/index.html Zhang Chunxian was elected secretary of northwest China’s Xinjiang Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6526/1/Two-earthquakes-reported-in-China/index.html Two separate earthquake of moderate intensity jolted the western and the northwest parts of China early Tuesday, but there were no reports of casualties. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6515/1/Xinjiang-leader-to-visit-India-next-week/index.html India is reaching out to China's restive province of Xinjiang. Nur Bekri, chairman of Xinjiang province, will make his first visit to India early next week with a business delegation that is primarily aimed at assessing Indian interest in China's north-western province - both politically and economically. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6514/1/Unfulfilled-Hajj-Dream-for-Uighur-Muslims-/index.html While millions of Muslims worldwide prepare for the spiritual hajj to Makkah early next week, China’s Uighur Muslims are giving up their dream of the life-time journey under the security oppression of the home country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6506/1/New-Laws-to-Crack-Down-on-Uyghurs/index.html China is contemplating new legislation to define terrorism more precisely, raising fears that the government is using the so-called ‘war on terror’ to crack down on Uyghur separatists in the country’s restive Muslim region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6490/1/China-considers-new-law-better-defining-terrorism-/index.html China said Tuesday that it is considering new legislation to better define terrorism and allow for the public listing of terrorist groups, in an effort to strengthen prosecution against domestic threats and bolster Beijing's role in international cooperation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6489/1/China-to-legally-define-terrorist-activities/index.html China's legislature on Monday began reading an anti-terrorism draft bill which is expected to pave the way for further crackdowns on terrorism by defining terrorist acts and organizations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6484/1/Chinese-policeman-refused-asylum/index.html The Federal Migration Office has turned down the asylum application of a Chinese policeman who denounced the alleged trade in organs from executed prisoners. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6481/1/Violence-Protests-at-Xinjiang-School/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang confirmed clashes between Han Chinese and Muslim Uyghur high-schoolers in Karamay city last Friday, but denied any ethnic conflict, saying it is "normal" for teenagers to fight. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6472/1/Fake-Group-Welcomes-Chinese-Minister/index.html An organization in Pakistan with close ties to the Chinese authorities compelled several Uyghurs and local Pakistanis to attend a welcoming ceremony in Islamabad for China’s public security minister in an apparent bid to portray that the Uyghur community backs Beijing, local sources said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6459/1/Kadeer-Malaysia-not-to-be-trusted-with-asylum-seekers/index.html Malaysia is "better for refugees" screams the front page lead story of The Age newspaper. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6458/1/German-court-frees-man-convicted-of-spying-for-China/index.html A German court convicted a 45-year-old Uyghur man of espionage on behalf of China on Wednesday, finding that he monitored exiled Uyghurs - but freed him with a one-year suspended prison term. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6457/1/Asylum-Seekers-Pressured-to-Return/index.html Nearly a dozen Uyghurs in the Netherlands have been refused political asylum three or more times and are facing intense pressure from Dutch authorities to return to China, where they are likely to face persecution, according to a Uyghur at a refugee camp. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6451/1/Uyghur-leader-back-in-Australia/index.html One of the world's best known freedom activists has warned Australia that Malaysia has a record of sending refugees back to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6435/1/Chinas-14-million-sheep/index.html For the man who has everything, this year's prize bauble in China is a £1.4 million sheep bred in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6430/1/Demonstrations-Planned-for-National-Day-of-China-/index.html In an effort to raise awareness of Beijing's egregious disregard for human rights in the region, the World Uyghur Congress along with Uyghur organizations worldwide are staging mass protests on 1 October 2011, China's annual celebration of its statehood.  For indigenous populations forced to live under Beijing's oppressive rule for more than six decades, this marks a day of mourning and sadness. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6429/1/Laid-Off-Profs-Reject-Deal/index.html A group of 20 Uyghur professors at a teachers college in northwestern China has refused new positions in school security after they were laid off because they could not speak fluent Mandarin, saying that authorities should abandon a policy of bilingual education in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6428/1/Pakistan-Pledges-to-Attack-Anti-China-Militants/index.html Pakistan has promised a visiting Chinese official that it will crack down on Chinese Muslim separatists who use Pakistani territory as a base for attacks in neighboring China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6426/1/Uyghur-Prisoner-In-Kazakhstan-Fears-Extradition-To-China/index.html  A Uyghur man from China's northwestern Xinjiang Province who has been jailed for entering Kazakhstan illegally is worried he will be deported to China, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6424/1/Pakistan-hosts-top-Chinese-security-official-and-war-games-with-Saudi-as-ties-with-US-plunge/index.html Pakistan hosted China’s top security official and staged war games with Saudi Arabia on Monday, strengthening ties with two regional players as its relationship with the United States plummets over allegations Islamabad supports insurgents in Afghanistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6423/1/Education-Dilemma-for-China-Muslims/index.html Despite living in autonomous regions, thousands of Chinese Muslims are suffering under harsh educational systems imposed by the communist government to erode Qur'an and religious studies from schools and colleges. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6417/1/Teachers-Fired-Over-Mandarin-Ability/index.html Uyghur primary school and kindergarten teachers in China’s Xinjiang region are losing their jobs at an alarming rate because they cannot speak fluent Mandarin, according to instructors, as Chinese authorities move to increase bilingual education in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6408/1/Uyghur-Scholars-Classes-Canceled/index.html A university in the Chinese capital has canceled a class taught by prominent Uyghur professor Ilham Tohti on immigration, discrimination and development in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang, where many Muslim Uyghurs chafe under Beijing's rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6402/1/Xinjiang-Doesnt-See-Foreign-Link-in-Attacks-/index.html Local authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region backed away Friday from earlier claims that assailants in a series of recent attacks there had been trained overseas, muddying the central government's assertion that the violence is being fueled by international terror groups rather than homegrown separatists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6400/1/Chinas-Uighers-fear-a-Han-economic-takeover-/index.html China's minority Uighur community, the majority of whom live in the northeastern autonomous region of Xinjiang, fear they could be left isolated by Chinese government plans to modernise and develop the region economically. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6399/1/Deportees-Whereabouts-Unknown/index.html The whereabouts of 11 Uyghurs deported by Malaysia to China are still unknown nearly one month after their extradition, though Beijing is required by law to inform family members of their jailing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6398/1/China-Sentences-Four-Uighurs-to-Death-Over-Unrest/index.html Four men who the government says were behind the bloodshed this summer in the far western region of Xinjiang have been sentenced to death, the state news media reported on Thursday. Two other men were given 19-year prison terms. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6397/1/China-Sentences-4-Ethnic-Uighurs-to-Death/index.html Courts in China have sentenced to death four members of the Uighur minority ethnic group following deadly attacks in the country's restive Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6396/1/China-sentences-four-to-death-over-Xinjiang-attacks/index.html Four members of the Uighur minority have been sentenced to death over attacks in China's restive Xinjiang province, which left 32 people dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6395/1/China-court-sentences-four-Uighur-men-to-death/index.html Men convicted over violence in Kashgar and Hotan during the summer which resulted in 32 deaths, says Chinese government zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6392/1/Four-Sentenced-to-Death/index.html China has sentenced four ethnic Uyghurs to death in connection with a series of July attacks in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region which left dozens of people dead, state media reported Thursday, drawing condemnation from overseas groups. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6390/1/Call-for-Responsible-Investments/index.html A week after Chinese authorities hosted an international trade fair in Xinjiang, exiled Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer called on foreign companies to consider what she called "humanitarian responsibility" when conducting business in the volatile region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6388/1/CCP-Uses-911-as-quotExcusequot-for-Crackdown-on-Uyghur-Muslims/index.html A decade has gone by since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th. Now the Chinese regime continues using the global fight against terrorism as an excuse to crackdown on Uyghur Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region of China—that’s according to a press release of the German-based organization the World Uyghur Congress (WUC). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6380/1/China-uses-911-to-crack-down-on-Xinjiang-group/index.html Over the past decade China has used the global "war on terror" to jail thousands of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in the far-western and restive Xinjiang region, according to a minority rights group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6374/1/China-Kyrgyzstan-Ties-Warm/index.html Earlier this week, senior leaders from China and Kyrgyzstan met in Beijing to discuss how the two countries could work more closely together in combating regional terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6361/1/Deportation-Based-on-Bogus-Claim/index.html Chinese authorities made a false claim to convince the Thai government to extradite a Uyghur last month for his alleged involvement in ethnic riots, according to a Uyghur exile group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6360/1/Uyghur-Flag-Protesters-Detained/index.html Authorities in northwestern China have detained  five ethnic Uyghur Muslims for “inciting separatism” after the men refused to honor the national flag at a ceremony held inside their mosque, according to residents and exile Uyghur groups. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6359/1/Controls-Remain-After-Expo/index.html Authorities in the troubled western region of Xinjiang are maintaining a tight grip on the regional capital Urumqi, even after the closure of an international trade fair, residents said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6356/1/Rights-Group-Urges-China-to-Account-for-Forcibly-Returned-Uighurs/index.html U.S. based Human Rights Watch is asking China to account for at least 17 ethnic Uighurs forcibly returned from Malaysia, Thailand and Pakistan in August. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6353/1/Taiwan-tourists-trapped-in-Xinjiang-traffic-jam-amid-intensified-security/index.html A Taiwan tour group of 17 travelers was trapped in a severe traffic jam in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region yesterday amid intensified security measures in the area. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6345/1/Urumqi-In-Anti-Terror-Lockdown-/index.html As Urumqi braces for a five-day trade fair, China says it has foiled "terror" plots by extremists during a visit by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6344/1/Officials-Slam-Deportation-/index.html Two senior U.S. lawmakers who co-chair a commission monitoring human rights in China criticized Malaysia on Wednesday for its decision to repatriate nearly a dozen ethnic Uyghurs last month and called on Beijing to reveal the whereabouts of the men. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6343/1/Uighurs-in-short-supply-at-far-western-China-trade-fair-/index.html China's far western region of Xinjiang opened its largest ever trade fair on Thursday, but a marked absence of the Uighur people who call the area home underscored the challenge facing the government in addressing the root economic causes of unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6342/1/China-Attacks-thwarted-in-Xinjiang-few-details-/index.html A Chinese official said security forces defused several plots to sabotage an international trade fair in the turbulent region of Xinjiang, though he provided few details. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6340/1/US-lawmakers-seek-China-news-on-deported-Uighurs/index.html Two senior US lawmakers on Wednesday criticized Malaysia for sending 11 ethnic Uighurs back to China and urged Beijing to reveal the group's whereabouts. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6339/1/A-quiet-Ramadan-in-Chinas-far-west/index.html Tunsahan Umer sits quietly in her dark apartment, staring at the clock. Her small home, from the outside, looks like any in small-town China - a non-descript square block of freshly-painted red apartment buildings. Its insides, however, are anything but ordinary. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6338/1/Expo-Sparks-Travel-Chaos/index.html Tight new security regulations ahead of a politically sensitive event in China's troubled western region of Xinjiang have sparked travel chaos around the country as airports are ordered to carry out extra security checks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6337/1/Heavy-security-in-Xinjiang-ahead-of-trade-fair/index.html Fears of violence have prompted a widespread deployment of security forces across much of China's far western Xinjiang ahead of a major trade fair, which opens here on Thursday and is aimed at boosting the region's fast-growing trade links with Central Asia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6325/1/Pakistan-Denies-Link-to-Chinese-Terror-Group/index.html Pakistan's foreign minister is denying claims made by some Chinese officials that her country had anything to do with terrorist attacks late last month in Xinjiang, in China's far west. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6324/1/China-asks-US-to-respect-its-domestic-concerns/index.html Dismissing US charges that it suppressed legitimate political dissent of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China on Thursday said it has contributed "greatly" to the global fight against terrorism and asked the international community to fully respect its domestic concerns. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6320/1/Hisham-defends-decision-to-deport-Uighurs/index.html The decision to send back 11 Chinese Uighur Muslim refugees to China last week was justified as they were involved in criminal activities, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6318/1/Deported-Chinese-Muslims-at-grave-risk/index.html Chinese Uighur Muslims fleeing prosecution in China will face an uncertain fate if Malaysia deports them back to China , says human rights group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6317/1/Source-of-Poison-Questioned/index.html Doctors in northwestern China say authorities are withholding information about a food contamination case that has led to the deaths of a dozen people and sickened some 120 others, raising suspicion over the source of the poisoning. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6312/1/Canadian-diplomatic-trips-to-China-accomplished-little-US-ambassador-says-/index.html Canada's early efforts to re-engage with China amid a long diplomatic chill served only to "placate" Canadian business leaders while accomplishing little else of note, according to a U.S. diplomatic note newly made public by WikiLeaks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6310/1/Malaysia-Deports-Uyghurs/index.html Malaysia has repatriated nearly a dozen Uyghurs to China, drawing widespread condemnation from international rights groups who say they are likely to face persecution upon their return. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6306/1/Malaysia-condemned-for-deporting-Uighurs-to-China/index.html A human rights group criticised Malaysia on Tuesday for sending a group of ethnic Uighurs back to China and urged an end to such deportations over fears of mistreatment and even torture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6305/1/5-Uighur-Chinese-held-in-Malaysia-risk-deportation/index.html The U.N. refugee agency sought access to five ethnic Uighur Chinese arrested in Malaysia amid criticism by rights activists Tuesday over the country's deportation of 11 others to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6304/1/Rights-group-urges-Malaysia-to-prevent-forced-return-of-Uighurs/index.html Malaysia should immediately ensure that five Chinese citizens of Uighur ethnicity among at least 16 arrested in raids earlier this month are not forcibly returned to China, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6303/1/Rights-Groups-Denounce-Malaysia-for-Deporting-11-Chinese-Uighurs/index.html Leading human rights groups are denouncing Malaysia's decision to hand over a group of ethnic Uighurs to China rather than permitting them to appeal for asylum to a U.N. agency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6302/1/China-blacklists-US-scholars-over-their-book-on-Xinjiang/index.html China’s much exhorted call on the West to come and see the real China before you say or write about it does not apply to a group of 13 US scholars because Beijing has blacklisted them for having written on the Xinjiang issue, seven years ago, without submitting to its censorship, according to a washingtonpost.com report Aug 21. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6300/1/Uighur-deportation-casts-doubt-on-Malaysian-deal/index.html Amnesty International Australia says it has grave concerns that Malaysia has deported a group of refugees registered with the United Nations in Kuala Lumpur. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6299/1/Chinas-Uighur-petitioners-face-abuse-in-Beijing/index.html Members of the Turkic minority have traveled from faraway Xinjiang to file grievances. Unable to find housing, they resort to living under bridges. Some have been detained, then sent home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6298/1/Uyghur-Leader-Turns-to-Chinese-People/index.html Uyghur exile leader Rebiya Kadeer has appealed to the Chinese people to help Uyghurs in Xinjiang push for self-determination as Beijing launched a "strike hard" campaign in the wake of violent attacks in the ethnically troubled region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6297/1/Malaysia-says-deportees-trafficked-humans/index.html MALAYSIAN authorities have confirmed the deportation to China of 11 men from the Uighur ethnic minority, insisting they were not refugees but members of a human trafficking syndicate they had been tracking for a month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6296/1/Vinegar-contaminated-with-antifreeze-kills-Chinese-Muslims-at-Ramadan-meal/index.html Investigators blame vinegar stored in former antifreeze barrels for mass food poisoning outbreak in Xinjiang region zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6295/1/Pakistans-foreign-minister-to-make-a-maiden-visit-to-China-for-talks/index.html Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar will arrive in Beijing on her maiden visit on Tuesday in the backdrop of China blaming terror camps in the country for attacks in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6290/1/US-scholars-say-their-book-on-China-led-to-travel-ban/index.html Thirteen American scholars say they have been barred from traveling to China because of a book they wrote, an incident that raises awkward questions about academic freedom at a time of unprecedented collaboration between U.S. and Chinese universities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6289/1/Tensions-Amid-Xinjiang-Clampdown/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled western region of Xinjiang have recruited thousands of new security personnel, beefing up guard on streets, apartment blocks and shops following a string of violent incidents in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6281/1/Chinese-commandos-in-campaign-against-Xinjiangs-Islamist-rebels/index.html Security forces will comb through cities 24 hours a day to conduct identity checks and searches zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6275/1/China-bolsters-police-in-ethnically-tense-region/index.html China announced a two-month "strike hard" security campaign Tuesday in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, with 24-hour police patrols of crowded areas, identity checks, street searches, increased criminal investigations and accelerated trials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6273/1/China-Launches-Crackdown-in-Restive-West/index.html  Chinese security forces have launched a two-month "strike hard" crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following renewed ethnic violence in the restive western region of Xinjiang, the regional government said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6272/1/China-Launches-Police-Crackdown-in-Xinjiang/index.html Security forces have launched a two-month crackdown in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang in response to a string of deadly incidents. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6270/1/Big-boat-little-punch-in-South-China-Sea-/index.html The Chinese aircraft carrier that began sea trials last week is by far the largest warship of any country in Asia and in certain realms could give China game-changing capabilities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6268/1/VOA-Chinese-Services-Interviews-UAA-President-Alim-Seytoff/index.html UAA President Alim Seytoff talks about the recent violence in Hotan and Kashgar and the reasons why the Uyghur people are not happy under Chinese rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6266/1/China-Begins-Security-Crackdown-in-Western-Region/index.html China announced a two-month “strike hard” security campaign on Tuesday in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, with 24-hour police patrols of crowded areas, identity checks, street searches, increased criminal investigations and accelerated trials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6265/1/Checkpoints-Circle-Urumqi/index.html Authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have announced a fresh "strike hard" campaign targeting "terrorism" and "Islamic extremism" following a wave of violent attacks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6264/1/China-launches-2-month-Xinjiang-terror-crackdown/index.html Chinese security forces have launched a two-month "strike hard" crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following renewed ethnic violence in the restive western region of Xinjiang, the regional government said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6263/1/Farmers-Sent-to-Reeducation-Camp-/index.html Seven Uyghurs from China’s restive Xinjiang province who went missing after petitioning the central government last year over what they called unfair farm policies have been sent to reeducation camps, according to relatives of the men. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6260/1/Chinese-Regimes-Anti-Terror-Unit-Enters-Xinjiang/index.html After recent outbursts of violence in Xinjiang, far western China, Chinese communist authorities dispatched an “elite” anti-terrorism squad to carry out “anti-terrorist missions” on Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6256/1/China-remodels-Silk-Road-city-but-scars-run-deep/index.html The call to prayer echoes across the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, drawing believers into the main mosque under the watchful eye of armed police, as building cranes loom in the distance. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6255/1/China-deploys-elite-anti-terrorism-unit-to-restive-Xinjiang/index.html China has sent an elite anti-terrorism unit to the restive far western region of Xinjiang in the wake of recent violence there and ahead of an international trade convention, a state newspaper reported Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6250/1/Rights-group-demands-answers-in-Uighur-case/index.html Human Rights Watch has called on the government to explain why it handed over an ethnic Uighur arrested in Bangkok to Chinese officials without following due legal process. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6248/1/ChinaThailand-Account-for-Uighur-Man-Turned-Over-to-Chinese-Officials-/index.html The Chinese government should immediately allow access to Nur Muhammed, an ethnic Uighur who was handed over to Chinese officials in Bangkok on August 6, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6247/1/Pakistan-Deports-Uyghurs/index.html Pakistani authorities have deported five ethnic Uyghurs to China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region where they may face persecution on their return, according to the head of a Uyghur exile group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6243/1/Five-Chinese-nationals-deported/index.html Five Chinese citizens arrested in different areas of the country were deported on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6241/1/Land-seizures-in-Chinas-Kashgar-fuel-anger-among-Uighurs/index.html Uighur merchant Obul Kasim carries emotional scars from his confrontation with an unbending government after he failed to save his 100-year-old mud-brick home from demolition, a victim of the urban renewal marching across the historic Silk Road. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6240/1/Uyghur-held-in-Thailand/index.html Authorities in Thailand have arrested a Uyghur fleeing China’s restive northwestern Xinjiang region, according to reports Monday as Uyghur exile groups expressed concern he could be deported home and be severely punished like many of his compatriots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6238/1/Xinjiangs-Communist-Party-Chief-Vows-Crackdown-on-Separatists/index.html The senior Communist Party official in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province has vowed to crack down on what he called Islamic extremism and terrorism in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6239/1/China-vows-crack-down-on-terrorism-after-attacks/index.html The top official in China's restive Xinjiang has vowed to "resolutely" crack down on "terrorists" after a series of deadly attacks hit the northwestern region, the local government said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6237/1/China-Vows-Crackdown-on-Religious-Extremists/index.html China's state media say the top official in western Xinjiang region has ordered a harsh crackdown on religious extremists in the heavily Muslim region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6235/1/Al-Jazeera-Interviews-UAA-President-Alim-Seytoff-on-Kashgar-Incident/index.html UAA President Alim Seytoff and other guests discuss the latestunrest in ancient Uyghur cities of Hotan and Kashgar and Chineserepression in East Turkestan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6234/1/Turkey-concerned-over-Xinjiang-incidents-calls-for-investigation/index.html Turkey has said in a statement that it is concerned over recent incidents in China’s restive Xinjiang region that has left several dead, calling to bring criminals before justice. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6232/1/Experts-question-if-China-attacks-planned-abroad/index.html Chinese Muslim militants have been to Taliban-controlled parts of neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan, but there is scant evidence supporting Chinese government claims that they returned home to carry out recent terrorist attacks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6231/1/Rising-Tension-in-Chinas-Xinjiang-Region-after-Weekend-Attacks/index.html Days after last weekend’s violence in Kashgar city, local residents are tense and edgy. The city has been placed under heavy security, as armed Chinese paramilitary police patrol the streets. More than 20 anti-riot vehicles have been deployed in the city center. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6229/1/Excessive-Force-in-Suspect-Killings/index.html Authorities shot dead two Uyghurs allegedly behind weekend violence in Xinjiang in a bid to explicitly warn members of the ethnic minority group questioning Chinese rule in the northwestern region, analysts said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6228/1/Ramadan-Curbs-Follow-Violence/index.html China is placing restrictions on its Muslim Uyghur population during the fasting month of Ramadan, following a string of violent attacks in its northwestern region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6226/1/Xinjiang-Needs-Rights-Not-Money/index.html A STRING OF recent violence in Xinjiang has the autonomous region tense and security forces and government entities on edge. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6223/1/Fear-stalks-Chinese-residents-in-Kashgar-after-attacks/index.html The deserted streets and shuttered shops in the usually bustling Chinese areas of Kashgar city Wednesday stand as testament to the splintered ethnic lines in the western region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6217/1/Beijings-Ethnic-Policies-Flawed/index.html As China warns of a harsh crackdown following ethnic violence in its troubled western region of Xinjiang, experts say the latest attacks in Kashgar city point to serious problems with government policies towards ethnic minorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6215/1/Security-heavy-in-west-China-city-hit-by-attacks/index.html Machine gun-toting paramilitary police guarded major intersections Tuesday in a far western Chinese city where 20 people have died in recent violence the government blames on Muslim extremists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6213/1/Beijing-cracks-down-in-Uighur-region/index.html The head of the regional Xinjiang communist party ordered a crackdown by police on suspicious activities including religious ceremonies after a weekend of deadly violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6212/1/China-says-Islamic-radicals-were-behind-violence-in-Kashgar/index.html The city of Kashgar is home to many Uighurs, a Turkic minority. Authorities say one of the attackers had ties to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a group opposed to Chinese rule in west China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6211/1/Pakistan-Pledges-to-Support-China-in-Fighting-Xinjiang-Militants/index.html Pakistan says it will support China in fighting Islamist militants whom Beijing blames for recent deadly violence in its northwestern Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6210/1/China-Points-to-Pakistan-in-Xinjiang-Attack-/index.html China pointed a finger at Pakistan, one of its closest foreign partners, as it blamed one of two deadly weekend attacks in the northwestern Xinjiang region on Muslim extremists trained across the Pakistani border.‬ zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6208/1/China-Says-Attackers-Pakistan-Trained/index.html Han Chinese in the western Kashgar city said they remained mostly indoors on Monday following deadly weekend attacks, as military personnel patrolled the streets and the government blamed "terrorists" trained in Pakistan for the violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6207/1/Fifteen-die-in-bomb-and-knife-attacks-in-restive-Chinese-province-of-Xinjiang-/index.html At least 15 people have died in a weekend of violence in China's restive far western province of Xinjiang, as fears rise that tensions between the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority native to the region and the majority Han Chinese are set to explode again. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6206/1/China-knife-attack-and-explosions-leave-several-dead/index.html Two men knock down and stab pedestrians as blasts are heard, leaving several dead and injured in Xinjiang zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6205/1/Eruption-of-violence-in-Chinas-Xinjiang-/index.html Four Uighur suspects killed by police in clashes following twin knife attacks that left 10 civilians dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6204/1/Weekend-violence-in-Uyghur-region-kills-14/index.html A blast in a northwest China city killed three people Sunday afternoon, state media reported. Police subsequently shot and killed four suspects and arrested four more. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6202/1/Deadly-Attacks-in-Kashgar/index.html At least 14 people were killed and 40 others injured in fresh violence in the ethnically torn Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region over the weekend, according to state media and other reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6201/1/UN-Human-Rights-Committee-Raises-Concern-over-the-Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-in-Its-Review-of-Kazakhstan/index.html In concluding observations and recommendations released today, a United Nations expert body noted with concern that Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member state Kazakhstan “may be willing to rely” on diplomatic assurances provided within the SCO framework “to return foreign nationals to countries where torture and serious human rights violations might occur.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6196/1/HRIC-Calls-for-Full-and-Transparent-Investigation-of-July-18-Incident-in-Hotan/index.html Human Rights in China (HRIC) is deeply concerned over the July 18 violence reported in Hotan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which resulted in at least 18 reported deaths, and official depictions of events that contradict eyewitness accounts. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6191/1/Details-of-Alleged-Xinjiang-Terrorist-Attack-Still-Sketchy/index.html It has been more than a week since China's remote western Xinjiang region was hit by its worst unrest in more than year.  Details of the incident still remain sketchy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6187/1/Uighur-leader-fears-for-China-detainees-after-clashes/index.html An exiled leader of China's Uighur minority said Monday she feared for the safety of dozens of people she said were injured in recent clashes with police in the country's Xinjiang region and then detained. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6179/1/Uygur-resentment-at-unfair-practices/index.html Hotan's Uygurs attribute a deadly attack on a police station to long-standing unhappiness with the dominant Han over perceived acts of injustices. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6173/1/IFJ-urges-greater-transparency-from-Xinjiang-authorities/index.html The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the authorities of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to release all information and allow journalists to report on the latest deadly clash between policemen and rioters on July 18. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6171/1/Xinjiang-Tibet-continue-to-haunt-CPCPLA-leadership/index.html The situation in the Chinese-controlled Xinjiang region of China and in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region continues to haunt the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has been observing the 90th anniversary of its formation this month, and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which has been observing the 60th anniversary of its occupation of Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6168/1/End-Injustices-Says-Exile-Leader/index.html An ethnic minority leader in exile has called on authorities to end injustices against Uyghurs in northwestern China to prevent further violence following Monday’s assault on a police station that left about 20 dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6166/1/China-says-Xinjiang-attack-killed-18-Uighurs-dispute-account/index.html A total of 18 people were killed during an assault on a Chinese police station in the restive western province of Xinjiang on Monday, including 14 Muslim Uighur attackers who were shot by police, state media said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6165/1/Clashes-Sparked-by-Death-Beatings/index.html Bloody clashes in China's restive western region of Xinjiang that may have left about 20 people dead erupted after Chinese police beat to death Uyghurs involved in a peaceful demonstration, a Uyghur exile group charged Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6163/1/Chinas-Police-Shoot-Xinjiang-Rioters-as-Xi-Warns-on-Tibet/index.html China’s Vice President Xi Jinping warned Tibetans against separatist activities after forces fired on rioters in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, underscoring the struggle to manage ethnic tensions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6162/1/China-shunning-Palau-for-taking-Uighurs-president/index.html Chinese investment in Palau has dried up since the Pacific nation granted asylum to six former Guantanamo detainees from the Chinese Muslim Uighur minority, President Johnson Toribiong said this week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6159/1/2-years-after-uprisings-violence-resurface-in-Xinjiang/index.html Trouble resurfaced in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang Monday when Chinese police shot at civilians killing scores of people in the Uyghur populated city of Hotan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6158/1/-In-Chinas-Far-West-Ethnic-Strife-Continues/index.html The heat of the summer in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has been punctuated once again by mass violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6157/1/China-Enforced-disappearances-of-four-Uyghur-men_Fear-for-their-safety/index.html The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in the People's Republic of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6156/1/Chinese-Police-Gun-Down-Xinjiang-Demonstrators-in-Clash/index.html Police gunned down rioters in northwestern China's Xinjiang region yesterday, with the official state media and an organization representing the Uighur ethnic group giving conflicting accounts of the incident. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6154/1/Incursion-at-Police-Station-Leaves-4-Dead-in-West-China/index.html At least four people died Monday in the troubled Xinjiang region of western China after a group of unidentified people invaded a local police station and took hostages, state-run Chinese news outlets reported. The police station was said to have been set afire. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6153/1/Clashes-in-Silk-Road-Town/index.html An attack on a police station in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang left four people dead and one person critically injured, official media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6145/1/Virtual-Jails-for-Prisoner-Families/index.html Families of Uyghur political prisoners in northwestern China say their lives may be worse than those of their loved ones serving time in jail. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6141/1/Xinjiang-airport-to-ensure-safety-via-passenger-info-system/index.html The international airport in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, will fully implement the advanced passenger information (API) system on July 20 to strengthen security, local authorities told Xinhua Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6133/1/Uyghur-Students-Caught-Praying/index.html Ethnic minority Muslim high school students in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have been expelled from their school for attending a mosque, a Uyghur website reported this week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6120/1/Uyghur-Leaflets-Prompt-Crackdown/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have detained at least six people following the appearance of leaflets in Aksu city calling for independence from Beijing, an overseas Uyghur group said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6111/1/Xinjiang-Riots-Anniversary-Continued-Suppression-of-Uighurs/index.html Two years after riots broke out in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China and the atmosphere is still tense there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6110/1/East-Turkestan-Fresh-Arrests-As-Ershidin-Israel-Remains-Missing/index.html Kazakhstan violates its commitments to international extradition law by putting Israel at risk of torture.  His whereabouts have been unknown since his arrest in May 2011. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6112/1/Call-for-Western-Pressure/index.html A leader of the Uyghur community in exile has called on Western nations to act as a "bridge" for dialogue with Beijing over demands for self-determination and accusations of human rights abuses in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6100/1/Tibetans-Show-Support-for-Uyghur-at-Brussels-Demonstration-/index.html A group of 10 Tibetans joined Uyghur protesters outside the Chinese embassy in Belgium on July 6, showing their solidarity with the people of East Turkestan. The peaceful demonstrators were protesting the events of July 5, 2009 in Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6089/1/Show-of-Unity-on-Anniversary/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have tightened security in its capital, Urumqi, on the second anniversary of deadly ethnic riots in the city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6088/1/Huge-police-presence-in-China-on-second-Xinjiang-anniversary/index.html China today deployed huge number of riot police to avoid any untoward incident in Xinjiang province on the second anniversary of the ethnic riots that claimed the lives of 200 people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6087/1/China-Oppression-Silences-Uighur-Muslims-/index.html Two years after the unrest that shackled the Muslim-majority Xinjiang, voices of ethnic uighurs are still silenced by jail and surveillance cameras imposed by Chinese government, Amnesty International said on its website on Tuesday, July 5. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6086/1/Chinese-Security-Efforts-Questioned-Two-Years-After-Xinjiang-Riots/index.html Chinese state media are questioning whether security forces have gone too far in cracking down on dissidents in western Xinjiang province two years after deadly riots that killed nearly 200 people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6085/1/China-Vows-to-Remain-Vigilant-in-Restive-Xinjiang/index.html The Chinese government is dismissing reports claiming human rights abuses continue in China's far-west mainly Muslim province, Xinjiang, two years after deadly race riots claimed scores of lives. A new report from Amnesty International says Chinese authorities continue to silence members of the indigenous Uighur community following the July 2009 unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6084/1/Amnesty-Blasts-Beijing-on-Xinjiang-Crackdowns/index.html Amnesty International issued a statement Monday blasting Beijing for a protracted crackdown on ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, a region in China's far West. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6079/1/China-Authorities-grow-bolder-in-Uighur-crackdown/index.html Two years on from riots and mass arrests in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Amnesty International has warned that the Chinese authorities continue to silence those speaking out on abuses during and after the unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6078/1/China-pledges-to-boost-restive-Xinjiangs-economy-ahead-of-2-year-anniversary-of-deadly-riots/index.html The governor of China’s restive western region wants to boost its economy by further opening it up to external trade and investment, state media said Monday, the eve of the second anniversary of the region’s worst ethnic violence in over a decade. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6069/1/Christian-Muslim-Jewish-Leaders-Unite-to-Support-Chinas-Persecuted-Uyghurs/index.html China’s persecution of the Uyghurs, nine million Turkic-speaking Muslims, will be the focus of an inter-faith conference in Toronto on July 5. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6032/1/Security-Tight-in-Xinjiang/index.html Authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have stepped up security ahead of the second anniversary of deadly ethnic riots in the regional capital, Urumqi, residents said on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6022/1/Uyghurs-Face-Travel-Ban/index.html Two ethnic Uyghurs from Pakistan were prevented from leaving their country to attend a summit in Turkey following demands by China, one of the men said, in the latest example of Beijing’s influence over its neighboring governments. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6012/1/China-Urumqi-goes-with-the-flow-of-walled-river/index.html A bid to escape Uighur riots provides quiet moments of reflection beside a once destructive Chinese river zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6004/1/Urumqi-Two-Years-On/index.html After the protests in Ürümqi on 5 July 2009, thousands of extra police and soldiers were brought into the city. On 7 July the authorities reported that almost 1500 people had been arrested for taking part in the demonstration, which they described as 'a pre-empted, organised violent crime'. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/6001/1/Xinjiang-Party-Boss-in-Rare-US-Visit/index.html U.S. Senators have held rare talks with the Chinese Communist Party boss of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, who has been widely accused of blatant human rights abuses against ethnic Uyghurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5996/1/Fabricated-Evidence-Used-in-Deportation/index.html Documents used by Kazakhstan as grounds to deport an ethnic Uyghur to China were irrelevant and doctored, according to the man’s brother and a Uyghur rights activist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5995/1/Uighur-teacher-extradited-to-China-on-politically-motivated-terror-charges/index.html A Uighur schoolteacher is facing politically motivated terror charges in China after he reported a death in custody, Amnesty International said today following his extradition from Kazakhstan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5989/1/Deported-Uyghur-Faces-Terrorism-Charges/index.html China on Tuesday slapped terrorism charges on a Uyghur who claims to have witnessed the death in detention of a fellow Uyghur following ethnic unrest in the country’s northwestern region of Xinjiang two years ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5988/1/China-confirms-extradited-Uighur-facing-terror-charges/index.html China on Tuesday confirmed that an ethnic Uighur schoolteacher faces terror charges after being extradited from Kazakhstan where he had won refugee status. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5985/1/Second-west-east-natural-gas-transmission-project-completed/index.html The construction of the second west-east natural gas transmission pipeline has been completed, and it will be up and running at the end of June, according to an announcement made by China National Petroleum Corporation on June 13. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5979/1/Uighurs-from-Gitmo-apply-for-residency/index.html THREE Chinese Uighurs who were for years detained as terrorists at the US's Guantanamo Bay have applied to come to Australia with their families. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5965/1/Rafto-Foundation-condemns-deportation-of-Uyghur-teacher-to-China/index.html Kazakhstan deported Uyghur refugee Ershidin Israel on May 30 to China. His current whereabouts and situation is unknown. Rebiya Kadeer, the 2004 Rafto Prize laureate, has used her freedom since her release from the Chinese prison in 2005 to raise the issue of the repression Uyghurs face and their struggle for human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5956/1/Kazakhstan-Made-Conflicting-Accusations/index.html Authorities in Kazakhstan fed contradicting accounts about the background of a Uyghur refugee to organizations monitoring his safety before deporting him last month to China, where he could be punished, according to a lawyer overseeing the case. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5944/1/UNHCR-Refuses-to-Shed-Light/index.html The U.N. office for protecting refugees confirmed Monday that it has withdrawn the refugee status of a Uyghur schoolteacher who was deported last week by Kazakhstan to China, where he could be punished for exposing torture and death in Chinese prisons. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5943/1/Kazakhstan-Extradites-Uyghur-Journalist-/index.html Arshidin Israil, a Uyghur refugee from China and a contributor to Radio Free Asia (RFA), RFE/RL's sister organization, was extradited on May 30 from Kazakhstan to China, where he faces charges of terrorism.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5942/1/Kazakh-deports-Uighur-to-China-rights-groups-cry-foul/index.html Kazakhstan has extradited an ethnic Uighur schoolteacher who had been granted U.N. refugee status to face charges of terrorism in China, a diplomat said on Tuesday, and rights groups said he could face torture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5931/1/Kazakhstan-extradites-Uighur-who-helped-publicise-Chinas-brutal-suppression-of-riots/index.html A Uighur activist who helped publicise China's brutal suppression of riots in the summer of 2009, has been extradited to China by the Kazakh government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5920/1/Criticism-over-Deportation/index.html A global rights group has criticized the UN refugees office in Kazakhstan for withdrawing the refugee status of a former Uyghur schoolteacher and facilitating his deportation to China, where he could be punished for speaking up on torture and death in Chinese jails. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5919/1/Freedom-House-Condemns-Kazakhstans-Decision-to-Deport-Uyghur-Refugee/index.html Freedom House condemns Kazakhstan’s decision to deport Ershidin Israil, a Uyghur schoolteacher who fled China in the summer of 2009 after ethnic riots in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5918/1/UN-To-Hear-Chorus-of-Condemnation-Over-Israel-Extradition/index.html UNPO has addressed its concerns directly to Chinese and Kazakh authorities as human rights organizations across the world have been uniting over the past days to denounce the decision to return ethnic Uyghur, Ershidin Israel, to the People's Republic of China where he is likely to face detention, possible torture, and an uncertain fate. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5910/1/Kazakhstan-Deports-Uyghur-Teacher/index.html Kazakhstan has deported to China an ethnic Uyghur wanted by Beijing for speaking up on torture and death in Chinese jails, placing his life in jeopardy, his lawyer and rights groups said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5901/1/Freedom-House-Condemns-Kazakhstans-Decision-to-Deport-Uyghur-Refugee/index.html Freedom House condemns Kazakhstan’s decision to deport Ershidin Israil, a Uyghur schoolteacher who fled China in the summer of 2009 after ethnic riots in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5899/1/3-Killed-in-Factory-Explosion-in-Xinjiang/index.html At least three people were killed in a factory explosion Wednesday evening in Urumqi, the capital city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous, according to witnesses. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5890/1/Uyghur-in-Chinese-Custody/index.html Kazakhstan is believed to have handed over to Chinese custody an ethnic Uyghur fighting deportation to Beijing after he spoke up about torture and death in Chinese jails. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5887/1/Ethnic-Eating-Adventures-Cafe-Kashkar/index.html Welcome back to another installment of Ethnic Eating Adventures, in which we travel far and wide to discover the hidden culinary delights of New York City. Inspired by the warm weather, today we're traveling to Brighton Beach to sample some Uighur food at Cafe Kashkar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5886/1/Xinjiang-to-recruit-9200-bilingual-teachers/index.html China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will recruit around 9,200 bilingual primary and middle school teachers this year to promote bilingual education, local education authorities said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5889/1/Uyghur-Repatriation-Imminent/index.html An ethnic Uyghur, once acknowledged by the U.N. as a refugee, is set to be deported to China after a Kazakh court refused to grant him political asylum, according to his brother. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5869/1/China-gives-initial-approval-for-first-Xinjiang-UHV-power-line/index.html China has given preliminary approval to build an ultra-high voltage (UHV) power line to send large volumes of electricity from the coal-rich northwestern Xinjiang region to energy-hungry east China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5867/1/Students-hold-prayer-vigil-for-jailed-activist-/index.html Five Hamilton high school students and their religion teacher, who held a prayer vigil to draw attention to jailed Burlington activist Huseyin Celil, were told to stay away from the front of the Chinese consulate. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5845/1/FM-Iran-to-broaden-ties-with-Chinas-Xinjiang-province/index.html Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes expansion of cultural ties with Muslim-populated Xinjiang province in northwestern China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5840/1/In-Chinas-Wild-West-A-Black-Gold-Rush-Takes-Shape/index.html Situated at the heart of the Xinjiang region, Karamay is rich in oil and increasingly vital to China's energy strategy. The 'black gold' has fueled local development, and transformed this sleepy backwater. But ethnic splits could create conflict. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5785/1/Uyghurs-Push-Self-Determination/index.html Uyghur exile groups have decided at a landmark international conference to push ahead with the right to self-determination for the people of China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5784/1/Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Take-Part-in-Anti-Uyghur-quotTerrorquot-Exercise-in-China/index.html China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have carried out counterterrorism exercises in Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang province, under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5783/1/Afghan-foreign-minister-visits-China-for-talks-underscoring-deepening-ties/index.html Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasoul met with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Tuesday, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the neighbors as the U.S. prepares to reduce its military presence in Afghanistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5771/1/Ancient-Uyghur-Canals-Cant-Stop-Desertification/index.html In northwestern China, traditional water supplies can't quench the massive thirst for development. Government desertification cures don't include saving an ancient canal system that had sustained locals for centuries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5770/1/US-Prioritize-Rights-in-China-Dialogue/index.html The United States should demonstrate its concern over the Chinese government's crackdown on dissent by raising human rights at all segments of next week's US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5768/1/China-Seeks-Global-Help-in-Fighting-Uighur-Separatists/index.html China is calling for the international community to help fight what it says is its own homegrown terrorist problem in mostly Muslim Xinjiang.    zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5766/1/China-Jails-Slave-Boss/index.html A court in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang has handed down a four-and-a-half year jail term to the boss of a factory that used a group of mentally disabled people as slave labor, a labor rights group said, lamenting the light sentence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5764/1/SCO-Member-States-Kazakhstan-and-Kyrgyzstan-Prevent-Uyghur-Activists-from-Attending-Conference-in-United-States/index.html Human Rights in China (HRIC) is extremely concerned over the recent efforts of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to interfere with the travel of individuals of Uyghur ethnicity to a conference titled "The Future of Uyghur People in East Turkestan." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5761/1/Press-Freedom-Day---WUC-Condemns-Ongoing-Violation-Of-Uyghur-Freedom-Of-Expression/index.html On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated annually on the 3rd of May, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) condemns the ongoing violation of the right to freedom of expression of the Uyghur people in East Turkestan and draws the attention of the international community to the fate of imprisoned Uyghur media workers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5760/1/Uyghur-Leader-Barred-from-Travel/index.html Authorities in Kazakhstan have blocked Uyghur exile leader Kahriman Ghojamberdi from traveling to Washington D.C. for a meeting of the World Uyghur Congress, underscoring Chinese pressure on the central Asian state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5759/1/VOA-TV-Interviews-Alim-Seytoff-WUC-Spokesperson--UAA-President/index.html Voice of America Chinese Service Satellite TV has interviewed Mr. Alim Seytoff, Spokesperson of the World Uyghur Congress and President of the Uyghur American Association on Wednesday April 27 in its "Issues and Opinions" program. The program was broadcast live to China at the time of interview. Many interested Chinese callers called the show and asked Mr. Seytoff all kinds of questions regarding the Uyghur people and history. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5710/1/Farah-Aliyeva-quotInterest-in-mugham-is-due-to-its-depth-and-philosophical-orientationquot/index.html The second International Mugam Music Festival has finished in Baku. Mugam is believed to be an ancient eastern tradition, which requires a performer of exceptional musical memory and hearing, with the ability to improvise and compositional talent. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5707/1/The-Uighurs-Passover-Story/index.html Once you have been at Guantánamo for years, what counts as an "appropriate" home? The Supreme Court, in denying cert. Monday in Kiyemba v. Obama, came up with an odd answer.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5701/1/Uyghur-Refugee-In-Kazakhstan-Faces-Extradition-To-China-/index.html A Uyghur refugee who fled to Kazakhstan after ethnically charged clashes in China's northwest Xinjiang province is facing extradition to China, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5700/1/Xinjiang-man-stabs-six-passers-by-and-kills-himself/index.html A young man has stabbed six people and killed himself in Xinjiang, western China, state media has reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5693/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-lose-Supreme-Court-appeal/index.html The US Supreme Court rejected Monday an appeal by five Uighurs who have been held without charge at Guantanamo since 2002 and are seeking resettlement in the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5685/1/Clash-Over-Detained-Petitioners/index.html A group of more than 50 Uyghurs clashed with police in northwest China Sunday after authorities forced five petitioners to return to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5677/1/Uighurs-long-to-live-free--let-them/index.html We sat down on the edge of Tirana, in an open air café in the shadow of Albania’s snow-capped Mount Dajti. A line of animals — a goat, some cows, some sheep — slept tethered to a store rail across the street. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5676/1/Turkish-ambassador-discusses-Arab-unrest-relations-with-China-/index.html While many countries in the Middle East have been wracked by severe unrest, one Muslim country seems to maintain its stability while its neighbors disintegrate.  To find out why, the Global Times columnist interviewed Murat Salim Esenli, the Turkish ambassador to China, about this and other issues related to Sino-Turkish relations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5660/1/Petitioners-Return-to-Beijing/index.html Two Uyghur petitioners are back in China’s capital after they were forcibly returned to their hometown in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) for petitioning in front of the United Nations office and speaking to foreign media about their grievances. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5650/1/German-man-charged-with-spying-on-exiles-for-China/index.html Prosecutors say they have charged a German man with spying on ethnic Uighur exiles on behalf of China's intelligence services. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5644/1/Counter-Terror-Policy-Targets-Uyghurs/index.html China’s anti-terrorism policy deliberately targets ethnic minority communities such as Uyghurs and Tibetans struggling for greater autonomy, according to a white paper by a rights group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5628/1/Guantanamo-appeals-rejected/index.html The US Supreme Court has rejected three appeals by Guantanamo detainees protesting their indefinite detention. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5622/1/Development-Could-Widen-Ethnic-Divide/index.html Beijing plans to stabilize ethnic tensions in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by developing the capital Urumqi into a regional financial hub, but experts and exile organizations say the move will further alienate Uyghurs and fuel unrest in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5621/1/Germany-charges-alleged-Chinese-agent-for-spying-on-Uighur-exiles/index.html Prosecutors have charged a Chinese national with spying on ethnic Uighur exiles in Germany on behalf of the government in Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5613/1/Nobel-Laureates-World-Leaders-Rights-Defenders-Tech-Entrepreneurs-to-Unite-at-2011-Oslo-Freedom-Forum-/index.html This morning the Oslo Freedom Forum, an international conference founded to address today’s most challenging humanitarian issues, announced its 2011 speakers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5609/1/East-Turkestan-On-Going-Arbitrary-Use-of-Death-Penalty/index.html China issues seven new death sentences for Uyghurs, who as a people have been subject to continuous arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. The World Uyghur Congress calls on the international community to pressure Chinese authorities to release detailed information on these trials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5608/1/Seven-Uyghurs-Sentenced-to-Death/index.html Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5607/1/Uyghur-leader-hails-Middle-East-uprising/index.html The exiled activist for a Chinese Muslim minority says the recent Middle East uprising has given hope to oppressed ethnic groups around the world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5606/1/Activist-says-China-cracks-down-on-ethnic-Uighurs/index.html China has responded to popular uprisings against governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya by cracking down on its Uighur ethnic minority, an exiled Uighur activist said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5605/1/China-approves-death-sentence-for-7-in-Xinjiang/index.html Seven people allegedly involved in plotting terrorist activities have been sentenced to death for robbery and murder in China's far western region of Xinjiang, a state-run news website said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5604/1/China-urges-care-on-exiles-visit-to-Australia/index.html The Federal Government says China has sought several assurances from Australia that it will handle a visit by exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer "carefully". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5602/1/China-criticises-visit-of-Uighur-leader-/index.html The Chinese government has criticised the federal government for allowing the exiled Uighur leader, Rebiya Kadeer, to speak at Parliament House in Canberra tomorrow. A Chinese Foreign Ministry official in Beijing attacked Australia's decision to allow Ms Kadeer into the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5600/1/Sinopec-announces-a-new-oilfield-found-in-Xinjiang/index.html Sinopec China's second largest oil and gas producer, said Thursday its oil producing flagship Shengli Oilfield Co. has discovered a new oilfield in Karamay at northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5599/1/China-says-it-opposes-Uighur-activists-visit-to-Australia-but-mentions-no-retaliation/index.html China says it opposes an exiled Uighur activist’s upcoming visit to Australia, calling her a separatist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5598/1/Resolution-Lacks-Teeth-/index.html A new resolution passed by the European Parliament lends weight to international calls for China to end the demolition of an ancient Uyghur city, but analysts do not expect it to have any impact on Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5597/1/Australia-says-China-has-not-complained-about-exiled-Uighur-activists-latest-Australian-visit/index.html  An exiled Uighur activist's planned speaking tour in Australia next week has failed to provoke a repeat of Chinese protests that strained diplomatic ties when she last visited two years ago, the government said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5590/1/People-in-China-arrested-for-owning-DVD-of-Australian-doco/index.html The Uyghur American Association has reported that five Uyghur people were detained in the East Turkestan capital of Urumchi in late February, including a man detained on charges of “illegal possession of a counterrevolutionary propaganda DVD”, the Australian documentary The Ten Conditions of Love. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5586/1/East-Turkestan-MEPs-Urge-China-to-Stop-the-Destruction-of-Cultural-Heritage/index.html Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Thursday [March 10, 2011] called on the Chinese government to stop the destruction of cultural heritage in the ancient city and to protect the cultural identity of the Uyghurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5583/1/MEPs-urge-China-to-stop-the-destruction-of-cultural-heritage/index.html Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Thursday called on the Chinese government to stop the destruction of cultural heritage in the ancient city and to protect the cultural identity of the Uyghurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5582/1/Uighur-website-editor-sentenced-in-secret-in-China/index.html The secret sentencing of a Uighur website editor emerged this week, eight months after he was tried along with other journalists and dissidents charged in the 2009 unrest in northwestern Xinjiang, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5575/1/Tibet-Xinjiang-railway-to-be-built-via-Golmud-in-2011-15/index.html China said Mar 6 that it will connect Tibet with East Turkestan (Xinjiang) via Golmud city in Qinghai Province by railway during 2011-15, its 12th Five-Year Plan period.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5572/1/China-to-create-worlds-largest-security-network-with-500000-cameras/index.html China will spend 2.6billion pounds on 500,000 surveillance cameras to create the world's largest security network. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5570/1/A-blast-of-fresh-air-from-the-far-west-/index.html Unlike many colleagues, Xinjiang party chief gives frank answers to media questioners zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5569/1/Uyghur-Prisoner-Denied-Medical-Care/index.html Chinese authorities have rejected a request for medical treatment by an ethnic Uyghur who was jailed after being forcibly repatriated from Laos, his wife said, despite the man’s worsening health condition. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5568/1/China-says-lessons-to-learn-in-Muslim-Xinjiang-from-Mideast-unrest/index.html China must apply the lessons of the Middle East unrest to its mostly Muslim, far western Xinjiang, its top official said on Tuesday, adding that he was confident the region would remain stable. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5564/1/China-imprisons-Uighur-web-editor-in-new-crackdown/index.html An ethnic Uighur website editor was sentenced to seven years in prison in China after a secret trial, Amnesty International said March 7. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5563/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-still-ethnically-divided/index.html China's traditionally Muslim Xinjiang region remains ethnically divided but is basically stable nearly two years after the eruption of deadly violence there, the region's top official said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5562/1/Chinese-official-touts-softer-line-on-restive-west/index.html The new Communist Party chief for China's restive western region debuted a softer line on the remote area Tuesday, calling for less discrimination against its largely Muslim population and more initiatives to help win their trust and support. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5561/1/China-Vows-to-Maintain-Social-Stability-in-Xinjiang-Tibet/index.html Xinjiang is home to Uighur Muslims and Tibet is home to ethnic Tibetan Buddhists. Both regions have witnessed turmoil in recent years, with conflicts centering largely on differences with the country’s majority Han Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5560/1/China-Softens-Tone-on-Uighur-Muslims-/index.html With the echoes of revolutions in the Middle East is reaching as far as China, Beijing is softening tone in dealing with the Muslim minority in the western region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5557/1/Chinese-crackdown-on-Uighur-writers-continues-as-web-editor-jailed/index.html An ethnic Uighur website manager who was sentenced to seven years in jail in China after a secret trial is the latest in a series of Uighur writers imprisoned for peaceful expression of cultural or political views. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5556/1/Uyghur-Historian-Given-7-Years/index.html An Uyghur historian who ran a popular website has been sentenced to jail following a closed trial, making him the latest online activist to be imprisoned following the July 2009 ethnic violence in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5555/1/When-Millennia-Old-Mummies-Threaten-National-Identity-/index.html A series of Tweets broke the good news the morning of Feb. 11: “The MUMMIES are back for our ‘Secrets of the Silk Road’ exhibition!” announced the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Archaeology and Anthropology at 9:03 a.m. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5554/1/China-must-fight-separatism-in-Xinjiang-Official/index.html In a bid to safeguard social stability in the Muslim dominated Xinjiang province, China must make fighting separatism a top priority there, a Chinese official has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5551/1/Sentence-upheld-for-Uyghur-Chinese-Christian-detained-on-account-of-faith/index.html CSW has learnt that an appeal in the case of Alimujiang Yimiti has resulted in his 15-year sentence being upheld by the Higher People’s Court of Xinjiang, China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5543/1/Following-controversy-mummies-at-Penn-Museum-remain-objects-of-mystery/index.html The Beauty of Xiaohe, a mummy from the torrid deserts of western China, had a long but uneventful trip to Philadelphia. For almost a year, she lay on view in museums in California and Texas, without controversy and without much more public notice than that which might be expected to greet an almost-4,000-year-old, perfectly preserved human being. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5533/1/Development-key-to-Xinjiangs-stability-regional-chairman-/index.html Raising living standards through economic development is key to maintaining social stability in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, regional chairman Nur Bakeri said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5532/1/Plight-of-Huseyin-Celil-prompts-petition-/index.html Students at St. Thomas More Catholic Secondary School want family members of a Burlington activist imprisoned in China to know they are not alone. To that end, students Tuesday signed 1,000 petition letters for delivery to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto to appeal for Huseyin Celil's release, and 250 postcards to be sent to Ottawa to remind the Canadian government of his plight. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5516/1/Uyghurs-Targeted-Amidst-Reform-Call/index.html Chinese authorities have stepped up curbs on ethnic minority Muslim Uyghurs in the wake of popular uprisings in the Middle East and calls for "Jasmine" rallies at home, an exile group said on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5515/1/East-Turkestan-Without-a-Struggle-You-Cant-Achieve-Anything-/index.html The harsh Chinese policy on the Uyghur minority is counterproductive and likely to lead to more violence as opposition against repression increases, Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer fears and calls for the Chinese government to revise its ethnic policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5514/1/Arab-Protests-Add-to-Uighurs-Pains-/index.html As the world is centering its attention on major protests sweeping the Arab world, fears of the spread of the revolution flame to the ethnic Uighurs in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region is a growing headache for Chinese authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5499/1/China-Uighur-Groups-Criticize-Death-Sentences/index.html Uighur advocacy groups have criticized the recent death sentences of four men who are all apparently ethnic Uighurs. The men were reportedly sentenced for three separate incidents of violence last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5494/1/Exiled-Uighurs-worried-on-death-sentences/index.html The leader of the exiled Uighur community on Wednesday voiced concern over China's plans to execute four people on charges of plotting unrest and accused Beijing of intimidation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5493/1/Thousands-of-cameras-watch-Chinas-Uighurs-inhibiting-discourse/index.html Looking slowly around his own bedroom, the nervous Uighur man with hunched shoulders said he wasn't sure whether he could speak openly about the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5489/1/Secrets-of-the-Silk-Road-explained/index.html Antiquities, some nearly 4,000 years old, are now on display as part of the Secrets of the Silk Road opens at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5483/1/Xinjiang-trains-20000-bilingual-teachers-for-rural-area/index.html A total of 3,271 newly-recruited bilingual primary and secondary schools teachers as well as pre-school treachers wrapped up an 11-day pre-service training in Urumqi on Tuesday and will begin to teach at the end of this month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5481/1/Four-face-execution-for-killings-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Four men have been sentenced to death for a series of deadly attacks in Xinjiang, China's state-controlled media has reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5480/1/Catching-a-whiff-of-jasmine-in-Kashgar/index.html Two fire engines stood parked by the road leading past Kashgar's main mosque. They were clearly not deployed to fight any fires. Atop one sat a helmeted officer behind a shield. The nozzle of the vehicle's water hose pointed to the junction where an alley leads into the maze-like old city of this ancient oasis town. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5479/1/Xinjiang-Tense-Amid-Arab-Turmoil/index.html Authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have launched a new crackdown on Uyghur-language publications in the wake of a wave of popular uprisings across the Middle East, an exile group said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5471/1/Resettling-the-Uighurs/index.html The Obama administration says five members of the ethnic group captured in Afghanistan can go free, but they can't settle in the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5470/1/Another-Stop-on-a-Long-Improbable-Journey/index.html There are times, at the Penn Museum here, when you are almost hesitant to breathe. And it has nothing to do with the recent flurry of events in which Chinese officials suddenly forbid the display of the remarkable objects in the exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road,” ultimately relenting and allowing them to be shown for just a short time. These doings (about which more later) are scarcely blinks in the history of these objects. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5469/1/Philly-exhibit-reopens-with-Chinese-mummies/index.html "Return of the Mummies" may sound like a horror movie, but in this case there's a happy ending. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5460/1/Thousands-of-cameras-keep-watch-on-minority-in-Chinese-city/index.html Looking slowly around his own bedroom, the nervous Uighur man with hunched shoulders said he wasn’t sure whether he could speak openly about the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5450/1/Dissident-Kazakh-Writer-Dies-In-Western-China-/index.html Prominent Kazakh writer and dissident Qazhyghumar Shabdan died today at the age of 85 while under house arrest in China's Xinjiang Province, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5445/1/Almost-gone-but-not-forgotten/index.html The most moving thing about the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha caves, in a remote corner of China's Xinjiang Province, is that there is little left to see. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5435/1/Back-from-the-dead-Mummies-at-Philly-exhibit/index.html Artifacts pulled from a display at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology after a dispute with Chinese officials who loaned them will once again be part of the "Secrets of the Silk Road" exhibit. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5433/1/Travel-Ban-Extends-to-Family/index.html Chinese authorities have extended a travel ban on an outspoken Uyghur professor to include members of his family and have stepped up surveillance on the man’s Beijing home since the New Year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5432/1/Uighurs-not-eligible-for-UK-passports-at-least-for-the-next-several-years/index.html The Uighurs will not be eligible for UK passports “at least for the next several years” according to a leaked US State Department cable. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5416/1/Mummies-Caught-in-Politics-/index.html Beijing has forced a Philadelphia museum to pull from display mummies and artifacts that are evidence of ancient non-Chinese inhabitants in China’s northwestern Uyghur region.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5415/1/Fourteenth-anniversary-of-the-Ghulja-Massacre/index.html Fourteen years ago on 5 February 1997 hundreds of Uyghurs were killed or imprisoned after participating in a peaceful demonstration in the city of Ghulja in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5414/1/The-Silk-Road-not-taken/index.html Last Wednesday, after more than a year preparing for its grand opening of the "Secrets of the Silk Road" traveling exhibition this weekend, museum officials announced visitors could not see the extraordinary mummies and artifacts on loan from China after all. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5412/1/China-biggest-gold-producer-in-2010-report/index.html China mined 340.88 tonnes of gold in 2010, retaining the position of the world's largest producer of the precious metal, the China Gold Association said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5408/1/Chinese-government-pulls-mummy-from-Philadelphia-exhibit-/index.html For months, the museum in Philadelphia has been building buzz about its upcoming exhibit, "Secrets of the Silk Road," and the crowning jewel of its display: an amazingly intact mummy from western China, nearly 4,000 years old. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5404/1/A-bump-in-the-Silk-Road/index.html There is a bump in the Silk Road but the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia will still have its opening weekend festivities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5399/1/China-thwarts-Silk-Road-exhibition-in-Philly----and-Bowers-Museum-could-be-out-27500-/index.html The apparent and unexplained short-circuiting of a Philadelphia museum’s exhibition built around ancient mummies from northern China could have a boomerang effect on the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, which figures to lose $27,500 if the show can’t be saved between now and its scheduled Saturday opening. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5371/1/China-to-spend-46-bln-on-airports-in-restless-Xinjiang/index.html The Chinese government will spend around 30 billion yuan over the next five years on new airport projects in the restless far western region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5370/1/Chinas-new-jade-rush-as-prices-soar/index.html High prices of rare white jade are creating a new gold rush on China's far western border, writes David Eimer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5361/1/Xinjiang-Uyghur-Christian-Alims-Case-Reviewed-Verdict-Still-Unknown/index.html In a most welcome development in the campaign to right the injustice against imprisoned Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti, the People’s High Court of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Urumqi, China, accepted his appeal to have the case reviewed in November of 2010. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5360/1/Fighting-Tibetan-separatists-complicated-than-Uygurs-official/index.html Dealing with Tibetan separatists is more complicated for China than fighting the Uygur Muslim militants in Xinjiang as the former have not been categorized by the UN as terrorists and are aided by "foreign anti-China forces," a top official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Tibet has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5353/1/Restive-Chinese-city-to-be-under-full-surveillance/index.html China is putting a western city where deadly ethnic violence broke out in 2009 under full surveillance, including ensuring "seamless" coverage of sensitive areas of the city with tens of thousands of cameras, state media reported Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5352/1/U-Penn-Museum-Opens-Silk-Road-Secrets-Feb-5/index.html On February 5, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Art and Anthropology, 3260 South Street, will open the exhibition, "Secrets of the Silk Road." On view through June 5 at its only East Coast venue, the exhibition was organized by the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, Calif. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5346/1/Chinas-gold-rich-region-reports-growth-for-seventh-year/index.html  The gold output jumped by 14.89 per cent year-on-year to reach 10.5 tonnes in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region last year making it one of the top 10 gold producing provinces in the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5331/1/Uyghurs-Held-in-Tajikistan/index.html Three Uyghur businessmen with Turkish citizenship have been detained by authorities in Tajikistan, sparking fears that the men may have been held due to pressure from China, according to Uyghur groups.     zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5318/1/China-Authorities-must-prove-Xinjiang-trials-were-fair/index.html Amnesty International today cast doubt on the legitimacy of the hundreds of trials conducted by the Chinese authorities in connection with protests and violence in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in July 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5308/1/Officials-Withhold-Land-Compensation/index.html Chinese authorities have withheld compensation to a large number of Uyghur families from China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) for vacating their land to make way for a railway, according to representatives of the group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5305/1/China-US-Should-Recognize-Critics-of-Chinese-Government-Raise-Deteriorating-Rights-Environment-/index.html Nine Groups Press President to Demonstrate Commitment to Human Rights zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5304/1/Book-Review-The-mystery-of-the-East-Turkestan-Islamic-Movement-/index.html Rumors, half-truths and on occasion downright lies make credible research on the  Uyghur people of Xinjiang very difficult to conduct. The Chinese government keeps such a tight lid on information that the outside world is often left guessing at what is happening in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5295/1/SAFE-THE-DATE---The-City-of-Kashgar-An-Oasis-of-the-Silk-Road-on-the-Brink-of-Extinction-Author---Unrepresented-Nations-and-Peoples-Organization/index.html On 27 January Ms Frieda Brepoels MEP will convene a conference, ‘Kashgar: An Oasis of the Silk Road on the Brink of Extinction’, at the European Parliament in collaboration with the UNPO and the Belgian Uyghur Association. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5286/1/Uighur-teenager-handed-death-sentence-over-ethnic-riots/index.html A 19-year-old Uighur woman has been handed a suspended death sentence on charges of taking part in deadly ethnic riots in western China in 2009 - the second woman to receive the death penalty for the unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5282/1/Uyghur-Student-Sentenced-to-Death/index.html A female Uyghur student in northwestern China was sentenced to death with a two-year suspension following a trial last April on charges of participating in ethnic riots that left hundreds dead, according to a classmate. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5281/1/Judges-Transferred-for-Riot-Trials/index.html Beijing has ordered a number of Han Chinese judges from eastern Jiangsu province to relocate to China’s northwest in an apparent bid to deal with cases brought against Uyghurs in the aftermath of deadly riots last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5276/1/Official-Says-Xinjiangs-Stability-quotFragilequot/index.html A top official in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Friday said the region, shaken by a deadly riot last year, still faces many factors that may affect stability. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5274/1/Editor-Said-to-Get-Life-Sentence-for-Uighur-Reports/index.html An ethnic Uighur journalist working for state radio has been sentenced to life in prison on charges that he spread subversive information around the time of deadly rioting in the western region of Xinjiang last year, a Uighur exile group said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5272/1/Uyghur-Journalist-Handed-Life-Term/index.html A Uyghur journalist working for an official Chinese radio service has been sentenced to life in prison following a secret trial conducted earlier this year, according to a letter sent by a friend to Radio Free Asia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5271/1/Leaks-shed-light-on-Guantanamo-Uighurs-affair/index.html FOR some people, the very name Guantanamo has come to stand for something repulsive about America - in particular the difference between what it preaches about human rights and what it practises. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5266/1/China-urged-to-release-Uighur-activist-allegedly-tortured-in-prison/index.html Amnesty International renews its call on the Chinese authorities to release an ethnic Uighur prisoner of conscience jailed on separatism charges after his family reported that he is being tortured in a Xinjiang prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5262/1/One-Year-Anniversary-of-Cambodias-Forcible-Return-of-Uyghur-Asylum-Seekers-/index.html Rep. Rohrabacher Calls on Chinese Government to Disclose Whereabouts and Release zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5261/1/Cambodia-one-year-without-answers-/index.html As the one-year anniversary approaches, JRS remembers the Uighur asylum seekers that we came to know well, and again we ask the question: what happened to them? What happened to the pregnant mother and her two children? What happened to the man who had already escaped years of torture at the hands of the Chinese authorities? What happened to each individual who was trying to start a new life in a safe country? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5259/1/China-Pressed-to-Account-for-Uighurs-Fate/index.html A human rights organization has called on the Chinese government to publicly account for the fate of 20 ethnic Uighurs who were deported to China from Cambodia one year ago as they awaited a determination on their asylum applications with the United Nations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5258/1/China-asked-to-explain-fate-of-Uighurs-from-Cambodia/index.html Human Rights Watch has called on Beijing to explain the fate of 20 Uighurs deported from Cambodia a year ago who had sought asylum following deadly ethnic violence in China's far-western Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5257/1/One-Year-Later-Whereabouts-of-Deported-Uighurs-Still-Unknown/index.html Freedom Houses urges the Chinese government to reveal the whereabouts of 20 Uighurs deported from Cambodia one year ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5256/1/Oral-Statement-by-the-World-Uyghur-Congress-for-Agenda-Item-IX-of-the-2010-UN-Forum-on-Minority-Issues/index.html Delivered by Kathy Polias, UN Liaison of the WUC, on 15 December 2010 at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland: zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5255/1/Campaigns-Target-Uyghur-Muslims/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have stepped up campaigns against "'unauthorized" Islamic activities among the region's Uyghur ethnic minority, an overseas group says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5253/1/Laos-Deports-Seven-Uyghurs/index.html Laos has deported seven Muslim Uyghurs who fled China following ethnic riots last year, raising concerns over the plight of Uyghur asylum seekers forced to return home where they face possible persecution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5252/1/Uyghur-Scholar-Family-Held/index.html An outspoken ethnic Uyghur scholar, his wife and two young sons were taken into custody by Chinese authorities for about a week and released Wednesday after intense questioning. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5250/1/Nonviolent-Radical-Party-calls-on-international-organizations-to-urge-Beijing-to-disclose-the-whereabouts-of-Uyghurs-deported-from-Cambodia-to-China/index.html At a year of their disappearance, the Nonviolent Radical Party calls on international organizations to urge Beijing to disclose the whereabouts of the 20 Uyghurs deported from Cambodia to China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5249/1/China-probes-quotslave-bossquot-in-Uighur-region/index.html The report did not say where the workers were originally from, though it said some were confused about their backgrounds. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5230/1/Injecting-Hope-Into-HIVAIDS-Victims/index.html A young Uyghur mother draws from her own experiences to teach people about living with AIDS. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5226/1/Old-ties-China-to-fund-education-of-ex-nationals-in-G-B/index.html The Chinese government has told the Uighur community that it will bear educational expenses of their children studying in educational institutions across Pakistan, a representative told The Express Tribune on Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5222/1/Crackdown-Launched-in-Xinjiang/index.html Authorities in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang are holding more than 20 people in a new crackdown on separatism mainly targeting the region's Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority, an exiled group said on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5212/1/Uyghur-lawyer-condemns-Wikileak-of-Gitmo-deals/index.html A lawyer for the four Uyghurs in Bermuda has criticised the leak of ­classified U.S. government documents. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5211/1/Uyghur-Seeks-Justice-for-Discrimination/index.html A Uyghur factory worker from northwestern China said she was insulted and humiliated by Han Chinese and wants to raise the larger issue of alleged discrimination of her community with the United Nations in what could be the first case of its kind. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5210/1/Wikileaks-Kazakh-Prime-Ministers-animated-nightclub-dance/index.html Karim Massimov, Kazakhstan's Prime Minister, spent an evening dancing by himself 'animatedly' on stage at one of Astana's trendiest nightclubs, according to diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5209/1/UNESCO-Lists-Intangible-Heritage-Traditions/index.html Today we tell about recent efforts by the United Nations to honor and protect different cultural traditions from around the world. U.N. experts meeting in Nairobi, Kenya recently announced this year's cultural protection list. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5204/1/Cables-reveal-difficulty-of-relocating-some-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html The relocation of 17 Chinese Muslim Uyghurs detained at Guantanamo Bay was a thorny issue for the United States, according to cables released by the website WikiLeaks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5203/1/Haggling-with-Allies-over-New-Homes-for-Detainees/index.html Guantanamo must be closed. That was one of US President Barack Obama's first pledges upon taking office. But the newly released US dispatches make it clear that the search for new homes for the detainees wasn't easy or cheap. The list of demands from potential recipient countries, including Germany, was often long. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5202/1/Vanhanen-China-Did-Not-Warn-PM-about-Uighur-Detainees/index.html Former Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said Tuesday that he was not cautioned by Chinese officials against accepting Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay for resettlement in Finland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5201/1/Uighur-killings-seen-as-reprisal-against-Chinese-injustice/index.html At least eight Chinese settlers had been killed in three towns in East Turkestan (Chinese: Xinjiang) in what were believed to be attacks by Uyghurs to avenge deprivation, discrimination and injustice on their own land by the Chinese authorities, according to a Radio Free Asia online (RFA) report Nov 26. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5199/1/CSI-student-turns-childhood-experiences-into-ambition/index.html Sayid Abdullaev remembers the hostility and the cold stares that filled his childhood in Kyrgyzstan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5189/1/WikiLeakss-release-of-documents-shows-struggle-to-relocate-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html In a March 2009 meeting between John Brennan, President Obama's principal counterterrorism adviser, and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Brennan carried a letter from the president expressing concern about the 99 Yemenis remaining at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5188/1/Chinese-Immigrants-Killed-in-Xinjiang/index.html Several Han Chinese in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region were killed in three attacks by ethnic minority Uyghurs this month, in a possible reflection of growing frustration over the preferential treatment of Chinese immigrants by government officials in the area. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5182/1/Forde-fest-rocks-fjords-/index.html In the land of fjords, elks, and endless summer days, there is a festival which has been celebrating world music cultures for the past two decades. Indeed, each July since 1990, the 11,000 people in Fjorde have seen their town transformed by music. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5179/1/A-beauty-that-was-governments-beast/index.html Almost invariably when visitors approach the middle-age woman enshrined in a climatized exhibit case in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Museum, they pause and do a double take. What gets the most attention is her nose: high-bridged, slightly hooked, the sort of nose that reminds one of Meryl Streep. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5178/1/Kadeer-cautions-against-Chinas-sweet-promises/index.html World Uyghur Congress head Rebiya Kadeer said that at the beginning, China had treated her people exactly the same way it is now treating Taiwan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5168/1/2000-year-old-irrigation-system-renovated-in-NW-China/index.html The first stage of the renovation of an ancient subterranean irrigation system in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been completed, local authorities said Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5167/1/New-Blueprint-for-Promoting-Xinjiangs-Economy/index.html "Xinjiang's future development will be market-oriented, open, growth-oriented, energy-saving, labor-intensive and people-oriented. Only in this way will we make locals wealthy, eliminate poverty and realize a shared prosperity," Wei Jianguo, former minister of commerce said to an EO reporter. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5149/1/Eid-Curbs-on-Uyghur-Muslims/index.html Authorities in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have boosted security as ethnic minority Uyghur Muslims celebrated a key festival of their calendar, Eid al-Adha. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5145/1/Kazakhstan-China-to-build-Horos-river-hydro-project-before-2014-/index.html Kazakhstan and China have agreed to collaborate on a hydropower project on the Horos River in Kazakhstan's Almaty region which shares a border with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in West China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5144/1/China-Inc-goes-off-the-rails-in-Saudi-Arabia-while-building-Mecca-monorail/index.html The Chinese state goes to great lengths to stop Uighur Muslims in the country's far west from taking part in the great hajj pilgrimage, denying passports to most and forcing others to travel in tightly controlled groups. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5143/1/Cuts-Expected-for-Uyghur-Teachers/index.html Chinese authorities in Xinjiang are expected to begin removing Uyghur teachers under a stepped-up enforcement of a bilingual policy combining Mandarin in Uyghur schools, according to educators from the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5142/1/Uighur-Gatherings-Make-UN-Culture-List/index.html Host Melissa Block talks with Frank Proschan, program specialist for the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section of UNESCO, about items being added to this year's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5141/1/China-to-turn-Silk-Road-city-into-special-economic-zone/index.html China hopes Kashgar, the crossroads of Europe and Asia, will become the launch pad for goods into South and Central Asia. But Uighur residents worry that the real goal is to weaken their identity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5140/1/Turkey-China-Military-Exercises-What-Do-They-Mean-for-the-Uyghurs/index.html Turkey has long been an advocate of the beleaguered Uyghur minority in China, and when ethnic violence broke out between Uyghurs and Han Chinese last year in Xinjiang, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that China's treatment of Uyghurs amounted to a "genocide."  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5136/1/An-Old-Oasis-Promises-New-Prosperity-for-Some/index.html The brochure promised “a piece of heaven,” but Shangri-La, a half-built apartment complex on the dusty outskirts of this oasis town, was hardly that. The landscape was parched, and the most notable sign of life was a pack of goats chewing their way through a mound of trash. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5132/1/Chinese-education-ministry-forms-special-group-to-promote-education-in-Xinjiang/index.html The Chinese Ministry of Education has set up a high-level work group headed by the minister to promote education in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5123/1/Farmers-Vow-to-Pressure-Beijing/index.html A group of Uyghur farmers from northwest China will press ahead with appeals to the central government against a policy requiring them to sell produce to state-owned companies for less than market rates, according to the group’s spokesman. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5121/1/China-Beauty-found-at-saintly-tomb/index.html For a minute I thought we were going to have a punch-up at the holiest Muslim shrine in the legendary Silk Road trading town of Kashgar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5117/1/Uighurs--precariously-caught-between-two-powers/index.html The community of Uighurs in Rawalpindi’s China Market is small and close-knit. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5116/1/Chinese-Officials-Push-Xinjiang-Water-Plan-/index.html Local officials in China's arid northwest have launched a new push for a vast water-diversion project that would pump raw sea water thousands of miles from the coast to the deserts of Xinjiang through a pipeline made of plastic and fiberglass. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5113/1/China-builds-a-new-Silk-Road-to-pave-over-its-troubles/index.html The restive Urumqi area of western China is being cemented to Beijing by a billion-dollar investment into rail, road and air links. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5110/1/Turkey-China-eye-cooperation-in-trade-Uighur-problem/index.html "Uighurs are playing the role of friendship bridge between China and us. This role will make a contribution to carrying our relations to much higher levels," Turkish President Abdullah Gül said while paying a six-day visit to China last summer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5097/1/Uyghur-Human-Rights-Activists-to-Stage-Demonstration-With-Tibetan-Falun-Gong-and-Chinese-Activists-During-Chinese-President-Hu-Jintaos-Visit-to-France/index.html On November 4, 2010 at 3:00 pm, during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to Paris, the France Uyghur Community, a member organization of the World Uyghur Congress, will join Tibetan, Falun Gong, and Chinese human rights activists in Paris in protesting the Chinese government’s egregious and relentless human rights violations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5096/1/Turkey-China-agree-to-develop-strategic-ties/index.html Ties between Turkey and China that were strained last year following unrest in western China’s Xinjiang region are back on track, with both countries looking to raise their relationship to the strategic partnership level, Turkey’s foreign minister said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5090/1/Fate-of-Uyghur-Journalist-Unknown/index.html A court in China's troubled northwestern city of Urumqi, which was rocked by ethnic violence last year, appears to be stalling an appeal hearing in the case of an ethnic Uyghur journalist handed a 15-year jail term, supporters said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5083/1/Davutoglu-Uighur-region-important-for-Turkish-people/index.html The communist China changed name of East Turkestan and named it Xinjiang in 1955. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5081/1/Davuto287lu-highlights-historical-bonds-during-talks-in-Urumqi/index.html Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu voiced pleasure on Friday over having a chance to celebrate the 87th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in Urumqi, China, as he pointed to the strength of historical ties between his country and China despite the geographical distance between them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5080/1/Turkish-FM-visits-Uighur-region-during-China-visit/index.html Ahmet Davutoglu, who has become the first Turkish foreign minister ever to visit Uighur Autonomous Region in China, toured historical sites in Kashgar city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5079/1/Turkish-FMs-cultural-tour-to-China-kicks-off-in-Kashgar/index.html The Turkish foreign minister kicked off his weeklong trip to China on Thursday with a visit to one of the important centers of the historic Silk Road, the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang autonomous region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5078/1/Turkish-FM-hopes-better-China-ties-to-help-Uighurs/index.html Davutoglu said it was of symbolic importance to begin his visit to China from Kashgar and Urumchi in Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5077/1/East-Turkistan-Support-Language-Protests-in-Tibet/index.html Exile students of East Turkistan or Uyghurstan have this week voiced their support for the Tibetans during their current protests over language restrictions. This comes after over a week of protests by Tibetans, through-out the region and also in Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5072/1/Uyghurs-Support-Language-Protest/index.html Beijing is moving to clamp down the Internet in northwestern China as ethnic minority Uyghurs express support for protests by Tibetan students campaigning for language rights, according to Uyghur residents and intellectuals. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5071/1/Turkish-FM-to-visit-Uighur-region-during-China-trip/index.html Davutoglu will be the first Turkish foreign minister to pay a visit to Uighur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5069/1/Over-10000-ancient-rock-paintings-discovered-in-Xinjiang/index.html A large number of exquisite ancient rock paintings and characters carved in stones were discovered in Xinjiang's Qiemo County, reporters learned from the Bureau of Culture and Sports of Qiemo on Oct. 21. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5063/1/Borderland-Alls-not-quiet-on-Chinas-western-front/index.html The sun won’t set on Kashgar for another three hours, but inside the Padiqi disco night is well underway. In the dark, it’s difficult to see faces among the steady stream of young Uighur men and women, mostly teenagers, pouring in past the waiters done up in leather cowboy hats, offering bottled iced teas and cold sodas to the patrons. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5060/1/Uyghur-Farmers-Protest-Land-Fees/index.html More than a hundred Uyghur farmers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have protested against high land fees in the Kashgar prefectural capital, drawing assurances from officials that the issue could be resolved next year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5053/1/On-the-Thousand-Mothers-March/index.html Rebiya Kadeer has taken up a campaign for the rights of a people usually far from world headlines: the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5030/1/Uighurs-Find-New-Jobs-in-Private-Sector/index.html This afternoon it was announced that the four Uighur men recently laid off from the Port Royal Golf Course had secured employment in the private sector, with the specific company not stated. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5029/1/Prisoners-in-paradise/index.html Stateless refugees have no passports or prospect of island status zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5028/1/Authorities-Flatten-Uyghur-Homes/index.html Authorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are razing Uyghur homes and orchards to make way for new apartment complexes, residents say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5025/1/One-on-One---Rebiya-Kadeer-/index.html Rebiya Kadeer discusses with Riz Khan the trials and tribulations she has faced in fighting for human rights. The leading Uighur activist and philanthropist shares her stories of yielding persistence and strength. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5024/1/Chinas-PM-says-to-welcome-Turkey-industrial-zone-in-Uighur-region/index.html Premier Wen Jiabao said China will welcome a decision by Turkish government to establish an industrial zone in Uighur region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5023/1/Uighur-protesters-throw-shoe-at-Chinas-PM-in-Turkey-/index.html Hundreds of Uighurs protested China's treatment of the Muslims in East Turkestan outside Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's hotel in Turkish capital. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5017/1/Uighur-leader-wishes-to-visit-Turkey-at-same-time-with-Chinese-Premier-Jiabao/index.html The President of the World Uighur Congress, Rebiya Kadeer, said Wednesday she wished to visit Turkey at the same time with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on October 8. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5016/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-take-steps-towards-integration/index.html Six months after arriving in Switzerland, two Uighur former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp say they are happy in the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5015/1/Mirakhmadjon-dreams-of-a-career-in-football/index.html The number of players from China’s minority communities making their mark on the national team football scene is increasing by the day. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5013/1/Organ-Harvest-Witness-Says-Remaining-Silent-is-also-a-Crime/index.html Nijat Abudureyimu, a former policeman in China, recently spoke out as an eye witness of the Chinese regime’s practice of organ harvesting from executed prisoners—often before they were fully dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5011/1/China-setting-up-largest-cotton-manufacturing-base-in-Xinjiang--/index.html China’s conomically developed Guangdon province in south China has decided to help northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in establishing a major cotton manufacturing base. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5010/1/Uighur-brothers-in-Jura-six-months-later/index.html It was over Beijing’s vocal opposition that two ethnic Uyghur brothers from China came to live in Switzerland six months ago. They were locked up for eight years at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay but never charged with any crime. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/5008/1/Why-Is-Kyrgyzstan-So-Touchy-About-an-Uighur-Documentary/index.html Kyrgyzstan is regularly hailed as Central Asia’s most democratic state, flanked by autocracies and dictatorships. But the authorities’ strangely dogged – and successful – recent effort to keep viewers from seeing a documentary film about minority rights has left people wondering whether the compliment isn’t just relative. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4991/1/Hinckley-forum-discusses-Turkish-minoritys-lack-of-rights-in-China/index.html Stories of discrimination and oppression out of China are not new, and a group of Chinese minorities are reaching out to the U community to tell their stories. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4988/1/Kyrgyz-intelligence-agency-claims---they-banned-a-film-according-to-Presidential-Administrations-order/index.html Kyrgyzstan’s State National Security Service (GSNB) claims that they banned screening a film shot by a human rights activist from China according to the order issued by the Head of Presidential Administration Emil Kaptagaev. Human Rights Center “Citizens against corruption” reported with reference to the GSNB. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4987/1/Ban-on-Religious-Clothing/index.html A region-wide policy in northwestern China banning women from wearing long dresses and covering their faces, and men from wearing beards, restricts more than religious practice, according to members of Xinjiang's predominantly Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4985/1/Krgyz-Security-Service-Disrupts-Human-Rights-Film-Festival-/index.html The Kyrgyz National Security Service (UKK) has interrupted the screening of an Australian documentary about a prominent Uyghur rights activist at the fourth annual One World Film Festival in Bishkek, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4975/1/Uyghur-Organ-Harvest-Witness-Narrowly-Escaped-Deportation-/index.html Nijat Abudureyimu woke in fright at 5am on the morning of Sept. 21 as dozens of policemen piled into his small living quarters in the Commune de Fontainemelon, Switzerland, telling him that he would be sent back to Italy that afternoon. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4974/1/Jade-From-Chinas-West-Surpasses-Gold-in-Value/index.html As long as anyone here can remember, the muddy river that flows through this oasis city in southern Xinjiang has yielded creamy white stones, their rough edges polished smooth by the waters that tumble down the mountains from Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4967/1/Spying-Uighur-got-sentence-prolonged-in-Sweden/index.html A Swedish Uighur was sentenced to prison for spying for China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4966/1/Life-After-Guantanamo---Two-Former-Inmates-Arrive-in-Germany/index.html After months of negotiations between Berlin and Washington, two former inmates of the Guantanamo prison arrived in Germany on Thursday. German officials hope to swiftly integrate them into society. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4965/1/Xinjiang-troupe-to-stage-record-breaking-acrobatic-drama/index.html The Leisure and Cultural Services Department's "Cheers" series presents acrobatic drama "Hello Nasirdin Apandim" by the Xinjiang Acrobatic Troupe of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4957/1/Senior-Chinese-Leader-Urges-Greater-Efforts-for-Xinjiangs-Leapfrog-Development/index.html Senior Chinese leader Li Changchun has urged northwestern Xinjiang region to make more efforts to achieve leapfrog development in both economy and people's standards of living, while ensuring ethnic unity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4956/1/URGENT-ACTION-SON-OF-UIGHUR-ACTIVIST-TORTURED-IN-PRISON/index.html Alim Abdiriyim, son of Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, is being tortured and otherwise ill-treated in detention, according to his family. They believe his life is at risk. He has been in prison in Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China since 2006 on tax evasion charges, zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4955/1/China-mulls-development-of-big-north-west-coal-resources-/index.html China would become a coal exporter once more if the country decided to develop large coal resources in the north-west Xinjiang province, a top International Energy Agency official said on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4954/1/Muslim-Uyghurs-left-out-of-Chinas-wind-energy-boom/index.html Xinjiang autonomous region is China's frontier land for renewable energy. China has poured cash into wind energy projects in Xinjiang, fuelling a boom in the country's largest and most western region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4953/1/UAA-Vice-president-Alim-Seytoff-Speaks-at-the-Fourth-World-Forum-on-Human-Rights/index.html Alim Seytoff, Vice-president of the Uyghur American Association speaks at the Plenary Session of the Fourth World Forum on Human Rights in Nantes, France on June 29, 2010. The World Form on Human Rights is being held biannually in France by bringing human rights activists around the world. More than 3,000 human rights activists attended the Fourth World Forum on Human Rights in Nantes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4952/1/Celebrating-Id-al-Fitr-Under-Watchful-Eyes-of-China/index.html Kashgar being Kashgar, the most Islamic city in the restive desert region of Xinjiang, the occasion was also marked by more somber moments, as the Chinese authorities kept a close eye on events. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4951/1/Ex-Guantanamo-Bay-prisoners-4-Uighur-Muslims-from-China-adjusting-well-to-life-in-Bermuda/index.html As the leggy blond sauntered through the lobby of the Hamilton Princess hotel, Khalil Mamut's eyes darted in her direction and he looked her up and down. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4950/1/No-Passports-For-Uyghurs/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed travel restrictions on the region's ethnic minorities since the regional capital Urumqi was rocked by deadly ethnic rioting last year, local residents and travel industry sources said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4937/1/Resentment-Simmers-in-Western-Chinese-Region/index.html The five-star hotels are full, bulldozers are making quick work of dreary slums and billboards for “French-style villas” call out to the nouveau riche. In the year since rioting between the Han and Uighur ethnic groups killed nearly 200 people in this city in far western China, life appears to be returning to normal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4927/1/China-Today-magazine-to-launch-Turkish-edition-/index.html The Turkish edition of China Today magazine will go on sale in major cities of Turkey starting from Sept. 1, which is expected to promote mutual understanding between Turkish and Chinese people and facilitate the two countries' business relations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4921/1/More-Arrests-in-Aksu-Blast/index.html Authorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region arrested two more Uyghurs Sunday in connection with a bomb attack, residents said, as they enforce a blackout on information about the incident. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4920/1/Elderly-Farmer-Recaptured/index.html Chinese authorities have recaptured an 84-year-old ethnic Uyghur farmer after he escaped from detention in Beijing, where he went to protest the loss of his farmland, his son said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4919/1/Uighur-Intellectual-Who-Wont-Back-Down-in-China/index.html ILHAM TOHTI rarely worries about his personal safety here — at least not at the hands of would-be thieves. That is because Mr. Tohti, an economics professor and unofficial spokesman for this country’s embattled Uighur minority, frequently has a police escort. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4914/1/Slain-Policemen-Checked-Uyghurs/index.html Police officers killed in a bomb attack Thursday in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region had harassed ethnic Uyghurs, singling out men with beards and women wearing traditional head coverings, according to police sources. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4913/1/Explosion-in-Chinas-restive-Xinjiang-kills-seven/index.html Seven people were killed Thursday when a man drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a crowd and it blew up in China's Xinjiang region, the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year, an official said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4912/1/Blast-kills-seven-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Seven people have been killed and 14 injured in a bomb blast in China's Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4907/1/China-and-the-Pentagon-agree-on-the-PLAs-interests-in-Central-Asia/index.html Next month, about 1,000 People's Liberation Army soldiers will travel to Kazakhstan  to participate in a Shanghai Cooperation Organization exercise, Peace Mission 2010. It will be the largest international military exercise China conducts this year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4894/1/Uyghur-Evictee-Detained/index.html Authorities in Beijing are holding an 84-year-old Uyghur farmer after he traveled to the capital to lodge an official protest over the loss of his farmland, the man and his son said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4888/1/Uyghur-Web-Moderators-Get-Life/index.html A court in China has sentenced three ethnic minority Uyghurs to life in jail for alleged separatist offenses, according to a Uyghur woman who attended the trial. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4887/1/Politics-Intrude-in-Mosque/index.html Members of the Uyghur ethnic minority in northwest China have expressed anger and concern about controls over imams after a local Communist Party committee held a meeting in a place of worship. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4886/1/-Organ-Harvesting-Witness-Faces-Deportation-to-China/index.html A former member of the Chinese security forces, with highly sensitive information on the state’s practice of harvesting organs from prisoners, is currently stuck in immigration limbo in Switzerland and faces deportation to China, where he may face execution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4883/1/Xinjiang-development-still-lacks-security/index.html While China's economy continues to expand, specialists are warning that economic advancement might not quell its restive western Xinjiang province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4881/1/China-Han-intellectuals-write-to-Government-quotEnd-discrimination-against-Uyghursquot/index.html Uyghur intellectual Hailie Niyazi, who works for the ethnic understanding, sentenced to 15 years in prison, 51 lawyers and professors write to the Chinese government: "respect freedom of expression and human rights, or the nation will collapse". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4879/1/China-sets-prison-terms-for-3-Uighur-Web-managers-/index.html Three Uighur-language website managers were sentenced Friday to prison terms of three to 10 years after being found guilty under broad charges of “endangering state security.” The men had been jailed after ethnic rioting in July 2009 in Urumqi, capital of the far-western, predominantly Muslim, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4878/1/In-Restive-Chinese-Area-Cameras-Keep-a-Watchful-Eye/index.html For a street whose name suggests throwing off shackles, South Liberation Road doesn't look like a very free place these days. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4875/1/More-Uyghur-Homes-Demolished/index.html Authorities in Karamay City in China's northwestern Uyghur region have begun demolishing two Uyghur neighborhoods to make way for a new tourist destination—part of a pattern of government-led demolitions in the ethnic Uyghur homeland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4867/1/China-sends-3-Uighur-webmasters-to-jail-activists/index.html China has jailed three ethnic Uighur webmasters for three to 10 years, an activist group said on Friday, a week after a Uighur journalist was sentenced to 15 years for "endangering state security". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4873/1/Chinese-activists-speak-out-for-jailed-Uighur/index.html Some of China's most well-known activists are circulating an open letter protesting the 15-year prison term for a Uighur journalist snared in tensions that followed the country's worst ethnic rioting in decades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4872/1/China-Imprisons-3-Men-Who-Maintained-Uighur-Web-Sites/index.html Three men accused of “endangering state security” for their roles in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile groups and court officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4868/1/Uighur-group-condemns-jailing-of-webmasters-in-Chinas-far-west-/index.html A US-based Uighur rights group on Friday accused China of "suffocating" free expression by the country's Uighur minority after reports that three Uighur webmasters were sentenced to long prison terms last week for "endangering state security." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4866/1/China-jails-3-minority-Uighurs-for-running-websites-deemed-politically-sensitive/index.html China has jailed three minority Uighurs who ran websites with content considered politically sensitive by the government, according to a media report and an advocacy group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4865/1/China-jails-three-Uighurs-for-website-work/index.html China has jailed three ethnic Uighur website owners as it clamps down on dissent a year after deadly ethnic riots in Xinjiang, say reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4864/1/China-convicts-Uighur-web-managers-on-state-security-charges/index.html Amnesty International has condemned the closed trial and conviction of three Uighur website managers on state security charges. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4862/1/Uyghur-Webmasters-Sentenced/index.html Three webmasters, all members of the Uyghur ethnic minority, have been sentenced to jail for publishing content deemed politically sensitive by the Chinese government, according to a brother of one of the men. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4857/1/UAA-Vice-President-Appears-on-VOA-Chinese-Show/index.html UAA Vice-President Alim Seytoff appears on Issues and Opinions of the VOA Chinese Service on the morning of July 26. Mr. Seytoff talked about the history of East Turkestan, the current situation, the establishment of the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association. He also answered the questions of Chinese callers from Mainland China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4856/1/Journalists-Sentencing-Signals-Continued-Suppression-of-Uighurs/index.html The sentencing of Uighur journalist Hailaite Niyaz is another sign of the Chinese government’s continued efforts to restrict freedom of expression overall, as well as its ongoing suppression of the rights of the Uighur people, according to Freedom House. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4855/1/China-Uighur-blogger-sentenced-to-15-year-imprisonment/index.html According to uighurbiz.net, Uighur reporter and blogger Gheyret Niyaz（海來特．尼亞孜）has been sentenced to 15 year imprisonment on July 23 under the charge of “endangering national security” In Urumqi, Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4853/1/290000-Xinjiang-kindergartens-students-receive-bilingual-education/index.html In recent years, the Chinese government has invested a large amount of money to create more than a thousand bilingual courses in kindergartens throughout Xinjiang, and as of now, the program has benefited about 290,000 Xinjiang ethnic minority children. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4850/1/China-sentences-Uighur-to-15-years-in-prison-for-talking-to-foreigners/index.html A Chinese court in the troubled western province of Xinjiang has sentenced an ethnic Uighur journalist to 15 years in prison for "endangering state security" by speaking to foreign reporters. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4849/1/Press-freedom-groups-condemn-jailing-of-journalist-in-China/index.html The 15-year jail sentence imposed by a Chinese court on journalist Gheyrat Niyaz (aka Halaite Niyazi) has outraged human rights and press freedom groups across the world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4848/1/China-Faces-Criticism-for-Sentence-of-Journalist/index.html Human rights groups are strongly criticizing the Chinese government for imposing a harsh prison sentence Friday on an ethnic Uighur journalist and intellectual who gave an interview to a Hong Kong news publication last August, just weeks after deadly ethnic rioting shook the western region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4847/1/Uyghur-journalist-and-website-editor-sentenced-to-fifteen-years-in-jail/index.html Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down today to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4846/1/China-jails-writer-for-15-years-for-endangering-state-security/index.html Human rights organisations attack heavy sentence on Uighur journalist who had warned about ethnic violence in Xinjiang zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4845/1/Uyghur-journalist-gets-15-years-in-prison-for-criticising-police-and-military/index.html For a court in Urumqi, Hailaite Niyazi endangered state security when in an interview he blamed police for interethnic clashes in July 2009. His one-day trial occurred without the presence of a defence lawyer. “This is an extremely harsh and unjust action on the part of the Chinese court, and a clear violation of rights guaranteed by the Chinese constitution,” said the international director of a human rights group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4844/1/China-sentences-Uighur-journalist-to-15-year-prison-term-/index.html Amnesty International has condemned a 15-year prison sentence reportedly imposed on a Uighur journalist who warned Chinese authorities over potential ethnic violence in Xinjiang province on the eve of the July 2009 riots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4838/1/Wedded-bliss-at-Regent-as-film-festival-kicks-off-/index.html Opening night of the Melbourne International Film Festival brings out the glitterati but not the Twitterati, writes Suzanne Carbone. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4836/1/For-Immediate-Release-Heavy-Prison-Term-for-Uyghur-Advocate-of-Inter-Ethnic-Understanding/index.html Gheyret Niyaz , a 51-year-old Uyghur journalist, was tried for "endangering state security" on July 23, 2010, and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, according to an interview with Niyaz’s wife, Reshalaiti, reported on uighurbiz.net, where Niyaz was an administrator. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4834/1/China-sentences-Uighur-writer-to-15-years-in-jail/index.html A Chinese court sentenced a Uighur journalist to 15 years in jail Friday for critical writings and comments he made to foreign media after last year's deadly ethnic riots in China's western Xinjiang region, a friend said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4832/1/Uyghur-Journalist-To-Face-Trial/index.html An ethnic Uyghur journalist arrested for talking to foreign media about the deadly July 2009 ethnic riots in far-northwestern China faces an imminent criminal trial, according to supporters. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4829/1/-Palau-pushes-Australia-to-take-Uighurs/index.html Palau President Johnson Toribiong says he will press Australia to take in former Guantanamo detainees from the Chinese Muslim Uighur minority who want to quit their temporary refuge in the Pacific. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4827/1/Uighur-journalist-goes-on-trial-in-China-a-year-after-unrest/index.html The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Chinese government to dismiss charges against Gheyret Niyaz, a Uighur journalist and website manager, and release him from prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4826/1/China-to-try-Uighur-journalist-on-quotsecurityquot---report/index.html China will next week try a Uighur journalist and website manager on charges of "endangering state security" after he spoke to foreign journalists about riots in western China, an overseas activist group said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4825/1/Family-of-Imprisoned-Uyghur-Christian-Alimujiang-Denied-Visiting-Rights/index.html Since Uyghur Christian prisoner Alimjan Yimit (Alimujiang Yimiti) was moved in April to No. 3 Prison on the outskirts of Urumqi to begin serving a 15-year sentence, it was expected the normal rules regarding monthly supervised family visits would allow his mother and his wife Gulinuer and children to see him again. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4823/1/China-CNPC-to-boost-oil-and-gas-output-in-Xinjiang/index.html State-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) said Tuesday it planned to build Xinjiang province in the country's remote northwest into the nation's top oil and gas production base by 2020. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4815/1/Uighur-activist-not-coming-because-of-visa-problems/index.html Omer Kanat, who was to attend a film showing on Rebiya Kadeer, said TECRO told him it had to do more research on his visa case zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4814/1/Uyghur-human-rights-activist-Kadeer-barred-for-three-years/index.html World Uyghur Congress President Rebiya Kadeer has been barred from entering Taiwan for three years, a group which invited her to visit the country announced yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4813/1/American-Anti-Torture-Activists-Visit-Former-Guantanamo-Prisoners-in-Bermuda/index.html Three Christian activists from Witness Against Torture traveled to Bermuda on Friday, July 16, 2010 to meet with four Uyghur men who were detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for more than seven years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4810/1/INTERVIEW-Rebiya-Kadeers-daughter-in-Taiwan-for-film-show/index.html Raela Tosh warned that Taiwan could become the next Tibet or East Turkestan in the next few decades if the nation continues to trust China too much. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4806/1/Anniversary-Of-Ethnic-Riots-China/index.html In Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang region security is tight ahead of the first anniversary of deadly ethnic riots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4804/1/Uighur-dissidents-daughter-to-visit-Taiwan-Sunday/index.html The daughter of Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, will visit Taiwan July 18-20, a local group said on its website Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4803/1/Uyghur-Woman-Seeks-Return/index.html An ethnic Uyghur woman in Pakistan has repeatedly and unsuccessfully sought help from the Chinese embassy there in returning home to far-northwestern Xinjiang to escape domestic abuse, the woman and a Uyghur rights activist have said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4802/1/Gulja-Police-Detain-Uyghurs/index.html Authorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have detained several people following clashes in a Uyghur city known as a traditional center of opposition to Beijing’s rule, overseas groups and residents said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4800/1/Tough-Curbs-on-Burials/index.html Ethnic minority Uyghurs from the far-west Chinese city of Urumqi say authorities attach strict conditions when they release the bodies of Uyghurs who die in custody. Hundreds of Uyghurs were detained as part of a broad crackdown after deadly clashes a year ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4798/1/Fears-of-unrest-in-Chinas-Urumqi-with-Uighur-homes-demolished/index.html Chinese authorities are demolishing hundreds of buildings in an area of Urumqi, in the country's northwest which is home to many Muslim Uighers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4794/1/China-Razes-Uyghur-Homes-/index.html A year after deadly ethnic violence rocked the city of Urumqi, authorities in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have begun demolishing a part of the city that traditionally housed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4792/1/China-demolishes-Urumqi-flashpoint-area/index.html Chinese authorities are demolishing an area in the northwestern city of Urumqi, home to migrants they blame for disrupting social order, state media said Sunday, a year after deadly ethnic riots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4790/1/Rapid-police-response/index.html Police in Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, can now respond more speedily to emergencies, thanks to a new mechanism linking security cameras installed at key areas. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4789/1/New-gold-deposit-discovered-in-Xinjiang-report/index.html China has discovered a new gold  mine in Tuoli County of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwestern China, adding 15 metric tons (tonnes) to Tuoli's over 500 tonnes of prospective gold reserves, Tianshan Net reported Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4788/1/Major-Coal-Reserves-Discovered-In-Xinjiang/index.html A total of 6.83 billion tons of coal reserves had been discovered in the eastern part of Naomao Lake in Yiwu county, Xinjiang, reports Tianshannet.com.cn. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4782/1/Tibet-railway-to-be-linked-with-Xinjiang-for-ethnic-unity-etc/index.html For the purposes of further promotion of resource development in Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province and Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, and as a new driver for regional economic development and unity of various ethnic groups, China said Jul 6 it will link the Qinghai-Tibet railway with southern Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4780/1/Hatred-Simmers-in-Urumqi/index.html One year after deadly rioting left at least 200 people dead in the northwestern city of Urumqi, hatred is still simmering below the surface, with both Han Chinese and Muslim Uyghurs feeling unfairly treated, residents said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4778/1/Inside-Stories-of-Bloody-Conflict-in-Xinjiang/index.html The clash that erupted in Xinjiang on July 5 of last year (7-5 incident) is considered by some China's worst ethnic violence in decades. The Epoch Times talked to residents in Urumqi, Kashi and Aksu over the phone a few days before the one-year anniversary, asking them for their opinion of what caused the violence in 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4777/1/BQ-held-a-picket-in-front-of-the-Chinese-Embassy-in-Kiev/index.html July 5, 2010, members and supporters of the International NGO «BIZIM QIRIM» held a picket in front of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to Ukraine. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4774/1/July-5th-2010---CHINA--a-year-after-the-crackdown-in-Xinjiang/index.html In order to mark the approaching anniversary of the police and military crackdown on peaceful demonstrations by ethnic Uighurs in Urumchi (Xinjiang, China), Reporters Without Borders Washington director Clothilde Le Coz participated in a July 1st panel discussion on the human rights situation in the Xinjiang autonomous region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4773/1/Uyghurs-Worldwide-Protest-on-Anniversary-of-2009-Violence/index.html On the anniversary of the July 5, 2009 violence in Xinjiang, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) launched a worldwide protest in over 20 countries. It strongly condemned the Chinese communist regime for its military suppression of Uyghurs one year ago, and for oppressive security measures leading up to the anniversary. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4772/1/Urumqi-Tense-Around-Anniversary/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang are maintaining a city-wide security clampdown around the anniversary of deadly riots between Han Chinese and ethnic Uyghurs, residents and officials say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4770/1/Germany-Agrees-to-Take-Two-Inmates-from-Guantanamo/index.html German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière announced on Wednesday that Berlin has agreed to accept two inmates from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. The deal is a long time in the making, and doesn't mean that President Barack Obama is any closer to closing the prison for good. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4769/1/China-Seeks-to-Spend-Its-Way-to-Stability-in-Its-Far-West/index.html A year after ethnic protests in western China left at least 200 people dead, China’s central government has announced a plan to spend more than $100 billion in the region to “promote the fast and healthy development of the western areas,” according to a government newspaper. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4768/1/Beijing-strives-to-win-Uighur-hearts-and-minds/index.html China’s ruling Communist Party is marking the anniversary of last year’s unrest in Urumchi with a campaign to win Uighur hearts and minds while still refusing to reveal details of the events or officially recognize the underlying causes of the violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4767/1/China-A-year-later-unnatural-calm-prevails-in-Xinjiang-under-tight-police-security/index.html A year after ethnic Uyghur and Han Chinese clashed with at least 200 killed, Beijing has placed Urumqi under tight controls, urging people to stay indoors. NGO claims dozens of executions were carried out in secret. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4765/1/Uighurs-Mark-Anniversary-of-Deadly-Ethnic-Protests-in-China/index.html Uighur rights groups and activists rallied here in Washington on Monday to mark the one year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades, which occurred in the remote western region of Xinjiang, and to protest what they say is China's repression of Uighurs, the regions largest ethnic minority group. VOA's William Ide in Washington has more. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4764/1/Web-blocks-remain-one-year-on-for-Chinas-Uighurs/index.html For Ruzmammat, the Internet is a crucial way of keeping in touch with his Uighur friends in China's Xinjiang region -- a lifeline that was denied to him for 10 months following deadly ethnic riots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4763/1/A-Year-After-Xinjiang-Riots-Ethnic-Tensions-Remain/index.html One year ago, the streets of Urumqi were awash in blood. On July 5, 2009, hundreds of young men belonging to the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority rioted, beating and stabbing members of the Han majority on the streets of the capital of China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang. Two days later, Han residents took to the streets and, armed with clubs and knives, took revenge on the city's Uighur community. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4761/1/A-year-after-unrest-region-calmer-awaiting-promised-development/index.html One year after violent ethnic riots rocked Urumqi, life in the capital city of the Xinjiang region seems calmer, at least on the surface. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4760/1/False-hope-dawns-in-Chinas-west-/index.html A YEAR ago today, China was convulsed by riots in its northwestern region of Xinjiang, as it had been a year earlier in Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4759/1/Security-tight-for-Xinjiang-riot-anniversary/index.html Clashes erupted between Han Chinese and Uighur Muslims in China's western Xinjiang region on July 5th last year. Hundreds of people were killed or injured in the violence. Today, reports from Xinjiang's provincial capital say Urumqi feels like a city under siege. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4756/1/China-police-on-alert-for-Xinjiang-riot-anniversary8206/index.html Riot police are patrolling in Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region on the first anniversary of ethnic riots that claimed the lives of almost 200 people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4755/1/Xinjiang-riots-one-year-on-Uighur-and-Han-fears-still-run-deep/index.html Security forces boost in China's north-west region as economic stress divides ethnic groups zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4754/1/Police-on-alert-in-China-ahead-of-riot-anniversary/index.html Teams of police armed with guns and batons patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang on Sunday, part of stringent security precautions put in place ahead of the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4753/1/China-acts-to-ease-Uighur-tension/index.html China has installed a grassroots network of officials throughout Xinjiang, its predominantly Muslim north-west frontier region, to address social risks and spot early signs of unrest a year after bloody ethnic riots erupted in the provincial capital. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4752/1/New-testimonies-reinforce-call-for-China-to-investigate-Xinjiang-riots/index.html Amnesty International has urged the Chinese government to launch an independent investigation into last year's riots in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, after new testimony obtained by the organization has cast further doubt on the official version of events. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4751/1/Xinjiang-one-year-on-the-world-quotcould-do-morequot-/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uyghur leader in the United States, protests: "There is more attention, but the economic power of Beijing prevents nations from doing anything concrete for us". Thousands of Uyghur arrested during the riots of July 5 still imprisoned there. Worldwide event for the first anniversary of the massacre. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4750/1/Can-you-hear-us-now-Uyghur-report-details-Urumchi-unrest-and-repression/index.html A year on from the unrest in Urumchi that followed the violent suppression of an initially peaceful demonstration, human rights activists are calling on China to accept an independent international investigation into the events. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4749/1/China-installs-40000-security-cameras-in-Urumqi-/index.html China has installed about 40,000 high-definition surveillance cameras in the western region of Xinjiang days before the one-year anniversary of the country's worst ethnic violence in decades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4748/1/Uighur-leader-appeals-to-world-year-after-unrest/index.html One year since China's worst ethnic violence in decades, the exiled leader of the Uighur minority has seen a surge of global interest in her cause but says the world can do far more. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4746/1/Uyghurs-Commemorate-the-One--year-Anniversary-of-the-Urumchi-Tragedy/index.html On July 5th, Uyghurs in exile around the world and their supporters will remember and honor the lives lost a year ago during the Urumchi tragedy in East Turkestan and show their continued dedication to the Uyghurs' struggle for human rights and freedom. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4745/1/An-open-door-for-Mutalip/index.html The name of the city where Mutalip was born remained the same for thousands of years. When Mutalip’s grandfather was a boy, he was one of about a million Uighur (WEE-gur) people living in this desert oasis. At that time the region had a very clear Uighur majority, and the official language was Uighur. Now the city has a new name. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4740/1/Shaoguan-One-Year-On/index.html A year after an attack on ethnic minority Uyghurs at the Xuri Toy Factory in southern China’s Shaoguan left at least two people dead, sparking further ethnic tensions across the country, no Uyghur workers remain on the payroll, workers said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4739/1/Chinas-push-to-develop-its-west-hasnt-closed-income-gap-with-east-critics-say/index.html Ten years ago, China's leadership launched its "Go West" campaign, an ambitious plan to develop and modernize the country's poor western hinterlands. The aim was simple: to close the region's yawning income gap with the more prosperous east and assuage restive minority populations, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4736/1/China-to-develop-Kashgar-/index.html CHINA plans to ramp up growth in the ancient city of Kashgar in the restive Xinjiang region by making it an 'economic development zone' focused on central Asian trade, state media said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4735/1/Ihsanoglu-pays-unprecedented-visit-to-Chinese-Muslim-regions/index.html The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin  Ihsanoglu made an unprecedented first visit by an OIC secretary general to the Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Muslim-majority autonomous region of Ningxia, and toured the historical city of Kashgar, during his eight-day official tour of  China that concluded on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4734/1/China-Breaks-Up-Xinjiang-Terror-Group/index.html The Chinese government says it has broken up a major terrorist organization that plotted attacks in the far northwestern region, Xinjiang.  Thursday's announcement comes nearly a year after the region was hit by deadly ethnic violence that left nearly 200 people dead.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4733/1/China-breaks-up-Muslim-terrorist-gang-/index.html A Muslim terrorist organisation blamed for carrying out bomb attacks during the 2008 Beijing Olympics has been broken up by Chinese security agencies, according to a spokesman for the Public Security Bureau said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4727/1/Xinjiang-launches-campaign-to-promote-stability-ahead-of-riot-anniversary/index.html Almost 10,000 people Tuesday went out among the people of west China's Xinjiang region to deliver a message of stability and prosperity in the run-up to the first anniversary of a riot that left almost 200 people dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4726/1/China-Moves-Uyghur-Christian-Prisoner-Allows-Family-Visit/index.html Authorities in Xinjiang Province recently moved Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit from a prison in Kashgar to a prison in the provincial capital Urumqi and allowed the first visit from family members since his arrest in January 2008, sources told Compass. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4725/1/Post-July-2009-asylum-for-Uighurs-is-a-tricky-business/index.html The rippling consequences of last July's unrest in Xinjiang continues. Along with rampant arrests, and quite a few executions of those held responsible, it's an understatement to say that this year was hard on Xinjiang. Exasperated by last summer's syringe attacks, the crackdown on Uighurs "terrorists" goes on. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4724/1/China-seeks-to-attend-OIC-meetings/index.html Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, meets with journalists in Beijing, Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4722/1/China-says-has-broken-up-terrorist-group/index.html Chinese security forces have broken up a terrorist group and will give details later this week, the Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4721/1/China-blames-media-for-OIC-chiefs-Xinjiang-remarks/index.html OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu's remarks asking China to address "other concerns" of the restive Xinjiang's Uyghur Muslim population, along with economic growth, drew a sharp reaction from the government which accused the media of distorting his remarks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4713/1/AP-Exclusive-Uighurs-flee-China-after-riots/index.html Police came looking for Vali days after bloody ethnic riots broke out in the far west last year, saying they had video footage of him among fleeing protesters and later shouting at an officer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4710/1/China-notes-ties-with-Islamic-world/index.html The Chinese government, facing separatist pressures from its minority Uighurs in the northwest, says it values its friendly relations with the Islamic world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4708/1/New-Chinese-Regime-Campaign-Suppresses-Uyghur-Identity-and-Belief-/index.html Last month, the Chinese Communist regime initiated a series of political movements in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the title of “Protecting social stability and unity between the ethnic groups.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4706/1/Detention-for-Flood-Rescuers/index.html Authorities near the Silk Road city of Kashgar have detained around a dozen ethnic Uyghurs after they organized themselves to help local residents hit by huge rainstorms and massive flash flooding, overseas groups and officials said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4704/1/China-plans-Xinjiang-crackdown-for-riot-anniversary/index.html Police in the capital of China's restive Xinjiang will launch a security clampdown ahead of the anniversary of ethnic riots, the government said Friday, in an indication they fear further unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4703/1/Human-Rights-Defenders-Tulip-Nomination-of-Ms-Kadeer-and-Mr-Jemilev/index.html n Monday 14 June 2010, UNPO nominated two human rights defenders for the Dutch Human Rights Defenders Tulip Award; Rebiya Kadeer and Mustafa Jemilev, both of whom have demonstrated outstanding commitment to campaigning for the rights of their people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4702/1/Patient-Pressed-on-Gifts/index.html Authorities in northwest China have warned the family of a mother and son suffering from cancer to stop accepting overseas donations for his medical treatment, according to the boy’s mother. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4699/1/One-year-later-Chinas-crackdown-after-Uighur-riots-haunts-a-homeland/index.html A hulking shell of a department store towers over this city's Uighur quarter, a reminder of what can be lost here by speaking up. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4698/1/Uighur-refugees-plead-to-leave-Pacific-island/index.html A group of former Guantanamo detainees from a Chinese Muslim ethnic minority have pleaded for a permanent home seven months after being given temporary refuge in the Pacific nation of Palau. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4697/1/OIC-head-to-visit-Muslim-Uighur-regions-in-China-/index.html Ihsanoglu will travel to China on a one-week visit upon an invitation from the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4696/1/Uyghur-Students-Sent-Home/index.html Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to the Uyghur ethnic group, are sending Uyghur students from outlying areas back from the regional capital before the anniversary of deadly ethnic clashes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4695/1/UK-will-not-issue-passports-to-the-Uighur-Four--Gozney-/index.html The UK remains adamant that Bermuda's four Uighurs have no entitlement to British nationality - a year after their arrival on the Island. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4693/1/Xinjiang-still-seething-/index.html One year after deadly riots in China's Xinjiang, Beijing has reaffirmed policies that have angered Muslims in the region, raising the spectre of further unrest, a top Uighur activist said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4692/1/Uyghur-Held-in-Leak-Case-/index.html Chinese authorities are said to be detaining an ethnic Uyghur whose Kazakh visa had lapsed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4684/1/Another-man-in-Sweden-accused-of-spying-for-China-/index.html A 40-year-old man from the Stockholm area is suspected of having been involved with systematic spying on refugees for the Chinese government, Swedish Radio said, referring to the Metro newspaper. He is thought to have spied from autumn 2008 until spring last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4683/1/Uyghur-UN-Representative-Speaks-at-UN-Human-Rights-Council/index.html Ms. Kathy Polias, UN Representative for UAA and IUHRDF, speaks at the UN Human Rights Council criticizing Chinese authorities' handling of July 5 Unrest of last and the subsequent unfair trails and executions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4681/1/Chinese-province-hit-by-51-quake/index.html An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit a remote mountainous region in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region today, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, officials said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4680/1/Railway-construction-underway-in-NW-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Photo taken on June 9, 2010 shows the scene at the construction site of the 3-km railway bridge in Nanhu town, the starting point of a railway over the Lop Nur, a former lake that is known as "the sea of death", in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4675/1/Uyghurs-savour-freedom-a-year-on/index.html A year ago this week, Premier Dr. Brown shocked Bermuda by announcing he had agreed a secret deal with the U.S. to bring four inmates from the hated Guantanamo Bay terror camp to the island. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4670/1/Police-Raid-Quran-Group/index.html Authorities near the western Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's troubled region of Xinjiang have detained a group of ethnic Uyghur women who had formed a group to study the Quran, overseas groups said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4665/1/Palau-pleads-for-Uighur-refugees/index.html The President of the tiny island nation of Palau is appealing to Australia to accept for permanent resettlement six Uighurs from north western China who late last year were given temporary residence in Palau following eight years of detention in Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4664/1/Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-Speaks-at-the-Movies-That-Matter-Film-Festival/index.html Ms. Kadeer, Uyghur Democracy Leader and Mr. Alim Seytoff, WUC Spokesperson attended the Movies That Matter Festival in the Hague, Netherlands from March 24 to 30. "The 10 Conditions of Love," a documentary film about Ms. Kadeer's life and Communist Chinese occupation of East Turkestan, was screened several times. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4663/1/Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-Speaks-at-the-Geneva-Human-Rights-Summit/index.html Ms. Kadeer, Uyghur Democracy Leader, and Mr. Alim Seytoff, WUC Spokesperson attended the Geneva Summit for Human Rights, Tolerance and Democracy from March 8 to 9 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Summit was held at the same time when the UN Human Rights Council was debating global human rights issues, not too far from the venue. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4659/1/Palau-urges-Australia-to-allow-permanent-resettlement-for-six-Uighurs/index.html The President of Palau is appealing to Australia to accept for permanent resettlement, six Uighurs from north western China who late last year were given temporary residence in Palau following eight years of detention in Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4656/1/China-launches-new-resources-tax-in-Xinjiang/index.html China is introducing a 5% tax that the country's energy companies must pay on oil and gas produced in Xinjiang, part of efforts to improve the economic prospects of the poor western region, where local ethnic Muslims have rioted against Han Chinese and where the windfall from the development of rich resources has been scant. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4655/1/DC-Circuit-Deals-New-Setback-to-Uighur-Detainees/index.html A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected another attempt by five Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be released into the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4645/1/Watchdog-Nations-getting-away-with-murder/index.html Amnesty International says '09 a year of human rights setbacks, progress zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 30 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4644/1/Court-to-Guantanamo-Uighurs-Accept-resettlement-or-stay-in-prison/index.html The five remaining Uighur detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have turned down zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4643/1/China-Announces-Development-Plan-for-Restive-Region/index.html The new leader of the restive region of Xinjiang in western China has announced a series of economic measures to bolster confidence in the regional government, which was widely criticized by ordinary citizens after deadly ethnic rioting there last summer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4642/1/Amnesty-report-slams-global-abuses-/index.html Amnesty International has accused the United States, Russia and China of ignoring human rights violations by allies and failing to open their own records to scrutiny in its annual survey. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4641/1/No-regrets-now-an-award-for-film-festival/index.html THE Melbourne International Film Festival will be honoured with Liberty Victoria's free speech award - the Voltaire award - in recognition of its refusal to buckle in the face of intense pressure from a foreign government and a left-wing filmmaker last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4640/1/Muslims-Face-New-Curbs/index.html Authorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have officially introduced new religious curbs in the mostly Muslim area, according to a directive published online. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4639/1/New-Details-on-Arrests/index.html New accounts detailing the detention of ethnic Uyghurs in northwest China in the wake of deadly unrest show how authorities have targeted members of the mostly Muslim minority, keeping them in custody without access to family and often without indicating when they might be tried or freed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4638/1/DELAHUNT-ROHRABACHER-INTRODUCE-CAMBODIAN-TRADE-ACT-/index.html Bill Denies Economic Benefits To Cambodia In Response To Human Rights Abuses zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4637/1/US-bill-targets-Kingdom-over-Uighur-case-/index.html TWO American lawmakers have submitted legislation designed to punish Cambodia for last year’s deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers by barring the reduction or elimination of more than US$300 million in debt as well as the extension of duty-free status to Cambodian garments imported into the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4626/1/Police-Set-up-Special-Unit-to-Combat-Terrorism-in-Urumqi/index.html A special police unit has been set up in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to combat terrorism, local authorities said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4623/1/Open-letter-to-the-Xinjiangs-party-secretary/index.html Reporters Without Borders notes the Xinjiang Autonomous Region’s reconnection to the Internet on 14 May, which has allowed a relative reopening to the outside world, and we urge you to pursue this trend by pressing for less online censorship at the central government’s next meeting to examine the situation in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4622/1/China-anoounces-new-tax-reforms-in-Uighurs-homeland/index.html Chinese President Hu announced a package of tax reforms, government investment targets and investment incentives for East Turkistan, state TV said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4621/1/China-hopes-development-solves-regions-tensions/index.html China's leaders said faster economic development is the needed medicine for one of its most restive regions, announcing a plan Thursday that resembles efforts already under way in equally tense Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4620/1/Chinese-central-authorities-outline-roadmap-for-Xinjiangs-leapfrog-development-lasting-stability/index.html The Chinese central authorities have set down strategic plans for far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to achieve leapfrog development and lasting stability. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4619/1/Xinjiang-Online-Controls-Remain/index.html China's restoration of most Internet services to the troubled region of Xinjiang, 10 months after deadly ethnic rioting, was a political decision with no real impact on continuing controls on the Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs, analysts said zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4618/1/Language-School-Shuts-Down/index.html A Uyghur language school in northern Pakistan has been shuttered following orders from authorities acting on pressure from Beijing, according to school officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4617/1/Travel-Ban-for-Uyghur-Scholar/index.html Authorities in Beijing have recently informed an outspoken ethnic Uyghur scholar that he will be barred from leaving China, at least for the rest of the year, regardless of his destination. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4614/1/Maldives-to-re-settle-two-terrorism-suspects-from-Guantanamo-bay/index.html In a controversial decision, which should be of concern to India’s national security managers, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives has accepted a request from the US Government to re-settle in Maldivian territory two terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay military detention centre in Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4612/1/Fight-continues-for-imprisoned-Chinese-Christian/index.html A number of human rights groups are calling for justice on behalf of a Chinese Christian who is sentenced to 15 years in prison for his faith. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4610/1/National-Security-Committee-meeting-on-Gitmo-detainees-postponed/index.html Today’s National Security Committee meeting regarding the transfer of Guantánamo Bay inmates to the Maldives has been rescheduled, after Speaker of Parliament Abdulla Shahid requested to cancel it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4602/1/Uighur-intellectual-continues-to-challenge-the-official-Chinese-line/index.html Ilham Tohti has paid a price for speaking out on his homeland, writes John Garnaut in Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4596/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-Speaks-at-the-2010-Oslo-Freedom-Forum/index.html Rebiya Kadeer is a prominent Uyghur business leader, political activist, women’s rights advocate, and humanitarian. Born into a poor family, Kadeer rose to become one of China’s most successful – and socially-minded – entrepreneurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4594/1/After-Long-Ban-Western-China-Is-Back-Online/index.html Full Internet service was restored to the vast western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Friday, 10 months after it was blocked following deadly ethnic rioting that convulsed the regional capital, Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4591/1/China-restores-internet-to-Xinjiang/index.html China brings Xinjiang back online after blocking access over ethnic riots last summer amid fears that the ban has hit trade zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4589/1/China-touts-Tibet-Xinjiang-harmony-at-Expo/index.html The restive regions of Tibet and Xinjiang have for years been thorns in the side of China's ruling Communist Party, but visitors to the World Expo in Shanghai would never know it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4587/1/Free-Alim-Campaign-Issues-Open-Letter-to-Secretary-of-State-on-Alimujiang/index.html On the eve of the U.S.- China Human Rights Dialogue, ChinaAid has partnered with fifteen other concerned organizations to call for justice on behalf of Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti, sentenced to 15 years in prison for his faith. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4583/1/Uyghur-Held-Boss-Vows-Crackdown/index.html An ethnic Uyghur photographer detained shortly after publishing an anti-Chinese article online has gone missing and appears to be under arrest, according to knowledgeable sources in the western city of Kashgar who asked not to be identified. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4581/1/Leader-of-Chinas-restive-Xinjiang-region-says-security-remains-key-amid-new-policy-direction/index.html  Beijing faces a "severe, complex, and intense" fight against separatism in the riot-torn western region of Xinjiang, the new regional leader was quoted Monday as saying. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4580/1/Chinas-new-Xinjiang-boss-vows-crackdown/index.html The new head of China's restive Xinjiang region -- the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last year -- has pledged a renewed crackdown on separatist elements, state media said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4579/1/Uyghur-Mother-Appeals-for-her-Son-Sentenced-to-15-Years-in-Prison-for-His-Faith/index.html Imagine that your son has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4578/1/Pakistan-tells-quotChinese-brothersquot-Uighur-leader-killed/index.html Pakistan and China have "broken the back" of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Pakistan's Interior Minister said in Beijing on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 08 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4577/1/More-China-Aid-to-Cambodia/index.html China has pledged millions of dollars in new aid to the Cambodian military, just weeks after the United States froze a planned delivery of military trucks to the Southeast Asian country, officials said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4574/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-to-get-15-billion-boost/index.html China plans to inject nearly $1.5 billion into a western region that is the site of simmering unrest, boosting its economy in hopes of reducing ethnic tension after riots last year killed nearly 200 people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4571/1/Man-seeks-help-for-sons-release-from-Chinese-prison/index.html Sher Baz Khan, a Pakistani who has been living in China since 1987, has appealed to the Chinese government and the Chinese court to release his 17-year-old son from a prison in Urmuqi, China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4570/1/China-promises-trucks-for-Cambodian-military-after-US-rap/index.html China is to donate more than 250 trucks to Cambodia just weeks after the United States withheld a shipment of military vehicles in response to Phnom Penh's recent expulsion of 20 Uighur refugees, local media reported Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4566/1/China-Moves-Uyghur-Christian-Prisoner-Allows-Family-Visit/index.html Authorities in Xinjiang Province recently moved Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit from a prison in Kashgar to a prison in the provincial capital Urumqi and allowed the first visit from family members since his arrest in January 2008, sources told Compass. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4564/1/China-seeks-bilingual-officials-in-restless-Xinjiang/index.html Applicants for official jobs in China's restless far western region of Xinjiang must be able to communicate in both Chinese and one of the local languages, state media said, as Beijing tries to soothe ethnic tensions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4561/1/Bavaria-rebuffs-China-over-Uighur-terrorists/index.html Bavaria has knocked back a demand from China to list a group representing the Uighur ethnic minority – which has a violent separatist movement in China – as a terrorist organisation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4558/1/Uyghur-Scholar-Slams-Exit-Ban/index.html An ethnic Uyghur scholar based in Beijing has lashed out in an open letter and an interview at Chinese authorities for preventing him from traveling to Turkey to deliver a lecture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4557/1/Activists-campaign-for-jailed-Chinese-Christian/index.html Rights groups in London are stepping up their campaign on behalf of the jailed Chinese Christian Alimujiang Yimiti following the rejection in March of his appeal against a 15-year prison sentence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4552/1/US-judge-scoffs-as-he-suggests-Bermuda-as-a-possible-destination-for-more-Uighurs-/index.html US judge 'scoffs' as he suggests Bermuda as a possible destination for more Uighurs zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4551/1/Xinjiang-King-removed/inde.html CHINA has replaced the top official in Xinjiang, months after the restive region was rocked by violent ethnic riots, bizarre syringes attacks and massive demonstrations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4550/1/China-replaces-party-chief-of-riot-hit-Xinjiang/index.html China has replaced the top official in energy-rich Western Xinjiang region, hit last year by deadly rioting and a scare over syringe stabbings, the official Xinhua agency reported on Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4549/1/Uyghur-Teenager-Gets-Life/index.html A court in China’s troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang has handed a life sentence to a Uyghur youth for alleged murder during July 2009 unrest, but rights groups and relatives say his trial was unfair and he may have been tortured. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4548/1/Chinese-Uighur-Muslims-plead-in-court-for-US-release-/index.html Lawyers for the five remaining Uighur Chinese Muslims at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp argued in court Thursday that the men should be set free on US soil after more than eight years in detention. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4547/1/Call-To-Open-Up-Online/index.html A retired physics professor and prominent rights activist from the eastern province of Shandong has called on the Chinese government to stop limiting the Internet access of people in the troubled region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4545/1/China-Risk-of-torture-for-17-year-old-in-China/index.html 18-year-old Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz was sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 April 2010, following demonstrations and subsequent violence in western China in July 2009. His trial was unfair and his confession may have been extracted under torture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4542/1/Uyghur-Barred-from-Travel-/index.html Chinese authorities have barred a leading ethnic Uyghur economist based, in Beijing, from attending an academic conference in Turkey, along with four other Uyghur academics from the Xinjiang regional capital, Urumqi, organizers say zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4538/1/ABC-to-screen-controversial-documentary/index.html The ABC will broadcast a controversial documentary film about the Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, dousing accusations earlier this year that the broadcaster had shelved it for fear of causing offence to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4537/1/April-22-US-appeals-court-hearing-for-Chinese-Muslim-Uighurs/index.html The last five Uighur Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp are to have a court hearing next week to ask for their release on US soil after nearly a decade of detention, judicial sources said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4536/1/Japan-to-issue-visas-again-for-Uyghur-activist-Kadeer-Dalai-Lama/index.html Japan plans to issue entry visas for Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer and Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for their respective visits planned for May and June, despite China's demand that it refrain from doing so, government sources said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4532/1/Links-to-Kyrgyzstan-Cut/index.html Chinese officials shut down transportation services between northwestern China and Kyrgyzstan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4531/1/Dungans-Uyghurs-Attacked-In-Northern-Kyrgyz-Town-/index.html Antigovernment protest actions in Kyrgyzstan's northern town of Tokmok have reportedly escalated into ethnic clashes, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4530/1/HRW-Brad-Adams-urges-the-US-to-take-additional-measures-against-Cambodia-for-the-deporation-of-Uyghur-refugees-/index.html Letter to Secretary Clinton on Cambodia's Deportation of Uighur Asylum Seekers to China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4526/1/Uyghur-Christians-Appeal-Denied/index.html Authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have rejected an appeal from an ethnic minority house church leader who was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment on charges of revealing state secrets to overseas organizations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4525/1/China-Watching-Kyrgyzstan/index.html China voiced concern Thursday about events in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, where opponents of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev took control of the government after a wave of deadly violence around the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4524/1/INTERNATIONAL-CONFERENCE-Uyghurs-Call-for-Dialogue-with-China--Implementation-of-the-Chinese-Constitution-to-Safeguard-and-Protect-the-Rights-of-the-Uyghur-people/index.html Mr. Niccolò Rinaldi MEP is convening a two-day conference entitled 'Dialogue with China - Implementation of the Chinese Constitution to Safeguard and Protect the Rights of the Uyghur People' at the European Parliament in Brussels on 29-30 April 2010 in collaboration with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4523/1/Bowers-presents-mystery-mummies-from-China/index.html A new exhibition at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art demonstrates that, as far back as 1800 B.C., Westerners and Easterners were traveling, trading and inter-mingling back and forth between Europe, Asia and the Mediterranean. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4518/1/Pakistan-Uyghurs-in-Hiding/index.html Two prominent members of the exiled Turkic-speaking Uyghur community, many of whom oppose Chinese rule in their homeland, are on the run from the authorities following police raids on their homes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4517/1/Uighurs-demand-release-on-US-soil/index.html Lawyers for five Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay are petitioning the US Court of Appeals in Washington to consider their clients be initially released on US soil. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4516/1/US-retaliation-will-not-affect-relations-govt/index.html MINISTRY of Defence officials say bilateral military relations with the United States will not be affected by a US decision to suspend a shipment of 200 military lorries as punishment for the government’s deportation of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers to China in December. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4514/1/The-Uighurs-Chinas-forgotten-Muslims/index.html Until recently, the roughly ten million Muslim Uighurs of China's north-western Xinjiang province, one of the world's least known Muslim minority populations, appeared largely content living under Chinese rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4513/1/Who-protests-in-DC/index.html It may be the U.S. capital, but most protests are globally focused. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4512/1/Cambodia-bristles-at-US-aid-cut-over-deportations/index.html Cambodia bristled Friday at a U.S. decision to cut a small military aid program to protest the December deportation of Muslim asylum seekers to China, saying if they deserved protection the United States could have offered it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4511/1/10-Conditions-of-Love-Screened-in-The-Hague--/index.html ‘The 10 Conditions of Love’ was screened as part of the ‘Movies that Matter’ Film Festival hosted in The Hague, The Netherlands over the past week (25-31st March 2010) and was followed by a debate with Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4510/1/US-cancels-Cambodia-trucks-over-Uighur-case/index.html The United States on Thursday stopped a shipment of military trucks to Cambodia as punishment after it sent Uighur asylum-seekers back to China in defiance of international appeals. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4509/1/US-suspends-some-aid-to-Cambodia-over-Uighur-case/index.html The United States said on Thursday it had halted shipments of some surplus military vehicles to Cambodia to retaliate for the Southeast Asian nation's decision to deport a group of Uighurs back to China over U.S. protests. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4508/1/Chinese-filmmaker-secretly-shoots-six-hour-documentary-on-deadly-1994-fire/index.html On Dec. 8, 1994, nearly 300 Chinese schoolchildren gathered in a remote western oil town to take part in a performance for school officials. But a stage light ignited a curtain, setting off a fire that engulfed the theatre. Few students made it out alive. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4498/1/Uighur-activists-puts-pressure-on-Sweden/index.html Uighur activists on Sunday urged the Swedish government to pressure China over its treatment of the minority as Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited the Nordic country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4495/1/Mystery-mummies----another-big-show-at-the-Bowers/index.html The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana has been scoring one blockbuster show from China after another. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4493/1/Uyghurs-Release-Sought/index.html Supporters of a jailed ethnic Uyghur journalist have organized an online campaign for his release, nearly six months after his detention for talking to foreign media about the deadly July 2009 ethnic riots in far-northwestern China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4491/1/China-protests-over-Uighur-transfer-/index.html The transfer of two ethnic Uighurs from the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay to Switzerland has triggered an angry reaction from China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4489/1/Kashgars-old-city-landscape-of-loss-/index.html The Chinese authorities’ continuing demolition of the urban heartland of Uyghur society is also the outward face of a deeper dispossession, says Henryk Szadziewski. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4487/1/Two-former-Guantanamo-detainees-arrive-in-Switzerland-/index.html The transfer of two Chinese Uighur brothers from the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay to Switzerland has prompted mixed reactions from Swiss politicians, with some saying the US should sort out its own problems. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4486/1/Uyghurs-Land-in-Switzerland/index.html Two ethnic Uyghur detainees, both Chinese nationals, have arrived in Switzerland after 8-1/2 years in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, a knowledgeab zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4485/1/Xinjiang-Internet-Still-Limited/index.html Residents of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang say Internet services are still extremely limited, eight months after deadly ethnic rioting swept through the regional capital, Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4484/1/Supreme-Court-declines-case-US-can-move-detainees-without-notice/index.html The Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether federal judges can require the US to give 30 days notice of any plan to move Guantánamo detainees to another country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4483/1/Turkish-symposium-calls-Uighur-region-quotforgotten-Palestinequot/index.html A major international symposium called China to open East Turkestan to the world and stop all human rights abuses. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4482/1/Conference-aims-to-bring-Xinjiang-woes-to-forefront/index.html A conference held in Istanbul over the weekend focused on China’s traditionally Turkic Muslim region of Xinjiang and aimed to highlight the remote region’s problems in the wake of July 2009 communal clashes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4472/1/Activists-Join-Senators-in-Call-for-State-Department-Action-on-Internet-Freedom/index.html Surrounded by front-line activists from Iran, China, Cuba, Syria, Tibet, and the Uyghur Region of East Turkestan, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) promised to put State Department nominations on hold until the Department follows Secretary Clinton's January 21st Internet freedom speech with decisive action. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4469/1/Interventionon-on-Cambodias-UPR-Report--/index.html UNPO's Maggie Murphy will make an intervention on behalf of Interfaith International at the occasion of the consideration of Cambodia's Universal Periodic Review report at the 13th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4457/1/China-to-ramp-up-investment-in-restive-Xinjiang/index.html China will sharply increase investment in Xinjiang in hopes that higher living standards for ethnic Uighurs in the restive region can quell long-standing unrest, state press said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4456/1/China-quickly-condemns-Dalai-Lamas-support-for-Uighurs/index.html Chinese officials quickly reacted with anger to a speech by exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in which he expressed sympathy with the people of East Turkestan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4454/1/Dalai-Lama-backs-Muslim-Uighurs/index.html The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, expressed solidarity and support for Muslim Uighurs yesterday, raising the spectre for Beijing of closer co-ordination between opponents of Chinese rule and minority groups in territories that have seen ethnic rioting in the past two years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4452/1/Urumqi-Xinjiang-US-Embassy-to-meet-constituents/index.html U.S. citizens living or visiting near Xinjiang province will be able to take advantage of U.S. Embassy services on Monday, March 22. RSVP is required and location details will be e-mailed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4449/1/Speak-out-act-up/index.html The fifth annual Montreal Human Rights Film Festival brings rights struggles into focus zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4447/1/China-Tibet-The-Dalai-Lama-quotclose-to-the-Uyghurs-scares-Beijing/index.html The Chinese central government and the administration of Tibet strongly attack the speech given yesterday by the Buddhist leader: "It distorts reality and foments separatism within China." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4446/1/Dalai-Lama-risks-Chinese-ire-to-back-Uighurs/index.html The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, voiced his support on Wednesday for an ethnic minority in China's troubled Xinjiang province, risking further worsening his fraught relations with Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4445/1/Uyghur-Sentenced-for-Spying/index.html A Swedish court has sentenced an ethnic Uyghur refugee to 16 months in prison for spying on fellow Uyghur refugees and passing information to China, according to court documents. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4444/1/China-Keeps-a-Close-Eye-on-Exiled-Activists/index.html The world got a rare glimpse at how China keeps tabs on exiled dissidents and activists Monday, when a political refugee living in Sweden was sentenced to 16 months in jail for spying on his fellow Uighurs for the Chinese state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4443/1/Remembering-Uyghur-women-during-quotBeijing---15quot-and-beyond/index.html Rallay for Uyghur women’s rights during the 15-year review and appraisal being conducted at the United Nations in NY in March 2010 of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4442/1/Pensioner-jailed-for-spying-on-Uighurs/index.html A 62-year-old Uighur living in Sweden as a political refugee since 1997 has been found guilty of spying for China on Uighur expatriates and sentenced to a year and four months in jail. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4441/1/Shadow-Summit-In-Geneva-Focusing-On-Neglected-Rights-Issues-/index.html Dissidents, diplomats, and NGO representatives from around the world have gathered in Geneva for a two-day summit aimed at giving voice to victims of the world’s worst human rights abuses. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4440/1/China-not-clear-over-number-of-Uighur-executions/index.html China has so far convicted 198 people, with more sentencings to come, a top official said Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4439/1/198-Convicted-for-Xinjiang-Unrest-Chinese-Official/index.html  China has so far convicted 198 people linked to the bloody ethnic riots last July in its troubled Xinjiang region, a top official said today, warning that final figure will be more. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4438/1/China-expects-further-Xinjiang-separatist-attacks/index.html China says it expects new attacks by separatists seeking independence for the traditionally Turkic Muslim region of Xinjiang after deadly ethnic violence there last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4432/1/Hundreds-of-people-arrested-in-Xinjiang-for-spreading-rumours-through-texts/index.html Chinese authorities have punished hundreds of people in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for spreading rumours and separatist content through text messages during the Spring Festival holiday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4430/1/Stabbings-Reported-in-Xinjiang/index.html Police in the northwesternmost corner of China have detained an ethnic minority Uyghur in connection with the stabbing death of a Han Chinese and the wounding of two others, one of them critically, officials say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4428/1/Uighur-Vs-Chinese-E-Turkistan-Vs-Xinjiang/index.html Chinese Muslims and Xinjiang are not the accurate terms to describe the Uighur people and their autonomous region in northwestern China, a leading advocacy group insists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4424/1/Uighurs-held-at-Guantanamo-have-fight-for-freedom-blocked-by-Supreme-Court/index.html Despite being cleared for release and officially declared no threat to the US, five Uighurs held at Guantánamo Bay for eight years had their bid for freedom blocked by the Obama Administration yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4422/1/US-attack-quotkills-Uighur-leaderquot-in-Pakistan/index.html US drone attack "killed" the leader of an Uighur pro-independence movement in Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence and Taliban officials said on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4421/1/Researcher-Barred-from-China/index.html Chinese authorities have barred a Japanese researcher studying the ethnic minority Uyghur people from entering the country, detaining her for two hours after her plane landed in Beijing and then sending her home, the researcher said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4420/1/Justices-Wont-Hear-Uighur-Case/index.html The Supreme Court on Monday said it would not decide a case involving Chinese Muslims detained for eight years at Guantánamo Bay that had been set for argument this month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4419/1/Justices-dismiss-Gitmo-Uyghurs-appeal/index.html The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by native Chinese Muslims who had asked to be released into the U.S. from American military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4416/1/Claims-UN-ignored-Uighur-deportation-warnings/index.html There are claims the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) ignored repeated warnings about the imminent forced deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers from Cambodia to China last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4414/1/US-to-rethink-its-relationship/index.html The government’s deportation of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers to China in December will likely force the United States to reconsider the nature of its relationship with Cambodia, a senior American official said on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4400/1/Uyghur-Leader-Dead-at-85/index.html  Gen. Mehmet Riza Bekin Pasha, an outspoken advocate for ethnic Uyghurs living under Chinese rule, died in the Turkish capital Ankara this week at the age of 85, after a six-month treatment for lung disease at the Gulhane Military Medical Academy here. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4399/1/Silence-an-ominous-sign-for-Uighur-activist/index.html It has been more than a month since state security agents last got in touch, and Mr Tohti, an economics professor at Minzu University in Beijing and prominent representative of China’s Uighur minority, doesn’t quite know what to make of that silence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4397/1/Europeans-still-resisting-Obama-over-Guantanamo-inmates-/index.html European countries on the whole are still reluctant to take in detainees from Guantanamo Bay despite the best persuasive efforts of the United States. While some have grudgingly agreed to help, others still resist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4389/1/China-Hints-at-Trials-for-20-Seeking-Asylum/index.html The Chinese Foreign Ministry has indicated that 20 Uighur asylum seekers who were deported from Cambodia to China in December are being or have been put on trial for what China considers criminal activities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4388/1/China-to-try-Uighur-deportees/index.html China has indicated that the 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers who were forcibly deported by Cambodian authorities in December are set to stand trial for committing “criminal” acts, American media have quoted a Chinese official as saying. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4380/1/Pro-independence-group-again-invites-Kadeer-to-visit/index.html A pro-Taiwan independence group said Friday it has again invited Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer to visit Taiwan. That's after a previous trip was prevented by the government over concerns it would provoke China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4379/1/Tahe-Oilfield-Discovers-100mn-ton-Light-Oil-Reserves/index.html A 100-million-ton light oil deposit has been lately discovered in the Tahe Oilfield, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwest China, according to the project operator, the Northwest Oilfield Branch of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4373/1/Trekking-1000km-in-China-for-e-mail-/index.html It is minus 20C, and China's frigid far west Xinjiang province feels frozen, cut off. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4371/1/Swiss-govt-approves-asylum-for-2-Gitmo-inmates/index.html The Swiss government on Wednesday approved the resettlement of two Chinese inmates at Guantanamo as part of its commitment to help President Barack Obama's administration close the detention center. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4369/1/US-ASEAN-ambassador-ends-Cambodia-trip-slams-Uighur-expulsions/index.html A senior US envoy to South-East Asia wrapped up a brief visit to Cambodia Tuesday saying he had reiterated to Phnom  Penh that Washington remained 'very disappointed' with its December expulsion of 20 Uighur asylum-seekers to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4368/1/ABC-boss-denies-caving-in-to-China-on-Uighur-documentary/index.html ABC managing director Mark Scott has described as "absolutely ludicrous" suggestions the corporation buckled under pressure from China not to broadcast a controversial Australian documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4367/1/ABC-caught-in-Chinese-diplomacy-controversy/index.html The 10 Conditions of LoveJohn Lewis, producer of the controversial documentary The 10 Conditions of Love, hopes that the ABC will air the documentary soon and laments that Chinese pressure is making his doco ‘unsellable’. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4359/1/Uighur-film-shelved-in-ABC-China-push-/index.html A controversial film about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer may have been pulled by the ABC to promote managing director Mark Scott's vision of a "soft diplomacy" role for the public broadcaster. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4358/1/ABC-boss-questioned-about-Uighur-leader-film/index.html The ABC's managing director, Mark Scott, says he does not recall Chinese officials pressing the corporation not to show the film The Ten Conditions of Love about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4356/1/US-panel-examines-Kingdoms-China-ties/index.html Experts testifying before a US government panel on Thursday described China’s relationship with Cambodia as part of a broader effort to deepen its influence in mainland Southeast Asia, and cited the December deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers – which came two days before the two countries signed aid agreements worth US$1.2 billion – as proof that the effort was working. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4355/1/Meeting-highlights-plight-of-refugees/index.html A conference highlighting the plight of Khmer Krom, Uighur and Hmong refugees held Friday in Rome has drawn international attention to ongoing problems faced by a group of Khmer Krom refugees in Cambodia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4353/1/MIFF-starts-search-to-fill-top-jobs/index.html The Melbourne International Film Festival has begun scouting for a chief executive and a festival director to succeed executive director Richard Moore, who will direct his fourth and final festival this year, it was announced yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4352/1/Urumqis-Winter-of-Discontent/index.html Chinese authorities anticipate more Uyghur unrest over the year's biggest holiday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4351/1/Chinese-may-slap-Swiss-wrists-over-Uighur-affair/index.html Experts have played down fears that Swiss trade with China will be hit hard by Switzerland’s decision to give asylum to two Uighurs from China’s Xinjiang province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4350/1/DOJ-seeks-to-dismiss-case-about-holding-detainees-in-US/index.html The Obama administration is suggesting the Supreme Court dismiss a case that tests whether a federal judge can order Guantanamo Bay detainees released in the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4349/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-restores-access-to-27-websites/index.html Authorities in China's Xinjiang region Saturday restored access to 27 Internet sites that had been blocked following last July's ethnic unrest in the province, state media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4348/1/Bermuda-Uyghurs-joy-as-Guantanamo-brothers-freed/index.html The saga of the Uyghurs, falsely imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, took another twist this week when two of the remaining prisoners were granted asylum in Switzerland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4344/1/EU--Follow-Swiss-Example-of-Accepting-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html Switzerland's decision to accept for resettlement two Uighur detainees who have been wrongfully detained at Guantanamo for more than eight years is a significant contribution toward closing the prison, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4343/1/China-attacks-Guantanamo-Uighurs-asylum-in-Switzerland/index.html China has criticised a Swiss offer of asylum for two ethnic Uighur Chinese inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4342/1/Returning-Refugees-Extradition-to-Torture-UNPO-Panel-in-Rome/index.html  This Friday 5th February, UNPO will be hosting a conference on the topic of non-refoulement of refugees in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome. The conference has been organised as part of the 8th Session of the UNPO Presidency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4335/1/Resettlement-in-30-Days/index.html Two Uyghur detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay could be resettled within a month after the government of Switzerland agreed to accept them on humanitarian grounds, a lawyer for the men said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4334/1/China-police-boss-says-Xinjiang-getting-better/index.html The situation in western China's Xinjiang region is stable more than six months after deadly ethnic riots, but "hostile forces" are still looking for ways to foment unrest there, the country's public security minister said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4330/1/Switzerland-admits-two-Uyghurs-for-humanitarian-reasons/index.html Today the Federal Council decided to admit for humanitarian reasons two Uyghurs with Chinese citizenship, who have been imprisoned in Guantánamo for years by the USA without being charged with a crime nor condemned. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4329/1/Uyghur-Decision-Imminent/index.html Switzerland will probably decide as soon as Feb. 3 whether to allow two ethnic Uyghur men, held for years in U.S. military custody at Guantanamo Bay but cleared of any wrongdoing, to settle in the Swiss region of Jura, a lawyer for the detained men said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4320/1/China-sees-investment-as-cure-for-ethnic-unrest/index.html China is planning a surge of economic development for the far-west region of Xinjiang, where ethnic riots killed almost 200 people last year. While Beijing deals with the politics of the issue, security forces continue to round up Uighurs who fled after the violence, with 17 Uighurs deported from Burma. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4317/1/Uighurs-returned-to-China-disappear-says-rights-group-/index.html China must account for the whereabouts of ethnic Uighurs forcibly repatriated from Cambodia, a US-based rights group has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4316/1/China-cracks-down-on-text-messaging-in-Xinjiang/index.html Residents punished for spreading rumours and 'splittist' messages within days of services being switched back on zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4315/1/Internet-still-not-restored-in-Xinjiang/index.html Despite claims by the Chinese authorities that restrictions on Internet services and communications are gradually being lifted in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, this is not the case. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4314/1/China---Internet-still-not-restored-in-Xinjiang/index.html Despite claims by the Chinese authorities that restrictions on Internet services and communications are gradually being lifted in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, this is not the case. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4313/1/Switzerland-to-accept-Chinese-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html The Swiss regional parliament of Jura canton voted Wednesday by 45 votes in favor and three against to accept two Chinese Uyghur detainees confined at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4306/1/China-Account-for-Uighur-Refugees-Forcibly-Repatriated-to-China/index.html  The Chinese government should disclose the status and whereabouts of ethnic Uighurs repatriated against their will from Cambodia and allow the United Nations, lawyers, and family members to meet with them, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4303/1/US-seeks-China-transparency-in-Xinjiang-trials-/index.html The United States on Thursday urged China to be more transparent in its trials in the Xinjiang region as courts handed down more death sentences over last year's deadly ethnic unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4302/1/China-Xinjiang-like-Tibet-more-money-and-police-controls/index.html Five more people, probably all Uyghurs, have been sentenced to death for their involvement in last July’s riots. The authorities also announce more investments in the province. Experts say the money will likely benefit ruling groups whilst ethnic Uyghurs will be further dispossessed of their ... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4298/1/China-mulls-setting-up-military-base-in-Pakistan/index.html China has signaled it wants to go the US way and set up military bases in overseas locations that would possibly include Pakistan. The  obvious purpose would be to exert pressure on India as well as counter US influence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4297/1/China-eyes-investment-surge-for-restive-Xinjiang/index.html China will push for a surge of investment in its restive far-west Xinjiang region, seeking to boost control and ethnic unity there after deadly riots last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4296/1/Uighur-death-sentences-criticized-by-advocacy-group--/index.html A US-based Uighur association condemned the death sentences of four of their countrymen in connection with July's ethnic riots, in a statement released Wednesday in Washington. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4295/1/Uighurs-in-Japan-flee-for-better-life-in-Turkey/index.html  Caught between two nations, neither of which they trust, many China-born Uighurs are abandoning their dreams of life in Japan and emigrating to Turkey. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4294/1/Turkeys-policy-draws-Chinese-praise-over-Uighur-dispute/index.html Chinese FM Jiechi praises Turkey, that respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity in a clear reference to what Uighurs call East Turkistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4293/1/More-Death-Sentences-for-Riots/index.html Chinese courts have now sentenced at least 26 people to death following deadly riots in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4292/1/Xinjiang-text-messaging-spreading-rumors-and-criminal-detention/index.html Not long after partial Internet was restored to Xinjiang, and text messaging was restored on January 17, a report emerged about criminal detentions of different people using text message to spread "harmful" information, affecting ethnic unity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4288/1/UN-rapporteur-encouraged-but-says-human-rights-still-fall-short-/index.html The UN human rights rapporteur said Tuesday the Cambodian government was cooperating with him to identify and address human rights problems, marking a turnaround from the fractious relationship Phnom Penh had with his predecessor. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4284/1/China-sentences-four-more-to-death-for-Urumqi-riot/index.html A Chinese court sentenced four more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting in July last year in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang region, state media reported on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4281/1/Defend-Uyghur-Rights-and-the-Rule-of-Law-in-the-Peoples-Republic-of-China-PRC/index.html Condemning Arbitrary Executions, Mass Arrests, and Incommunicado Detentions of Uyghurs after July Violence zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4279/1/A-major-issue-of-the-first-Turkic-American-Magazine-published-in-US/index.html On January 25, 2010, the Turkic Student Association at Berkeley (TSAB) with support and sponsorship of Azerbaijani-American Council (AAC) published a major Winter 2010 issue of the  first Turkic-American magazine Birlik. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4278/1/Freemuse-CD-album-Listen-to-the-banned/index.html Compiled by the artist Deeyah and Freemuse, this CD compilation album is published on 3 March 2010 by Norway’s most successful music label, Grappa Records, and distributed internationally. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4271/1/Sino-Kazak-pipeline-transports-20-mln-tons-of-oil-to-China/index.html The Sino-Kazak Pipeline has piped more than 20 million tonnes of crude oil from Kazakhstan to China since it became operational in 2006, according to the regional government of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4282/1/Men-Held-Over-Uyghur-Deaths-/index.html Authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have detained at least one man in connection with the beating to death of two ethnic minority Uyghurs during an apparent shoplifting attempt. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4268/1/Uighurs-in-East-Turkistan-suffer-from-Chinas-forced-abortions/index.html "My wife would not want to remember that tragic event [the loss of an almost full-term baby after a forced fatal injection of drugs into the baby] as she has just overcome the trauma, so I request that you not speak to her," said Alimcan Karluk, head of the research center at the East Turkistan Association, an _stanbul-based organization working to raise awareness about the problems faced by Uighurs in East Turkistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4265/1/Cambodias-deportations-ordered-by-China/index.html After decades of isolation due to genocide and political conflict, Cambodia has integrated with regional groups like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and adopted a free market system. However, the right to movement in the country is still restricted and issues related to refugees and migrants are highly politicized. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4264/1/China-Turkmenistan-gas-pipeline-to-supply-gas-to-Beijing/index.html China National Petroleum Corp, the largest oil and gas producer and supplier in the country, said that the natural gas pipeline linking China and Turkmenistan is in full operation and will supply gas to major cities in North China, including Beijing, later this week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4262/1/Phnom-Penh-rejects-human-rights-report-as-quotinsultingquot-Roundup/index.html The Cambodian government Friday rejected the annual report of a prominent human rights organization that warned respect for rights in the country had 'dramatically deteriorated' last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4261/1/Text-messages-face-censorship-in-China/index.html Chinese citizens living in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in northwest China can finally make international telephone calls, after a six-month period of no service following ethnic riots last July. Domestic text messaging services were also restored this week, but not international messaging. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4259/1/Ex-Guantanamo-detainee-quotI-am-sure-it-will-be-closed-this-yearquot/index.html A Uighur resettled in Albania said other countries' reluctance to take detainees explains the delay in Gitmo's closure. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4245/1/China-blocks-Web-text-phone-ties-to-riot-torn-region-for-6-months/index.html China's Xinjiang region and its 20 million people have been without links to the outside world since the government blocked virtually all Internet, texting and international phone contact after ethnic riots in July. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4243/1/Uyghur-Killing-Not-Isolated/index.html The murder of a waiter from the troubled region of Xinjiang is part of a growing trend of attacks, exiles say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4241/1/--What-Internet-China-region-cut-off-6-months-now/index.html They arrive at this gritty desert crossroads weary from a 13-hour train ride but determined. The promised land lies just across the railway station plaza: a large, white sign that says "Easy Connection Internet Cafe." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4240/1/Germany-urges-China-to-respect-for-minority-rights/index.html German FM urged China to show more respect for human rights but said differences of opinion on this issue should not hinder trade ties. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4238/1/Chinese-Uighurs-get-right-to-text-again-/index.html The government of China's restive frontier region of Xinjiang has restored text messaging services, more than six months after bloody riots in its ethnically divided capital, Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4236/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-start-new-life-in-Palau/index.html At 0300 on 1 November 2009, the roar of a C17 US military transport plane shattered the silence at an airport in Palau, its landing lights off, invisible against the night sky. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4235/1/Harsh-sentences-for-riot-crimes-will-lessen-terror-threat-in-Chinas-far-west-official-says/index.html Handing down harsh sentences for suspects in last year's ethnic riots in China's far west will help root out terrorism, extremism and separatism in the predominantly Muslim region, a local court official said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4230/1/Bern-to-consult-Jura-before-Uighur-decision/index.html The Swiss government says it won’t make a final decision on whether to take in two Uighur brothers who’ve been held at Guantanamo Bay until it’s heard from the canton of Jura, where the two men would ultimately be heading. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4226/1/Kashgars-Old-City/index.html What are the Chinese up to in the Old City of Kashgar, the Uighur "Jerusalem"? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4225/1/China-Plans-Security-Spending-Hike-in-Xinjiang/index.html China plans to nearly double public security spending in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang following ethnic rioting last year that left almost 200 people dead, a state-run newspaper reported Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4217/1/Swiss-panel-votes-against-taking-Guantanamo-inmates/index.html Switzerland should not take in any more detainees from the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison owing to heightened security concerns, a parliamentary security committee recommended in a 15-10 vote. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4216/1/Palau-Uyghurs-try-to-build-new-lives/index.html Rebuilding one's life at 40, in a country where you don't speak the language, can be daunting. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4213/1/Religious-Persecution-in-Xinjiang-Mounts-in-the-New-Year-19-Christians-Arrested-Farm-Leaders-Burn-Christians-Bibles-and-Property/index.html With the turn of the new year, a wave of persecution has struck Han and Uyghur Christians alike in the ethnically and religiously charged Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4206/1/Stabbing-of-Uighur-worker-sparks-fears-of-ethnic-unrest/index.html The atmosphere in Shenzhen is tense after a Han man stabbed a Uighur restaurant worker to death, in an echo of the ethnic clash at a Guangdong factory last summer that triggered the bloodiest riots in Xinjiang in decades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4203/1/US-caucus-meets-with-Cambodias-PM/index.html A VISITING delegation of three American congressmen met Thursday with Prime Minister Hun Sen, during which they offered encouragement for the Kingdom’s business community while also raising concerns over the government’s controversial deportation of a group of Chinese Uighur asylum-seekers last month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4202/1/China-and-Tibet-Skirmish-at-a-Film-Festival-/index.html In celebrity wattage and as a showcase for the art of cinema, the Palm Springs International Film Festival has not garnered the attention typically bestowed upon similar carnivals at Cannes, Sundance or even, say, Toronto. But the Palm Springs festival has now earned a different kind of laurel: a bona fide diplomatic incident. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4201/1/Uighur-man-stabbed-to-death-in-south-China-report/index.html A Uighur man was stabbed to death in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, a sign of lingering tensions after a factory brawl last summer sparked bloody ethnic riots in Xinjiang, a newspaper said on Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4200/1/China-to-Swiss-Dont-Take-Uighurs-From-Guantanamo/index.html China warned the Swiss government Friday against accepting two Guantanamo inmates as part of President Barack Obama's effort to close the detention center, calling them terrorist suspects who should face Chinese justice. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4199/1/Chinese-minister-says-quotrespectsquot-Turkish-ties-with-Uighurs/index.html Chinese minister said they "respected Turkey's ties with Uighurs". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4197/1/China-warns-Switzerland-over-accepting-Uighur-detainees/index.html China has warned Switzerland that accepting two Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay prison could affect relations, the Chinese embassy and Swiss authorities said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4196/1/Call-for-Urgency-Resolution-on-Uyghur-Extraditions-From-Cambodia-/index.html Graham Watson MEP has called on China to respect the human rights of twenty extradited Uyghurs whose whereabouts continue to remain unknown zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4194/1/Canadas-pharmaceuticals-will-be-coming-from-China/index.html I don't know about you, but I found a report mildly alarming that China is on the verge of exporting prescription drugs to Canada and the U.S. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4191/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-issues-new-anti-terror-rules-state-media/index.html Authorities in China's troubled Xinjiang region will step up identity checks and monitor religious activities in a renewed bid to quash terrorism, separatism and extremism, state media said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4186/1/Uighur-tensions-persist-as-Kashgars-old-city-is-demolished/index.html IF there are still shadows of violence in the Chinese city of Urumqi six month after sectarian riots which saw 197 dead and thousands injured, they stretch a long, long way ? 1500 kilometres south east to the Uighur cultural capital Kashgar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4185/1/Australia-urged-to-accept-Uighurs-/index.html  Australia is being urged to accept a group of six Uighur men who have been temporarily resettled on the Pacific island country of Palau after being released from years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4184/1/Beijings-Ethnic-Unity-Education-/index.html Students at a top Beijing language college who come from the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have been attending political study classes in which they are taught the official Party line on last year's deadly ethnic violence there, a university official said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4183/1/Xinjiang-Bans-Separatist-Talk-/index.html  Legislators in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have passed a new "ethnic unity" law banning pro-independence speech and writings, following last year's deadly ethnic violence between minority Uyghurs and Han Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4181/1/China-sees-long-term-stability-struggle-in-Xinjiang-/index.html China's restless far western region of Xinjiang will have to wage a long term struggle to contain separatist forces and maintain stability there, the region's top leader was quoted as saying by state media. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4179/1/Angry-minority-finds-a-voice-on-Chinese-campus/index.html Young men climb a railing at the back for a better view, while a woman in a Muslim head scarf snaps photos on her cell phone. Every Friday afternoon, students pack a college classroom in Beijing to catch a glimpse of the sharply dressed professor punching the air as he speaks with surprising candor about the travails of his ethnic group, the Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4177/1/China-sees-long-term-stability-struggle-in-Xinjiang/index.html China's restless far western region of Xinjiang will have to wage a long-term struggle to contain separatist forces and maintain stability there, the region's top leader was quoted as saying by state media. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4172/1/Xinjiang-to-Adopt-quotEthnic-Unityquot-Law-/index.html In China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, authorities are introducing a law designed to stamp out ethnic unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4171/1/Turkeys-IHH-invites-Uighurs-Rebia-Kadeer-Dalai-Lama-for-March-event/index.html Turkey is preparing an important international human rights organization in March, a Turkish newspaper said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4170/1/The-violence-has-ended-in-Urumqi-but-shadows-remain-in-hearts-and-minds-/index.html THE bright winter sun bouncing off the green and gold decorated mosque in the remote northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi is deceptive. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4159/1/Chinese-Muslim-region-adopts-law-on-national-unity/index.html The government of a restive Chinese Muslim region rocked recently by ethnic strife said Thursday it has adopted what appeared to be a sweeping law barring the spread of views deemed to threaten national unity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4155/1/Chinese-Defend-the-Execution-of-British-National-/index.html Using language charged with nationalist emotion, state media and ordinary Internet users hailed the execution of a British national for drug smuggling as a victory for Chinese justice, dismissing criticism by British leaders and international rights groups who say there was evidence the man was mentally ill. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4150/1/Turkey-concerned-about-Cambodias-expulsion-of-Uighurs-/index.html Turkey has spoken out against Cambodia’s deportation of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers who had fled violence in China, while stating that it expects Chinese authorities to treat the deported Uighurs fairly and in line with international human rights norms. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4149/1/Internet-returns-to-riot-hit-China/index.html Limited internet services slowly began to return to far western China on Tuesday, almost six months after ethnic rioting led the government to shut down web and phone links to the outside world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4147/1/Internet-slowly-returning-6-months-after-riots-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Limited Internet services slowly began to return to far western China on Tuesday, almost six months after ethnic rioting led the government to shut down Web and phone links to the outside world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4141/1/China-Issues-More-Death-Sentences-for-Xinjiang-Mayhem/index.html A Chinese court has handed down death sentences for five people convicted of participating in the ethnic violence in July that killed nearly 200 people in the far western region of Xinjiang, the authorities there announced Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4140/1/China-Sentences-5-More-to-Death-Over-Ethnic-Riots/index.html China has sentenced five more people to death for crimes committed during riots in the western region of Xinjiang in July in country's worst ethnic violence in decades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4139/1/Authorities-seek-pair-of-Uighur-escapees/index.html NATIONAL police said Wednesday that they had begun the hunt for two Uighur asylum seekers who avoided the deportation of 20 of their countrymen on Saturday, and a top UN official added his voice to those criticising the Cambodian government over the deportation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4136/1/More-Uighurs-sentenced-to-death-in-China/index.html CHINA has begun sentencing 20 more ethnic Uighurs - some to death - for their part in riots which left 197 people dead in the remote western city of Urumqi on July 5, as the second batch of trials of more than 1200 people arrested as a result of the carnage began today, with at least one man sent for execution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4135/1/Deported-Uyghur-Had-Cambodian-Visa/index.html A legal visitor in Cambodia was apparently swept up in a mass deportation to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4133/1/UN-was-lazy-on-Uighurs-official/index.html A SENIOR government official says the UN’s refugee agency did not act quickly enough to process the asylum claims of 20 ethnic Uighurs deported by Cambodian authorities on Saturday night, an act that has prompted a storm of international condemnation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4132/1/China-must-reveal-fate-of-Uighur-asylum-seekers/index.html Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to reveal the whereabouts of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers who were forcibly deported from Cambodia to China on 19 December zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4130/1/UN-minorities-expert-calls-on-China-to-grant-her-access-to-assess-ethnic-tensions-and-violence-in-Xinjiang-Uyghur-Region/index.html The UN Independent Expert on minority issues, Ms. Gay McDougall, has called upon the Government of China to permit a comprehensive and independent assessment of the ethnic-tensions and grievances that erupted into violence in July 2009 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, at the earliest opportunity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4129/1/China-Forcibly-Returned-Uighur-Asylum-Seekers-At-Risk/index.html The Chinese government should immediately allow access to the 20 Uighur asylum seekers who were forcibly deported to China on December 19, 2009, in what was a breach by the Cambodian government of its obligations under international law, Human Rights Watch said today. The group of Uighurs included 17 men, one woman, and two children. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4128/1/Danby-Condemns-extradition-of-20-Uyghurs-to-China/index.html The Member for Melbourne Ports, Michael Danby MP, today slammed the decision of the Cambodian Government to extradite twenty Uyghurs to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4127/1/UN-expert-on-torture-seriously-concerned-about-forcible-return-of-ethnic-Uyghurs-from-Cambodia-to-China/index.html The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, expressed grave concern about the forcible return of 20 ethnic Uyghurs from Cambodia to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4124/1/China-denies-aid-package-Uighur-expulsions-linked/index.html The Chinese government denied Tuesday that $1.2 billion in aid it gave Cambodia was linked to the Southeast Asian nation's deportation of 20 Muslims who had sought asylum after fleeing ethnic violence in China's far west. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4123/1/Asylum-policy-failed-Uighurs-activists-say/index.html REFUGEE advocates have criticised a new sub-decree handing responsibility for asylum cases to the Ministry of Interior, two days after 20 Uighur asylum seekers were deported to China in the face of international protests. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4122/1/East-Turkestan-Commentators-Join-in-Condemnation/index.html UNPO has joined academics, human rights groups, and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in condemning Phnom Penh's extradition decision of twenty Uyghurs back to China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4119/1/Forcible-return-of-Uighurs-from-Cambodia-sparks-UN-experts-concern/index.html Two United Nations human rights experts have expressed their concern over the forcible return from Cambodia to China of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers who had fled violence in their home country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4118/1/China-thanks-Cambodia-for-deported-Uighurs--12-billion-US-in-grants-and-loans/index.html Visiting Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping thanked Cambodia for deporting 20 Muslim asylum-seekers while handing the country $1.2 billion US in aid, a government spokesman said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4117/1/Deported-Uighurs-told-UN-of-fears-of-China-return/index.html Ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers forcibly repatriated over the weekend had warned the U.N. refugee agency they feared long jail terms or even the death penalty if they were sent back to China, according to statements seen by The Associated Press. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4115/1/Outcry-Over-Deportations/index.html Cambodia's deportation to China of Uyghur asylum-seekers will harm U.S. ties, Washington says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4114/1/Chinas-Long-Arm/index.html The opening of China’s giant gas pipeline from Central Asia reinforces Beijing’s escalating political influence in the region, analysts say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4113/1/Presidency-Statement-on-the-forced-return-by-Cambodia-of-asylum-seekers/index.html The Presidency of European Union is deeply concerned about the decision by the Cambodian Government to forcibly return a group of ethnic Uighur asylum seekers to China on December 19, 2009, prior to an examination of their status under international refugee law. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4111/1/Cambodia-sends-Uighur-asylum-seekers-back-to-China/index.html Rights groups fear the group faces prison or execution in China, where nine Uighurs have been put to death over July protests. Some say China's aid to the poor nation played a role in the decision. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4110/1/China-praises-Cambodia-as-Uighurs-deported/index.html China will deal with 20 ethnic Uighurs who were deported from Cambodia over the weekend as illegal immigrants, praising relations with the Southeast Asian country as a model of good cooperation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4106/1/US-slams-deportation-of-Uyghur-refugees-from-Cambodia-to-China/index.html The U.S. State Department said Sunday it was "deeply disturbed" at the deportation of 20 Uyghur asylum seekers from Cambodia back to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4105/1/US-decries-Cambodias-Uighur-move-/index.html The US has expressed deep concern about the fate of 20 Uighur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia back to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4109/1/Gas-pipeline-a-symbol-of-Chinas-power-analysts-/index.html  China has quietly rewritten the geopolitical landscape in Central Asia in recent years, breaking Russia's monopoly over the export of the region's e nergy resources also coveted by the West, experts say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4104/1/Uyghurs-Sent-Back-to-China/index.html On the even of a high-level Chinese visit, Cambodia returns a group of asylum-seekers to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4103/1/Cambodia-sends-Uighur-asylum-seekers-back-to-China-/index.html A group of Muslims who fled China after deadly ethnic rioting and sought asylum in Cambodia were sent back home Saturday, even though rights groups fear they face persecution and possibly execution there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4102/1/Uyghurs-in-Cambodia-face-possible-imminent-deportation-to-China-/index.html The Uyghur American Association (UAA) has learned that 20 of the Uyghurs who sought refuge in Cambodia, out of an original group of 22, are being held at a detention center in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, and have been told that they are facing imminent deportation to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4101/1/Cambodia-To-Send-Uyghurs-Back/index.html Reporters and United Nations officials were waiting early Saturday at the airport here as at least 20 ethnic minority Uyghurs who entered the country seeking political asylum in the wake of deadly ethnic clashes were reportedly headed for a flight that would repatriate them to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4098/1/China-Is-Disputing-Status-of-Uighurs-in-Cambodia/index.html The Chinese Foreign Ministry has hinted that it is seeking or will seek the return of 22 Uighurs who fled to Cambodia after the eruption of deadly ethnic riots in July in western China and a subsequent government crackdown. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4097/1/CAMBODIA-Pressure-grows-over-Uyghur-asylum-seekers/index.html Cambodia is facing mounting pressure over the fate of 22 Uyghurs who fled China to avoid prosecution for their alleged involvement in violent protests earlier this year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4096/1/Protections-for-Uighurs-vital-group/index.html THE government should fulfil its international obligations to protect a group of ethnic Uighurs who are in Cambodia seeking political asylum, Amnesty International has said, warning that they could face “torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” if returned to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4095/1/Lawyer-to-ask-Britain-to-grant-citizenship-to-relocated-Uighers-/index.html Britain should offer the hand of friendship to the four Guantánamo Bay Uighurs and grant them citizenship, their lawyer said yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4091/1/Open-letter-on-Uighur-asylum-seekers-in-Cambodia/index.html I am writing as a matter of urgency about the safety of 22 ethnic Uighurs from the People’s Republic of China who have recently arrived in Cambodia and are seeking asylum. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4090/1/Call-for-Uyghurs-Release/index.html A new law is passed banning online activism in China’s northwest, and numerous Web editors are detained. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4089/1/Beijing-sends-note-on-Uighurs/index.html CHINESE authorities have sent a diplomatic note to the Cambodian government regarding 22 Uighur asylum seekers who arrived here from China last month, Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Monday, raising fresh concerns among rights groups that Beijing is seeking their deportation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4088/1/AI-Urgent-Action-Risk-of-tortureincommunicado-detention/index.html Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and his family fear for his life. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4087/1/Kadeer-Ends-European-Tour-with-a-Productive-Visit-to-the-Netherlands/index.html  During a one-day visit to The Netherlands, Ms Kadeer discussed the Chinese suppression of the Uyghur people with human rights organizations, Dutch Members of Parliament, the press and academic experts. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4086/1/Pensioner-indicted-over-China-spy-scandal/index.html A 61-year-old pensioner has been indicted in Stockholm on charges of spying on behalf of the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4084/1/Man-charged-with-spying-on-Uighur-refugees-in-Sweden/index.html A Chinese-born Swedish citizen was charged Tuesday on suspicion of spying on refugees from China's Uighur minority, a prosecutor said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4080/1/China-calls-Uighurs-seeking-asylum-criminals/index.html China alleged Tuesday that 22 Muslim Uighurs who fled to Cambodia after deadly ethnic rioting this summer are criminals and said they should not be granted asylum. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4078/1/Chinese-Delegation-Visits-Turkish-Parliament/index.html Turkish Deputy Parliament Speaker Nevzat Pakdil met with Li Wuwei, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and an accompanying delegation in Ankara on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4076/1/New-Pipeline-From-Central-Asia-Feeds-China/index.html With the turn of a ceremonial valve, China’s president, Hu Jintao, opened a big natural gas pipeline from central Asia to China on Monday, significantly increasing China’s access to the fuel and providing the first major alternative to exporting the region’s gas through Russia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4075/1/Uighur-men-expect-to-have-passports-by-next-June/index.html Bermuda's four Uighurs expect to be given passports after a year on the Island, they told The Royal Gazette this week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4074/1/Xinjiangs-frustrated-internet-users-still-cut-off-from-the-Web/index.html More than five months after the ethnic riots in Urumqi that killed almost 200 people, the internet remains inaccessible to the majority of Xinjiang's 20 million population. The situation has become so frustrating that some internet users have travelled out of the region to log on. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4073/1/China-Daily-enhances-publicity-in-Xinjiang/index.html China Daily opened a bureau with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) in the city Thursday to further assist with publicity work in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4072/1/Lawyer-thankful-for-smooth-transition-to-Island-life/index.html Bermuda has bent over backwards to help the Uighurs from Guantánamo Bay settle here in their first six months, according to one of their US attorneys. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4068/1/Uyghurs-Missing-in-Vietnam/index.html Ethnic minority Uyghurs from northwestern China, seeking asylum in Cambodia, say two would-be refugees in their group remain missing since they were detained by Vietnamese border authorities in early October. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4066/1/More-People-Obama-Should-Mention-in-Oslo/index.html There has been some talk that when he accepts his Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama should mention Neda Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian woman whose death came to symbolize opposition to the Ahmedinejad/Khamenei regime, or Rebiya Kadeer, the inspirational Uighur leader. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4064/1/Concerns-for-Uighurs-in-Cambodia/index.html Human Rights Watch says a group of 22 Chinese Uighurs who've fled to Cambodia could be tortured or executed if they are sent back home. The 22 Muslim Uighurs want the the UN to secure them asylum in a third country, but observers fear Beijing may pressure Cambodia to return the group to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4061/1/China-arrests-94-Xinjiang-unrest-fugitives/index.html Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region have arrested 94 fugitives suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic violence in July, state-run media said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4060/1/Exiled-Activist-Says-Uyghur-Issue-Crucial-For-Central-Asia-/index.html Peace for Uyghurs means peace in Central Asia and peace in the world," says World Uyghur Congress president Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4059/1/Kashgar-Police-Follow-Harass-Journalists/index.html During the Eid holiday that began Nov. 27, two journalists traveling separately to Kashgar, Xinjiang, were harassed by police and foreign affairs officials — one of whom demanded they leave the city, despite reassurances from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing the city remains open. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4058/1/China-says-investigating-Uighur-asylum-case/index.html China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it was investigating an apparent asylum request lodged with the the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees by a group of Uighurs in Cambodia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4056/1/Uyghur-Church-Leader-Sentenced-to-15-Years-Criminal-Detention/index.html In a stunning development for lawyers and family members, ChinaAid learned today that 36-year-old house church leader Alimujiang Yimiti received 15 years criminal detention for allegedly "providing state secrets to overseas organizations," on October 28th. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4055/1/Blood-and-fear-on-Happiness-Street-as-China-threatens-to-obliterate-another-ancient-culture/index.html The streets of Old Kashgar were running with blood on the day I arrived, with slaughter on every street corner. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4054/1/Siddiqui-Dragon-Slayer-still-fearless/index.html "Mother of all Uighurs" wants international inquiry into Beijing's crackdown on Muslims in her province zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4047/1/China-Sentences-3-More-to-Death-For-Xinjiang-Riots/index.html A Chinese court sentenced three more people to death on Friday for murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region, state media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4046/1/Uighurs-using-missionary-railway-to-flee-China/index.html An underground network of Christian missionaries that usually works with North Korean refugees says it has helped smuggle nearly two dozen Muslim Uighurs out of China following last summer's deadly ethnic violence and the subsequent government crackdown. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4045/1/Three-sentenced-to-death-for-Xinjiang-riots/index.html A CHINESE court today sentenced three more people to death for their roles in July's ethnic violence, bringing the total number of those condemned to 17. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4044/1/Uighurs-in-Cambodia-to-seek-asylum/index.html Rights activists fear group faces punishment by Chinese officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4043/1/-China-death-sentences-over-riots/index.html A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced five people to death for murder and other crimes over deadly ethnic riots in July, state media said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4042/1/Uyghur-Asylum-Bid-in-Cambodia/index.html China has tightened its southeastern border after several groups of ethnic Uyghurs managed to bribe their way into Vietnam and then Cambodia to avoid possible detention for allegedly taking part in deadly ethnic riots in July, Uyghur sources in Asia say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4041/1/China-Halt-death-sentences-against-Uighurs/index.html China’s supreme court must carefully review reported death sentences imposed today on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4039/1/Uighur-protesters-land-in-Cambodia/index.html Twenty-two members of a Chinese ethnic group who participated in violent demonstrations against China last summer have surfaced in Cambodia, sparking concerns that Cambodia will ignore their requests for asylum and return them to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4037/1/Uyghur-Pressed-to-Spy/index.html An exiled Uyghur returns home and finds himself in Chinese custody. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4035/1/The-Bicycle-Diaries-Xinjiangs-capitalist-revolution/index.html Douglas Whitehead finally reaches China, and is shocked at what he observes in the troubled Xinjiang province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4027/1/Condemnation-by-MEPs-of-Executions-in-China--/index.html After meetings between UNPO, World Uyghur Congress and MEPs, the European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling upon Beijing to “suspend all…death sentences” and “make every effort to develop a genuine Han-Uighur dialogue.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4025/1/Could-the-Uighur-unrest-spread-/index.html Five months after violence broke out in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang, the area still remains under tight control. International calls are barred to and from Xinjiang. There is no Internet access available to the general population. And the government is in the midst of waging a "Strike Hard" campaign. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4024/1/Germany-Suspects-China-of-Spying-on-Uighur-Expatriates/index.html German investigators on Tuesday morning searched the residences of four suspected Chinese spies. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, the suspects had been spying on Munich's Uighur community on orders from the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4023/1/China-Releases-Uyghur-Church-Leader-from-Prison/index.html A Uyghur Christian in China’s troubled Xinjiang region was released last week after serving two years in a labor camp for alleged “illegal proselytizing” and “leaking state secrets,” according to Compass sources. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4021/1/Chinese-raided-in-Germany-for-spying-on-Uighurs-Report-/index.html German police raided on Tuesday the flats of four Chinese men suspected of spying for the Beijing government on Munich's 500-strong Uighur community, Spiegel magazine reported on its website. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4020/1/Xinjiang-Unity-Law-Flawed/index.html Legislation drafted in the wake of deadly ethnic violence in China's northwest is said to miss the mark. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4013/1/China-raps-Obama-over-exiled-Tibetan-Uighur-leaders/index.html Chinese President Hu Jintao has urged his US counterpart, Barack Obama, not to allow exiled Tibetan and Uighur leaders to conduct 'anti-China separatist activities' in the United States, reports said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3999/1/China-pressured-Australia-to-refuse-Uighurs/index.html China may have pressured Australia to refuse to take six Uighur men released from Guantanamo Bay and sent to the Pacific island nation of Palau, President Johnson Toribiong said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3993/1/Uighurs-in-Paradise-/index.html After eight years locked up in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, six Uighur men have arrived in the remote Pacific nation of Palau. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3996/1/Chinas-hidden-night-of-state-bloodshed/index.html Posters went up on lampposts and walls all around drab neighbourhoods in the northwestern area of China last week, announcing a series of executions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3994/1/Uighur-group-worried-over-fate-of-detainees-in-Chinese-prisons/index.html Seyit T&uumlmt&uumlrk, the deputy head of the World Uighur Congress, has expressed serious concern over the fate of Uighur detainees in Chinese prisons, suggesting that the Chinese administration aims for the “total annihilation of the people of East Turkistan.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3992/1/UNPO-Report-quotRepression-in-China--Roots-and-Repercussions-of-the-Urumqi-Unrestquot/index.html Today the UNPO publishes a report entitled "Repression in China: Roots and Repercussions of the Urumqi Unrest".  The report comes after this past week's round of meetings in Brussels, which culminated in the Presidency of the European Union releasing a statement condemning the recent executions in East Turkestan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3991/1/Dunya-Uyghur-QurultiyiWUC-we-Wakaletsiz-Milletler-Teshkilati-UNPO-birlikte-5-Iyul-Urumchi-weqesi-heqide-dokilat-ilan-qildi/index.html   zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3983/1/Declaration-by-the-Presidency-on-behalf-of-the-European-Union-regarding-the-recent-executions-of-nine-persons-in-Xinjiang/index.html The European Union condemns the recent executions of nine persons in Xinjiang following the violent protests in Ür&uumlmqi on July 5-7, 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3978/1/Amnesty-fears-more-Xinjiang-executions/index.html The recent execution of nine people over their role in violent ethnic clashes in north-west China in July has raised concerns for hundreds of others who were detained after the riots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3977/1/-LIVING-UNDER-A-SHADOW/index.html They made headlines around the world, but the place most affected — Urumqi — learnt of the executions of nine persons for the July riots between the local Uighurs and the majority Han residents of the city by text messages on their mobiles. The messages were sent by the region’s information office. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3976/1/Amnesty-slams-Chinas-quothastyquot-execution-of-rioters-in-far-west/index.html Amnesty International on Wednesday criticized China for its 'hasty' execution of nine people convicted of murder, arson and other violent crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western province of Xinjiang in July. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3974/1/Hasty-executions-in-China-highlight-unfair-Xinjiang-trials/index.html Chinese authorities must ensure all individuals charged with offences during the July riots in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) receive a fair trail and do not face the death penalty, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3966/1/US-urges-China-fair-trials-after-executions/index.html The United States urged China Monday to ensure transparent and fair trials after Beijing said it executed nine people over ethnically charged violence in the far-western city of Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3965/1/9-executed-over-Chinas-deadly-ethnic-riots-/index.html China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for the country's worst ethnic violence in decades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3964/1/China-Executes-9-Over-Ethnic-Riots-/index.html Nine people have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that convulsed a western regional capital in July and left nearly 200 people dead, a state news agency reported Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3962/1/Uighurs-seek-a-passage-to-India/index.html With Han Chinese flooding Xinjiang - a region struggling with ethnic strife - the demoralized natives seek refuge across the border to escape the oppression... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3961/1/Uyghur-activist-seeks-talks-with-Beijing/index.html Following the bloody clashes in July in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xinjiang region in China, Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer found herself in the midst of another controversy, having been accused by the Chinese government of instigating the riots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3960/1/Uighur-leader-to-visit-former-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html Exiled Chinese Muslim leader Rebiya Kadeer will travel to Palau as soon as next week to visit six fellow Uighurs released from Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman for the men said on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3954/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-In-Palau-First-Interview-And-Photo/index.html In the first interview with one of the six Uighurs recently released from Guantánamo to the Pacific nation of Palau, Radio Free Asia in Washington D.C. spoke by phone to Anwar Hassan, who revealed that, although the men were enjoying their new-found freedom, they were all concerned that they were unable to contact their families. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3953/1/Who-Are-the-Six-Uighurs-Released-From-Guantanamo-to-Palau/index.html Over the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo - Muslims from China's Xinjiang province - were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3950/1/Palau-hoping-Australia-will-accept-Uighurs/index.html Palau is urging Australia to accept a group of Chinese Muslim Uighurs who spent seven years in detention at the Guantanomo Bay detention centre. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3946/1/Eight-Uighurs-and-one-Han-Chinese/index.html Nine people (apparently, eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese) have been sentenced to death for involvement in unrest earlier this year in western China. They have exhausted all their appeals, and could be executed within days once their sentences are approved by the Supreme Court. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3942/1/China-launches-quotstrike-hardquot-crackdown-in-restive-west/index.html Security campaign follows fatal summer riots between ethnic Uighur and Han Chinese in capital of Urumqi zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3941/1/China-Intensifies-Dragnet-in-Xinjiang-Region/index.html Four months after ethnic rioting in western China’s Xinjiang region killed nearly 200 people, security officials there have launched a fresh dragnet to track down accused rioters and other so-called terrorist elements, a regional newspaper reported on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3940/1/Uyghurs-in-Palau-Cut-Off/index.html Members of a Chinese ethnic minority cleared of terrorism charges and relocated by the U.S. say they are unable to communicate with their friends and family. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3939/1/Urumqis-Internet-phone-still-off-4-months-after-riots/index.html In the wake of violent rioting in the western city of Urumqi back in July, Chinese authorities took a radical step: cutting off all Internet, text-messaging and international telephone services in Xinjiang, a restive province home to 21 million people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3935/1/Gitmo-men-celebrate-freedom/index.html Six Chinese Muslim Uighurs, released on the weekend after nearly eight years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, spent their first day of freedom on Monday shopping in the Palau capital Koror. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3934/1/Justice-Department-Six-Guantanamo-detainees-arrive-in-Palau/index.html Six Uyghurs who were imprisoned in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were transferred Saturday to the South Pacific island nation of Palau, the Justice Department said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3933/1/-Guantanamo-Uighurs-sent-to-Palau/index.html Six Chinese Uighur prisoners from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the Pacific island nation of Palau, officials say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3932/1/Uyghur-Grandfather-Detained/index.html A man at the center of a story related to China’s tough one-child policy is in custody. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3931/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-sent-to-Palau/index.html The Obama administration has sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau, the US Justice Department said on Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3930/1/Uighurs-Leave-Guantanamo-for-Palau-/index.html Six Chinese Muslims were flown from the United States military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Palau, the island nation in the Pacific Ocean, as part of the Obama administration's effort to close the prison, an administration official said Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3928/1/Exiled-Uighur-Leader-Says-China-Ships-Uighur-Women-to-China-/index.html Speaking at a Tokyo press conference, exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said most of the 300,000 Uighur women transferred to work in China are 14 to 25 years old. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3927/1/Uighur-Activist-Kadeer-Says-China-Transfer-Policy-Caused-Riots/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur activist, said violence in Xinjiang in China that left 192 people dead in July may have stemmed from the forced movement of Uighur women to mainland China to work in factories and hotels. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3926/1/Ethnic-Uighur-Journalist-Detained-in-China/index.html Chinese police have jailed an outspoken Uighur journalist for allegedly endangering national security, a colleague said Friday, adding to the scores of detentions reported in the restive Xinjiang region since deadly ethnic rioting erupted there four months ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3925/1/China-jails-19-in-Xinjiang-for-security-crimes-Uighur-group/index.html China sentenced 19 people in restive Xinjiang to jail terms of three years to life for state security crimes, some in connection with deadly ethnic unrest in July, a US-based activist group said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3924/1/Exiled-Uighur-Leader-Says-China-Continues-Crackdown-on-Uighur-Community-/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer says China continues to crack down on the Uighur community in that country. Kadeer is visiting Japan for the second time since tensions between Uighurs and the dominant Han Chinese group led to violent clashes in China's Xinjiang region a few months ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3922/1/Survey-of-blocked-Uyghur-websites-shows-Xinjiang-still-cut-off-from-the-world/index.html Reporters Without Borders has surveyed access to websites dedicated to the Uyghur community, including sites in the Uyghur language, in Mandarin and sometimes in English. These sites, operated by Uyghurs for Uyghurs, are for the most part inaccessible both to Internet users based in Xinjiang and those abroad. More than 85 per cent of the surveyed sites were blocked, censored or otherwise unreachable. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3921/1/Xinjiang-Still-Offline/index.html Phone, text, and email links to China's restive northwesternmost region remain largely blocked. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3918/1/Taiwan-has-nothing-to-fear-from-Kadeer-documentary-maker/index.html Taiwan should have nothing to fear from screening a controversial documentary on exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, the film's producer said yesterday in Taipei, adding that it would demonstrate that Taiwan’s respect for freedom of speech and human rights was “not negotiable.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3916/1/Chinese-Regime-Blocks-Internet-in-Uyghur-Region/index.html Since the eruption of ethnic riots in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China on July 5, 2009, the Chinese regime has continuously blocked access to the Internet and other communication channels in the area. Xinjiang currently holds the record for the longest Web outage since the invention of the Internet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3912/1/Bingtuan-School-Expels-Christian/index.html A Chinese student runs into trouble when he refuses to renounce Christianity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3908/1/Uighur-film-being-shunned-due-to-China-fears---producer-/index.html International movie distributors have shunned a film on exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, whom China condemns as a separatist, because they fear Beijing's wrath, the film's producer said on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3896/1/Arrested-by-Chinese-police-never-charged-and-not-heard-of-again/index.html ARRESTED BY Chinese police, never charged and not heard of again. This is the fateof the brother of a Manchester Metropolitan University student, who has disappeared following protests in the Xinjiang province, along with thousands of others. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3895/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-isolated-by-email-phone-blocks/index.html Residents in China's restive Xinjiang region remain isolated from the outside world with long-lasting Internet and phone cuts that have prompted some businesses to relocate, locals said Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3894/1/-Australian-Uyghur-Scholar-Alleges-Massacre/index.html Mr. Yusoph Shohret, a Uyghur scholar now resident in Australia, has disclosed details of an alleged massacre that happened in Urumqi in July. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3891/1/Uighur-leader-Kadeer-is-no-terrorist-Taiwans-Ma/index.html Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer is not a terrorist, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou was quoted as saying Friday, as he addressed one of the most sensitive issues in the island's relations with China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3889/1/Manchester-student-appeals-for-brothers-release-from-detention-in-China/index.html A Manchester student, Dilimulati Paerhati, has started a campaign for the release of his brother, who is believed to be held incommunicado by the authorities in northwest China and is at serious risk of torture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3883/1/China-accused-of-abuses-against-Uighurs-/index.html Dinah PoKempner from Human Rights Watch joins The World Today to discuss ethnic tensions in Chinas Uighur region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3881/1/China-Detainees-Disappeared-After-Xinjiang-Protests/index.html The Chinese government should immediately account for all detainees in its custody and allow independent investigations into the July 2009 protests in Urumqi and their aftermath, Human Rights Watch said in a new report on enforced “disappearances” released today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3880/1/Supreme-Court-to-hear-Uighurs-case/index.html The Supreme Court set aside the objections of the Obama administration and said Tuesday that it will consider whether judges have the power to release Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States if they have been deemed not to be "enemy combatants." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3879/1/High-court-accepts-Guantanamo-Uyghur-caseStory-Highlights/index.html The Supreme Court tentatively agreed Tuesday to accept an appeal from a group of native Chinese Muslims who had asked to be released into the United States from American military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3878/1/More-than-1000-people-arrested-in-riots-in-China-missing/index.html China is facing calls to provide accurate information about the whereabouts of up to 1,000 people who were detained following ethnic riots in the restive western province of Xinjiang last July that left 197 dead and more than 1,600 injured. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3877/1/Amnestys-bid-to-free-jailed-man/index.html HUMAN rights volunteers from Colchester have mounted a campaign to free a man from jail in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3876/1/Xinjiang-thousands-of-Uyghurs-have-disappeared-into-thin-air-quotMaybe-dead/index.html The charge was made today by Human Rights Watch. During the protests that broke out in Xinjiang, "the police used torture and intimidation." The dissident Rebiya Kadeer adds: "Of the twelve condemned to death, nine have already been killed." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3875/1/Many-missing-after-China-riots-/index.html Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained in the wake of the riots in China's Xinjiang region, a human rights group has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3874/1/Top-US-court-to-hear-Guantanamo-Uighur-case/index.html The US Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Chinese Muslim Uighurs held in Guantanamo Bay despite being cleared of all charges, the first such hearing since Barack Obama entered the White House. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3873/1/Group-Tallies-Uighurs-Seized-in-China-/index.html Months after security forces seized them in the wake of ethnic riots in July, at least 43 ethnic Uighur men from far western China have disappeared, an advocacy group said in a report released on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3872/1/Uighurs-swap-Gitmo-fatigues-for-Bermuda-shorts/index.html Every morning Khalil Mamut rides to work through winding palm-lined lanes on his rental scooter. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3871/1/China-secretly-detained-43-Uighur-men-group-says/index.html Three months after deadly ethnic rioting in China's far west, dozens of men from the Uighur ethnic group remain unaccounted for after being detained in police sweeps, a human rights group said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3870/1/Uighur-leader-urges-Japan-to-press-China-on-rights/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, alleging that China has "destroyed" her Muslim people, is urging Japan's new government not to ignore their plight as it presses to bolster ties with Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3869/1/Leader-of-Chinas-Uighur-Minority-Builds-a-Stage-Across-the-Globe-/index.html In what has become a familiar vocal pas de deux, Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader, stepped off a plane in Tokyo on Tuesday and immediately began accusing the Chinese government of secretly executing members of the Uighur minority and illegally detaining hundreds of others. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3868/1/Dozens-of-Uighurs-disappear-after-clash-/index.html Dozens of members of China's Uighur minority, including children, remain unaccounted for more than three months after security forces rounded them up amid ethnic clashes, Human Rights Watch said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3867/1/Suining-Deaths-Not-About-Xinjiang-/index.html Conflicting reports emerge about violence in China's southwestern province of Sichuan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3866/1/Uighur-leaders-Japan-visit-draws-fire-from-China/index.html Exiled Uighur minority leader Rebiya Kadeer called on Japan to pressure China on human rights as she arrived in Tokyo Tuesday for a visit that drew immediate fire from Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3865/1/China-dissatisfied-with-Kadeers-Japan-visit/index.html Chinese Foreign Ministry raised objection to Rebiya Kadeer’s private visit to Japan on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3864/1/High-court-to-consider-Uighurs-plea-for-freedom/index.html The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will hear a new case about the rights of Guantanamo detainees, this time involving prisoners who remain in custody even after the Pentagon determines they're not a threat to the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3863/1/China-objects-to-Japan-allowing-Uighur-activist-in/index.html China said Tuesday it objects to Japan granting a visa to an exiled Uighur activist Beijing blames for deadly ethnic riots earlier this year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3861/1/Uighur-leader-to-visit-Japan-likely-to-irk-China/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer will visit Japan on Tuesday, a trip that is likely to upset China which has accused her of instigating ethnic riots that killed about 200 people earlier this year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3860/1/Uighur-leader-slams-Book-Fair-for-honoring-China/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer sharply criticized the Frankfurt Book Fair for inviting China as its guest this year, arguing that the country should not be honored given its poor human rights track record. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3856/1/Lawmakers-criticize-China-on-Internet-human-rights-policies-/index.html China has come under criticism for its human rights record from a commission of lawmakers and executive branch officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3855/1/German-book-fair-head-defends-choice-of-China-/index.html German book fair head defends choice of China, says country's selection should help freedom. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3852/1/China-Xinjiang-Trials-Deny-Justice-/index.html The trials of 21 defendants accused of participating in the violent July 2009 protests in Urumqi did not meet minimum international standards of due process and fair trials, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3851/1/China-announces-more-death-sentences-for-Xinjiang-riot/index.html A Chinese court on Thursday handed out a further three death sentences to people convicted of violent crimes during ethnic rioting in far western Xinjiang region in July in which almost 200 people died. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3850/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-Visits-NZ-Discusses-Her-Cause/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, human rights activist and outspoken supporter of the Uighur people of East Turkistan/Xingjang --a province West of China -- was received in Wellington October 14 by Green Party Member of Parliament Keith Locke and members of the New Zealand media. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3848/1/Exiled-leader-gets-message-across-despite-protesters-/index.html A group of flag-waving Chinese student protesters did not stop exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer from delivering an emotion-filled speech to a packed hall yesterday, on what she said was as "a sad day for the Uighur people". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3847/1/Authors-pen-is-mightier-than-Chinas-sword-/index.html Imagine you are a popular, award-winning author whose poems and stories are widely-read, anthologized, and taught to schoolchildren. You have written a short story about a young pigeon, the son of a king, who is captured by humans and caged, and who by story’s end finds captivity so intolerable that he chooses to eat a poison strawberry rather than live such a life. You call the story “The Wild Pigeon.’’ It is published to acclaim. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3846/1/Activist-Let-Chinese-Gitmo-detainees-stay-in-US-/index.html A group of Chinese Muslims detained for years at the Guantanamo Bay military prison should be allowed to settle in the United States, an exiled leader of the ethnic minority said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3843/1/China-tries-14-more-over-Xinjiang-unrest-govt-/index.html The trial of 14 people accused of involvement in ethnic unrest that shook China's far western Xinjiang region in July opened Wednesday, authorities said, two days after six men were sentenced to death. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3842/1/Death-Sentences-for-Rioters-/index.html A Chinese court hands down stiff sentences in restive Xinjiang, but will they prompt a backlash? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3840/1/Kadeer-China-death-sentences-will-enrage-Uighurs/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Tuesday said a Chinese court's decision to sentence six Uighurs to death over July unrest would serve only to "further enrage" her people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3836/1/Uyghur-leader-speaks-at-Auckland-University-/index.html An exiled Chinese Muslim leader came face to face with her so-called "enemy" on Tuesday outside the University of Auckland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3835/1/Activist-keen-to-go-head-to-head-with-protesters-/index.html Exiled Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer says she wants to "meet with the enemy" during her New Zealand visit. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3834/1/Six-sentenced-to-death-for-Chinas-Xinjiang-riots-/index.html China sentenced six people to death on Monday over deadly July riots in its restive Xinjiang region, state media reported, delivering on a vow of harsh retribution over the ethnic unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3833/1/6-Sentenced-to-Death-in-Xinjiang-Riots-/index.html A Chinese court sentenced six men to death and a seventh man to life in prison on Monday for their roles in the deadly ethnic rioting that convulsed the western regional capital of Urumqi in July, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3832/1/China-Sets-Sentences-in-Brawl-Tied-to-Riot-/index.html China sentenced one man to death and another to life in prison on Saturday for their roles in a deadly toy factory brawl that was blamed for setting off riots in western China's Xinjiang region this past summer, according to the official Xinhua news agency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3831/1/China-issues-death-sentences-over-Xinjiang-riots-/index.html Six people were sentenced to death for murder and other crimes in July riots that killed about 200 people in western China, state media reported Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3830/1/Uyghur-Activist-to-Visit-New-Zealand-/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, human rights activist and exiled leader of the Uyghur people from China's Northwestern province of Xinjiang has been granted a visa to speak in New Zealand next week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3826/1/Nobel-prize-raises-Obama-expectations-Uighur-leader-/index.html  The Nobel Peace Prize will raise expectations for US President Barack Obama to stand up for human rights around the world, exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3824/1/Jiang-defends-decision-to-ban-Kadeer/index.html Minister of the Interior Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) yesterday defended his decision to bar exiled Uighur rights activist Rebiya Kadeer from visiting Taiwan, despite widespread criticism of the ban. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3823/1/-Security-issues-cited-as-uni-bans-activists-visit/index.html Uighur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer has been issued a visa to come to New Zealand, but Auckland University - where she is to hold her first public meeting next week - says it doesn't want her there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3822/1/Uighur-Scholar-Caught-Up-In-Chinas-Ethnic-Conflict--/index.html When the worst ethnic violence in decades erupted in far west China in July, the local government was quick to accuse overseas separatists of stirring up the riots that left nearly 200 dead. But what got less notice was that the government also blamed someone inside China for inciting the violence: an ethnic Uighur economist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3817/1/Uyghur-Leader-Entire-Turkic-Speaking-World-Rallied-To-Support-Us-/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, the U.S.-based head of the World Uyghur Congress, is a controversial figure in her native land. Kadeer was once held up by Chinese authorities as a model for the promotion of interethnic harmony. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3813/1/Amnesty-International-To-Celebrate-A-NZ-Or-Pacific-Human-Rights-Defender-/index.html As New Zealand prepares to welcome human rights defender Rebiya Kadeer, Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand (AIANZ) has announced it will recognise a human rights defender of its own by presenting its inaugurual Human Rights Defender Award. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3799/1/Greens-invite-Chinas-terrorist-to-visit-/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, who China says is a terrorist, will be in New Zealand next week after an invitation from the Green Party. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3798/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-Visit-To-NZ-Highlights-Amnesty-Internationals-Concerns-For-The-Uighurs-/index.html Amnesty International Aotearoa NZ welcomes the Green Party's announcement that Rebiya Kadeer will visit New Zealand next week. Kadeer will visit both Auckland and Wellington where she will meet with Members of Parliament and hold two public meetings. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3794/1/In-Xinjiang-it-is-a-crime-to-even-talk-of-separatism/index.html A law is approved that punishes those who discuss it on the internet. Three months after the protests, Urumqi remains occupied by police and subjected to tight controls. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3791/1/AG-says-Uighur-men-could-get-UN-refugee-status-/index.html The UK could issue Bermuda's Guantánamo Bay Uighurs with refugee papers allowing them to travel while it decides their fate, according to the Attorney General. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3790/1/Law-Bans-Separatist-Talk/index.html Authorities pass a law that bans the discussion of separatism in a northwestern China divided by ethnic tensions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3789/1/Tibetan-Uighur-groups-decry-Chinas-quottyrannical-rulequot/index.html Exile groups from China's Tibetan and Uighur minorities greeted Thursday's 60th anniversary of the People's Republic by criticizing the Communist Party's 'tyrannical rule' while rights activists alleged 'drastic repressive measures' before the anniversary. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3783/1/Xinjiang-Separatist-violence-shakes-unity/index.html As the Communist party celebrates the 60th anniversary of its rule, it has put up 56 “columns of ethnic unity” in Tiananmen Square in the centre of Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3781/1/Kadeer-plans-to-sue-Taiwan-over-terrorism-claims-group/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer plans to sue Taiwan's government for linking her organisation to terrorism, a Taiwanese group advocating independence from China said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3780/1/Kadeer-ignites-support-outrage/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association, spoke to an audience of about 70 at Havemeyer Hall, and faced posters that labeled her a terrorist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3779/1/World-Uyghur-Congress-Set-to-Stage-Protest-in-Amsterdam-/index.html On 1 October 2009, the People’s Republic of China will celebrate its 60th anniversary and stage an elaborate military parade through the streets of Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3777/1/Chinese-Military-Police-Ready-to-Crackdown-quotXinjiangquot-style-Nine-Fushan-Church-Leaders-Kidnapped/index.html On Friday, September 25, nine Fushan Church leaders, including Pastor Yang Rongli, were kidnapped by Shanxi PSB officers while traveling to Beijing to petition the central government for justice concerning the local authorities' brutal attack on September 13th. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3776/1/Uyghur-row-cools-in-London/index.html Premier Dr. Ewart Brown has invited Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband to meet the four Guantanamo refugees whose arrival in Bermuda sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3771/1/2-Brothers-Grim-Tale-Of-Loyalty-And-Limbo/index.html Bahtiyar Mahnut, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, learned a few weeks ago that the Pacific island nation of Palau had invited him to settle there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3766/1/China-makes-it-illegal-to-discuss-independence-for-Xinjiang/index.html A new law in the far-western Chinese province of Xinjiang makes it a criminal offence for people to discuss separatism on the internet, according to state media. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3765/1/Explosion-in-Beijing-Uyghur-Xinjiang-Cuisine-Restaurant-Multiple-Wounded/index.html An explosion leveled an ethnic Uyghur restaurant in downtown Beijing Friday morning, raising security concerns ahead of China's 60th anniversary celebrations next week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3762/1/China-lays-first-charges-over-Xinjiang-riots-/index.html China announced the first charges to be laid in connection with violent unrest in July that shook China's northwest region of Xinjiang, home to Muslim Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3760/1/Two-Uighur-men-at-risk-of-torture/index.html Haji Memet and Abdusalam Nasir were detained on 23 September, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China, reportedly on suspicion of leaking “state secrets”. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3759/1/UNPO-Statement-of-Concern-Regarding-Suspicious-Death-of-Uyghur-in-Detention-/index.html The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) expresses its sincere concern regarding recent events in East Turkestan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3758/1/Taiwan-stops-Uighur-activist-trip/index.html Taiwan will not allow exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to visit the island as she had planned, a government official has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3757/1/Turkey-China-sign-deal-for-more-economic-ties/index.html Chinese Joint Economic Commission convened in Beijing to hold its 16th meeting, state-run news agency said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3756/1/Coal-capacity-in-Xinjiang-Hami-to-exceed-45-million-tonnes/index.html It is reported that as a string of large-scale projects go into production in Hami, Xinjiang, capacities of coal production will be boosted tremendously. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3750/1/China-charges-21-over-Xinjiang-unrest-state-media/index.html Authorities in China's restive northwestern Xinjiang region on Friday charged 21 suspects over deadly July unrest, state media said -- the first reported criminal charges to emerge from the violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3749/1/Explosion-destroys-Uighur-restaurant-in-Beijing/index.html An explosion has destroyed a Muslim Uighur restaurant in Beijing, adding to tensions in the Chinese capital ahead of the National Day parade on October 1. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3748/1/First-oil-reserve-in-Xinjiang/index.html CHINA has started building the first strategic oil reserve in the far western Xinjiang region, a senior official said on Friday, as part of the Asian giant's efforts to secure its energy supply. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3747/1/12-Injured-as-Restaurant-Explosion-Rattles-Beijings-Nerves-/index.html At least three people were injured Friday morning in what the authorities say was a gas explosion that leveled a restaurant in a busy shopping district in central Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3746/1/US-plans-to-send-eight-Guantanamo-Uighurs-to-Palau/index.html The US administration told Congress it plans to transfer eight Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo to Palau, official documents showed, as President Barack Obama inches toward closure of the controversial prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3740/1/China-disallows-Muslims-Ramadan-fasting-/index.html  It shocks the world  community that China is still playing with Islamic sentiments of Muslims currently under control of communist Han Chinese people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3739/1/Ball-now-in-Mas-court-on-visit-by-Kadeer-/index.html DPP city councilors called on the Taipei City Government to show the documentary to show its support for free speech and human rights zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3738/1/Uyghurs-are-no-threat-whatsoever-/index.html  The relocation of four Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Bermuda has been a major success that could become the model for closing the controversial terror camp. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3737/1/Exiled-Uyghur-activist-plans-to-visit-Taiwan-in-December-/index.html  The exiled Uyghur political activist Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday that she has accepted an invitation to visit Taiwan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3735/1/Kadeer-accepts-invitation-to-visit-Taiwan-group/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has accepted an invitation to visit Taiwan, supporters said Wednesday in a development handing the island's China-friendly government a political dilemma. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3734/1/Rebiya-film-lauded-by-first-Taiwan-viewers/index.html Despite intense opposition from the People's Republic of China and local tourist businesses, a controversial documentary on the life of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer was acclaimed as "moving" and "thought provoking" by viewers who saw its first two screenings in Taiwan's southern port city of Kaohsiung yesterday afternoon. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3733/1/Taipei-added-to-Uighur-film-venues-despite-China/index.html A film on a Uighur leader China blames for ethnic violence will be shown in Taipei, a cultural centre official said on Monday, despite criticism from Beijing over planned showings in another Taiwan city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3725/1/Taiwan-cannot-retreat-on-freedom-of-speech-/index.html We approve of the decision of the Kaohsiung City government to screen the Australian made documentary "The 10 Conditions of Love" about an exiled Uighur rights activist in the face of intense pressure from the authoritarian People's Republic of China and pro-China interests at home, but deeply regret its flawed decision to separate the showings from the upcoming Kaohsiung Film Festival, scheduled for Oct. 16-29 at the Kaohsiung Film Museum. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3724/1/Some-Guantanamo-Prisoners-Fight-Release-/index.html As 13 prisoners held at the U.S. naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba appeared set to finally win their freedom, others are asking their release to be deferred. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3721/1/Uighurs-want-dignity-not-normalcy/index.html Ibrahim had just invested in brand new computers and high speed Internet to upgrade his web business when deadly riots between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Urumqi destroyed any hopes he may have had for tapping into the online business market. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3722/1/60-years-after-revolution-ethnic-tension-still-plagues-China/index.html China's leadership says it has calmed this city after almost 200 people were stabbed, bludgeoned or beaten to death in July riots and more violent protests this month forced the removal of top officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3720/1/China-blames-Xinjiang-violence-for-slowed-development/index.html Violence and unrest instigated by separatists agitating for an independent Xinjiang have hit economic development hard in the far western Chinese region, a government policy paper said on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3719/1/Police-Enforced-Family-Burial/index.html The father of an ethnic Uyghur man in northwest China says police turned out in force. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3718/1/WFDA-DEEPLY-REGRETS-DECISION-OF-KOREA-TO-DENY-ENTRY-OF-UYGHUR-DELEGATE/index.html The World Forum for Democratization in Asia (WFDA) deeply regrets the decision of the South Korean government to deny entry to Mr. Dolkun Isa, General Secretary of the World Uyghur Congress. Mr. Isa was invited by WFDA to attend its Third Biennial Meeting, which was held in Seoul on 16-18 September 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3717/1/Taiwan-city-snubs-China-over-film-on-Uighur-leader/index.html Taiwan's second-largest city Monday dismissed a warning from China against showing a biopic about exiled Uighur Muslim leader Rebiya Kadeer, in a move expected to further anger Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3716/1/Uighur-film-screening-in-Taiwan-has-angered-China/index.html Hackers on Monday posted vulgarities and pro-Chinese slogans on a Taiwanese film festival's Web site to protest plans to screen a documentary about an exiled Uighur activist accused by Beijing of inciting recent ethnic violence in China's west. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3714/1/Multi-faith-Forum-Focuses-On-Human-Rights/index.html A multi-faith expert forum is traveling across the country to call attention to human rights concerns facing various faith-based communities in Canada and abroad. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3710/1/Standoff-Over-Death-in-Custody/index.html In China’s tense Xinjiang region, could a suspicious death spark more ethnic violence? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3708/1/CCP-Hate-Propaganda-Backlash/index.html A few days ago, thousands of people staged a protest to get Wang Lequan, the Regional Secretary of the Communist Party of China of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, to step down from his position. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3705/1/Taiwan-party-defends-film-about-Uighur-activist/index.html Taiwan's pro-independence opposition on Friday defended the island's right to screen a documentary about an exiled Uighur activist accused by Beijing of inciting recent ethnic violence in China's west. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3704/1/2-more-Uighur-detainees-at-Gitmo-heading-to-Palau/index.html Two more Chinese Muslim detainees held at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be relocated to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, their lawyer said Saturday, bringing to six the total who will resettle. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3707/1/Obamas-Gitmo-envoy-London-admonished-him-on-Uighur-deal/index.html The US official who arranged for the Uighurs to come to Bermuda from Guantánamo Bay has revealed that it led to him being "admonished by the British Government in very clear terms". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3706/1/South-Korea-releases-Secretary-General-of-the-World-Uighur-Congress/index.html Amnesty International on Friday welcomed the release of the Secretary General of the World Uighur Congress, following his detention at Incheon International airport in Seoul, South Korea but said the authorities should not have denied him entry to the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3698/1/UN-rights-chief-says-China-failing-to-protect-Tibetan-Uighur-rights/index.html The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, has cited “discrimination and the failure to protect minority rights” among the factors that had led to the recent violent events in Chinese ruled Eastern Turkestan and Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3694/1/China-Flexes-Diplomatic-Muscle-to-Stymie-Uighurs/index.html South Korea and a city in Taiwan have moved to deny exiled Muslim Uighurs from China's far-west platforms for voicing their cause, apparently bowing to fears that Beijing could use its growing muscle to hit back. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3693/1/Police-Uighur-men-are-a-moderate-threat-/index.html The four Uighurs secretly brought to the Island three months ago have been deemed a moderate threat by the Bermuda Police Service although the service said it had no specific concerns. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3688/1/South-Korea-Bars-Uighur-Activist/index.html South Korean immigration authorities stopped a prominent Uighur activist, Dolkun Isa of Germany, from entering the country for a conference on democracy, the government confirmed Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3687/1/Response-to-Dolkun-Isas-Arrest-in-South-Korea/index.html I take the liberty to write to you, to bring to your attention the case of a dear friend and colleague of mine, Mr. Dolkun Isa. Mr. Isa is a German citizen of Uyghur origins who, on his way to attend the World Forum for Democracy in Seoul, was denied access to Korea for reasons that remain still unclear to him. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3685/1/South-Korea-bars-Uighur-activist-from-entering-country---Summary/index.html South Korean immigration authorities stopped an exiled Uighur activist accused by China of terrorist activities from entering the country. Dolkun Isa, 42, has remained since his arrival Tuesday at Incheon International Airport outside Seoul, an immigration official said Thursday without giving any further information. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3684/1/China-sentences-4-syringe-attackers-in-Xinjiang/index.html Four Uighur men were sentenced to between eight and 15 years in prison for stabbing a Han Chinese woman in the neck with a syringe in the capital of the ethnically divided Xinjiang region in China's northwest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3681/1/East-Turkestan-Dolkun-Isa-Detained-in-South-Korea-/index.html The elected General Secretary of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) Mr. Dolkun Isa, on his arrival to South Korea on 15 September 2009 to attend the World Forum for Democratization in Asia (WFDA) was detained by South Korean security forces. Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is shocked by this atrocity zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3676/1/Hungary-to-accept-Guantanamo-detainee/index.html Hungary said Wednesday it will accept a detainee from Guantanamo Bay, bringing President Barack Obama another step closer to his pledge to close the U.S. military detention center. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3675/1/China-reports-Xinjiang-bomb-operation-uncovered/index.html A Chinese state news agency says security forces have arrested six suspects in a bomb-making operation in the volatile western region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3673/1/China-warns-Germany-against-taking-Uighur-Gitmo-detainees/index.html China has warned the German government against accommodating Chinese Uighur Guantanamo Bay prisoners, saying they should face justice in their own country, according daily Berliner Zeitung on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3672/1/China-says-75-suspects-held-over-far-west-needle-scare/index.html Police have detained 75 suspects accused of joining in an wave of needle-stabbing attacks that authorities say have spread across ethnically-tense Xinjiang region in China's northwest, state radio reported on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3669/1/Pipeline-at-Risk/index.html China’s Central Asia gas pipeline project is increasingly at risk amid ethnic unrest in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3667/1/US-closely-monitoring-situation-in-Chinas-Xinjiang-province/index.html The US Tuesday said it is monitoring the situation in the restive Xinjiang province very closely and asked Chinese authorities to deal with the unrest in a transparent and lawful fashion. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3666/1/Chinas-Uighurs-pass-Ramadan-in-isolation/index.html In China's western Xinjiang region, where ethnic riots killed almost 200 people in July, the holy month of Ramadan is passing amid tight security and government calls for ethnic unity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3663/1/China-needle-attacks-not-toxic/index.html No dangerous chemicals have found in blood samples from the victims of recent needle attacks in China's Xinjiang region, state media have said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3662/1/Chinese-ban-transport-of-explosives-in-Urumqi/index.html Chinese police on Tuesday banned explosives and weapons from being transported in the western region of Xinjiang, the scene of deadly ethnic rioting this summer and a spate of mysterious syringe attacks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3657/1/Palau-confirms-will-take-four-Guantanamo-Uighurs/index.html At least four Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay will be transferred to the Pacific island nation of Palau, President Johnson Toribiong said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3656/1/3-Uighurs-Convicted-of-Syringe-Attacks-Heightening-Tensions-in-Western-China/index.html Three people were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison on Saturday after being convicted of attacking people with syringes in Urumqi, the capital of the western region of Xinjiang, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3655/1/Senior-leader-says-China-faces-quotgravequot-stability-task-/index.html A senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Saturday urged concrete measures to maintain stability, which he described as an "arduous" task. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3652/1/Uighur-activist-urges-world-to-pressure-China/index.html An exiled Uighur activist accused China on Friday of destroying the cultures of the country's minorities and urged democratic nations to force China to change its policies on minorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3651/1/Uighur-leader-urges-new-pressure-on-China/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer on Friday called for more international pressure to save China's ethnic minorities as she joined the Dalai Lama in decrying a lack of democracy in their native land. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3648/1/The-party-under-siege-in-Urumqi/index.html Two months after a bloodbath, inter-ethnic relations remain on a short fuse zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3647/1/Needle-attacks-and-rumours-spread-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Mysterious needle attacks have spread to new cities in China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang, the China Daily said on Friday, although once again the assaults appear to be a mix of real and imagined. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3646/1/Authorities-trying-to-restore-confidence-among-Han-and-Uyghurs-but-tourism-in-Xinjiang-plummets/index.html Tensions are made worse by widespread mistrust towards the authorities, accused of not telling the truth. Only massive troop deployment is keeping a lid on the situation. Despite official claims that everything is going well, local hotels are empty. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3645/1/China-protests-Dalai-Lama-Uighur-speeches/index.html China on Thursday protested planned speeches by the Dalai Lama and exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer before a Prague conference on human rights in Asia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3644/1/Dalai-Lama-backs-Uighur-leader-amid-protests-from-China/index.html The Dalai Lama voiced support for Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer in Prague on Thursday ahead of joining her at an Asian human rights conference whose line-up has drawn loud protests from China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3640/1/Bloggers-Report-Beatings-Death/index.html Two leading bloggers in China report elements of the ethnic strife in Urumqi that haven’t appeared in state-run media. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3639/1/Hostile-Foreign-Forces-Not-to-Blame-for-Xinjiang-Riots-Say-Critics/index.html Chinese scholars and freelance writers are coming forward to criticize the Chinese regime for blaming the July riot in Xinjiang Province on outside influences. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3637/1/Shocked-Islamic-world-demands-respect-for-Uighur-rights/index.html Claimed to be shocked by the violent disturbances in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi in Jul’09, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the Turkish secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), has said the OIC expects China to develop a new understanding of the cultural rights of Muslims, reported Today’s Zaman (Turkey) Sep 8. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3633/1/Lawyers-Uighurs-agree-to-go-to-Palau/index.html Three Chinese Muslims imprisoned for years at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be released to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, their lawyers told The Associated Press. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3632/1/Security-fears-batter-tourism-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Tourist arrivals in the volatile western region of Xinjiang have plummeted since July's deadly ethnic rioting, Chinese state media say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3628/1/Misinformation-age-in-Urumqi/index.html Urumqi is a city cut off from the outside world. There has been no Internet access for two months. Phone links in or out of the region are sporadic. Text messaging is limited. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3627/1/Was-needle-panic-in-China-a-fake-frenzy/index.html Officials seek to tone down reports of mass syringe strikes after fear sweeps city zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3626/1/Uighur-businesswoman-Rebiya-Kadeers-Trade-Centre-to-be-demolished/index.html A landmark in the restive city of Urumqi is to be demolished on the orders of the Chinese Communist Party because it bears the name of an alleged Uighur secessionist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3623/1/China-unrest-Appeal-for-help/index.html Three more people were killed and more than 20 injured after Han Chinese residents attacked Uighurs in China's far western city of Urumqi, a Uighur exile group reported on Monday as it appealed for UN observers to investigate the ethnic conflict there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3622/1/China-threatens-punishment-for-rumour-mongering/index.html China's troubled far-western city of Urumqi has spelt out potential punishments for spreading rumours after days of sometimes deadly unrest and panic about reported syringe attacks that fanned ethnic tensions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3621/1/Xinjiang-Boss-Deploys-Harmony-Makers-to-Calm-Urumqi-Streets-/index.html Wang Lequan, the Communist Party chief of China’s Xinjiang region, ordered more than 7,000 government officials to walk door-to-door in the city of Urumqi to ease tensions after rioting last week killed five people and left 14 injured, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3620/1/All-Eyes-on-Regional-Official-After-Latest-Unrest-in-W-China/index.html When the Zhang family's more than 150 wedding guests gathered at the Phoenix Hall restaurant in Urumqi on Saturday night, there was one main topic of conversation: Will he stay or will he go? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3619/1/Chinese-Leadership-Loses-Face-Over-Urumqi-Unres/index.html China’s leadership has lost face over the spate of needle attacks in the far western Chinese city of Urumqi, the South China Morning Post said yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3618/1/China-Xinjiang-chief-survives-political-firestorm/index.html As leader of the volatile far western Xinjiang territory for 15 years, Wang Lequan is the closest China has to a regional strongman. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3616/1/Leadership-struggles-may-put-potholes-in-the-smooth-road-of-reform/index.html IT'S ONE thing for ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs to rise up in bloody violence in western China. It's quite another for thousands of ethnic Han Chinese to denounce by name a Politburo strongman, Wang Lequan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3615/1/Leadership-struggles-may-put-potholes-in-the-smooth-road-of-reform/index.html IT'S ONE thing for ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs to rise up in bloody violence in western China. It's quite another for thousands of ethnic Han Chinese to denounce by name a Politburo strongman, Wang Lequan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3614/1/Kadeer-buildings-loom-as-next-Xinjiang-flashpoint/index.html Broken glass crunched under the Uighur man's feet as he sneaked up a dim stairwell, careful not to be seen in a building that could become the next flashpoint in China's restive Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3613/1/In-Xinjiang-Rumors-Hold-Sway/index.html Official media aren't trusted in northwest China, so where do people turn for news? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3612/1/Chinas-Urumqi-still-edgy-after-officials-sacked/index.html Nerves remained raw in China's far western city of Urumqi, in turmoil over a wave of reported syringe attacks, and a small band of protesters again called on the region's top official to step down. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3611/1/Hong-Kong-lawmakers-criticise-Xinjiang-journalist-attacks/index.html Hong Kong politicians have called on Beijing to intervene in a row over police violence against journalists covering unrest in Xinjiang, a report said Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3610/1/Burmas-Attack-against-Ethnics-Poses-China-Dilemma-/index.html Preoccupied with ethnic tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang, Beijing was caught off guard when Burma’s military regime decided in late August to use force against armed ethnic groups in the country’s north, resulting in military strife that forced thousands of refugees to flee into China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3609/1/Five-die-in-China-ethnic-unrest--/index.html Five people have been killed in ethnic unrest in China's western city of Urumqi this week, officials say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3608/1/Five-killed-as-police-face-syringe-protesters-in-Chinese-city/index.html The latest unrest in western China has left five people dead and 14 hurt, a deputy mayor said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3607/1/China-Unrest-flares-in-Urumqi-over-mysterious-syringe-attacks/index.html Protesters tried to push past security barriers in the restive western Chinese city of Urumqi Friday as tensions between the Han Chinese and Uighur communities flared over a spate of "syringe attack. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3606/1/Urumqi-a-City-Divided-by-Racial-Hatred/index.html People's armed police control Xinjiang's province capital to prevent further Chinese protests and ethnic clashes. Experts fear the worst is yet to come. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3605/1/Xinjiang-ethnic-groups-united-in-hostility-towards-leaders/index.html The government in Xinjiang has been caught off guard by the anger it faces from its own people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3604/1/Five-dead-as-thousands-take-to-streets-in-Urumqi-protests/index.html The government in Xinjiang struggled to contain escalating unrest yesterday as thousands of people confronted police in Urumqi, the regional capital, accusing the government of incompetence in maintaining public safety. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3603/1/Greens-to-invite-Kadeer-/index.html The Green Party says it will invite exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer to speak in New Zealand - just as China issued a fresh warning to other countries not to provide a platform for the woman they consider a terrorist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3602/1/Hanging-by-a-thread/index.html The old town of Kashgar is soon to be razed. Tania Branigan visits before this Silk Road attraction is lost. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3601/1/Pakistan-saved-China-from-embarrassment-on-Xinjiang-violence/index.html Pakistan played a key role in dissuading certain Muslim countries from taking the issue of violence in China’s Xinjiang region to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and saved Beijing from embarrassment, Chinese Ambassador Lou Zhaohui said on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3599/1/Chinese-break-up-needle-riots-/index.html Riot police in the western Chinese city of Urumqi have used tear gas to disperse crowds in a third day of protests over public safety fears. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3598/1/China-seeks-to-quell-unrest-in-Urumqi/index.html The government in China’s restive western region of Xinjiang struggled to contain escalating unrest on Friday as thousands of people confronted police in Urumqi, the regional capital, accusing the government of incompetence in maintaining public safety. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3596/1/Ensure-public-safety-Kadeer--/index.html The exiled leader of north-western China's Uighur minority called on Thursday for Beijing's regional chief to ensure public safety and to step down as fresh protests broke out in the area. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3592/1/Xinjiang-protests-break-out-over-party-chief/index.html More than 1,000 residents of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, took to the streets on Thursday demanding the resignation of the Chinese region’s Communist party chief. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3591/1/Syringe-attacks-trigger-protests-in-restive-Chinese-province/index.html There are reports of renewed mass demonstrations and violence in China's Xinjiang province where inter-ethnic rioting left 197 dead and about 1,700 injured in early June. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3590/1/-Xinjiang-riots-over-syringe-stabbings/index.html Hundreds of Han Chinese took to the streets in Urumqi Thursday over reports on needle attacks. The protests come just two months after ethnic violence shut down the city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3589/1/Xinjiang-protests-Han-Chinese-demand-better-security-after-syringe-attacks-in-Urumqi/index.html Crowds of angry Han Chinese protesters took to the streets in Xinjiang, the scene of deadly race riots in July, after almost 500 people were allegedly stabbed with syringes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3588/1/New-protests-in-western-China-/index.html There have been fresh protests in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where almost 200 people were killed in ethnic violence in July. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3586/1/Uighur-protests-break-out-over-party-chief/index.html More than 1,000 residents of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, took to the streets on Thursday demanding the resignation of the Chinese region’s Communist party chief. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3585/1/New-unrest-in-Xinjiang-after-syringe-attacks/index.html A round of unrest broke out in China’s far western region of Xinjiang on Thursday, as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against a series of reported syringe attacks in the regional capital, witnesses said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3584/1/Fresh-protests-in-restive-Xinjiang-capital/index.html Crowds of angry Han Chinese took to the streets of the restive city of Urumqi on Thursday, witnesses said, less than two months after deadly unrest rocked the capital of mainly Muslim Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3583/1/China-rejects-Kadeer-call-for-talks-on-Xinjiang/index.html The government of China's Xinjiang has rejected a call by exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer for talks on the future of the restive northwestern region, state media reported on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3582/1/Turkish-Minister-urges-for-China-apology-after-harassment-at-airport/index.html A diplomatic scandal emerged at Urumqi Airport as Chinese police harassed Turkish Minister who were on official visit in the country to mend ties. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3576/1/Chinas-Muslim-Uyghurs-Forbidden-to-Fast-During-Ramadan-/index.html Chinese authorities in Xinjiang Province have issued a notice that any Uyghur cadres or workers found not eating lunch during Ramadan could lose their jobs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3575/1/EU-parliament-rights-head-calls-for-Uighur-inquiry/index.html The head of the European Parliament's human rights committee backed a call on Tuesday for an independent international inquiry into deadly riots in northwest China's Xinjiang region in July. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3574/1/Uighur-leader-Kadeer-ready-for-talks-with-Beijing/index.html Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, accused by Beijing of fomenting violent unrest in Xinjiang province, said Tuesday she was prepared to hold direct talks with the Chinese authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3572/1/East-Turkestan-Dutch-MP-Support-Statement/index.html Dutch MP deeply concerned about recent violence in East Turkestan, calls on an independent investigation on the July 2009 riots. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3567/1/Turkish-minister-Chinese-FM-discuss-killings-of-Uighurs-/index.html Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Sunday, state-run news agency said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3561/1/Uighur-Leader-Shen-Yuns-depiction-was-so-similar-to-reality-/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer used her unique perspective to describe Shen Yun Performing Arts at Kennedy Center on Friday, having seen it twice in four days. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3556/1/UN-urges-humane-treatment-for-Tibet-Xinjiang-detainees--/index.html The United Nations today urged China to guarantee"humane treatment"and offer fair trials to those held over last year's unrest in Tibet and July's violence in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3555/1/US-asks-China-not-to-harm-family-of-Uighur-leader/index.html The United States on Thursday appealed to China not to retaliate against the family of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer after she said Beijing planned to demolish her family's home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3552/1/Family-of-Exiled-Uighur-Leader-Faces-Eviction-/index.html Family members of Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer still living in the Chinese city of Urumqi are facing eviction. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3551/1/Uyghur-blogger-freed-after-six-weeks-incommunicado-but-under-close-watch-/index.html Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that llham Tohti, a Uyghur blogger who called for dialogue between Uyghurs and Han Chinese, was allowed to return to his Beijing home on 22 August, after being held incommunicado for six weeks. But the authorities are continuing to keep him close surveillance. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3547/1/Hu-calls-for-reform-in-Chinas-Uyghur-region-/index.html China's President Hu Jintao called Tuesday for a "prosperous and harmonious" Xinjiang province during his first visit to the country's western Uyghur region since last month's deadly riots, state-run media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3546/1/Xinjiang-News-Still-Hard-to-Come-By-/index.html In the aftermath of the July 5 riots in Urumqi, clear and reliable information on Xinjiang has been hard to come by. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3545/1/Chinese-President-Visits-Volatile-Xinjiang-/index.html President Hu Jintao has been visiting the volatile western region of Xinjiang for four days, state news media reported Tuesday, in his first trip to the region since deadly rioting in July left scores of people dead and strained relations between ethnic Han and ethnic Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3543/1/Confusion-over-Xinjiang-trials/index.html There is confusion about how many people China plans to put on trial over the ethnic violence in Xinjiang last month, and when this might happen. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3542/1/China-strengthens-internal-security-force/index.html Buffeted by rising domestic unrest and missteps in handling ethnic violence, China's leaders are asserting greater control over the country's main internal security force with a new law on how and when the troops are mobilized. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3539/1/Obama-behind-release-of-Chinese-activists/index.html CHINA has released two prominent activists who are seen as important to the development of the rule of law and public policy discussion of problems in Tibet and Xinjiang, following diplomatic representations by the Obama Administration. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3538/1/Govt-denies-setting-trial-dates--/index.html THE government in northwest China's Xinjiang region on Tuesday denied a report in the state media that more than 200 people would be put on trial this week over recent deadly ethnic unrest in the area. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3537/1/More-than-200-face-trial-over-deadly-clashes-between-Uighurs-and-Han-Chinese/index.html Trials are expected to begin this week for more than 200 people charged over deadly riots last month when Muslim Uighurs rampaged through a western Chinese city, attacking ethnic Han Chinese and leaving nearly 200 dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3536/1/Uighur-exile-airs-prison-killing-allegation-/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of China's Uighur minority in exile, said Monday she received a report that nearly 200 inmates were "tortured" to death in prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3535/1/Uyghur-Economist-Freed-Warned/index.html Chinese authorities release and warn a prominent Uyghur economist they accuse of inciting deadly riots in Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3534/1/China-to-begin-ethnic-riot-trials-in-Xinjiang/index.html China is likely to begin trials this week over deadly riots in the restive far-west region of Xinjiang last month, with hundreds facing murder, arson and other charges, the official China Daily said on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3532/1/Kashgar---The-Uighur-Dilemma/index.html Kashgar stands at the very western edge of China – an oasis city that has long provided relief for travellers on the ancient Silk Road.  Parts of the city have stood for more than 2000 years and within its labyrinth, Uighur traditions have played largely unchanged over time. It’s a living history attracting hordes of tourists every year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3531/1/OIC-cites-economic-discrepancy-as-reason-for-Xinjiang-violence-/index.html The Uighur people's low standard of living is one of the reasons behind ethnic rioting last month involving minority Muslims that left nearly 200 people dead, Qasim al-Masri of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) suggested over the weekend. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3528/1/Without-Explanation-China-Releases-3-Activists-/index.html Chinese authorities unexpectedly released three political activists from detention on Sunday, including one whose case had drawn global attention. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3524/1/How-amateur-hour-diplomacy-took-away-dad-/index.html Celil's case was not ignored. But it was handled very, very badly zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3523/1/China-releases-reform-activists-/index.html China has released two prominent reform proponents in a twist following its recent crackdown on activists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3520/1/Kazakh-Officials-Ban-Uyghur-Photo-Exhibit-On-China-Clashes/index.html Uyghur activists in Kazakhstan were stopped from holding a press conference and photo exhibition on the ethnic clashes in China's Xinjiang Province, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3518/1/Workers-Return-to-Restive-China-Region/index.html The first wave of workers to make the annual migration to the restive western region of Xinjiang this year to pick cotton has arrived in the area, according to a report on Friday by Xinhua, the state news agency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3512/1/Ethnic-violence-items-logged--/index.html CHINESE police have gathered more than 3,000 new items of evidence to be used during trials of people charged with murder, arson, and other crimes related to deadly rioting in July in the western region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3510/1/Uyghur-Leaders-Family-Evicted/index.html The family of an exiled Uyghur leader is evicted by authorities in China who plan to demolish their building. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3509/1/Seven-Questions-with-Rebiya-Kadeer/index.html The "voice of the Uighurs" speaks out against China's war and says now only the world can help them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3501/1/Demolish-Kadeer-kins-homes-/index.html RELATIVES of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer living in China's restive Xinjiang region have been told to leave their homes, which will then be demolished, a US-based activist group said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3497/1/Administration-Makes-Progress-on-Resettling-Detainees/index.html The Obama administration has secured commitments from nearly a dozen countries willing to accept detainees from Guantanamo Bay and is increasingly confident about its ability to transfer a large majority of the prisoners who have been cleared for release, according to U.S. and foreign officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3489/1/Askar-Grey-Wolf-songs-from-the-old-Silk-Road/index.html The band Askar Grey Wolf conjures up the romantic and egalitarian spirit of China's far west, pointing to a more harmonious time in the region, writes Madeleine O'Dea zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3488/1/Australia-says-China-canceled-ministers-visit-over-Uighur-activist-row/index.html China canceled a senior minister's trip in anger at Australia's granting of a visa to an exiled Uighur activist in the latest sign that ties between the two countries are strained. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3487/1/China-Rejects-Japan-Navy-Visit-After-Kadeer-Visit-Asahi-Says/index.html  China rejected a requested port call by Japan’s navy in a likely protest after a visit by an exiled Uighur activist to Tokyo, the Asahi newspaper reported in its English language edition. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3486/1/OIC-delegation-in-China-for-talks-on-Uighurs/index.html The delegation is expected to make field visits to Uighur region and other regions to take stock of the conditions of Muslims in general. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3483/1/Hackers-Clash-Over-Chinas-Rule-in-Muslim-Province/index.html Pro-China and pro-Uighur hackers have clashed online in a series of attacks on Web sites triggered by deadly ethnic riots in China's Muslim region last month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3481/1/Kazakh-Uyghurs-End-Mourning-Period-After-Xinjiang-Violence-/index.html Uyghurs in Kazakhstan have held a commemoration for the victims of ethnic clashes in the neighboring Uyghur Autonomous Region in Xinjiang, China, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3480/1/China-promotes-Xinjiang-armed-police-chief-report/index.html China has promoted the head of the armed police in Xinjiang following ethnic unrest last month in the mainly Muslim region in which nearly 200 people died, state media reported Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3479/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-Finds-Support-at-Melbourne-Film-Festival-/index.html Rebiya Kadeer is the head of the World Uighur Congress. For years, she’s been calling for freedom, equality and justice for her people, the ethnic Uighurs of China’s Xinjiang region. They're a people who got international attention after violent protests there last month, left hundreds dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3477/1/Kazakhstans-Uighurs-Rally-to-Mourn-Xinjiang-Dead/index.html Hundreds of Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Thursday to mourn those who died in violent clashes in the neighboring Xinjiang region of China last month and to call for its independence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3473/1/Some-Chinese-Question-Governments-Finger-Pointing-/index.html Several recent articles in the state-run press have criticized the 'foreign agitator" explanation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3472/1/-Wave-of-Immense-Suppression-in-Xinjiang-Says-UN-Official/index.html Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, described the events in Xinjiang last month as “a wave of immense suppression” in a recent interview with The Epoch Times. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3469/1/For-China-far-west-is-rife-with-terror-plots/index.html Authorities blocked an Afghan plane from landing Sunday in Xinjiang, a predominantly Uighur region. They cited a bomb threat, but none was found. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3468/1/Kadeer-to-China-Thanks-for-the-publicity/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has thanked Australia for standing up to Chinese pressure and allowing her to champion the cause of her people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3467/1/Uighur-leader-Rebiya-Kadeer-slams-authoritarian-China/index.html EBIYA Kadeer, the exiled leader of China's Muslim Uighurs today praised Australia as a great democracy, thanked the federal Government for not kow-towing to Beijing by giving her a visa and expressed a keen wish to meet Kevin Rudd and Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on her next visit. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3466/1/Chinese-pressure-to-ban-Rebiya-Kadeer-Press-Club-speech/index.html THE Chinese government tried to pressure Australia's National Press Club into cancelling a nationally televised speech by Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3465/1/Call-for-press-club-ban-Chinese-pressure-media/index.html THE Chinese government tried to pressure the National Press Club into cancelling a nationally televised speech by Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, scheduled to take place today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3464/1/Uighur-plight-similar-to-Tibet-/index.html An exiled leader of China's Uighur ethnic minority, Rebiya Kadeer, has given a speech in Australia despite pressure from Chinese diplomats not to. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3460/1/Uyghur-leader-says-China-attempts-to-silence-her-have-backfired/index.html Exiled Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer said Tuesday that China's repeated attempts to silence her during her visit to Australia have produced the opposite effect. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3463/1/Uighur-leaders-speech-to-go-ahead/index.html Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has rejected calls to rebuke the Chinese government over its attempt to prevent Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer from addressing the National Press Club on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3458/1/China-using-stickers-to-quell-tension/index.html For anyone still upset about the ethnic riots that killed nearly 200 people here last month, Li Han says she has just the thing — yellow smiley-face stickers bearing the slogan, "A smile is the common language of all nationalities." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3457/1/Kyrgyzstans-Ombudsman-Secures-Uyghur-Releases-/index.html Two Uyghur leaders in Kyrgyzstan have been released from detention following intervention by the Kyrgyz Ombudsman Tursunbek Akun in their case, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3456/1/Kyrgyzstan-Uighur-leaders-detained-after-protest/index.html Kyrgyzstan's police detained two Uighur community leaders after they accused China of "state terrorism" at a rally on Monday and called for an independent investigation of last month's clashes in neighbouring Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3455/1/China-wants-Maori-TV-to-show-riot-film-/index.html China is to pressure Maori Television to screen its own, government-produced film on riots in a Muslim-majority province instead of an independent documentary on an exiled leader. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3454/1/China-frees-1200-in-Tibet-holds-700-over-Xinjiang/index.html China said Monday that it has released more than 1,200 detainees held over unrest in Tibet last year while more than 700 people are still being held following last month's riots in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3453/1/Kadeer-hopeful-for-democracy-and-freedom/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer says she has always hoped her people could have the kind of freedoms enjoyed by Australians. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3452/1/Police-break-up-clash-at-film-screening/index.html Police have had to break up a clash between protesters and supporters of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer at the Melbourne premiere of a film about her life. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3451/1/Exiled-Uighur-activist-say-she-is-woman-of-peace/index.html An exiled Uighur activist whom Beijing blames for recent deadly riots in China said Saturday that she is a "woman of peace," as she attended an Australian film festival for the screening of a documentary about her life. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3450/1/Melbourne-Festival-Shifts-Uighur-Film-to-Meet-Increased-Demand-/index.html Organizers of the Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia’s biggest, will show a documentary about a Uighur activist today at a larger venue to meet increased demand to see the film China wanted withdrawn. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3448/1/Migrants-to-Chinas-West-Bask-in-Prosperity-/index.html They marched through the streets of Beijing, Shanghai and countless small towns propelled by patriotic cheers and thumping drums. It was 1956, and Mao Zedong was calling on China’s youth to “open up the west,” the vast borderland known as Xinjiang that for centuries had defied subjugation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3447/1/Xinjiang-migrant-workers-head-for-coastal-factories/index.html The first batch of migrant workers to depart China's far western Xinjiang region since the July 5 riot in the region's capital Urumqi, is heading for factories thousands of kilometers away in the eastern province of Zhejiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3446/1/Chinas-new-film-threat/index.html THE Chinese Government has threatened to end Melbourne's 29-year sister-city relationship with the city of Tianjin if Lord Mayor Robert Doyle does not intervene to stop the screening of a film about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer at the Town Hall today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3445/1/Courage-of-her-convictions/index.html THE Rudd government does not, of course, believe Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer is a terrorist. Nor does it believe she played any role in instigating the violence that broke out in the city of Urumqi, in China's western province of Xinjiang, on July 5. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3444/1/Call-for-Australia-to-stand-up-to-China/index.html STANDING shoulder-to-shoulder with Australia's Uighur community, exiled activist Rebiya Kadeer has urged the Federal Government to pressure China to reveal the truth about bloody riots in the country's west. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3443/1/A-Plea-to-Barack-Obama-from-the-Guantanamo-Uighurs/index.html Four and a half months ago, 17 unjustly detained prisoners in Guantánamo wrote a letter to President Obama asking for their release. In the secretive world of Guantánamo, however, nothing is straightforward, and it has taken over four months for the letter to be cleared by the government's censors and sent on to the White House. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3442/1/Uighur-activist-calls-for-probe-on-unrest-in-China/index.html  A Uighur activist called Friday for a U.N. investigation of recent violence in western China, as 100 people demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Melbourne. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3441/1/Protesters-rally-outside-Chinese-consulate/index.html Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have protested outside the Chinese consulate in Melbourne, where they have accused China of genocide. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3440/1/Wife-of-imprisoned-Uyghur-Christian-appeals-for-international-help/index.html The family of a Uyghur Christian is frustrated with the blatant injustice of his trial, China Aid Association reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3439/1/China-Responsible-for-Riots/index.html With trials planned in connection with deadly riots in Urumqi, exiled Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer calls for leniency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3437/1/Kadeer-Family-Letter-Follows-a-Decade-of-Police-Pressure/index.html The recent letter purporting to be hand written and signed by 12 members of Rebiya Kadeer’s extended family follows nearly a decade of police pressure on Ms. Kadeer’s family, friends and associates. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3436/1/Uighur-leader-Kadeer-fears-for-her-children-in-China/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer Wednesday accused China of carrying out "psychological torture" on her children by forcing them to appear on state television to blame her for deadly unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3435/1/Uighur-detainees-US-helped-Chinese-interrogate-us/index.html U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, actively helped Chinese interrogators question members of China's Uighur minority, including physically restraining them so they could be photographed against their will, according to testimony presented Thursday to a congressional subcommittee. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3434/1/Guantanamo-ex-prisoners-get-jobs-on-golf-course/index.html Four Guantanamo prisoners who were released to Bermuda in June have been given jobs tending a public golf course on the tiny Atlantic island. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3433/1/Uighur-Detainees-Willing-to-Move-to-Palau-Relocation-Deal-Close/index.html The Uighur detainees met with U.S. State Department officials on Monday and informed the diplomats they are now willing to move to Palau, said George Clarke, a lawyer acting for two of the inmates who took part in the talks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3431/1/Chinese-govt-lying-about-riots-Kadeer/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer says the Chinese government is attempting to deceive its people over last month's bloody riots in western China which killed almost 200 people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3429/1/Chinese-Prosecutors-say-83-to-Face-Charges-Over-Xinjiang-Riots-718-Detained--/index.html Chinese authorities say 83 people will face charges over their involvement in riots early last month in Xinjiang. The list of suspects includes members of China's Muslim minority group, the Uighurs, as well as Han Chinese suspects. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3428/1/The-Go-Between-Interpreting-Life-in-Bermuda-for-Freed-Gitmo-Prisoners-/index.html Ms. Abbas Speaks Uighur but Translates More Than Words; Explaining Al Sharpton zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3427/1/Were-all-Melburnians-Uighur-leader-controversy-goes-global/index.html As exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer arrives in Melbourne for the launch of a controversial documentary about her, a renowned film critic has called for film festival organisers around the world to unite for the freedom of cinema. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3426/1/Uighur-accuses-China-of-inflaming-ethnic-tension/index.html China is inflaming ethnic tensions by deceiving its own people about last month's deadly riots in western Xinjiang province, an exiled Uighur activist whom Beijing blames for the unrest said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3424/1/Chinese-Authorities-Break-Up-Terrorist-Plots-Step-Up-Pressure-on-Exiled-Uighur-Leader-/index.html Chinese state-run media say officials have prevented five attacks on civilians in China's northwestern Xinjiang since unrest hit the region early last month. News of the alleged attacks comes as the government is stepping up its offensive against exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer just as she arrives in Australia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3423/1/Uighur-leader-waits-for-the-storm-clouds-to-break/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader China accuses of being a terrorist mastermind is tucked up under a blanket on a couch in suburban Sydney, snoozing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3422/1/Beijing-Forced-Relatives-to-Blame-Me-Uighur-Activist-/index.html The exiled Uighur activist Beijing blames for inciting recent ethnic violence in China accused the Chinese government on Tuesday of forcing her imprisoned children to say she was responsible for the unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3421/1/Exiled-leader-arrives-in-Melbourne/index.html The woman at the centre of the most controversial film at this year's Melbourne International Film Festival arrives in Melbourne today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3425/1/Kadeer-Rejects-Letters/index.html The woman Chinese authorities blame for inciting deadly violence last month rejects letters condemning her allegedly written by her relatives. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3416/1/Hidden-misery-of-Maos-slave-teenage-brides/index.html THE film’s title, 8,000 Girls Ascend the Heavenly Mountain, suggests that Chinese audiences will see a tale of joy when it is aired on television this autumn. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3415/1/China-holds-319-in-Xinjiang-over-July-riots-Xinhua/index.html Chinese police detained 319 people suspected of involvement in deadly ethnic rioting in northwestern Xinjiang region last month, after a "wanted" list of suspects spurred tip-offs, the official Xinhua agency said on Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3413/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-a-small-but-charismatic-thorn-in-Beijings-side-/index.html UIGHUR leader Rebiya Kadeer has replaced the Dalai Lama as China's enemy No 1. THE new No1 hate figure targeted by the ruling Chinese Communist Party arrives in Australia in a few days: Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3412/1/China-Could-Use-Some-Honest-Talk-About-Race/index.html When the city of Detroit erupted in some of the worst rioting in American history over a five-day period in July 1967, the Johnson administration responded by naming a high-level commission to investigate the incident and more generally to weigh in on the troubled issue of race relations in the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3411/1/Brutal-crackdown-in-Xinjiang/index.html The Rafto Foundation strongly condemns the violent suppression of recent demonstrations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, and expresses its strong concern for the fate of those who have fallen victim to the ensuing mass arrests. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3410/1/China-to-Try-Suspects-Held-After-Riots/index.html China will begin trials in the next few weeks for suspects it accuses of playing a role in the deadly riots that shook the capital of Xinjiang region in early July, state media reported on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3409/1/Australian-Festival-Boosts-Security-for-Uighur-Leaders-Visit-/index.html Australian police will increase security at the Melbourne film festival for next week’s visit by ethnic Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, as the government rejected China’s accusations she colludes with terrorists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3407/1/Exiled-Uighur-leader-not-a-terrorist-Smith/index.html Australia has rejected China's objections over next week's visit to the country by the exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3406/1/Uighur-leader-not-terrorist-/index.html AUSTRALIA has rejected Chinese objections over a visit by exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, saying she is not a 'terrorist' and there is no reason to exclude her. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3405/1/Trials-of-Xinjiang-unrest-suspects-to-begin-in-weeks---report/index.html TRIALS of suspects involved in deadly unrest that shook the capital of China's Xinjiang region are slated to begin in mid-August, state press said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3404/1/China-Needs-New-Policies-After-Xinjiang/index.html Following the deadly unrest in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, a senior Chinese official called Thursday, July 30, for changing policies towards ethnic minorities in the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3401/1/WOLF-OBAMA-ADMINISTRATION-CONTINUES-TO-IGNORE-HUMAN-RIGHTS/index.html Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today again chastised the Obama Administration for its failure to champion human rights as a central part of American foreign policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3400/1/China-needs-new-policies-after-Xinjiang-official/index.html A senior Chinese official made a rare admission on Thursday that the country had to change its policies toward ethnic minorities in light of deadly riots in far western Xinjiang this month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3399/1/MIFF-2009-reviews--The-10-Conditions-of-Love-2009/index.html Rebiya Kadeer is a successful businesswoman, political activist and human rights advocate. She campaigns for the rights of the Uyghur people who live in Xinjiang, a supposedly autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3395/1/China-releases-Xinjiang-most-wanted-list/index.html Police in China's Urumqi city have issued a list with photos of 15 suspects wanted in connection with ethnic unrest this month that the government says left 197 dead, state media said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3394/1/Uighur-Rebiya-Kadeer-gets-visa-despite-China-protest/index.html AUSTRALIA has issued international Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer with a short-stay business visa in the face of strong pressure from the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3393/1/Australian-FM-says-Chinese-relations-will-survive-/index.html Australia's trade relationship with China will survive Beijing's protests over exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer's visit next week, the foreign minister said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3390/1/Dragon-Fighter-shines-the-light-on-Uyghur-grievances/index.html She's been compared to the Dalai Lama, the Chinese Tibetan Buddhist leader, but the name Rebiya Kadeer doesn't ring a bell to many people outside of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3389/1/Media-furore-over-Kadeers-tour/index.html The visit of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to Japan has provoked a storm of criticism in China's press, with commentators warning that it will be seen as a hostile act towards Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3388/1/China-protests-over-Uighur-tour-/index.html China has summoned Japan's ambassador in Beijing to protest about a visit to Japan by Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3387/1/Uighur-Leader-Raises-New-Accusations/index.html In the weeks since ethnic bloodletting claimed nearly 200 lives in the northwest region of Xinjiang, the government has been waging a global propaganda war against Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader it accuses of instigating the violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3386/1/China-Disappeared-Uighurs-Exiled-Leader-/index.html Thousands of Uighurs have disappeared in one night following the recent deadly unrest in Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, an exiled leader of the Muslim minority said on Wednesday, July 29, blasting American silence for the "massacred" against her people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3385/1/With-Uighurs-Kadeer-on-the-road-China-goes-on-the-attack/index.html China takes a page from its "stop the Lama" playbook as it tries to prevent lobbying by Uighur nationalist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3384/1/Uighur-activist-calls-on-Japan-to-probe-riot/index.html Japan must not turn a blind eye to China's suppression of ethnic minorities and should take the on responsibility of assisting them, the president of the World Uighur Congress said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3382/1/One-Condition-of-Political-Interference-/index.html The Chinese official who “politely requested” that Melbourne International Film Festival executive director Richard Moore “reconsider” screening a controversial documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has obviously never heard the adage about there being no such thing as bad publicity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3381/1/Tearing-Down-Old-Kashgar-Another-Blow-to-the-Uighurs/index.html In 1072, a medieval scholar named Mahmud Kashgari — from, as his name suggests, the Silk Road outpost of Kashgar — presented a landmark text to the Caliph of Baghdad. It was the first ever compendium of the Turkish language, the babble of tongues spoken by nomadic tribes who roamed between the shores of the Caspian Sea and the wastes of Siberia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3380/1/Ukrainian-Tatars-Rally-for-Uighur-Cause-/index.html On Friday, July 17th, Ukrainian Tatars came to the Chinese embassy in Kyiv.  They were there to protest the recent violence against ethnic Uighurs by the Chinese communist party.  They shouted, “Shame on the Chinese Communist Party!” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3379/1/Exiled-Uighur-Leader-Arrives-in-Japan/index.html Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has arrived in Japan. Kadeer will talk with the Japanese government about the difficulties Uighurs are facing in mainland China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3378/1/China-censors-NHK-over-Kadeer-visit/index.html China disrupted an overseas broadcast by NHK on Tuesday evening about a visit to Japan by Uighur rights leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3375/1/China-welcomes-moderate-US-response-to-riots/index.html A Chinese diplomat voiced appreciation Tuesday for what he called the "moderate attitude" of the U.S. toward the ethnic clashes in China's oil-rich Xinjiang region that killed nearly 200 people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3374/1/Uighur-head-against-violence-Dalai-Lama/index.html The exiled leader of China's Muslim Uighur minority Rebiya Kadeer supports non-violence, the Dalai Lama said here on Tuesday, countering Beijing's claims she masterminded unrest in the Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3373/1/India-dont-kowtow-to-China/index.html Controversy over Rebiya Kadeer's reported plans to visit India raises questions over the country's relationship with China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3372/1/Turkish-lawmakers-to-visit-Chinas-Uighur-region/index.html Turkish lawmakers are planning to visit China's autonomous Xinjiang region, the head of a parliamentary committee has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3371/1/China-puts-Christian-Uighur-on-trial-official/index.html A Christian member of the Uighur ethnic group went on trial in western China's Xinjiang region Tuesday, a court official said, in a case that a rights group described as religious persecution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3370/1/China-restores-limited-internet-access-after-Urumqi-violence/index.html Block on calls from China to overseas numbers and on most text messages remains in place zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3363/1/Exile-Brings-Voice-to-Uighur-Movement-/index.html After ethnic unrest erupted in western China earlier this month and left scores of people dead, the Chinese government responded by implicating a Uighur woman living in exile in the United States and her group for inciting the disturbance. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3362/1/China-anger-at-Kadeer-Tokyo-visit/index.html China's ambassador to Japan has reacted angrily to a planned visit to Tokyo by exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3359/1/China-Uighur-Christian-faces-trial-for-revealing-state-secrets/index.html A Uighur Christian prisoner charged with “revealing state secrets” will finally face trial on Tuesday after being arbitrarily detained since January 2008. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3357/1/Chinese-hack-film-festival-site-/index.html Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Australia's biggest film festival over a documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3356/1/Chinese-hack-film-festival-site/index.html Chinese hackers have attacked the Melbourne International Film Festival website in an intensifying campaign against the screening of a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3355/1/Trial-Date-for-Imprisoned-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti-Set-for-July-28/index.html The trial for Uyghur Christian prisoner Alimujiang Yimiti has been set for the morning of July 28. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3351/1/Hackers-target-Australian-festival-showing-Uyghur-film-/index.html Hackers repeatedly attacked the Web site of Australia's largest film festival Saturday, asking organizers to apologize to the Chinese people for planning to screen a documentary on an exiled Uyghur leader. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3349/1/Kazakh-Uighurs-React-to-Xinjiang-Violence-/index.html Stories detailing the crackdown against Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region earlier this month quickly spread across the border into Kazakhstan.  Many of Kazakhstan's 300,000 Uighurs have relatives in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3347/1/Turkey-reviews-defense-agreements-with-China-after-crackdown-on-Uighurs-in-Xinjiang-/index.html Turkey government has come under internal political pressure to suspend defense relations with China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3346/1/China-Fears-Ethnic-Strife-Could-Agitate-Uighur-Oasis/index.html Ali the tour guide seemed nice enough and his English flowed with grammatical perfection — a useful attribute in a city where most people speak a Turkic language that sounds nothing like Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3344/1/The-Xuri-Problem-Race-and-ethnicity-in-Chinas-workforce--/index.html The world has been watching this week as violence erupted in China’s westerly Xinjiang province, where clashes between Han Chinese and the ethnic Uyghur community have left 184 dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3330/1/Uighurs-Chinas-Muslim-Minority-Claims-to-be-Marginalized-in-Its-Ancestral-Homeland--/index.html The July 5th riot in China’s remote western province has brought attention to one of China’s largest minorities, Muslim Uighurs. Here’s a look at a people who have been living there for hundreds of years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3329/1/Chinese-Official-Defends-Policy-on-Minorities-/index.html A senior Chinese official said the government’s ethnic minority policies were “effective” and were not the root cause of the deadly rioting that occurred on July 5, when ethnic Uighurs killed ethnic Han by the scores in the western regional capital of Urumqi, the state news media reported on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3328/1/Uighur-activist-leader-praises-Turkish-position-on-China-/index.html Top Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer on Monday praised Turkey for condemning China for a crackdown targeting Uighurs in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang in the wake of ethnic violence in early July. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3326/1/Advising-Prudence-Attorneys-advised-not-to-handle-Uighur-cases/index.html Beijing's Municipal Bureau of Justice issued a notice to attorneys to be prudent when they consider accepting cases related to the Xinjiang uprising. Lawyers responded that this action deliberately ruined the rights to commission entitled under the code of the criminal act. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3324/1/Manchester-protest-for-Uighurs/index.html Around 30 people took part in a lively protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Manchester last week. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3322/1/Preservation-Advocates-Ask-UNESCO-to-Intervene-in-Demolition-of-Kashgar-China/index.html A coalition of cultural heritage organizations, archaeologists and art historians led by SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone (New York, N.Y.) and Heritage Watch (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) have asked Francesco Bandarin, Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris, to intervene to halt the demolition of ancient buildings of Kashgar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3321/1/Crimean-Tatars-protest-China-killings-in-Uighur-region/index.html NGOs representatives of the Crimean Tatar people held the meeting near building of the Embassy of China to Ukraine to show solidarity to Uyghurs in Eastern Turkistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3319/1/The-Empire-Strikes-Back/index.html While the Chinese state often appears masterful in its dealings with the non-Chinese areas of the People's Republic of China (PRC) like Xinjiang and Tibet, it also seems alarmed at the volatility of its vast semi-empire. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3318/1/Uighur-activist-urges-US-to-condemn-China/index.html A leading Uighur activist on Monday urged the Obama administration to more strongly condemn what she called China's continuing crackdown on ethnic minority Muslim Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3313/1/China-pulls-films-out-of-festival/index.html THE Melbourne International Film Festival is reeling after the withdrawal of three Chinese films in what appears to be retaliation for the festival's backing of a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3311/1/China-Detains-Hundreds-of-Uighurs-/index.html Hundreds of Uighur Muslims have been rounded up by the authorities in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province since early July. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3310/1/Han-Chinese-revenge-attackers-should-be-punished-says-Beijing-official/index.html Uighur assaults on Han in Xinjiang were reported extensively but witnesses say revenge attacks days later were not covered zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3309/1/China-Says-Its-Forces-Killed-12-During-Xinjiang-Mayhem/index.html Twelve of the nearly 200 people killed during a deadly ethnic riot in the city of Urumqi were shot by Chinese security forces, the state news agency reported over the weekend. It was China’s first official accounting of the number of people killed by the police and paramilitary troops during the chaos in Urumqi, capital of the restive Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3308/1/XINJIANG-UNREST-Empower-not-suppress-the-Uighurs/index.html It would be a mistake for the Chinese government to rely solely on massive arrests, bans on demonstrations and curbs on the media to contain Uighur discontent in the Xinjiang province of western China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3307/1/China-steps-up-anti-separatism-legislation/index.html China planned to speed up legislation against separatism in the Xinjiang-Uighur region, whose capital Urumqi was hit by deadly ethnic violence July 5. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3306/1/Uighur-resentment-boils-over/index.html Ethnic riots that erupted in the capital of China's Xinjiang region reveal the extent of resentment that the mostly Muslim Uighur people harbor against the Chinese government's policy toward them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3305/1/Taiwan-holds-prayer-vigil-for-Uighur-victims-in-China/index.html Taiwan United Nations Alliance (TAUNA) held a candlelight vigil on July 13th for Uighurs in Xinjiang, China, fighting for their human rights. Led by William J.K. Lo, former General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) and current Director of TAUNA, many gathered at Gi-Kong Presbyterian Church to pray for the life and safety of Uighurs and for real justice to prevail as the Chinese government continues its clampdown. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3303/1/Countering-Riots-China-Snatches-Hundreds-From-Their-Homes-/index.html The livery driver went out to get a drink of water and did not come home. Tuer Shunjal, a vegetable vendor, was bundled off with four of his neighbors when he made the mistake of peering out from a hallway bathroom when the police swept through the building he was in. “They threw a shirt over his head and led him away without saying a word,” said his wife, Resuangul. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3301/1/EDITORIAL-Chinas-ability-to-ignore-the-obvious/index.html The clashes between the Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang this month left at least 197 people dead and more than 1,600 wounded. The rioting was Xinjiang’s worst ethnic unrest in decades. It not only shook China, but also brought international attention to the problems faced by China’s ethnic minority groups, including Uighurs and Tibetans. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3299/1/Xinjiang-widens-crackdown-on-Uighurs/index.html The government of the restive western Chinese region of Xinjiang is stepping up security amid a widening crackdown on Uighurs after ethnic unrest earlier this month that left more than 190 dead and many more wounded. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3295/1/Kazakh-Uighurs-hold-mass-protest/index.html More than 5,000 ethnic Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city on Sunday to protest China's use of deadly force to quash Uighur protests this month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3294/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-Han-Chinese-are-also-victims-of-CCPs-brutal-rule-/index.html The capital city of Urumqi is “like a concentration camp for Uyghurs,” claims Uyghur spokesperson Rebiya Kadeer. But the Uyghur's hatred isn’t targeted toward Han Chinese, the ethnic majority in China. It’s directed toward the Communist regime, says Kadeer, one of China's richest woman until she became a ‘public enemy’ of the Chinese Communist Party. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3293/1/Oslo-Freedom-Forum-Arne-Liljedahl-Lynngard/index.html The Oslo Freedom Forum brought together some of the world’s leading minds to honor heroic survivors of political oppression and persecution this May 18-20 in Norway. The conference showcased the testimonies and noble purpose of these men and women who risked their lives for freedom. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3291/1/Challenges-go-beyond-Uighurs/index.html Rioting last week between ethnic Han Chinese and ethnic Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Province left 180 people dead and 1,000 injured. Chinese police and paramilitary forces arrested 1,500. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3290/1/Chinese-security-forces-admit-shooting-dead-12-Uighur-rioters/index.html Armed mob was fired on as it attacked civilians and ransacked shops, say officials zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3288/1/Gitmo-detainees-may-not-be-resettled-by-Jan-22/index.html The U.S. may not be able to move all eligible detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to other countries before President Barack Obama's January deadline for closing the prison, an Obama administration official said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3287/1/Activist-to-urge-Canberra-actionAnne-Davies-in-Washington/index.html THE unofficial leader of the Uighurs, Rebiya Kadeer, will use her visit to Australia next month to urge the Federal Government to take a stand over China's violent repression in her homeland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3286/1/Chinese-Question-Police-Absence-in-Ethnic-Riots/index.html As this shattered regional capital sorts through the corpses from China’s deadliest civil unrest in decades, another loss has become apparent: faith in the government’s ability to secure the peace and quell mass disturbances. In many neighborhoods, police officers remained absent for hours as the carnage unfolded, witnesses say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3285/1/China-Warns-All-Countries-Not-To-Promote-Uighur-Leader/index.html China said Thursday it opposed any foreign platform for Rebiya Kadeer, after an Australian film festival accused Beijing of trying to stop a showing of a documentary about the prominent Uighur activist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3284/1/Witnesses-Describe-Two-Way-Violence/index.html Vivid new accounts describe violence on both sides in a deadly ethnic clash in northwestern China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3283/1/Picturing-the-plight-of-the-Uighurs/index.html Considering China's demands to silence my film about Uighurs, it's no wonder so little is heard of their struggle zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3282/1/Chinese-Dont-Distinguish-among-Turkic-Peoples-in-Xinjiang-Kazakh-Traveler-Says-/index.html During the recent violence in Xinjiang, the Han Chinese population and authorities did not make any distinctions among the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, four Turkic and Islamic groups in the population of that region, according to a Kazakh visitor with business interests in that region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3280/1/Death-to-China-heard-at-Rafsanjani-sermon-Why/index.html Protesters also targeted Russia. Both countries had quickly recognized President Ahmadinejad's reelection victory last month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3277/1/After-the-violence-China-hits-Urumqi-with-propaganda-blitz/index.html Two open military trucks circled the streets of Xinjiang's capital, on each a soldier gripped a sniper rifle perched on the cab, others lined the side wielding AK-47s. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3271/1/Chinas-Latest-Tibet---Why-Beijing-wont-compromise-in-Xinjiang/index.html After scolding the West for interfering in the internal affairs of Iran, Beijing's public relations department will now be on the defensive following riots in Urumqi, the capital of the westernmost region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3270/1/Security-tight-as-mosques-open-in-Chinas-Urumqi/index.html Security forces armed with automatic weapons and wooden clubs fanned out in China's restive Urumqi city Friday as worshippers descended on mosques for the main Muslim day of prayer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3269/1/Mosques-reopen-in-Chinas-Xinjiang-under-heavy-security/index.html Mosques reopened for Friday prayers under the watchful eyes of security troops in Urumqi, a riot-torn city on China's far western frontier where 192 people were killed in ethnic attacks earlier this month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3268/1/CAsia-Uighurs-harbour-revenge-for-Xinjiang-kinfolk/index.html His voice echoing inside a small blue-domed mosque, Mukhametzhar-haji speaks angrily about what he describes as China's brutality against his fellow Uighur Muslims in the riot-hit region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3267/1/Uighurs-want-more-support-from-Turkey-/index.html Among the international community, Turkey has been the most outspoken critic of China's reaction to the Uighur protests. Still, many Uighurs sense a lack of support from their ethnic relatives. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3266/1/Government-PR-campaign-targets-Chinese-Muslims/index.html The chorus of smiling Muslims and Han Chinese wore matching yellow polo shirts and appeared on television Wednesday, singing: "We are all part of the same family." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3262/1/European-Parliament-holds-brief-debate-over-Xinjiang-/index.html The European Union has been exerting concerted efforts in the field of human rights, but is avoiding making concrete decisions in that field, Emine Bozkurt, a Dutch member of the European Parliament, said following a brief plenary session on Wednesday when ethnic riots that have left 192 people dead in China's western Xinjiang region were debated. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3260/1/In-the-Middle-East-Little-Outcry-Over-Chinas-Oppressed-Uighurs.html The fatal stabbing of an Egyptian Muslim woman in a German courtroom two weeks ago sparked anger across the Muslim world and fueled demands for a formal apology from Germany. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3259/1/US-Lawmakers-Demand-Answers-on-Uighur-Detainees--/index.html Democratic and Republican lawmakers have blasted the U.S. Department of Defense for allegedly allowing Chinese government agents to interrogate Uighur detainees held at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3257/1/Media-Strategy-in-Xinjiang/index.html Chinese authorities learned a lot in 2008 about how to manage media during a crisis. In the Xinjiang riots, they put it to use. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3256/1/Two-Chinese-American-Missionaries-Missing-in-Uyghur-Region/index.html A raid on a Chinese house church two days before a riot broke out in Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China has led to the arrest of eight Christians, meanwhile two Chinese American missionaries are reportedly missing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3254/1/The-Kyrgyz-Authorities-forbidden-Uyghur-Diaspora-to-arrange-protest-actions/index.html As it became known from own sources, power structures of Kyrgyzstan - NSS (KGB) where the son of president Bakiev - Marat Bakiev dominates, "have advised" or has actually forbidden by threats to representatives of Uyghur Diaspora not to organize protest actions against a policy of the government of China in Sintszjan-Uyghur independent area (SUIA) in connection with the past there in the beginning of month mass destruction of Uyghurs by the Chinese mode. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3252/1/Lawmakers-want-probe-into-Uighurs-at-prison-US-/index.html Angry U.S. lawmakers on Thursday demanded an investigation into why the Bush administration allowed Chinese agents to interrogate 22 Muslim Uighurs at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2002. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3251/1/Terror-accused-attacks-Chinas-brutality-to-Uyghurs/index.html Nobel Peace nominee denies organizing riots and says she and Bermuda four are victims zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3250/1/Beijing-cant-bury-the-Xinjiang-story/index.html The story of ethnic strife engulfing China's far-western province of Xinjiang may have been relegated to the inner pages of the country's state-controlled newspapers, but it found space on the front pages of almost every other Chinese daily. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3249/1/Chinas-Uighurs-hope-to-gain-from-world-spotlight/index.html Like many ethnic Uighurs, businessman Anwar hopes greater world interest in the Muslim minority following deadly unrest in this remote Chinese city of Urumqi could lead to long-time grievances being addressed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3248/1/Is-China-spying-on-Uighurs-abroad/index.html The arrest in Sweden of a Uighur exile on charges of "refugee espionage" last month hints at how far China's efforts may extend to keep tabs on the ethnic group it considers a threat to the state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3247/1/Were-all-Uighurs-now-Or-are-we/index.html The early July riots in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province in China's Far West, opposing turcophone Uighurs and Han Chinese, have been spun by Beijing as yet another "foreign interference" conspiracy organized by the Uighur diaspora in exile. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3246/1/Factory-Melee-Set-Off-China-Violence/index.html The first batch of Uighurs, 40 young men and women from the far western region of Xinjiang, arrived at the Early Light Toy Factory here in May, bringing their buoyant music and speaking a language that was incomprehensible to their fellow Han Chinese workers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3245/1/US-commission-seeks-China-Xinjiang-sanctions/index.html The US government commission on religious freedom called Wednesday for targeted sanctions against China over the ethnic unrest in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3244/1/Washington-Has-a-Uighur-Problem-Too-/index.html Despite all the announcements about their going to Palau and living in a tropical island paradise, there are still 13 Uighur men being held at the Guantánamo detention center in Cuba, and if there was ever any doubt about what would happen to them if they were to be turned over to China, those doubts should certainly have been erased by Li Zhi, the Communist Party chief of Urumqi, capital of the western region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3243/1/Uyghur-Hopes-Play-Out-in-the-Great-Game/index.html From ethnic turmoil in Urumqi, to the prisoners at Guantanamo, the Uyghur people find themselves in the global spotlight. But what remains in the dark are Uyghur history, issues and viewpoints. To give context to events that are still un-folding, the Uyghur experience is traced through the lives to two Uyghurs in exile: mainly Alim Seytoff and Uyghur rights activist Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3242/1/China-Trouble-in-the-Colonies-/index.html ``The incidents in China are, simply put, a genocide. There's no point in interpreting this otherwise," said Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan last Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3241/1/China-wants-to-bury-Australian-Uighur-doco/index.html The case of detained Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu isn't the only problem facing Chinese-Australian relations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3240/1/Uighurs-protest-outside-Chinese-embassy-in-London/index.html Around 100 pro-Uighur demonstrators protested outside the Chinese embassy in London on Wednesday over the bloodshed in the Xinjiang region, before marching on to Downing Street. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3239/1/Protesters-Seal-Off-Chinese-Embassy/index.html More than 100 Muslim students from the University of Indonesia staged a rally and “sealed” the Chinese embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday to protest China’s oppression of the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3238/1/China-orders-Australian-film-makers-to-drop-Uighur-documentary/index.html China is increasingly determined to control how it is portrayed overseas, frequently attacking what it calls a Western media bias and demanding that a documentary about a Muslim Uighur activist should be dropped from an Australian film festival. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3237/1/China-tries-to-block-Uighur-film-/index.html Organisers of Melbourne's International Film Festival have defied calls from China not to show a documentary about an exiled Uighur leader. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3236/1/China-Unrest-Tied-To-Labor-Program/index.html When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region for jobs at the Xuri Toy Factory in the country's booming coastal region, the response was mixed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3235/1/China-Revises-Xinjiang-Death-Toll-Uighurs-Dispute-/index.html A week after violent riots broke out in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, the Chinese regime has revised the official death toll. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3233/1/Parliament-asks-China-to-send-delegation-to-Xinjiang/index.html Turkish Parliament Speaker Köksal Toptan has asked China to allow a parliamentary delegation to visit the Xinjiang autonomous region, where two weeks of unrest between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese have claimed the lives of at least 184 people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3232/1/In-Iran-top-clerics-deplore-Chinas-anti-Muslim-violence/index.html Two more grand ayatollahs in Iran have called on the Tehran government to take measures to compel China to stop the murder of Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3231/1/Beijing-pressures-film-festival-to-dump-documentary/index.html THE Chinese Government has demanded that the Melbourne International Film Festival dump a documentary about an exiled minority leader whom they label a terrorist and blame for instigating this month's ethnic riots in Xinjiang, which left more than 180 people dead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3230/1/Exiled-Uighur-leader-says-no-thanks-to-Al-Qaeda/index.html The exiled leader of China's Uighur minority has firmly distanced herself from Al Qaeda, condemning the group's threats to attack Chinese interests in retaliation for the Muslims' deaths. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3229/1/Uighur-leader-rejects-Al-Qaeda-support/index.html The exiled leader of China's Uighur minority on Tuesday firmly distanced herself from Al-Qaeda, condemning the group's threats to attack Chinese interests in retaliation for the Muslims' deaths. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3228/1/Petition-for-Uighur-Activist-Marks-Latest-Salvo-in-Publicity-Efforts/index.html An online petition signed by a number of Chinese writers and democracy activists is calling for the release of a Uighur activist in Beijing who disappeared during last week’s clashes in Urumqi, as both the Chinese government and Uighur supporters battle to make their case in the public realm. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3227/1/Why-the-West-is-silent-on-rioting-in-Xinjiang/index.html When China slapped Tibet, the world shouted. But things change zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3226/1/Activists-require-boycotting-Chinas-merchandises-/index.html Yemeni activists have demanded to boycott Chinese merchandise, indicating that the Arab and Muslim peoples are the largest economic partner with China and this partnership would be damaged, if the Chinese regime goes on its cruel acts against Chinese Muslims. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3224/1/Chinas-image-suffers-a-savage-battering-on-all-fronts/index.html The arrest and detention of four Rio Tinto executives, including Australian national Stern Hu, on spying and bribery charges sealed a bad week for Chinese leader Hu Jintao and his "harmonious" society. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3223/1/Clerics-stand-up-for-rights-of-Uyghur-Muslims/index.html Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani and Ayatollah Yousef Sanei have issued separate statements condemning the ethnic violence in China’s Xinjiang region that has left 184 people dead so far. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3222/1/Xinjiang-Energy-Risk-Rises/index.html China's growing energy reliance on Xinjiang has raised risks for China's government as it tries to control unrest in the far northwestern region, experts say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3221/1/China-Detains-Reporters-in-Urumqi/index.html After days of ethnic violence in Xinjiang's capital, Chinese authorities detain several journalists covering the unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3220/1/Indonesians-protest-at-Chinese-embassy/index.html Indonesian Muslims called for "holy war" and briefly clashed with security guards during a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Jakarta in support of China's minority Muslim Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3219/1/Xinjiang-reporters-detained-Beijing-commentator-missing/index.html Chinese police should halt the detentions of journalists reporting on ethnic violence in Xinjiang and reveal the whereabouts of a Uighur academic and Internet commentator who is missing and reportedly detained in Beijing, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3218/1/Looking-at-China-Unrest-from-Mongolian-Perch/index.html As events unfold in Xinjiang Province, we have seen a resurgence of ethnic Chinese nationalist sentiment mixed with fear and mistrust of not just the Uighur people but also the outside world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3217/1/WFDA-Statement-Asian-Democrats-Voice-Concern-about-Human-Rights-in-East-Turkestan-/index.html We, as Asian democrats, deplore the recent ethnic violence that has broken out in East Turkestan, known in Chinese as Xinjiang, in recent days.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3216/1/East-Turkestan-Chinese-oppression-behind-riots/index.html On July 5, hundreds were killed in the East Turkestan capital, Urumqi, after protests by Uyghurs against racism and discrimination were attacked by Chinese security forces. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3214/1/China-officials-Police-kill-2-Uighur-men-wound-1/index.html Police fatally shot two Uighur men and wounded a third Monday in western China, where violence has persisted to flare despite the massive numbers of troops sent to restore calm more than a week after deadly ethnic rioting. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3211/1/Indonesian-Parliament-Urges-UN-To-Handle-Uprising-In-China/index.html In view of the uprising in the restive western province of Xinjiang in China which had killed 156 people and injured hundreds others, the Indonesian parliament urged the United Nations to immediately help overcome the conflict in Urumqi, the capital of Xianjing, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3210/1/China-warns-lawyers-off-riot-cases-/index.html Beijing is warning lawyers away from cases involving the recent ethnic violence in the far western region of Xinjiang, saying it is important to protect the country's unity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3207/1/Ethnic-tensions-taboo-in-China--/index.html Among the Uighurs who have settled in south-eastern China, it is hard to find anyone prepared to talk openly about life in the Han-majority country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3205/1/Uighur-workers-held-behind-locked-gates/index.html Three weeks after simmering racial tension escalated to mayhem and a double murder at a toy factory here, about 750 Uighur workers remain largely out of sight, behind locked gates and guarded doors — perhaps because they are at the center of a storm that has brought international attention to a remote Chinese province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3204/1/Old-suspicions-magnified-mistrust-into-ethnic-riots-in-Urumqi/index.html Job creation and integration went violently wrong in Guangdong. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3203/1/Fuse-of-Fear-Lit-in-China-Has-Victims-on-2-Sides-/index.html The lynch mob first set upon the lame Uighur shoeshine boy in the narrow alley, sticks and knives in hand. Then it turned to the two men working at the reception desk in the Light of Dawn hotel. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3200/1/Report-Stores-reopen-in-Urumqi-China-after-deadly-protests/index.html Retailers in the Chinese city of Urumqi, which witnessed deadly protests last weekend, and other cities in the region have resumed business, the Xinhua news agency reported Sunday, citing China's Ministry of Commerce. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3199/1/Unrest-among-Uyghur-residents-in-China-/index.html Ethnic Uyghur residents in Urumqi, capital of China's far west Xinjiang region, took to the streets Sunday afternoon in a rare public protest that prompted a police lockdown of the city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3198/1/Turks-criticize-Chinese-treatment-of-Uyghurs/index.html Turkey's prime minister continued his outspoken criticism of China's crackdown on ethnic Uyghurs on Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3197/1/China-Authorities-widen-crackdown-after-Xinjiang-riots/index.html Chinese president Hu Jintao’s threats of severe punishment for those who took part in the recent unrest in Xinjiang failed to address the serious human rights violations at the root of Uighur grievances, Amnesty International said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3196/1/Security-chiefs-failed-to-spot-signs-calling-for-Uighur-revolt/index.html Several days before Uighur demonstrators gathered in the streets of the northwest city of Urumqi last Sunday in a protest that began China's bloodiest bout of civil unrest for 20 years, secret signs started appearing in taxi windows. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3194/1/Chinas-flood-of-fortune-seekers-unsettles-Xinjiang/index.html Wearing a dirty striped T-shirt, scuffed loafers and dusty cargo pants, Liu Xiuyi arrived in Urumqi last week after a 56-hour train ride that took him from the east coast to the farthest reaches of China's northwest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3193/1/Death-Toll-Debated-In-Chinas-Rioting/index.html The Yu siblings could hardly bear to look at the police snapshots of the dead -- the images so full of anger and cruelty. So they took turns sifting through them in search of their brother, who had been missing since ethnically charged riots shook this city in far western China on Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3190/1/China---Xinjiang--EU-must-put-pressure-on-China-to-stop-human-rights-violation-in-Xinjiang-and-elsewhere/index.html Commenting on the violence in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, which has left many people dead and injured, Helga Tr&uumlpel MEP, member of the EP's China delegation, said: zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3189/1/Rumbles-on-the-Rim-of-Chinas-Empire-/index.html Its name alone indicates what the western region of Xinjiang means to the Chinese state: it translates as New Frontier or New Dominion, a place at the margins of empire. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3188/1/US-must-help-Uighurs-/index.html Unrest in China's far western region, known as Xinjiang, should not come as a surprise. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3186/1/Turkish-PM-ups-rhetoric-over-violence-in-Xinjiang-/index.html he Turkish prime minister has increased his already vocal criticism against China over the weeklong unrest in the Xinjiang Uigher Autonomous Region, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of ethnic Uighur Turks, describing the incidents as "almost genocide." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3183/1/Muslims-decry-violence-against-Uighurs-/index.html A large section of Muslims yesterday offered special prayers for the well-being of their co-religionists in Urumqi and Kashgar in China’s far-west Xinjiang province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3180/1/Urumqi-a-Quiet-quotOpen-Prisonquot/index.html A man contacted by RFA in Urumqi tells about his fears while the official Chinese media strive to portray a city under control and life back to normal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3179/1/A-Strongman-Is-Chinas-Rock-in-Ethnic-Strife/index.html As ethnic Han gangs roamed the streets of Urumqi on Tuesday at dusk, seeking revenge against Muslim Uighur rioters who killed scores of Han two nights earlier, a balding Communist Party bureaucrat abruptly appeared on the city’s television screens to call for calm. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3178/1/ABC-Tracks-Down-Woman-Who-Stood-up-to-the-Chinese-Soldiers/index.html We went on a mission today to find the Uighur woman who stood up to Chinese security forces on Tuesday, as she and other women protested the mass arrests of Uighur men. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3177/1/Riz-Khan---Chinas-festering-ethnic-divide/index.html This week China has seen some of the deadliest clashes since the founding of the People's Republic and they have exposed the true depth of the animosity between some of its ethnic groups. Riz Khan asks: Can the two groups live together after the violence of this week? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3176/1/China-reimposes-curfew-in-Urumqi.html BBCPage last updated at 12:59 GMT, Friday, 10 July 2009 13:59 UK Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s1 = new SWFObject("http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/mediaplayer.swf","single","450","388","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("file","http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/urumchi/BBC%20NEWS%20_%20Asia-Pacific%20_%20China%20reimposes%20curfew%20in%20Urumqi(3).flv"); s1.addVariable("image","http://www.uyghuramerican.org/content_images/705/july10.jpg"); s1.addVariable("width","450"); s1.addVariable("height","388"); s1.write("player2"); A night-time curfew has been reimposed in the western Chinese city of Urumqi, officials have announced. Mosques in the city were ordered to remain closed on Friday - but at least two opened at the request of crowds of Muslim Uighurs. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports that there were isolated protests after Friday prayers and says police were seen hitting demonstrators. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3174/1/China-plans-massive-change-in-Uyghur-cultural-capital-/index.html More than 10,000 families will be moved out of historic old city to make room for low-rise apartment blocks zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3172/1/Delahunt-Urges-Administration-To-Condemn-Chinas-Uighur-Crackdown/index.html The Chinese government's crackdown against Uighurs living in Xinjiang province now has the full attention of the House Human Rights Subcommittee Chair Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) said Thursday night. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3171/1/Uighur-plight-in-China-leads-to-protests-Muslim-condemnation/index.html Clashes between Uighurs and Han Chinese in northwest China have sparked protests and demonstrations in several cities around the world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3170/1/China-Security-Build-Up-Foreshadows-Large-Scale-Crackdown/index.html Developments in Xinjiang over the past three days indicate that the Chinese authorities are poised to launch a widespread, politicized crackdown on Uighur communities across the region, rather than undertake an impartial and objective investigation into the violence, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3168/1/Kaufman-Condemns-Repression-of-Uighurs-and-Clashes-in-Western-China/index.html Kaufman Condemns Repression of Uighurs and Clashes in Western China. Senator speaks out against press restrictions and human rights violations in China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3167/1/Uyghur-women-lead-protests-in-restive-west-China/index.html The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday — the most important day of the week for Islamic worship. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3165/1/Turkish-leader-calls-Xinjiang-killings-quotgenocidequot/index.html Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Friday genocide was being committed in China's northwest province of Xinjiang and called on Chinese authorities to intervene to prevent more deaths. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3164/1/Chinas-Uyghur-problem-treated-but-not-cured/index.html China appears to have contained its "Uyghur problem," but it certainly hasn't solved it. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3163/1/Muslim-anger-at-China-builds-over-Xinjiang/index.html Muslim anger grew Friday at China's crackdown in Xinjiang with Turkey's leader labelling the plight of the Uyghurs "a kind of genocide" and thousands taking to the streets of world capitals in protest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3162/1/Exiled-Leader-Blames-China/index.html China’s government is stirring up ethnic tensions that have led to Chinese violence against the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in the country’s northwest, according to Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3161/1/Ethnic-Tensions-in-China---The-Diane-Rehm-Show/index.html More than one hundred fifty people have died as ethnic tensions rise in western China. A panel joins Diane to discuss what's behind the violence and the challenge it presents to China's leadership. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3160/1/Tensions-Remain-High-in-China-Following-Deadly-Riots-/index.html Protests continued in Western China Tuesday following deadly clashes on Sunday between the region's Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese. Analysts examine the roots of the unrest with Judy Woodruff. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3158/1/Why-Chinas-ethnic-riots-help-the-Communist-Party/index.html Official media depicted the country's dominant Han as victims, a useful unifier in a down economy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3157/1/Central-Asias-Uyghur-Problems-Yesterday-Today-and-Tomorrow-----/index.html The violence in Xinjiang has highlighted the plight of the Uyghurs living under often brutal Chinese rule and called attention to the broader Uyghur problem across Central Asia, where many Uyghurs live and whose regimes must now find ways to maintain clos zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3156/1/Canadas-Uyghurs-awakened-by-Chinese-crackdown/index.html Uyghur-Canadians are banding together to protest the recent crackdown by Chinese authorities on demonstrations in their homeland, and some say last weekend's riots have been an “awakening” for the tiny community. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3155/1/Clampdown-on-Uyghur-Cities/index.html Chinese security forces imposed an uneasy peace on several major cities in the restive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) Thursday, with residents reporting a heavy security presence in Kashgar and Ili prefectures. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3154/1/Tune-in-Online-radio-show-on-Uighur-unrest-in-China/index.html As ethnic clashes between the Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese turn deadly, Worldfocus.org’s weekly radio show explores the recent riots involving China’s Uighur minority. The show also looks at Uighur aspirations of secession, Han Chinese immigration and Chinese nationalism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3153/1/Tragedies-in-Xinjiang-in-Tehran-in-Darfur-in-Gaza-/index.html Only days after the tension in Iran began to abate following mass street rallies where tens of demonstrators were killed by the security forces, now the world is witnessing another tragedy in China’s Xinjiang region, home to 8 million Uighur Turks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3152/1/Anger-gives-way-to-bitterness-in-Xinjiang/index.html The passionate anger of weekend riots gave way to cold bitterness on both sides of the ethnic divide in China's strife-torn Muslim region of Xinjiang on Thursday, and was likely to last long after the troops go. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3151/1/In-Wake-of-Turmoil-In-China-Minorities-Face-Painful-Options/index.html A few steps past the shattered glass, warped metal and other remains of a Muslim Uighur restaurant, Ye Erkeng and his family are in hiding. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3150/1/After-Tibet-East-Turkestan-protests-and-violence-in-Xinjiang/index.html ICT regrets the bloodshed and loss of life and strongly condemns the Chinese government sanctioned and disproportionate use of violence against Uyghur protestors. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3149/1/China-President-Should-Ease-Tension-by-Acknowledging-Grievances/index.html Chinese President Hu Jintao, who on July 7, 2009 abruptly left the G8 Summit in Italy to return to Beijing to cope with the Xinjiang protests, should break with past practice and acknowledge Uighurs’ grievances, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3148/1/Statement-by-Minister-Cannon-on-Incidents-in-Chinas-Xinjiang-Uyghur/index.html The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, todayissued the following statement regarding reports of the deadly riotsin China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3147/1/What-The-Riots-In-China-Really-Mean/index.html Ethnic conflict has exposed the Communist Party's vulnerabilities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3146/1/Turkey-says-violence-in-China-is-savagery/index.html Turkey's prime minister called for an end to "savagery" in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang that has killed at least 156 people, including many minority Uighurs who share ethnic bonds with Turks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3144/1/Central-Asia-Uighurs-look-on-with-fury-at-bloodshed/index.html Uighur community leaders in Central Asia have reacted with fury to the deadly riots in their ancestral Xinjiang region of China, even as governments in the ex-Soviet states refuse to interfere. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3142/1/Violent-offenders-face-execution/index.html Chinese authorities in Xinjiang vowed on Wednesday to execute people involved in violent killings during protests in the north-western region, as Hu Jintao, the president, cut short his stay at the G8 summit in Italy to rush home to take charge of the crisis. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3141/1/Tensions-Remain-As-Chinese-Troops-Take-Control-in-Urumqi/index.html Three days after ethnic clashes left 156 dead in the city of Urumqi, the Chinese government is still struggling to bring calm and order to the Xinjiang capital. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3140/1/As-Unrest-Spreads-Chinese-President-Skips-Summit/index.html Chinese President Hu Jintao canceled plans to attend a major summit in Italy and flew home early Wednesday after reports that chaos and panic had spread throughout the capital of China's far western region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3139/1/Hu-abandons-G8-summit-to-deal-with-Xinjiang/index.html Mobs wielding makeshift weapons roamed Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang region, yesterday despite a massive show of force by Chinese troops that brought some calm. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3138/1/His-Holiness-the-Dalai-Lama-Urges-China-to-Restrain-Offers-Prayer-for-Xinjiang-Victims/index.html His Holiness the Dalai Lama said: "I am deeply saddened and concerned with the worsening situation in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), especially with the tragic loss of lives." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3136/1/Uighur-Protesters-March-in-Washington.html The Wall Street JournalAssociated Press Tuesday, July 7, 2009; 5:00 PM Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer led protesters in a march from downtown Washington to the Chinese Embassy, chanting "Shame on China." Recent violence between Muslim Uighurs and ethnic Han Chinese has killed more than 150 people in China. Rebiya Kadeer spoke to Uighur protesters at a rally in downtown Washington on Tuesday. About 100 people are holding blue flags with a white crescent and chanting "Shame on China" as they march to the Chinese Embassy. Chinese authorities have accused Kadeer of inciting violence between Muslim Uighurs and ethnic Han Chinese, in which at least 156 people have been killed. The riots broke out Sunday in China's Xinjiang region. Kadeer disputes the number of fatalities, saying she believes at least 500 people have been killed in the riots. Kadeer says she's seeking a stronger statement from the U.S. government about the violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3134/1/OIC-WAMY-concerned-over-Uighur-carnage/index.html The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) have expressed deep concerns at the deadly ethnic unrest and “the use of disproportionate force” that has killed more than 156 people and injured more than 1,000 in China’s western Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3132/1/Uighur-unrest-continues-in-Xinjiang-/index.html Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s1 = new SWFObject("http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/mediaplayer.swf","single","450","388","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("file","http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/Al-jzeera-urumchi.flv"); s1.addVariable("image","http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/Uyghur%20Woman%20Standing.jpg"); s1.addVariable("width","450"); s1.addVariable("height","388"); s1.write("player2"); 07 Jul 09AlJazeeraEnglishViolence broke out in up to four neighbourhoods in the western Chinese city of Urumqi on Tuesday, according to witnesses. A group of armed Han Chinese people were seen marching towards an ethnic minority Uighur neighbourhood. Uighurs and security forces were also out on the streets. Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports on the third day of unrest in Xinjiang province, where authorities say 156 people have died so far. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3131/1/Speaker-Nancy-Pelosi-Statement-on-the-Violence-in-Xinjiang-Province-in-China-/index.html Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on the violence in Xinjiang Province of China: zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3130/1/US-House-Speaker-urges-BeijingUighur-dialogue-/index.html US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday blamed China's "harsh policies" for fueling resentment among its Uighur population and urged Beijing to seek a dialogue with the Muslim minority. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3129/1/TLHRC-Co-Chairman-Rep-McGoverns-Statement-on-Developments-in-Xinjiang-China-/index.html Co-Chairman James P. McGovern (D-MA) Strongly Condemns Violence In Urumchi, China; Calls on Chinese Authorities to Deescalate Situation And Immediately Release Individuals Who Protested Peacefully zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3127/1/VOA---TGRT-Haber-Ortak-Yay305n305-/index.html 7 Temmuz Amerika'nın Sesi - TGRT Haber Ortak Yayını: Dünya Uygur Kurultayı danışmanlarından Avukat Nuri Türkel Doğu Türkistan'da yaşanan olayları değerlendirdi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3126/1/Chinas-Hu-skips-G8-to-deal-with-Xinjiang-riots-/index.html Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3125/1/Uyghur-Protests-Widen-as-Xinjiang-Unrest-Flares.html New protests have erupted in China’s western Xinjiang region, two days after at least 156 people were killed and over 1,000 wounded in the country’s worst ethnic violence in decades. On Tuesday, some 200 ethnic Uyghurs–mostly women–took to the streets to protest over the mass arrest of more than 1,400 people following Sunday’s clashes. Later, hundreds of ethnic Han Chinese marched through the streets of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province. The two sides blame each other for the outbreak of violence. Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s1 = new SWFObject("http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/mediaplayer.swf","single","450","388","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("file","http://docs.uyghuramerican.org/democracy-now-urumchi.mp4"); s1.addVariable("image","http://www.uyghuramerican.org/content_images/urumchi-protest/protest3.jpg"); s1.addVariable("width","450"); s1.addVariable("height","388"); s1.write("player1"); zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3124/1/UN-urges-China-ethnic-groups-to-halt-violence/index.html The top United Nations human rights official on Tuesday called on Chinese authorities and ethnic groups in the Muslim region of Xinjiang to refrain from further violence after what she called "a major tragedy." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3123/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-exiled-champion-of-Chinas-Uighurs/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, long a champion for China's 10 million Uighurs, is blamed by the Beijing government as the instigator of protests that left scores of the ethnic minority Muslims dead and hundreds more detained zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3122/1/US-must-act-to-prevent-Uighur-Tiananmen-/index.html US lawmakers on Monday urged the United States to strongly condemn the crackdown against Muslim Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region to avoid a repeat of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3121/1/Angry-Uighurs-defy-Chinese-police-/index.html New protests have flared in Urumqi, two days after 156 people died and 800 were injured in the western Chinese city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3120/1/Mass-arrests-over-China-violence-/index.html Chinese police have arrested 1,434 people over rioting in Xinjiang province, official state media says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3118/1/Tight-Security-After-Deadly-Xinjiang-Clash/index.html Chinese authorities say more than 700 people are detained following deadly clashes in Urumqi, as ethnic minority Uyghurs report strip-searches, roadblocks, and thwarted protests elsewhere in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3116/1/Urumqi-Tense-Quiet-after-Violence/index.html China blames overseas Uyghurs for inciting rioting in the northwestern city, saying at least 156 people died in the violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3115/1/-Government-Should-Allow-Independent-United-Nations-Probe/index.html The Chinese government should exercise maximum restraint in the face of unrest and violence on July 5 in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Human Rights Watch said today. China should allow the United Nations to conduct an independent investigation into the events. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3114/1/Witnesses-says-China-protest-spreads-to-2nd-city/index.html Witnesses say an ethnic protest has spread to a second city in China's western Xinjiang province after riots rocked the region's capital, killing at least 140 and injuring more than 800. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3113/1/WUC-Condemns-Chinas-Brutal-Crackdown-of-a-Peaceful-Protest-in-Urumchi-City/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the brutal crackdown of a peaceful protest of young Uyghurs in Urumchi on Sunday by Chinese security forces. According to Uyghur eyewitnesses, scores of Uyghur protesters were killed and dozens were injured after security forces used lethal force to disperse the peaceful protesters and to stop the spread of this peaceful protest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3112/1/Scores-Reported-Dead-in-China-After-Riots-/index.html The death toll in violent clashes in China's northwestern Xinjiang region rose sharply Monday, with the government saying that 140 had been killed in what appears to be one of the deadliest episodes of unrest in China in decades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3111/1/Residents-say-Internet-down-in-Xinjiang-riot-city/ndex.html Internet users have not been able to go online in Urumqi, the northwestern Chinese city hit by ethnic violence that killed at least 140 people, residents said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3110/1/Death-toll-in-Uigher-crackdown-rockets-to-140-and-rising/index.html In the deadliest social unrest in China since the Tiananmen Square crackdown, 140 people have been killed and more than 800 wounded in riots that rocked the city of Urumqi at the weekend. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3109/1/Scores-Killed-in-Clashes-in-Western-China-/index.html The Chinese state news agency reported Monday that at least 140 people were killed and 816 injured when rioters clashed with the police in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3107/1/140-slain-as-Chinese-riot-police-Muslims-clash-in-northwestern-city/index.html Eight hundred people are injured and hundreds are reported arrested in Urumqi. The Uighur demonstrators were protesting against racial discrimination. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3108/1/Riots-in-Western-China-Amid-Ethnic-Tension/index.html At least 1,000 rioters clashed with the police on Sunday in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese, according to witnesses and photographs of the riot. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3106/1/Will-Xinjiang-become-another-Tibet-in-2009-/index.html As I was hearing reports Sunday of rioting by Uighurs in northwestern China, I immediately thought of what a Chinese Public Security Bureau official told me on more than one occasion since late last year: We are much more worried about unrest in 2009 than in 2008. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3105/1/China-calls-Xinjiang-riot-a-plot-against-rule/index.html China says a riot that shook the capital of western Xinjiang region Sunday was a plot against its power, after at least three people died in the eruption of ethnic unrest and authorities launched a crackdown. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3104/1/Uighur-unrest-threatens-Beijing-rulers-biggest-party-for-a-decadeJane-/index.html Riots in the restive, mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang could hardly have come at a worse time for Beijing as the Government prepares to celebrate its biggest party for a decade. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3102/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-hit-by-violence--/index.html Three people have been killed and more than 20 injured in violence in the city of Urumqi in China's restive Xinjiang region, state media says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3101/1/Uighur-riots-erupt-in-Chinas-west/index.html Protesters from a Uighur ethnic group clashed with police in China's far west Sunday, with activists saying police fired shots in the air and used batons to disperse a crowd that had swelled to nearly 1,000. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3100/1/Violence-erupts-in-Chinas-Xinjiang-region-2-killed-/index.html Police rushed on Sunday to restore order in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi where an unknown number of people attacked passers-by and torched vehicles, state media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3099/1/My-Trip-to-Guantanamo-It-Must-Be-Closed/index.html I went to the prison at Guantanamo Bay on June 16 with a small bi-partisan group of House members. It was my third trip, and I came away thinking that those Congressional visits may not be helpful in generating support for closing the facility. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3098/1/Senators-voice-support-for-Uighur-move-/index.html Government senators yesterday spoke out in support of the Premier's decision to bring four former prisoners from Guantánamo Bay to Bermuda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3097/1/Supreme-Court-leaves-hanging-the-case-of-detained-Uighurs/index.html The justices' inaction this term probably extends the 13 detainees' time at Guantánamo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3095/1/A-Gitmo-Tragedy-The-Uighurs/index.html Of the many Guantanamo tragedies, perhaps none has been greater than our handling of the Uighurs, a group of Chinese Muslim detainees. Picked up, detained, and wrongly classified as dangerous terrorists, 17 Uighurs spent more than seven years wrongfully imprisoned. Four were finally released last month, but 13 remain locked up at Guantanamo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3094/1/Chinas-Ancient-Silk-Road-City-Of-Kashgar-Facing-Threat-Of-Bulldozers-/index.html The ancient Silk Road trading hub of Kashgar, in China's northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is being threatened by an ambitious government redevelopment plan that some say has a hidden political agenda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3093/1/Local-Uighurs-skeptical-about-Guls-China-visit/index.html President Abdullah G&uumll on Sunday and Monday visited Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region in China, becoming the first Turkish president to visit the region because of long-standing tension because of the countries’ conflicting policies on the Uighur people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3092/1/Rep-Dana-Rohrabacher-on-the-Uighurs/index.html The following letter was submitted by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who serves as Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, in response to this blog post by Thomas Joscelyn. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3091/1/No-Rapes-in-Riot-Town/index.html A deadly clash in southern China exposes long-simmering tensions between majority Han Chinese and the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3090/1/TURKISH-PRESIDENT-HOLDS-TALKS-IN-URUMCHI-PROVINCE-OF-CHINA--/index.html Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday that the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China was an important element that connected Turkey and China to each other. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3088/1/Ethnic-tensions-spark-brawl-at-China-factory-report/index.html Ethnic clashes between Han Chinese and Uighur workers at a toy factory in China's southern Guangdong province killed two people and injured 118, a newspaper reported on Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3085/1/Beyond-Guantanamo-Chinas-Uyghur-Muslim-Minority-/index.html Via the Stanley Foundation, a rare inside look at the plight of Uyghur's in China.  Watch for a special appearence by The Atlantic's James Fallows. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3083/1/Xinjiang-Authorities-Announce-Heightened-Security-Threat-Strengthen-Security-Capacity-and-Continue-Propaganda-Campaigns-/index.html Authorities throughout the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have continued in late 2008 and early 2009 to implement harsh security controls and widespread propaganda campaigns in the name of preserving stability, while a top official in the region said in March 2009 that the XUAR will face a more serious security terrain in the coming year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3081/1/THE-10-CONDITIONS-OF-LOVE-/index.html THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE is a story of a woman, a man, a family, a people and a homeland. It is the story of Rebiya Kadeer, China's nightmare, the woman it accuses of inciting terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3080/1/Palau-President-says-Uighurs-safe-from-China-in-his-country-/index.html Palau's President says fears his country can't provide a safe haven for Guantanamo detainees are unfounded. The President's statement follows concerns raised by the detainees that they will be under threat from China if they agree to take up an offer to resettle in Palau. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3077/1/Chinas-Other-Genocide-the-Mother-of-the-Uyghurs-Speaks-Out/index.html Although we often hear of the plight of the Tibetans and the efforts of the Dalai Lama to address the human rights conditions in Tibet, the similar plight of another major ethnic group -- the Uyghurs and other indigenous minorities in the Xinjiang province in northwestern China -- has gone almost completely unnoticed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3076/1/Getting-Along-with-the-Invaders-Bishkek-versus-Kashgar/index.html Last week, the New York Times published an article on the relocation of the Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to the islands of Palau and Bermuda (a great deal considering the first batch of Uighurs who left Gitmo went to the slightly less glamorous Albania). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3075/1/Hollywood-vs-Beijing-in-Far-West-China-/index.html Kashgar, in Far West China, is the oasis town where the northern and southern branches of the Silk Route converge. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3074/1/Uyghur-Charged-With-Spying/index.html Sweden charges an ethnic Uyghur, a Swedish national, with spying for China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3072/1/Judge-Orders-Release-of-Guantanamo-Prisoner-After-Seven-Years-Saying-Government-Position-Defies-Common-Sense/index.html  On Monday, District Court Judge Richard Leon rejected the government’s position that al-Janko had once been a part of al-Qaeda, saying it “defies common sense.” We speak with British journalist Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3071/1/Palau-president-Gitmo-detainees-still-fear-China/index.html Some Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay who have been offered resettlement in Palau are leery of moving to the tiny Pacific island nation for fear that it cannot protect them from China, Palau's president said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3069/1/Police-fatally-wound-man-during-protest-in-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html Police in China's western-most Muslim region of Xinjiang fired warning shots to disperse a crowd protesting against a real estate project Tuesday, fatally wounding a man, state media said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3066/1/Sweden-expels-Chinese-diplomat-report-/index.html The Swedish government has expelled a Chinese diplomat following revelations that the Chinese embassy was allegedly involved in spying on political refugees residing in Sweden. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3065/1/Chinese-vice-president-visits-Xinjiang-stressing-harmony-and-stability/index.html Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to strengthen and improve grassroots organizations of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to ensure prosperity, development, harmony and stability in ethnic minority areas. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3063/1/52-enterprises-rush-to-dig-gold-in-Xinjiang/index.html So far, 52 Chinese enterprises have rushed to dig gold in southwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China Business Times reported. The regional gold output is expected to surpass nine tons this year, up 14.3 percent from last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3062/1/China-Afghanistan-pledge-to-fight-terror-drugs/index.html Top lawmakers from China and Afghanistan pledged Monday to strengthen cooperation in the fight against drug smuggling and terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3061/1/Bermuda-Premier-Escapes-Censure-Over-Uighurs/index.html  Bermuda’s premier survived a no-confidence vote on Saturday aimed at punishing him for allowing four former Guantánamo prisoners to settle in the British island territory. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3060/1/Freed-Uighurs-Relishing-Bermudas-Sun-And-Sand/index.html The four men in short-sleeve shirts looked like ordinary tourists, enjoying a Sunday lunch and butter pecan ice cream afterward as they observed the sparkling waters surrounding this Atlantic resort island. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3059/1/Five-Uighurs-dont-want-resettlement-in-Palau/index.html Five of 13 Guantanamo Bay detainees set for resettlement in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau do not want to go there, President Johnson Toribiong said on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3055/1/The-Myth-of-the-12-Million-Uighur/index.html CONGRATULATIONS Palau. Our little country, a group of islands 500 miles east of the Philippines, has become, if only briefly, a household word. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3054/1/Some-Gitmo-Detainees-Resist-Move-to-Palau-/index.html The Obama administration's drive to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has hit a new snag: At least some of the 13 detainees accepted for resettlement by the island nation of Palau don't want to go there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3053/1/Uighurs-had-no-terrorist-training-says-lawyer-/index.html A lawyer for the former Guantánamo detainees given asylum in Bermuda has stressed they have no terrorist training. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3052/1/Local-Muslims-reach-out-with-gifts-for-Uighurs/index.html A Muslim leader has handed over gifts to the Guantanamo Bay refugees saying: "they are just regular people." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3050/1/Uyghurs-Held-in-Anniversary-Clampdown/index.html Authorities the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), home to the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority, have detained a number of youths in an anti-separatism campaign ahead of the sensitive 60th anniversary of communist rule, sources in the region said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3049/1/Al-Sharpton-set-to-meet-Uighurs-Rev-heads-for-Bermuda-to-see-ex-Guantanamo-Bay-prisoners/index.html The Rev. Al Sharpton is Bermuda-bound, hoping to meet with the four former Gitmo prisoners. He'll also show some love for the island nation's embattled prime minister, who has caught heat for allowing them to be resettled in the Atlantic paradise. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3048/1/End-of-the-Silk-Road-for-historic-trading-hub-of-Kashgar/index.html Today is the last day for residents of one of the last surviving ancient cities in China to claim a bonus for agreeing to move out to make way for the wrecking ball. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3047/1/House-subcommittee-questions-Uighur-terrorist-classification/index.html A US House of Representatives subcommittee questioned why a group of Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs is classified as a terrorist organization during a hearing [materials] Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3046/1/Lawmakers-Weigh-Uighur-Hearing-in-Bermuda/index.html Rep. Bill Delahunt and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher are trying to set up a congressional hearing on the resort island of Bermuda, so that the former Guantanamo Bay detainees known as the Uighurs, who just moved there, can testify. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3045/1/US-Sold-Out-to-Chinese-in-Holding-Ethnic-Uighurs-Lawmakers-Charge/index.html Republican and Democratic representatives united Tuesday in charging that U.S. foreign policy bowed to Chinese interests when 22 Uighurs -- bought from bounty hunters -- were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, compounding the misery of an ethnic group persecuted by the Chinese in their homeland. "Have we drifted so far away from our principles?" asked a House member. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3044/1/Senior-US-Senator-Praises-Bermudian-People/index.html U.S. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has made a statement in the United States Senate voicing strong support for the move by the Government of Bermuda to resettle four Chinese Muslim refugees formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3043/1/US-congressman-flying-to-Island-to-meet-Uighurs/index.html The Chairman of the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on International Organisations, Human Rights and Oversight is expected to meet the four Uighurs this weekend. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3042/1/Demolition-of-Kashgars-Old-City-Draws-Concerns-Over-Cultural-Heritage-Protection-Population-Resettlement-/index.html Authorities in a city in western China have launched a demolition project that has undermined the preservation of a cornerstone of the Uyghur ethnic group's cultural heritage and will result in the resettlement of roughly half the city's population. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3040/1/Uighurs-US-Let-Chinese-Abuse-Us-At-Gitmo/index.html While at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2002, Uighur detainees were interrogated, abused and threatened by a delegation from the People's Republic of China, recently liberated Uighurs told the Huffington Post in a phone interview from Bermuda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3039/1/Uighurs-in-BDA-answer-the-key-questions/index.html The four freed Guantanamo prisoners spent their first few days of freedom in much the same fashion as they spent their time in captivity - facing a barrage of questions from interrogators. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3037/1/Uighurs-Translator-Reflects-On-Their-Odyssey/index.html After an eight-year odyssey, four Muslims from China have been banished to — of all places — Bermuda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3036/1/Rohrabacher-Raises-Serious-Allegations-About-Mistreatment-of-Uighurs/index.html The White House is relieved a home was finally found for 17 Muslim Uighurs from China who were held without justification at Guantanamo Bay, but their leading champion in Congress, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), is still raising serious allegations about their mistreatment in the U.S. military prison in Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3035/1/Constitutional-Lawyer-Says-US-Should-Take-Uyghurs/index.html The House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing Tuesday to determine whether or not the Uyghurs held at Guantanamo Bay were a part of a terrorist organization known as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3034/1/US-lawmakers-seek-review-of-Uighur-terror-label/index.html US lawmakers sought a review of the US listing of a Uighur Muslim group in northwestern China as "terrorist," accusing US authorities of relying on intelligence from Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3033/1/A-Home-for-the-Uighurs/index.html America's allies help Muslims from China emerge from an injust imprisonment. Why isn't the U.S. stepping up? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3032/1/Great-Leap-Forward-in-time-is-hours-too-fast-for-Chinas-Uighurs/index.html Mao Zedong’s order that China adopt a single time zone is emblematic of totalitarian government. IT’S 7PM and the wait staff is still huddled around bowls of spicy noodle soup in a popular restaurant, while a cleaner absently runs a mop over the tiled floor. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3031/1/The-Chinese-essentially-blacklist-people-for-their-opinions/index.html Bermuda's acceptance of four Chinese Muslim refugees sends a message to the world that locking them up in Guantánamo Bay was a grave mistake, according to an American expert on Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3030/1/Guantanamo-ever-folly/index.html Here's a fair question: If the United States is unwilling itself to take any of the prisoners cleared for release from Guantanamo, why should other countries step in, as we are asking many to do? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3029/1/Leaving-Guantanamo/index.html If this were the Eighteenth Century, the Uighur detainees at Guantanamo would have been sent to Australia. Instead, four of them were just sent to Bermuda, and thirteen others await possible resettlement in Palau. Five were sent to Albania in 2006. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3028/1/For-Gitmo-Uighurs-new-life-is-no-walk-on-the-beach/index.html The former detainees, including Uighurs released to Albania, say they are eager to put "terrorist" label behind them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3027/1/Uyghur-men-grateful-to-Bermuda-for-their-new-life-.html The four Uyghur men who recently arrived in Bermuda after spending more than seven years in the Guantanamo Bay detention center. From left to right: Helil Mamut (Abdul Nasser), Ablikim Turahun (Huzaifa Parhat), Salahidin Abdulahat (Abdul Semet), and Abdulla Abduqadir (Jalal Jalalidin). (Photo courtesy of Rushan Abbas) zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3026/1/Obama-says-Italy-will-take-3-Guantanamo-detainees-/index.html Italy has agreed to accept three detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama said Monday after an Oval Office meeting with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3025/1/Bingham-Lawyer-Describes-Uighurs-Journey-to-FreedomPosted-by-Francesca-Heintz/index.html Most days, Bingham McCutchen partner Sabin Willett works out of his office in Boston. But on the morning of June 11, Willett was at work in a clothing store in Bermuda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3067/1/Palau-to-Take-Chinese-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html The United States has won an agreement to transfer up to 17 Chinese Muslims from the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Palau, a sparsely populated archipelago in the North Pacific, according to a statement released by Palau to The Associated Press on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3021/1/Out-of-Guantanamo-Uighurs-Bask-in-Bermuda/index.html Almost exactly seven years after arriving at Guantánamo in chains as accused enemy combatants, and four days after their surprise predawn flight to Bermuda, four Uighur Muslim men basked in their new-found freedom here, grateful for the handshakes many residents had offered and marveling at the serene beauty of this tidy, postcard island. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3020/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-hope-to-open-restaurant-in-millionaires-paradise/index.html For seven long years in Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the four Central Asian friends gazed longingly at the azure sea from their cells. They were never allowed through the razor wire to paddle in the water. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3019/1/-From-hell-to-paradise-for-ex-Gitmo-detainees/index.html  Four ethnic Uighurs adjusting to Bermuda, and life on outside zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3018/1/Wed-never-heard-of-al-Qaeda-/index.html The four Chinese Muslims released from Guantánamo Bay to come to Bermuda say they had never even heard of al Qaeda until they arrived at the US prison camp where they have been confined for the past seven years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3017/1/After-7-years-at-Gitmo-resettled-Uyghurs-grateful-for-freedom/index.html Two of four Uyghurs relocated to Bermuda after seven years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied Friday that they had ever been terrorists, and expressed gratitude toward President Obama for working to free them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3016/1/Europeans-balk-at-taking-Guantanamo-inmates-for-unwilling-US/index.html U.S. officials trying to relocate detainees face skepticism from EU nations, who want to know why the U.S. can't taken them itself if they pose no risk. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3015/1/AP-Interview-Detainee-move-to-Palau-is-tentative/index.html The president of Palau is flattered by all the publicity he's had since agreeing to take in more than a dozen Guantanamo detainees, but he said Saturday their transfer is not a done deal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3014/1/Who-Are-the-Four-Guantanamo-Uighurs-Sent-to-Bermuda/index.html While everyone was looking at a map, trying to work out exactly where Palau is, following the announcement on Tuesday that Guantánamo's 17 Uighur prisoners were to be resettled there, it now transpires that four of the men have been quietly flown to Bermuda instead. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3012/1/Kauai-group-Send-us-Gitmo-detainees/index.html A Kaua‘i group on Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Linda Lingle and the state’s congressional delegation requesting that the 17 Uighur nationals that are to be sent from the U.S. Detention Facility in Guantanamo Bay to Palau instead be routed to Hawai‘i Islands. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3011/1/Obama-Caves-on-Allowing-Innocent-Uighurs-to-Settle-in-US/index.html The legal black hole otherwise known as Guantánamo Bay presents President Obama with many dilemmas, e.g., the prospect of indefinite preventive detention.  But this--settlement of innocents in the U.S.--should not one of them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3010/1/Two-Gitmo-detainees-freed-by-Justice-Dept/index.html The U.S. Justice Department says it has released two detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to their home countries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3008/1/US-sends-four-Uighur-detainees-to-Bermuda/index.html Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration's latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3007/1/Bermuda-Gives-Safe-Haven-to-4-Uighur-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html In response to news of the release of four Uighur men from Guantánamo to Bermuda, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3006/1/Bermudas-Premier-Explains-Uighurs-In-Their-Midst/index.html The Premier of Bermuda, Dr. the Hon. Ewart F. Brown, JP, MP, just released a statement on the four Uighur detainees resettled in Bermuda today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3004/1/United-States-Resettles-Four-Uighur-Detainees-from-Guantanamo-Bay-to-the-Government-of-Bermuda/index.html Four detainees, Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, have been resettled in Bermuda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3003/1/China-Protests-Moving-of-Detainees-/index.html The Chinese government protested Thursday over the decision by the American government to resettle a group of Chinese Muslims to the isolated archipelago of Palau and demanded that they be returned to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3001/1/Four-Guantanamo-detainees-to-reside-in-Bermuda/index.html The Chinese Muslims, deemed no threat to the US, were released for resettlement and arrived Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/3000/1/Four-Uyghur-Detainees-Released/index.html Four men belonging to the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group and held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for more than seven years have been released and landed early Thursday on the North Atlantic island of Bermuda, Uyghur sources and the U.S. Justice Department said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2999/1/PARADISE-LOST-FOR-GITMO-GANG/index.html A leading advocate for 17 ethnic Uighurs from China held at Guantanamo Bay prison is throwing cold water on the Obama administration's plan to transfer the detainees to the tropical island paradise of Palau. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2998/1/Xinjiangs-free-radical-a-Uyghurs-sacrifice/index.html Rebiya Kadeer sacrificed a successful business empire to help her fellow Uyghurs. Now, having spent six years in a mainland prison, she is continuing her fight from the US. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2997/1/Guantanamo-Cannot-Be-Closed-Without-Europes-Help/index.html The US government is hoping that Germany will accept nine Uighur Chinese currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with the lawyer representing four of the men. She argues that they would integrate well into the already sizeable Uighur community in Germany. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2996/1/Palau-agrees-to-take-Uighur-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Uighurs from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, in an unlikely resolution to years of legal limbo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2995/1/Chinas-public-enemy-No-1--Rebiya-Kadeers-battle-for-the-Uyghurs/index.html This film, entitled "China's public enemy No. 1- Rebiya Kadeer's battle for the Uyghurs", examines the life of Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer, presenting the story of the Chinese government's persecution of her and her family against a background of brutal suppression of the broader Uyghur population. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2994/1/US-eyes-South-Pacific-to-resettle-Uighur-detainees/index.html The Obama administration is in talks with the remote South Pacific island nation of Palau to resettle a group of Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, The Associated Press has zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2985/1/Refugee-spy-remanded-into-custody/index.html A Chinese Uyghur who was arrested on suspicions of spying on refugees was remanded into custody on Friday by the Stockholm district court. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2983/1/Pakistan-extradites-six-Chinese-militants-to-Beijing/index.html Groaning under rising pressure from China, the Pakistani authorities have extradited to Beijing ten arrested militants of the pro-independence Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) despite serious apprehensions expressed by the Amnesty International (AI) that they could be at risk of serious human rights violations in china, including unfair trial, torture and execution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2982/1/Reduced-to-rubble-in-the-name-of-progress/index.html The medieval streets of Kashgar are being bulldozed by Beijing planners, and locals fear their culture is being crushed, writes CLIFFORD COONAN . zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2981/1/--Freedom-for-the-Uighurs/index.html The courts must intervene if the political process fails to provide justice for 17 Chinese zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2980/1/Uyghur-Men-Sentenced/index.html Court documents offer a rare glimpse of Chinese legal proceedings against 12 men sentenced for alleged separatism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2979/1/Women-Held-Over-Party/index.html Two Uyghur women describe how police sent five women to jail and seven to forced labor for holding an illegal gathering. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2978/1/Chinese-Guantanamo-Detainees-Likely-to-Be-Released-in-US/index.html Some of the 17 Chinese Uighur Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will likely be released in the U.S. in an effort to convince other countries to accept prisoners from the detention facility, according to current and former American officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2977/1/Uighurs-ask-Supreme-Court-to-free-them-from-Guantanamo/index.html Attorneys for 17 Muslims from China locked up inside a prison camp at Guantánamo asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to take on the case of the men whom a judge ordered set free eight months ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2976/1/Canada-wont-take-Gitmo-inmates/index.html Canada has refused a plea from the Obama administration to take in 17 Chinese Muslims imprisoned without charge for more than seven years at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2974/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-region-promotes-Mandarin-to-fight-terrorism/index.html Teaching Mandarin lessons in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is helping the people to fight terrorism, claimed Nur Bekri, chairman of the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2973/1/Refugees-Still-Face-Uncertainty-in-Kazakstan/index.html Until comprehensive legislation is in place, asylum-seekers from Uzbekistan and China will be at risk of deportation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2972/1/Australia-Ruffles-Chinese-Feathers/index.html Australia’s pro-Beijing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is facing his latest test: whether he can soothe the highly strained Sino-Australian relationship after Australia-based Rio Tinto shut its Chinese investor out of China’s most-wanted resources sector. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2966/1/Uighur-exile-leader-rejects-China-terror-report/index.html The leader of Uighurs in exile on Wednesday voiced "utmost" skepticism after China said it smashed "terror cells" in their predominantly Muslim region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2962/1/Stuck-at-Guantanamo-Uighurs-demand-freedom/index.html A federal judge has ordered the release of 17 Uighurs, Chinese Muslims, from the Guantánamo detention camp. But they're still there, and on Monday they staged a protest for visiting journalists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2961/1/China-lashes-out-over-Gitmo-prisoner-request/index.html The Australian Government is facing a diplomatic quandary after China publicly opposed a US request for Australia to accept up to 10 Chinese Uighurs detained in Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2960/1/Challenges-if-Australia-accepts-Uighurs/index.html Australia faces diplomatic and legal challenges if it accepts Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay, an international law expert says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2959/1/Prisoned-Uighurs-quotprotest-at-Guantamoquot-/index.html Some prisoned Uighurs in illegal Guantanamo Bay staged silence protest, showing a sketchbooks written "Obama did not release us. Why?" to reporters. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2957/1/Yusuf-of-Balasagun-11th-Century-Political-Philosopher-from-Present-day-Kyrgyzstan-/index.html The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, with co-sponsors, Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic, the Uyghur American Association, and the Utah Valley University invite you to: “Yusuf of Balasagun: 11th Century Political Philosopher from Present-day Kyrgyzstan” . zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2953/1/Australia-should-grant-asylum-to-detainees-Greens/index.html Greens Senator Bob Brown says he is urging the Government to consider accepting a request from the United States to take in former Guantanamo Bay detainees. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2952/1/China-opposed-to-Uighurs-in-Australia-/index.html China remains strenuously opposed to Australia resettling a group of 10 Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2951/1/Uighurs-case-a-litmus-test-for-Australias-ties-with-China/index.html AUSTRALIA'S increasingly awkward relationship with China is likely to come under fresh strain, if the Rudd Government agrees to a request from US President Barack Obama to resettle 17 Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2950/1/Australia-Will-Consider-Guantanamo-Detainees-Case-by-Case-/index.html Australia is considering on a “case- by-case” basis a U.S. request to accept Guantanamo Bay detainees from China’s Uighur community, Foreign Minister Steven Smith said in an interview on Channel 10. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2949/1/Uighur-Muslims-detained-at-Gitmo-to-receive-web-PC-training/index.html These captives already get to order fast-food takeout from the base and have access to a phone booth for weekly calls. Now some 17 Uighur Muslims awaiting a nation to grant them asylum are about to go high-tech, with laptops and Web training. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2948/1/China-destroys-culture-Hong-Kong-cares/index.html The West’s admiration for China’s rush for wealth is becoming like the left’s interwar praise for Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. It is a triumph of materialism over humanity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2947/1/Justice-Dept-asks-Supreme-Court-to-reject-Uighurs-appeal/index.html The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to reject an appeal by Chinese Muslim dissidents who want to be brought to the United States after their release from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2946/1/Australia-pressed-to-take-Uighurs--/index.html US President Barack Obama has asked the Australian government to accept a group of Chinese Muslim detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay prison camp. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2945/1/Australia-Receives-White-House-Request-to-Accept-Uighur-Gitmo-Detainees/index.html Australia turned down two requests made by the Bush administration to accept Uigher detainees -- and is now being asked again by Obama to accept six of them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2944/1/Uighur-Muslims-from-China-get-tech-training-while-waiting-for-asylum-from-Guantanamo-camp/index.html Cuba-These captives already get to order fast-food takeout from the base and have access to a phone booth for weekly calls. Now some 17 Uighur Muslims awaiting a nation to grant them asylum are about to go high-tech, with laptops and web training. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2943/1/The-Destruction-of-Kashgar-and-the-Uighurs-Islamic-Culture/index.html A Chinese ethnic minority vendor at a handcrafts street in Kashgar, in China's far west. Kashgar was a hub of politics and commerce on the old silk road. It is now the site of a silent genocide. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2940/1/Beijings-cultural-vandalism-under-fire/index.html The New York Times has a must-read article on the planned demolition of Kashgar’s Old City by China’s ruling communist authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2938/1/Europe-Objects-Anew-to-Detainees/index.html The Obama administration's push to resettle at least 50 Guantanamo Bay prisoners in Europe is meeting fresh resistance as European officials demand that the United States first give asylum to some inmates before they will do the same. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2937/1/Chinese-Authorities-Secretly-Planning-to-Sentence-Alimujiang-Yimiti-to-Re-education-Through-Labor/index.html Government sources told the mother of imprisoned Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti that the Kashi Public Security Bureau (PSB) is secretly planning to sentence her son to three years of re-education through labor. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2936/1/To-Protect-an-Ancient-City-China-Moves-to-Raze-It/index.html A thousand years ago, the northern and southern branches of the Silk Road converged at this oasis town near the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2935/1/Uyghur-Gitmo-Detainees-Are-Peaceful-Men/index.html A group of 17 Uyghur men are being held at Guantanamo Bay for no reason according to the defense attorney for six of the men. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2933/1/Tom-Lantos-Human-Rights-Commissions-letter-to-President-Hu-Jintao-regarding-Ms-Kadeers-children/index.html Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission's letter to President Hu Jintao regarding Ms. Kadeer’s children. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2932/1/Chinas-final-frontier/index.html The remote, rebellious western provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang are China’s poorest, but they hold vast natural wealth which Beijing is determined to control. On a 3,000-mile trek I saw how far the government is bending the whole central Asian region to its will. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2929/1/California-Festival-Celebrates-Silk-Road-in-Music-Dance/index.html The music and dance of Iran, Afghanistan, China, and other stops along the ancient trade route known as the Silk Road were recently on display in California. The Festival of the Silk Road brought together immigrants and others to celebrate the cultures of the Eurasian trade route. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2926/1/Uyghur-Childrens-Identities-Changed-/index.html They're well cared for, staff say, but ethnic Uyghur children are required to assume Chinese identities in a Xinjiang orphanage. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2925/1/From-Albania-freed-Guantanamo-prisoner-watches-detainee-debate-unfold/index.html While President Barack Obama made his case Thursday for the transfer of Guantánamo Bay detainees, one of the terror camp's former prisoners was studying recipes in a restaurant kitchen here, doing his best to learn the chef skills that will support his new life in this new land. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2924/1/Free-the-Gitmo-60/index.html This month my Uighur clients began their eighth year in the Guantanamo Bay prison. Long ago they were cleared by both the military and our courts. They are neither our enemies, nor terrorists, nor criminals. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2923/1/Lawmakers-demand-Guantanamo-Uighurs-move-to-US/index.html lawmakers with President Barack Obama's Democratic Party appealed to let Uighurs locked up at Guantanamo Bay move to the United States, saying they were victims of injustice. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2922/1/US-officials-meeting-with-Uighur-detainees-in-Guantanamo/index.html In a prison camps first, the Obama administration Tuesday dispatched members of a detainee review team here to speak directly with 17 captives from China who were swept up in the war on terror and ultimately cleared of being enemies of America. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2921/1/Kashgars-Old-Town-Bulldozed-Is-Uyghur-Culture-in-Danger/index.html Within the narrow alleyways of this Old Town lie thousands of years of Kashgar’s history.  Aged wooden doors and cobblestone paths have witnessed the passage of innumerable donkey carts, small Uyghur children and, in recent times, many foreign tourists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2920/1/Meet-the-real-Uyghurs/index.html Newt Gingrich needs to read up before he defames my entire ethnic group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2918/1/A-roundtable-discussion-on-What-Democracy-Means-in-China-After-30-Years-of-Reform/index.html The Congressional-Executive Commission on China Invites you to a roundtable discussion on "What 'Democracy' Means in China After 30 Years of Reform" zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2917/1/Guantanamo-panel-calls-for-US-to-take-China-Uighurs/index.html The task force on Guantánamo Bay detainees set up by Barack Obama has recommended the release into the US of two Chinese Uighurs held at the prison, the Financial Times has learned. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2916/1/Uighurs-Fire-Back-At-Gingrich-From-Gitmo-quotWhy-Does-He-Hate-Us-So-Muchquot/index.html Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, detained for more than six years and counting at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, are firing back at Newt Gingrich, who has accused them of terrorist ties and says that releasing them into the United States would endanger the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2915/1/Prospect-of-Gitmo-prisoners-in-US-stokes-fears/index.html President Barack Obama is reaching out around the world to find new homes for Guantanamo Bay detainees. But he is running into trouble in his own backyard. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2914/1/German-Foreign-Minister-Opposes-Taking-Uighur-Guantanamo-Inmates/index.html The US wants Germany to take a group of nine Guantanamo inmates of Uighur origin. But now German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is getting cold feet -- he's worried that taking the Uighurs could cause a spat with China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2913/1/Steinmeier-against-accepting-Uighurs-from-Guantanamo/index.html Germany's foreign minister is opposed to his country accepting a group of Guantanamo prisoners of Uigher origin, telling a German news magazine that he's worried that taking them in will cause trouble with China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2912/1/Uyghur-Women-Block-Land-Grab/index.html Women belonging to an ethnic minority in northwestern China defend their land in a clash with officials who try to seize it for forced crop production. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2910/1/At-Hearing-Assurance-On-Fate-of-Detainees/index.html Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. assured Republican lawmakers yesterday that the Justice Department would not release any detainees whom he considered dangerous on U.S. soil. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2908/1/Diplomatic-memos-reveal-Chinese-effort-to-block-Guantanamo-prisoners-asylum-bid/index.html The US has cleared the Uighur prisoners at Gitmo of wrongdoing, but China calls them "terrorists." Seventeen Uighurs are seeking political asylum in Sweden, Canada, the US, and Germany. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2907/1/WILL-GERMANY-TAKE-GUANTANAMO-DETAINEES/index.html Berlin is being asked to take in nine Guantanamo inmates. So far the development is perceived as a first test of trans-Atlantic relations under President Barack Obama. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2906/1/Harper-enlists-activist-to-help-Celil/index.html The federal government has enlisted U.S. businessman turned activist John Kamm in efforts to secure the release of jailed Uyghur-Canadian Huseyin Celil and others in China, turning to more sophisticated approaches after years of fruitless efforts. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2905/1/Child-Labor-Alleged-at-Factory/index.html Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2904/1/Wolf-No-Gitmo-detainees-for-Virginia/index.html Rep. Frank R. Wolf on Monday reiterated his opposition to jailing and prosecuting Guantanamo Bay detainees in Alexandria, after a fellow Northern Virginia congressman said over the weekend he was open to the idea. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2903/1/Economist-Speaks-Out-Again/index.html A prominent Uyghur economist takes outspoken aim at the Chinese government's handling of his native Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2901/1/Uyghurs-Protest-Orchard-Sales/index.html In a new twist on land development tensions in China, authorities in Xinjiang are reclaiming orchards farmed by ethnic Uyghurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2899/1/From-exile-Kadeer-steps-up-Uighur-cause/index.html It was a summer day in 1999 when Rebiya Kadeer headed for an appointment with US congressional researchers, who had come to the city of Urumqi to probe the plight of China's Uighur minority. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2897/1/Holder-GOP-Spar-Over-Fate-of-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html Attorney General Eric Holder sparred with congressional Republicans Thursday over the future of inmates currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. Special correspondent Simon Marks reports on the arguments and focuses on the fate of a group of Muslims from China, known as Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2896/1/Swift-ruling-urged-on-Uighurs/index.html Lawyers for a detainee cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay but still there with no prospect of leaving have urged the Supreme Court to rule summarily — without written arguments or oral argument — that federal judges may order such detainees transferred to mainland U.S. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2895/1/GOP-ratchets-up-debate-over-releasing-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html Republicans on Thursday amped up opposition to President Barack Obama's plan to close the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay , even as Attorney General Eric Holder sought to reassure senators that the United States won't release anyone it considers a terrorist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2894/1/Uyghur-Group-Denies-Links/index.html Uyghur exiles assail Pakistan's decision to send a group of ethnic Uyghurs back to China, while a militant group says it has no ties with the men. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2893/1/Freedom-House-Condemns-Pakistan-China-for-Uighur-Extraditions/index.html Freedom House condemns Pakistan's recent decision to violate international law by handing over a group of Uighur exiles to the Chinese authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2891/1/Constitution-Project-Files-Brief-Urging-Supreme-Court-to-Hear-Uighur-Detention-Case-/index.html Today, the Constitution Project, along with other non-governmental organizations, filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to accept review of a case in which 17 Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs, seek release from Guantanamo now that they have been recognized not to be enemy combatants. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2890/1/Democrats-face-hard-time-over-Guantanamo/index.html Obama's decision to close the detention facility puts lawmakers on the hot seat as word spreads that some detainees could be relocated to the U.S. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2887/1/Germany-cannot-refuse-Guantanamo-inmates/index.html The United States has asked Berlin to accept Guantánamo Bay inmates. Some politicians are reluctant to do so, but Germany must help close this dark chapter for the West, argues Ludwig Greven from Zeit Online. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2884/1/German-politicians-split-on-Guantanamo-detainee-request/index.html Now that the US request for Germany to accept as many as 17 Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay is official, reaction from across the political spetrum has been mixed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2880/1/Germany-Asked-To-Take-Uyghurs/index.html Will Germany's exiled Uyghur community take in some of the Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2878/1/US-asks-Berlin-to-take-in-some-Guantanamo-Uighurs/index.html The United States has asked Germany to take in some of the 17 Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay prison for seven years and cleared for release by US authorities, a US official said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2877/1/China-razes-the-cradle-of-a-culture/index.html An old way of life is coming to a crashing end in north-western China with two-thirds of Kashgar’s Old City being bulldozed over the past few weeks under a government plan to “modernise” the area. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2875/1/Gates-defends-plan-to-accept-Chinese-detainees-in-US/index.html The Defense secretary says he expects opposition but that the U.S. needs to set an example. He says the Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay would face persecution if they were returned to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2874/1/Chinas-transformation-pictures-reveal-explosive-development-in-Xinjiang/index.html China's headlong rush for development over the last 20 years is often symbolised in the glittering new skylines of Beijing and Shanghai, but China's physical transformation is even more starkly revealed in its provincial cities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2872/1/US-asks-Germany-to-take-Guantanamo-inmates-German-government/index.html The United States has made a formal request to Germany to take in some prisoners held at its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, a spokesman for Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2867/1/Swedish-court-secures-ex-Guantanamo-Uighurs-asylum-quest/index.html Adil Hakimjan, the first freed Guantánamo prisoner to be granted asylum in Europe, says he is 'very happy.' President Obama called Friday for seven of the 17 remaining Uighurs at the prison to be released. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2866/1/Gates-Hints-That-Detainees-May-Be-Held-on-US-Soil/index.html Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested on Thursday that as many as 100 detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba would end up housed on American soil. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2865/1/Europe-Seen-Willing-To-Take-Detainees/index.html Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that he was "pleasantly surprised" at the willingness of some European allies to resettle prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and that the United States was close to making formal requests for European countries to accept specific prisoners. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2863/1/China-planning-new-airport-in-Taklimakan-Desert/index.html Chinese authorities are planning to construct a new airport in the country's largest desert, according to state news agency Xinhua. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2861/1/EU-Should-Help-Close-Guantanamo-by-Resettling-Detainees/index.html European countries should help the Obama administration close the Guantanamo Bay prison by offering to resettle some detainees who face torture at home, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2860/1/Holder-30-Gitmo-inmates-approved-for-release/index.html About 30 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared for release, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday as he tried to persuade European allies to take some of them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2859/1/Imprisoned-Christian-Alimujiang-Yimiti-Permitted-to-Meet-with-Attorney/index.html On April 21, imprisoned Uyghur Christian Alimujiang Yimiti was allowed to meet with his attorney Li Dunyong. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2858/1/Xinjiang-Man-Breaks-Tightrope-Walking-World-Record/index.html 25-year-old Ugihur Samit Ijon broke the world record for completing the steepest long-distance dawaz, or tightrope walking. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2854/1/Uphill-tightrope-walker/index.html A Uyghur high wire artist has completed a 700 metre long tightrope walk - uphill. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2851/1/Holder-close-to-making-decision-on-Gitmo-detainees/index.html The United States is "relatively close" to making decisions on what to do with an initial group of Guantanamo Bay detainees, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2844/1/Guantanamo-Uyghur-Detainees-Coming-to-America/index.html 17 Ethnic Uyghurs Originally from China Might Soon Enter the United States zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2843/1/Freed-from-Guantanamo-a-Uighur-clings-to-asylum-dreams-in-Sweden/index.html Adil Hakimjan, who spent more than four years in Guantánamo, is hoping to stay in Sweden. Although the country has granted him political asylum, the decision is being appealed and has come under fire from China, which considers Mr. Hakimjan and other Uighurs detained at Guantánamo to be domestic terrorists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2841/1/Top-US-lawmaker-opposes-Guantanamo-Uighur-release/index.html A top US lawmaker warned Friday against any release of Chinese ethnic Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay into the United States, urging the White House to "guarantee" the public's safety beforehand. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2840/1/US-plans-to-accept-several-Chinese-Muslims-from-Guantanamo/index.html The Obama administration is preparing to admit into the United States as many as seven Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in the first release of any of the detainees into this country, according to current and former U.S. officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2839/1/Chinas-Other-Minority-Seen-by-One-of-Its-Own/index.html It is the awkward fate of China, more than any other country, to be arriving late to any number of parties where most other revelers are either long gone or leaving, having declared the celebrations déclassé. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2834/1/The-blank-face-of-power-in-China/index.html The public face of the Communist Party of China has softened in many ways since the country began the long process of 'opening up', but in one particular regard it remains impassive, overbearing and, to my eyes, downright brutal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2825/1/US-targets-Uighur-independence-movement-head/index.html US Treasury said on Monday it had frozen the assets of Abdul Haq, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, which advocates establishing an independent state in East Turkistan and banned Americans from doing business with him. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2819/1/China-casts-wide-net-to-curb-terrorism/index.html The two men were marched into a public stadium in Kashgar on April 9, where 4,000 people watched as the final execution order was read out. They were then taken away and executed at an unknown location nearby. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2817/1/When-will-Mao-enter-the-props-cupboard-of-Chinese-history/index.html This from Urumqi in China's far western province of Xinjiang where I've come on a mission to explore a part of China which in many respects looks and feels more central Asian than Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2816/1/A-Chinese-Uighur-Making-Pizza-in-Albania/index.html A former Guantanamo inmate has built a new life for himself, working in an Italian-style snack bar in Albania, along with four of his fellow Uighur Muslims. He's become a spokesman of sorts, and he hopes to go into business for himself. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2815/1/Natural-disasters-to-plague-Xinjiang-Experts-/index.html Xinjiang is likely to suffer one or more major natural disasters in the coming ten to twenty years, and increasing urbanization and industrialization are adding to the risks, according to a research report by a team of experts from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2811/1/Uyghur-Jailed-for-Alleged-Separatism/index.html A member of a Muslim ethnic group in China has been sentenced to jail for separatism after informing friends abroad of a local protest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2807/1/Kazakhstan-China-in-negotiations-over-joint-ownership-of-major-Kazakh-energy-company/index.html China National Petroleum Corp. is in talks with Kazakhstan's state energy company on acquiring a 49 percent stake in the Central Asian country's fourth-largest oil producer, a KazMunaiGaz spokesman said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2801/1/Detained-Canadian-complains-of-illness/index.html Detained Canadian Huseyin Celil has been granted another meeting with his family in his remote northwest China prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2799/1/Kazakhs-China-in-talks-over-stake-in-oil-producer/index.html China National Petroleum Corp. is in talks with Kazakhstan's state energy company on acquiring a 49 percent stake in the Central Asian country's fourth-largest oil producer, a KazMunaiGaz spokesman said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2796/1/USA-Judicial-review-and-remedy-still-more-myth-than-reality-for-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html Ten months after the US Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bushthat the detainees held in US military custody at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba were entitled to a "prompt" habeas corpus hearing in District Court to determine the lawfulness of their detention, only a handful of them have received such a hearing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2797/1/Xitoy-ikki-uygurni-terrorda-ayblab-qatl-etgan/index.html O'tgan yili Olimpiya o'yinlari oldidan terroristik harakatlarda va 17 insonning o'limida gumon qilinib ushlangan va keyinchalik aybdor deb topilgan ikki uyg'ur 9 aprel kuni Xitoyda qatl etilgan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2789/1/Huge-coal-reserve-discovered-in-XinjiangXinhua/index.html China discovered a 3-billion-ton coal reserve at Aiding Lake in its northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2788/1/China-executes-two-Uighurs-in-E-Turkistan-in-disputed-attack/index.html China executed two Uighurs in East Turkistan after a court convicted them over a deadly attack on police in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2786/1/China-executes-2-for-attack-before-Olympics/index.html Two men were executed Thursday for an attack on police that killed 17 in northwestern China in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, state-run media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2782/1/Supreme-Court-is-urged-to-order-Uighurs-release-into-US/index.html The 17 Chinese Muslims were never deemed 'enemy combatants' and have been held at Guantanamo Bay without charge for more than seven years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2776/1/Chinese-Muslim-detainees-take-case-to-Supreme-Court/index.html A group of native Chinese Muslims asked the Supreme Court on Monday to order their release into the United States from American military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2775/1/Uighurs-ask-Supreme-Court-for-their-freedom/index.html Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay asked the Supreme Court on Monday to order their release into the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2770/1/Only-older-men-allowed-in-mosques/index.html It is Friday afternoon and the scene in front of the Jama mosque in the old city of Hotan, once a trading point for jade along the historic Silk Road, is much as it has been for centuries, save for the few cars and motorcycles fighting for space with the donkey carts laden with produce and travellers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2769/1/China-Cracks-Down-in-Muslim-West/index.html Activist says China closing Islamic schools, raiding homes in crackdown on restive Muslim west zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2768/1/Kashgars-old-city-the-politics-of-demolition/index.html The heart of Kashgar - a place where Uighur people have lived and worked for centuries - is being destroyed or transformed into a tourist theme-park, and its people resettled. In a pattern familiar in modern China no one has asked the Uighurs themselves, says Henryk Szadziewski. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2764/1/-Uyghur-Christian-Spy-Suffering-after-15-Months-in-Chinese-Prison/index.html A Uyghur Christian’s health is deteriorating rapidly in a Chinese prison where he has been held for over a year without trial. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2763/1/USEU-Help-Close-Guantanamo-by-Accepting-Some-Detainees/index.html The European Union should help the Obama administration close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by accepting some of the detainees who cannot return to their home countries because they would risk torture or other abuse, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2762/1/Hugo-Chavez-Send-us-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said his country would have 'no problem' taking Guantánamo detainees after they are released from custody. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2758/1/US-Asks-EU-To-Take-In-Former-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html The U.S. has "formally" asked the European Union to accept ex-detainees of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo and has promised to provide all necessary information, the E.U. commission said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2756/1/Uyghurs-Targeted-Over-Prayers/index.html Members of a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China are detained and fined for worshiping outside their own villages. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2753/1/Demolition-Plan-for-Kashgar/index.html Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have plans to redevelop traditional Uyghur homes in an historic Silk Road city. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2746/1/Innocent-detainees-need-a-home/index.html One of the most pressing issues the Obama administration will face when it closes the Guantanamo detention center is what to do with the 63 detainees cleared for release or transfer who cannot return home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2745/1/Chinese-Inmates-at-Guantanamo-Pose-a-Dilemma-/index.html Ilshat Hassan’s flight from China has brought refuge, a job at the consulting firm Booz Allen and an apartment in the Virginia suburbs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2744/1/After-Detention-Where-Can-the-Uighurs-Go/index.html As the Obama administration reviews detainee files in its move to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the case of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs, who have been held there for seven years without charges, remains a big stumbling block. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2743/1/Obama-panel-interviews-Muslim-from-China-at-Guantanamo/index.html In a prison camps first, the Obama administration Tuesday dispatched members of a detainee review team here to speak directly with 17 captives from China who were swept up in the war on terror and ultimately cleared of being enemies of America. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2742/1/Urgent-Concern-for-Health-and-Safety-of-Uyghur-Christian-Prisoner-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html Uyghur Christian, Alimujiang Yimiti, who has been imprisoned for his faith and held for more than one year in a Kashgar, Xinjiang detention center was seen Tuesday morning around 10 a.m. (local time) at Nongsanshi Hospital in Kashgar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2739/1/In-a-first-court-says-military-erred-in-a-Guantanamo-case/index.html A federal appeals court for the first time has rejected the military's designation of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2738/1/-Chinese-Regime-Tightens-Control-of-Uyghurs/index.html The World Uyghur Congress reported on March 30 that the Chinese regime has tighten its grip on Uyghurs in the Hetian area in Xinjiang Autonomous Region in an effort to prevent protest activities from occurring during the 60th anniversary of the so-called “peaceful liberation of Xinjiang.” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2734/1/Chinese-Nuclear-Tests-Allegedly-Cause-750000-Deaths-/index.html On March 18, Japanese professor Takada Jun revealed at a nuclear forum that the Chinese regime carried out 46 surface nuclear tests from 1964 to 1996, causing 750,000 civilian deaths in surrounding areas. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2733/1/Clocks-square-off-in-Chinas-far-west/index.html In Xinjiang province, the Muslim Uighur minority makes a point of observing its own time, not that of local Han Chinese, who adhere to Beijing's imposition of a single time for all of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2732/1/China-cracks-down-in-Muslim-west/index.html  An overseas rights activist said Monday that authorities in China's predominantly Muslim far west are closing unregistered Islamic schools and conducting house-to-house searches in a new security crackdown in the restive region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2731/1/PetroChina-Xinjiang-to-boost-oil-storage-by-60-pct/index.html PetroChina's (601857.SS)(PTR.N) (0857.HK) Xinjiang Oilfield Corporation has started an expansion that would boost its crude oil storage capacity by 60 percent by August 2010, a newspaper run by parent CNPC reported on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2724/1/CHINA-Historian-released-but-unable-to-travel/index.html Tohti Tunyaz, a Uighur historian and writer from China, was released last month after spending 11 years in prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2716/1/A-Letter-to-Barack-Obama-from-a-Guantanamo-Uighur/index.html There were once 22 Uighur prisoners in Guantánamo. Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province, they had all been swept up as human debris during "Operation Enduring Freedom," the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan that began in October 2001. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2715/1/Obamas-Migraine-/index.html Human rights lawyers are proving to be a major headache for the new administration of President Barack Obama by stepping up their court challenges on issues of prisoner abuse to test the reality of the president's pledge to create a "an unprecedented level of openness" in government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2714/1/Uyghur-Economist-Silenced-/index.html An outspoken economist from a Chinese minority group faces "unbelievable threats and pressure" to keep quiet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2712/1/TURKISH-BROADCASTER-LAUNCHES-NEW-TV-CHANNEL-FOR-TURKIC-REPUBLICS-/index.html Turkey's state-run television and radio broadcaster TRT launched on Saturday a new TV channel that would reach Turkic republics at a ceremony held in the Turkish capital, Ankara. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2707/1/Uygurs-upset-at-Kashgar-revamp-/index.html Beijing's plan to revamp the historic city of Kashgar in western Xinjiang has sparked concerns that it could jeopardise Uygur culture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2706/1/Munich-wants-to-welcome-the-Uighurs-of-Guantanamo-/index.html Asgar Can, president of the World Uighur Congress, standing between a Uighur (right) and a German flag: “We do not have the Dalai Lama, nor do we have Hollywood stars to defend our cause in all four corners of the world” zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2705/1/Silk-Road-city-under-threat-/index.html A plan by the Chinese government to demolish parts of the city of Kashgar has drawn criticism from an exiled leader of the Uighur community, who has accused Beijing of destroying the Muslim minority's culture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2703/1/Release-of-Uyghur-detainees-in-US-will-prompt-only-temporary-Chinese-protest/index.html Alim Seytoff : "If the United States chooses to accept the Uyghur detainees and resettle them in the US, the only thing China can do is to loudly protest such a decision by the Obama Administration." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2701/1/Muslim-exile-blasts-Chinas-demolition-plans/index.html A Chinese plan to demolish parts of the Silk Road city of Kashgar has drawn opposition from an exiled Uighur leader, who accused Beijing Wednesday of destroying the Muslim minority's culture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2695/1/An-Ancient-Culture-Bulldozed-Away/index.html For hundreds of years, Uighur shopkeepers have been selling bread and firewood along the edges of Kashgar's old town to families whose ancestors bought their traditional mud-brick homes with gold coin and handed them down through the generations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2694/1/China-Bulldozes-Uighur-Identity-/index.html After security crackdowns and religious repression, Chinese bulldozers are now targeting Muslim Uighurs' centuries-old city which symbolizes the identity they have preserved for hundreds of years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2691/1/-Les-Ouigours-vivent-comme-des-animaux-/index.html C’était le 25 février dernier, aux abords de la place Tiananmen, au centre de Pékin. Un couple et leur fils tentaient de s’immoler en mettant le feu à leur véhicule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2686/1/Chinese-Muslims-at-Guantanamo-to-Petition-Supreme-Court--/index.html President Obama recently reaffirmed his intention to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within a year. But lawyers for Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo are not waiting, and plan to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene on their clients' behalf. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2684/1/Chinese-soldier-shot-dead-outside-camp-in-Chongqing/index.html Chinese officials say they are investigating the attack as possible terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2681/1/Munich-fights-to-welcome-the-Uighurs-of-Guantanamo/index.html The Uighurs -- members of a Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority from China -- were captured in Afghanistan but since cleared of any wrongdoing by Washington. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2680/1/Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-and-Mr-Alim-Seytoff-Attend-the-Memorial-Gathering-of-Congressman-Tom-Lantos/index.html Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur democracy leader, and Mr. Alim Seytoff, UAA General Secretary, attended the Memorial Gathering Remembering the Life of Congressman Tom Lanton at the Congressional Cemetery Chapel in Washington, DC on February 1, 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2679/1/Ireland-to-accept-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen has said Ireland will accept a number of Guantánamo inmates for resettlement, despite growing reservations in several EU countries about taking in the detainees. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2678/1/Guantanamodagi-uygurlar-yaqin-kunlarda-ozod-etilishi-mumkin/index.html AQSh Adliya vaziri Erik Xolderning aytishicha, 2001 yildan beri Guantanamoda saqlanayotgan uyg'ur mahbuslar taqdiri yaqin kelajakda hal etiladi va ular vaqtincha Amerikadan panoh topishi mumkin. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2672/1/Guantanamo-Detainees-May-Be-Released-in-US-/index.html Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2665/1/Some-Guantanamo-prisoners-could-be-released-in-US-/index.html Some of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners could be released into the United States while others could be put on trial in the American court system, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2662/1/Munich-wants-Chinese-Gitmo-detainees/index.html The German city of Munich, best known for Bayern Munich, lederhosen and the Oktoberfest beer festival, is also home to the world's largest community of Uighurs, an ethnic minority from China's extreme west. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2661/1/China-jails-two-Uighurs-over-protests-exile-group-says/index.html China sentenced two members of its Uighur minority to long prison terms after convicting them of staging protests in the far western city of Khotan, a US-based Uighur support group reported on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2659/1/China-jails-2-ethnic-minorities-for-protests/index.html Authorities in China's far west Muslim minority region have sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for organizing nonviolent rallies and another to eight years imprisonment for raising a separatist flag, an overseas advocacy group said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2658/1/ChinaAid-Receives-Letter-from-Wife-of-Christian-Prisoner-Alimujiang-Yimiti/index.html According to an inside source, the case of Alimujiang Yimiti, a Uyghur Christian whom authorities have held in detention since January 12, 2008 for preaching Christianity, has been sent to  a Communist Party committee at the highest government level in Xinjiang Uyghur Antonymous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2650/1/Plight-of-the-Uighurs/index.html US courts have ruled that the Uighurs should be freed and the pentagon no longer considers them "enemy combatants". However, the 17 Chinese Muslims held in Guantanamo remain stuck there. Riz explores the plight of the Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2641/1/China-starts-work-on-third-West-East-gas-pipeline/index.html China, the world's second-biggest energy consumer, started initial construction of its third gas pipeline connecting the remote west to the country's eastern cities to meet future demand for the cleaner-burning fuel. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2644/1/Beijing-on-alert-against-revolts-in-Tibet-and-Xinjiang/index.html Accusations of separatism against the Dalai Lama and the Uyghurs. Soldiers, policemen, security personnel on the increase to prevent any attempts at uprising. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2636/1/QA-Gitmo-Uighurs-Highlight-a-Complex-Ethnic-Problem/index.html Although United States President Barack Obama was quick to order the closure of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay soon after assuming office, the question of what to do with the roughly 175 current inmates who are unlikely to be prosecuted by the U.S. remains. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2633/1/Uyghur-Moderate-Speaks-Out/index.html While China has accused Uyghur "separatists" of fomenting unrest in Xinjiang, an economics professor in Beijing says: Give them jobs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2631/1/China-warns-on-Xinjiang-stability-/index.html Maintaining stability in restive Xinjiang will be a more difficult task this year, a top Chinese official says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2630/1/Three-people-in-Beijing-self-immolation-bid-have-quotunreasonable-demandsquot/index.html The three people from Xinjiang who set themselves on fire in downtown Beijing last month took the extreme action after their "unreasonable demands" were refused, the regional governor said here Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2629/1/In-China-stark-reminders-of-ethnic-unrest/index.html In a stark reminder of the ethnic unrest facing China, a top leader from Tibet said Friday more security troops were needed while Muslim-majority Xinjiang warned 2009 would be a "severe" year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2623/1/Clinton-very-encouraged-by-EU-stance-on-Guantanamo-inmates/index.html US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that she was very encouraged by the position of European nations on hosting inmates from Guantanamo prison, which Washington has moved to close. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2607/1/For-20-at-Guantanamo-Court-Victories-Fall-Short/index.html Since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in June giving Guantánamo detainees a constitutional right to have federal judges review their imprisonment, 23 of the men have been declared in court not to be enemies of the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2606/1/China-fire-protesters-were-Uighurs/index.html Three family members who set themselves on fire in a car in Beijing Wednesday were Uighurs, an ethnic group from China's far-western frontier, who had come to the capital to petition lawmakers, a source told Reuters. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2605/1/3-in-China-pulled-from-burning-car-near-Tiananmen-Square/index.html Beijing downplays the idea that they were staging a political protest. Citizens quickly snap cellphone photos and speculate that the three may be Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2604/1/Beijing-police-covering-up-news-about-three-people-setting-themselves-on-fire/index.html The identity of the three people is being withheld to avoid suggestions about possible motives, like an extreme attempt to protest against rights violations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2598/1/Xinjiang-Chinas-mountain-of-gold-deposits/index.html Recently, you read that China will soon overtake India in gold consumption as the surge in gold buying continuted in the dragon country in 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2597/1/Pentagon-urges-resolving-fate-of-Guantanamo-Uighurs/index.html A Pentagon report on Monday said the US government needed to move quickly to help arrange the transfer of Chinese Uighurs held at Guantanamo prison who have been cleared of wrongdoing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2595/1/Should-Judges-Control-US-Immigration-Policy/index.html CIS Report Examines Assault on Political Control over Immigration zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2590/1/Retired-Judge-in-Xinjiang-Detained-for-Advocating-Health-Rights-of-Veterans/index.html CHRD learned today that Huang Yunmin, a retired judge in Xinjiang who has advocated for the health-related rights of veterans, has been detained on suspicion of "possession of guns" since February 10. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2580/1/Obamas-Uighur-Headache-In-Guantanamo/index.html The United States is still trying to figure out what to do with the detainees from China who have been cleared. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2579/1/Well-Let-You-Go-As-Long-As-You-Settle-Somewhere-Other-Than-Earth/index.html On Wednesday a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously overturned a federal judge's order telling the government to release 17 Uighur Muslims from China who have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 and allow them to settle in the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2578/1/Kashgar-Uyghurs-Pressured-To-Shave/index.html Authorities in China’s westernmost city of Kashgar are stepping up pressure on government employees to go clean-shaven, and the city’s large ethnic Uyghur population, whose adult males overwhelmingly sport moustaches, aren’t happy about it, residents say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2577/1/US-China-Debate-Over-Uighur-Gitmo-Detainees/index.html Efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to close down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay came under more pressure Wednesday, as a federal appeals court overturned a district court ruling that would have released 17 Chinese Muslim detainees into the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2576/1/Barack-Obamas-Uighur-Problem-/index.html It's now up to Obama to decide whether to find homes for the Uighurs in the U.S., or to keep them at Gitmo until further notice. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2572/1/USA-Right-to-an-effective-remedy----Administration-should-release-Guantanamo-Uighurs-into-the-USA-now/index.html On 18 February 2009, a US federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling issued four months earlier ordering the release into the USA of 17 Uighurs held without charge at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 17 men have been held in the base for more than seven years, with most of them cleared for release since 2003. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2570/1/Free-the-Uighurs/index.html They lose one in court. They should win in the White House. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2568/1/Bad-News-And-Good-News-For-The-Guantanamo-Uighurs/index.html First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China’s oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in May 2006, has had his asylum claim accepted by the Swedish government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2567/1/Chinese-Muslims-stay-stranded-at-Guantanamo/index.html Federal appeals court reverses an order that the 17 men be released into the US. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2566/1/Appeals-Court-Stops-Release-of-17-Detainees-in-US-/index.html The federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday unanimously overturned a judge’s order that would have freed 17 detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, into the United States, adding a new complication to the Obama administration’s efforts to close the prison there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2565/1/Chinese-Muslims-may-remain-at-Guantanamo-court-rules/index.html The U.S. is allowed to hold the 17 Uighurs even though they are no longer considered dangerous, a federal appeals court says, reversing an earlier decision. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2563/1/Uyghurs-still-in-limbo-after-ruling/index.html A US court has refused to release 17 Chinese ethnic Uyghurs detained at Guantanamo Bay into the US, spelling more legal limbo for the men cleared by Washington of "war on terror" allegations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2562/1/Court-Reverses-Ruling-Bringing-17-Detainees-to-US/index.html A federal appeals court this morning blocked the release into the United States of a small band of Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2561/1/Uighur-detainees-at-Guantanamo-pose-a-problem-for-Obama/index.html The administration, already viewed with suspicion by Beijing, doesn't want to send the soon-to-be-freed ethnic separatists back to China -- which is demanding just that. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2560/1/Sweden-accepts-ex-Guantanamo-man/index.html Sweden has agreed to give asylum to a Chinese Muslim man who was held at Guantanamo Bay for almost five years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2559/1/Xinjiangs-gold-output-to-continue-to-increase/index.html Xinjiang's gold output will maintain a momentum of continuous growth, and is expected to exceed 9 tons in 2009, according to news form Xinjiang Daily. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2558/1/Obama-visit-to-Canada-puts-spotlight-on-Guantanamo---Refile-/index.html Human rights and church groups in Canada are hoping that US President Barack Obama would raise the issue of Guantanamo prisoners with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday during his six-hour visit to Ottawa. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2557/1/-Guantanamo-Bay-release-overturned/index.html A US federal appeals court has rejected the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees onto US soil, reports say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2555/1/Congresswoman-Ileana-Ros-Lehtinen-Urges-Secretary-Clinton-to-raise-Uyghur-issue-in-Beijing/index.html Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prior to her departure to Asia and urged her to raise the forcible transfer of Uyghur women into eastern China when she visits Beijing and consider meeting with Uyghur Democracy Leader Ms. Rebiya Kadeer regarding Uyghur human rights situation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2549/1/Four-easy-steps-to-shut-down-Guantanamo-this-year/index.html Everyone knows that President Obama issued an executive order his first week in office to close the prison at Guantanamo within a year. While many have opined on the difficulties of handling the approximately 245 remaining detainees, here is a four-step recommendation for what needs to be done. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2545/1/Italy-may-take-Guantanamo-inmates-/index.html Sassari, February 13 - Italy could meet a US request to take some inmates from Guantanamo, the controversial US prison President Barack Obama is closing this year, Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2541/1/China-Official-Cites-Failed-Meeting-of-Independence-Movement-/index.html Advocates of independence in the vast western region of Xinjiang recently passed out fliers in four universities calling students to a pro-independence meeting, according to Wang Lequan, the party secretary of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2540/1/Church-groups-offer-to-sponsor-detainees-from-Guantanamo-Bay/index.html The Canadian Council for Refugees is demanding the federal government give sanctuary to five detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay who do not face charges but could be in danger if returned home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2539/1/Jailed-Uyghur-Scholar-Offered-Job/index.html Chinese authorities offer a jailed Uyghur scholar and his wife jobs if they will stay in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2536/1/Uyghur-Historian-Released-From-Prison-/index.html Uyghur historian Tohti Tunyaz completed his 11-year sentence for "inciting splittism" and "unlawfully obtaining state secrets" on February 10, 2009, and he has since been released from prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2532/1/Govt-of-Canada-statement-at-UN-Human-Rights-Council-Geneva/index.html "Canada is deeply concerned about reports of arbitrary detention of ethnic minorities members, including Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongols, as well as religious believers, including Falun Gong practitioners, without information about their charges, their location and wellbeing." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2530/1/Uyghur-to-be-freed-after-11-yrs-in-China-jail/index.html An Uyghur man imprisoned for 11 years in China after temporarily visiting the country from Japan where he was studying as a graduate student was set to complete his sentence Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2525/1/No-Gitmos-Need-Apply/index.html Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg called on EU governments to help the new administration of US President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba  known as Gitmo by the military  and to consider hosting some of the detainees, who would face torture if sent back home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2523/1/Freed-Uighur-praises-Obama-slams-China-on-Guantanamo---/index.html Abu Bakker Qassim, a Chinese Muslim freed from Guantanamo, says his joy at Barack Obama's prompt decision to close the US prison has been soured by Beijing's insistence that he's a "terrorist." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2521/1/Get-Uighur-with-it/index.html "The inspiration for Italian spaghetti" is the proud boast made by Uighur restaurants the world over. From Sydney to New York and now in Moscow, eateries specializing in this little-known Central Asian cuisine claim it was the Uighurs' lagman noodles that Marco Polo took back to Venice after his 13th century travels along the Silk Road to China - a souvenir that was copied, resulting in the Italian pasta classic. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2519/1/Guantanamo-inmates-pose-challenge-for-Europe/index.html Having pledged to provide shelter for up to 60 former detainees, the EU now faces a thorny set of questions: Where exactly should they go? Who pays? What happens to them now? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2518/1/World-cities-compete-for-Gitmos-Uyghur-prisoners/index.html The German city of Munich added its name Friday to communities offering to welcome members of the Chinese minority Uyghur group detained at Guantanamo Bay — presenting possible alternatives to Canada as activists press Ottawa to accept at least three. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2517/1/Ethnic-Tensions-in-Xinjiangs-Internet-Cafes/index.html Internet cafes in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are becoming a new setting for confrontations between Uyghurs and Han Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2516/1/Munich-Willing-To-Accept-Guantanamo-Uighurs-/index.html Munich's municipal council is backing a motion submitted by the Green party to host 17 members of the Chinese minority held at Guantanamo Bay. The controversial offer still has to be approved by the Chancellor. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2512/1/Closing-time/index.html Obama has announced plans to shut down Guantanamo. But what will happen to the men inside? Joshua Kurlantzick on the plight of 22 Uighur detainees trapped in a legal limbo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2511/1/Dont-accept-Uyghurs-China-tells-Canada/index.html China urged Canada on Thursday not to take in up to three members of its Uyghur minority held at Guantanamo Bay, saying the issue should be solved according to international law. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2510/1/Amnesty-asks-Harper-to-bring-Khadr-home/index.html  Amnesty International has written an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling for the repatriation of Canadian Omar Khadr from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2509/1/Kenney-ponders-special-permits-for-Guantanamo-held-Uyghurs/index.html Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is looking at the possibility of accepting several Chinese Muslims being held at Guantanamo Bay, without setting a precedent for several other detainees at the U.S. military camp who would like to settle in Canada. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2506/1/-The-Tom-Lantos-Human-Rights-Commission-Urges-President-Obama-to-Tackle-Chinas-Human-Rights-at-the-UN/index.html The Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission James P. McGovern along with other ranking members have sent a letter to President Obama, highlighting the importance of the U.S. involvement at the UN Human Rights Council, especially in the upcoming Universal Periodic Review of China, which will take place on February 09. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2505/1/Chairman-Bill-Delahunt-Urges-President-Obama-to-Consider-Resettling-Guantanamo-Uyghurs-in-the-US/index.html Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Organization, Human Rights and Oversight Bill Delahunt has sent a letter to President Obama, urging his Administration to consider resettling the 17 Uyghur detainees at Guantanamo in the U.S. Chairman Delahunt states in his letter, "Taking the Uighur detainees would demonstrate that a new era has indeed arrived." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2504/1/MEPs-urge-EU-Guantanamo-promise-/index.html The European Parliament has urged EU member states to help the US shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp by accepting some detainees. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2503/1/Canada-close-to-accepting-three-Gitmo-detainees-/index.html Canada is close to accepting three Uyghur men who have been held at Guantanamo Bay for seven years despite being cleared of any wrongdoing by the United States, The Globe and Mail has learned. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2502/1/3-Uighurs-at-Guantanamo-ask-Canada-for-asylum-/index.html Three Chinese detainees cleared for release from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have applied for political asylum in Canada, lawyers for the men and a group sponsoring them said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2498/1/Guantanamo-Bay---Should-Germany-Accept-Prisoners-When-The-US-Detention-Camp-Closes/index.html Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has signalled that his country would be willing to accept former Guantanamo inmates, for instance Muslim Uygurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2497/1/Guantanamo-detainees-seeking-to-come-live-in-Canada-/index.html With the pending shutdown of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, six detainees have applied for resettlement in Canada, including three Uyghurs who have been cleared of all charges. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2496/1/16000-more-bilingual-teachers-trained-for-elementary-schools--/index.html The Xinjiang autonomous region will train a further 16,000 bilingual teachers for elementary schools over the next six years, the Xinjiang Education Bureau announced.Zhao De Zhong, an official with the bureau, said the central government set up the national Uygur-Mandarin teaching plan in 2003. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2495/1/US-campaigners-seek-release-of-17-Chinese-Uighers-in-Guantanamo/index.html Campaigners in the United States are pushing for the release of 17 Chinese Uighurs who are being held in Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2493/1/Will-the-US-adjust-life-at-Guantanamo-for-detainees/index.html President Obama's recent order to bring Guantánamo into full compliance with international law requires US officials to make a fundamental judgment about the difference between mere detention and punishment. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2492/1/Canada-preferred-destination-for-6-Gitmo-detainees/index.html Detainees include 3 Chinese Muslims which the Middle Kingdom wants returned zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2487/1/Uyghur-Petitioner-Turned-Away-in-Beijing/index.html A Uyghur farmer talks about his struggle against forced crop production in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2486/1/Long-Cleared-of-Terrorism-Charges-Uyghurs-Languish-in-Gitmo-Prison-and-Albanian-Exile/index.html Uyghur prisoners at Guantanamo have long been determined to be not guilty of terrorism. But seventeen of these ethnic Muslim Chinese are still imprisoned at Guantanamo after almost eight years. Five were forcibly resettled in Albania, isolated and away from their families. We speak with their lawyer, Sabin Willett, and PBS FRONTLINE reporter Alexandra Poolos, who has followed their story for a new report. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2483/1/East-Turkestan-Swiss-to-back-Uyghurs-in-UPR-China/index.html On the eve of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) which the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is to undergo in the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in early February 2009, representatives of UNPO and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) seek diplomatic support in Geneva, Switzerland to highlight their case during the 3 hour state examination of the human rights record of PRC which is scheduled to take place on Friday 9 February 2009. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2480/1/Former-capitol-staffer-heads-across-the-Pacific/index.html Most Capitol staffers are kept more than busy enough by their day jobs. But last year, while serving as legislative director for Assemblyman Guy Houston, Keith Ochwat moonlighted managing a documentary project being filmed in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2478/1/A-look-at-the-Tsaatan-Mongolias-Reindeer-People-/index.html A long time ago, a small group of people from the province of neighboring Tuva migrated to  modern-day Mongolia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2476/1/Albania-Getting-Out-of-Gitmo/index.html The story of how two dozen Uyghurs ended up in the Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 through the life of five Uyghur detainees released in to Albania. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2474/1/17-Uighur-detainees-held-at-Guantanamo/index.html Seventeen ethnic Uighurs, in their seventh year of indefinite military detention in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, remain there nearly four months after a federal judge ruled that their continued detention was unlawful and ordered their release into the USA. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2470/1/US-EUROPE--Few-Welcome-Mats-for-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html International human rights groups have expressed mixed reactions to the European Union's lukewarm pledge to accept some detainees from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay once the facility closes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2468/1/Two-Young-Uyghurs-Detained-for-Distributing-Leaflets-Calling-for-Student-Demonstration-/index.html Authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) capital of Urumqi have detained two young Uyghur men for distributing leaflets on a university campus calling on students to organize a public demonstration. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2467/1/EU-debates-allowing-in-Guantanamo-inmates/index.html European governments yesterday took the first steps towards helping Barack Obama to close down Guantánamo Bay, by discussing whether and how EU countries could take in dozens of inmates from the detention camp. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2466/1/EU-Foreign-Ministers-Unenthusiastic-About-Accepting-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html Some European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels Monday were unenthusiastic about accepting former detainees from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba once the Obama administration makes good its promise to close the facility. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2463/1/EU-makes-no-Guantanamo-commitment/index.html European Union countries want to help the US close its Guantanamo Bay prison camp, but will not yet commit to accepting detainees, EU ministers say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2462/1/Uighurs-lawyers-urge-immediate-release/index.html Lawyers for 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees who are members of a long-persecuted Chinese Muslim minority urged leaders of the new Obama Administration on Friday to order the immediate release of the prisoners, to live at least temporarily in the U.S. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2460/1/France-reportedly-has-Gitmo-plan/index.html The French government proposes European Union countries provide homes for 60 inmates from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo, officials said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2458/1/Thousands-displaced-by-quake-in-Xinjiang-China/index.html Thousands of people have been made homeless by an earthquake on Sunday in remote Qapqal, in China's far western region of Xinjiang near the Kazakh border, the Xinhua news agency said on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2455/1/Former-prisoners-look-for-safe-haven-in-US/index.html Kahar Barat, a Muslim Uighur from western China, believes the quiet cul-de-sac where he lives with his 77-year-old mother in Virginia is the ideal transitionary place for at least one of the 17 Uighur detainees who are expected to be released soon from Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2454/1/Chinese-Detainees-at-US-Guantanamo-Prison-Appeal-for-Release/index.html Seventeen Chinese Uighurs being held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, asked to be released immediately now that President Barack Obama has ordered the prison camp there closed within a year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2453/1/White-House-cant-imagine-returning-Uighurs-to-China/index.html President Barack Obama's administration said Thursday it could not imagine returning Muslim Uighurs held in Guantanamo Bay to China and said no inmate would be sent to a nation where they may face persecution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2440/1/AUSTRALIA-Refusing-to-Resettle-Gitmo-Inmates/index.html Australia's rejection of Bush administration requests to accept a number of detainees currently held at the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, although supported in some quarters, is also being opposed in others. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2438/1/Ministers-open-to-resettling-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html Barack Obama expected to close camp; innocent detainees unable to return home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2437/1/France-should-consider-taking-in-Guantanamo-prisoners-Kouchner/index.html Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner wants France to consider taking in prisoners from the US Guantanamo detention camp that president-elect Barack Obama plans to shut down, a spokesman said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2436/1/Chinas-most-wanted/index.html THE 17 Guantanamo Bay inmates Washington wants to send Australia as it closes down its controversial camp for suspected terrorists are high on China's most-wanted list. They are Uyghurs, members of the nine-million-strong group of Turkic Muslims - some of them sandy-haired and blue-eyed - who live in the arid northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang, which is about the size of Queensland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2429/1/Xinjiang-official-vows-to-keep-fighting-terrorism/index.html People in China's Xinjiang Ugyur autonomous region should take the fight against terrorism, separatism and religious extremism resolutely because it is going to be a long-term battle, a top regional official said on Jan 7. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2427/1/-Closing-Gitmo-requires-tough-judgments-on-inmates/index.html President-elect Barack Obama's planned review of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, a prelude to closing the detention center, must weigh the threats posed by an extraordinarily diverse group, from die-hard jihadists to innocent men swept up in war. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2426/1/Court-no-review-of-enemy-combatant-designation/index.html A federal appeals court said Friday it would not review the "enemy combatant" designation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2423/1/Seven-Years-Of-Guantanamo-And-A-Call-For-Justice-At-Bagram/index.html On Sunday 11 January, just nine days before the administration of George W. Bush hands over the reins of power to Barack Obama, the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo — perhaps the most bleakly iconic symbol of the outgoing administration’s hubris — marks its seventh anniversary. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2422/1/Islamic-Council-calls-for-acceptance-of-Gitmo-inmates/index.html The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils is urging the Federal Government to grant asylum to some former Guantanamo Bay inmates. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2421/1/Asylum-plea-for-Guantanamo-Uyghurs/index.html Leaders of the Australian Uyghur community yesterday called on Canberra to grant asylum to their 17 kinsmen detained in Guantanamo Bay, many of whom have families already settled here. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2420/1/China-linked-to-Kevin-Rudds-rebuff-of-George-Bushs-Guantanamo-Bay-plan/index.html The Rudd Government denied a request from the Bush administration to resettle 17 Chinese locked up in Guantanamo Bay military prison after a number of warnings from Beijing not to take the former terror suspects. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2419/1/Uyghurs-Rally-for-Sick-Child/index.html The family of a sick girl in an impoverished part of China has received financial assistance for her medical treatment from a group of musicians holding a benefit concert on her behalf. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2418/1/Chinese-Stranglehold-on-East-Turkestan/index.html Almost 1300 people were arrested in the western region of Xinjiang between January and November of 2008 accused of “endangering state security”, of whom 1,154 were indicted. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2411/1/Free-but-homeless-after-Guantanamo-/index.html On taking office, US President-elect Barack Obama is expected to quickly push for the closure of Guantanamo Bay - and the release of 60 detainees. But as the plight of ex-inmate Adel Hakimjan, a Chinese Uighur, shows it will not be an easy solution, writes the BBC's Michael Buchanan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2399/1/British-students-fined-for-illegal-map-making-in-China/index.html Two British students have been fined for illegally carrying out a survey and making maps in the restive Chinese province of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2398/1/Australia-Says-No-to-Taking-Gitmo-Detainees/index.html Despite previous reports that Australia was offering to take some Guantanamo Bay detainees, the government says it has refused two U.S. resettlement requests. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2397/1/-Finland-Considers-Offering-Asylum-to-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html Finland is to begin discussions this week on whether to offer asylum to former terrorist suspects detained at the Guantánamo prison in Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2396/1/Xinjiang-becomes-second-largest-crude-oil-producer-in-China/index.html In 2008, Xinjiang produced 27.4 million tons of crude oil, up one million tons from the previous year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2393/1/Leading-Chinese-academy-says-Lop-Nur-disappeared-in-1962--/index.html A leading Chinese academy says Lop Nur, the former lake believed to nurture the ancient Loulan (Kroraina) civilization along the Silk Road, evaporated in 1962. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2378/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-Remain-In-Limbo/index.html At Camp Iguana, 17 Muslims from China taken captive in Afghanistan seven years ago now get Pepsi, ping-pong and a 42-inch plasma screen for sports and religious videos. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2377/1/Exiled-Muslim-tycoon-pays-price-for-criticizing-China/index.html Some of China's favorite adjectives for Rebiya Kadeer, an exiled leader of China's ethnic Uighur minority, are "terrorist" and "separatist monster." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2376/1/Uyghur-group-hails-European-moves-to-take-Gitmo-detainees/index.html The Uyghur American Association welcomed Tuesday indications that European governments were willing to resettle Guantanamo Bay detainees if the US closed the military prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2375/1/More-EU-States-Willing-to-Accept-Freed-Guantanamo-Inmates/index.html A growing number of European Union countries are reportedly interested in helping US President-elect Obama meet his promises to close Guantanamo Bay by taking in inmates from the controversial detention camp. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2374/1/Resettlement-in-Germany-Could-Work-Say-Ministers/index.html Germany is the second EU nation to suggest it could resettle Guantanamo prisoners, if President-elect Obama is serious about closing the camp. European cooperation is seen as a prerequisite to shutting the facility down. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2373/1/European-Countries-May-Take-Detainees/index.html European nations have begun intensive discussions both within and among their governments on whether to resettle detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a significant overture to the incoming Obama administration, according to senior European officials and U.S. diplomats. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2370/1/German-Official-Urges-Berlin-to-Accept-Guantanamo-Inmates/index.html The human rights envoy for the German government has urged Berlin to help US President-Elect Obama meet his promise to close the controversial prison camp Guantanamo Bay by taking in innocent inmates. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2369/1/Germany-would-consider-taking-in-Guantanamo-prisoners/index.html Germany said Monday it would consider taking foreign inmates from Guantanamo if the United States closes its "War on Terror" jail. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2367/1/German-official-moots-accepting-Guantanamo-inmates/index.html The German government has signalled it is willing to help US President-Elect Obama make good on his promise to close the controversial terrorist prison camp Guantánamo Bay by taking in inmates. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2366/1/Urgent-Call-for-International-Attention-of-Three-Christians-in-Prison-in-Xinjiang/index.html ChinaAid issues an urgent call to the international press, government leaders and concerned individuals around the world to intercede on behalf of Christian prisoners in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2365/1/Italy-has-not-been-asked-to-accept-Guantanamo-detainees/index.html Italy has not been asked to accept prisoners held in the United States military base at Guantanamo, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Tuesday as Washington announced it was ready to release three detainees. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2364/1/Two-Uighurs-Sentenced-to-Death-for-Xinjiang-Police-Assault/index.html A court in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang has sentenced two men to death for an attack in August that killed 17 paramilitary officers, according to a report on Wednesday by Xinhua, the state news agency. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2363/1/Move-May-Help-Shut-Guantanamo-Camp/index.html In a diplomatic breakthrough that is likely to help the Obama administration close the Guantánamo detention camp, Portugal said this week that it was willing to resettle some detainees and urged other European countries to accept prisoners remaining at the camp, which has been a source of international criticism for nearly seven years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2353/1/China-to-teach-Uighur-children-quotethnic-unityquot/index.html "Chinese" children will study "ethnic unity" from primary school, the Education Ministry said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2352/1/UNPO-Treasurer-Calls-for-Italian-Government-to-Receive-Guantanamo-Uyghurs-/index.html Senator Marco Perduca, treasurer of the UNPO has tabled a parliamentary question to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs about the future of Guantanamo Bay prisoners. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2349/1/Panel-Celebrates-Human-Rights-Anniversary/index.html In 1999, Chinese police seized activist Rebiya Kadeer on her way to meet with American congressional staffers, and swiftly charged and convicted her of sharing state secrets. She spent the next five years as a political prisoner. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2347/1/Harvard-Shelters-Eastern-Scholar/index.html Matkasim Beydulla’s July 2005 wedding was relatively traditional. After the exchange of vows, Mettursun Beydulla, the groom’s brother, helped the newlywed ceremonially bring his new wife to his parents’ house. But when 30-year-old Metursun Beydulla stepped out of the car at home, he was promptly arrested by the Chinese police. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2345/1/EU-Accept-Portugals-Call-to-Take-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html First Formal Call for Resettlement From an EU Government zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2344/1/Uyghur-Students-Beaten-by-Police-/index.html Authorities at a top university in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao are talking to police after the alleged beating of five ethnic minority Uyghur students. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2343/1/US-diplomat-praises-Portugal-offer-on-Guantanamo-/index.html An offer by Portugal to take in detainees released from Guantanamo Bay will bring the U.S. closer to its goal of closing the offshore military prison, an American diplomat said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2340/1/Amnesty-International-Urgent-Action-on-Abdushukur-Qurban/index.html Abdushukur Qurban, an ethnic Uighur and father of three, was detained on 21 November in Penjim Township, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2339/1/Newspapers-vanish-from-Xinjiang-/index.html I visited Xinjiang before the Olympics when there was a series of attacks on the police in Kashgar, Kashi and at a checkpoint in Akesu. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2336/1/Why-Wont-the-Bush-Administration-Release-the-Uighur-Prisoners-at-Gitmo-/index.html A disabled Uyghur man from China's northwest is detained as a national security threat. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2335/1/--Disabled-Uyghur-Jailed-as-Security-Threat-/index.html  A disabled Uyghur man from China's northwest is detained as a national security threat. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2334/1/Chinese-police-to-dispatch-anti-terror-liaison/index.html China plans to send additional police liaisons to countries facing major terror threats in a bid to boost cooperation with local security forces and head-off attacks, the Public Security Ministry said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2332/1/-Xinjiang-armed-police-elevated-to-greater-role-in-fighting-terror/index.html The armed police contingent in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been elevated in status to highlight its greater role in the fight against terror and maintain social stability in the region, Xinhua learned Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2329/1/Chinas-Guantanamo-Problem/index.html when Vijay Padmanabhan worked as the lead State Department attorney on detainee issues, the answers he got from foreign capitals about the 17 Chinese Muslims in Guantánamo was almost always the same. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2327/1/Closing-Guantanamo/index.html President-elect Obama has said he'll close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Diane Rehm show panel discusses the series of tough choices awaiting him on how to prosecute suspected terrorists and how to handle those who won't face trial. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2326/1/Kafka-and-Uighurs-at-Guantanamo-/index.html "There is no right to due process for an alien who is not here," insisted the 44th Solicitor General of the United States, Gregory G. Garre, proudly representing the President of the United States. Garre is a teacher of the law, you see, and was attempting to show a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit why one of their colleagues had overreached. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2324/1/Lawyers-urge-release-of-Gitmo-Uyghurs-/index.html Lawyers for 17 Chinese Muslims held without charge at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, have renewed an appeal for their release into the US. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2323/1/China-says-huge-coalfield-found/index.html Chinese officials announced the discovery of an underground coalfield in western Xinjiang Uighur region near Tibet with reserves of 23 billion tons. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2322/1/China-to-build-second-rail-line--/index.html CHINA will spend more than US$17 billion (S$25.8 billion) building a second rail line into its Muslim-populated and resource-rich far northwest Xinjiang region, state press reported on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2321/1/5-regional-airports-to-be-built-in-Xinjiang/index.html Five regional airports will be built or rebuilt in five cities in Xinjiang: Yining, Turpan, Kuche, Shihezi and Bole. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2320/1/Uighurs-Case-Argued-Before-US-Appeals-Court-/index.html A Justice Department lawyer today urged an appeals court to overturn a judge's order to release a group of Chinese Muslims at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison into the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2319/1/Analysis-Detainees-entry-into-US-in-doubt/index.html With two colleagues energetically steering the case in opposite directions, U.S. Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson on Monday held the fate of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees at Guatanamo Bay in her hands.  At most, she provided a slight hint that she may disappoint their plea for early release. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2317/1/Can-US-judges-order-detainees-released/index.html That's a key question in the case of 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantánamo, which a federal appeals court panel takes up Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2315/1/-Appeals-court-is-skeptical-of-early-release-of-Uighurs-from-Guantanamo/index.html A federal appeals court seemed reluctant on Monday to release 17 Turkic Muslims being held without charges at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, questioning whether judges rather than a president can order their freedom into the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2311/1/Deputy-Director-of-Xinjiang-Public-Security-Renounces-the-CCP-/index.html After being deceived by the Chinese Communist Party for over 30 years, the Deputy Director of Xinjiang Public Security renounces the CCP with a statement revealing the party’s true nature. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2306/1/Conservatives-call-on-Bush-to-free-Muslim-Uighurs/index.html A group of conservatives is chastising the Bush administration for refusing to free 17 Turkic Muslims being held without charges at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying their continued detention defies legal principles and "undermines our standing in the world." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2305/1/Uighur-Mummies-Stir-Debate-In-China/index.html DNA tests on mummies raise new questions about China's Uighurs, many of whom claim western heritage. China insists the Uighurs have East Asian heritage. Victor H. Mair, professor of Chinese language literature at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the findings with Robert Siegel. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2304/1/Taking-the-Bush-Anti-Terror-Legacy-to-Court/index.html In recent years the Justice Department has rarely drawn kind words from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, who has aggressively sought key Bush Administration memos related to anti-terrorism policies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2303/1/How-to-Close-Guantanamo-in-Six-Steps/index.html President-elect Barack Obama recently reiterated his campaign promise to close the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2299/1/Dont-Fund-UNFPA-Lawmakers-Urge-After-Woman-Escapes-Forced-Abortion/index.html 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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2298/1/Detainees-case-a-moral-failure-for-US/index.html 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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2296/1/Uyghur-Woman-Released-Without-Forced-Abortion-/index.html A Uyghur woman in China avoids a forced abortion, in a case that has drawn international attention. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2294/1/-HRIC-Condemns-XUAR-Authorities-Plans-to-Force-Six-Month-Pregnant-Woman-to-Undergo-Abortion/index.html HRIC Condemns XUAR Authorities Plans to Force Six-Month Pregnant Woman to Undergo Abortion zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2293/1/Pitts-to-China-Dont-force-woman-to-abort/index.html 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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2291/1/Dead-Tell-a-Tale-China-Doesnt-Care-to-Listen-To/index.html 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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2292/1/Rep-Pitts-urges-China-to-cancel-forced-abortion-and-let-woman-go/index.html Reports note Chinese officials planning to force Uyghur woman to undergo abortion against her will zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2287/1/One-Child-in-China/index.html A Uyghur woman now living in the United States describes her own experience of the one-child policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2286/1/Protests-rise-as-Chinese-govt-edicts-abortion-for-woman-/index.html A woman who is six months pregnant is being held in a Chinese hospital for a forced abortion under the government's infamous population control program. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2285/1/Intl-Furor-over-Forced-Abortion-Case-in-China-/index.html The international community is outraged and warns China it is watching closely the case of a Muslim Uyghur woman who is being forced against her will to have an abortion. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2284/1/Outrage-Over-Forced-Abortion-Case-/index.html A mother of two faces a forced abortion in China this week, according to human rights groups, a violation they say demonstrates that the most brutal aspects of China's population control policies are still prevalent in the county's western regions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2283/1/The-Highest-Ranking-Muslim-Cleric-in-Europe-Expresses-Concern-over-Arzigul/index.html The Grand Mufti (Reis-ul-ulema) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the highest-ranking Muslim cleric in Europe, has expressed deep concern over the case of Arzigul Tursun, who is most likely subject to a forced abortion on Tuesday the 18th in Ghulja. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2282/1/Rep-Pitts-urges-China-to-cancel-forced-abortion-and-let-woman-go/index.html Congressman Joe Pitts (PA-16) released the following statement today regarding reports that Chinese officials are holding a Uyghur ethnic minority woman, Arzigul Tursun, and plan to force her to undergo an abortion. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2281/1/Uyghur-Woman-Found-Facing-Abortion/index.html Authorities find an ethnic Uyghur woman who fled to avoid a forced abortion, which her husband says is now imminent. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2280/1/China-trying-to-force-6-months-pregnant-woman-to-abort/index.html A Muslim Uighur woman who's more than six months pregnant remained under watch in a hospital in China's far northwest Friday awaiting a forced abortion by authorities who don't want her to have a third child. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2279/1/Uyghur-Woman-Faces-Forced-Abortion/index.html Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she is entitled to only two children. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2278/1/Rep-Smith-Makes-Urgent-Appeal-to-Chinese-Authorities/index.html "I appeal to the Chinese Government not to forcibly abort Arzigul, a Uyghur woman now in the custody of China’s population police and awaiting the nightmare of a forced abortion," said Rep. Chris Smith, the House Ranking Member on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2273/1/Guantanamo-Closure-Called-Obama-Priority/index.html The Obama administration will launch a review of the classified files of the approximately 250 detainees at Guantanamo Bay immediately after taking office, as part of an intensive effort to close the U.S. prison in Cuba, according to people who advised the campaign on detainee issues. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2271/1/Bagels-OK-girda-nan-are-a-hot-commodity-in-China-too/index.html The formed, but never boiled, dough adheres to the walls of an oven.The Uighurs in rural China have a passion for their bagel tradition. American versions are catching on in Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2263/1/China-Legal-wheels-turn-slowly-for-Uyghur-Christian/index.html Detained since January, Alimjan Yimit awaits new court date. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2261/1/Obamas-hard-Gitmo-choices/index.html Reports about the complexities that President-elect Obama will have to unknot in order to redeem his promise to close Guantanamo probably help explain why the Bush Administration's initial approach to the prisoners was to essentially lock them up and throw away the key. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2253/1/China-cracking-down-on-Muslim-minority-Uighurs-/index.html Following a spate of political violence, security has been so tight around here that a 25-year-old Muslim jade dealer agreed to talk to a reporter only if they met 20 miles outside this historic Silk Road town in remote northwestern China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2249/1/UNPO-and-WUC-Submit-Torture-Report-on-China-/index.html UNPO has submitted a joint report with the World Uyghur Congress on the implementation of the Convention Against Torture within the People's Republic of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2247/1/No-charges-but-US-may-never-release-Guantanamo-Chinese/index.html Seventeen Chinese prisoners who have been held for nearly seven years in Guantánamo Bay will be informed on Monday that they could spend the rest of their lives behind bars, even though they face no charges and have been told by a judge they should be freed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2246/1/UAA-Files-Amicus-Brief-to-Urge-Guantanamo-Uyghurs-Release/index.html The UAA sought to file an amicus brief concerning the history of Uyghur oppression, the Uyghur American community, and the resettling of the petitioners into the United States, including the support that the UAA, the Uyghur community, and others throughout the United States would offer petitioners upon release, as well as general American and political sentiment concerning the petitioners' circumstances. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2240/1/The-edge-of-an-empire/index.html Officially, China gets on well with its Muslims. Alice Albinia uncovers an altogether different story zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2239/1/Guantanamo-headache-awaits-next-president/index.html Closing Guantanamo will be one of the thorniest tasks facing the next US president, and while both candidates have said it should be done, neither Barack Obama nor John Mccain has said how. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2229/1/-China-in-Dalai-Lama-talks-offer/index.html Chinese authorities are to arrange fresh talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama "in the near future", the Chinese state news agency Xinhua has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2221/1/CCP-Denies-Uyghurs-Rights-to-Annual-Pilgrimage-/index.html The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using many political means to stop Uyghurs annual pilgrimage to Mecca, known as Hajj, according to the World Uyghur Congress. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2215/1/US-treads-warily-over-China-rights--/index.html Washington DC is perhaps a rather strange choice for someone accused of being an active terrorist to make their home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2214/1/Detained-Uyghur-Christians-Face-Execution-And-Mistreatment-In-China/index.html  Family and activists continued efforts Wednesday, October 22, to obtain the release of two Uyghur devoted Christians in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, saying one of them may be executed while another believer is facing mistreatment in a labor camp. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2213/1/China-issues-wanted-list-as-US-blocks-release-of-Uighurs/index.html China released a "wanted list" of eight Uighurs as US federal appeals court has blocked the release of 17 from the Guantanamo Bay prison until November. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2211/1/Bigotry-ignorance-made-in-China/index.html The New York Times reported Sunday that Chinese officials are cracking down on Islam in the Xinjiang region of the country. Government workers are not allowed to practice the religion, studying of the Koran is highly restricted and the practice of Ramadan and the hajj — a pilgrimage to Mecca — are kept under strict supervision by the authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2210/1/The-New-Terrorists-and-Some-Unnamed-Countries/index.html In a press conference today, the Ministry of Public Security released its second list of most wanted terrorists for plotting attacks on the Olympics and generally working towards separatism in “restive”* Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2209/1/Guantanamo-and-the-Uighurs/index.html The government and defense attorneys for seventeen Guantanamo detainees clash over a federal judge's order to release the men into the United States. Why the U.S. has held these Uighur Muslims seven years and what the judge's order may mean for the future of Guantanamo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2208/1/Appeals-Court-Keeps-Uyghurs-Detained-/index.html A U.S. appeals court says 17 Uyghurs must remain at Guantanamo Bay, for now. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2206/1/China-releases-list-of-wanted-terror-group-leaders/index.html Chinese police on Tuesday called on foreign nations to arrest and extradite eight alleged Islamic terror group leaders accused plotting attacks during the Beijing Olympics. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2205/1/Bush-Decides-to-Keep-Guantanamo-Open-/index.html Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2203/1/Appeals-Court-Halts-Release-of-17-Guantanamo-Detainees/index.html A federal appeals court Monday blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslims into the United States from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until it can hear further legal arguments in the case. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2202/1/Former-political-prisoner-honored-at-Freedom-Walk/index.html The Oceanside Municipal Pier was alight with candles Sunday night as several hundred people participated in a “Freedom Walk,” calling for recognition of human rights around the world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2201/1/Wary-of-Islam-China-Tightens-a-Vise-of-Rules-/index.html The grand mosque that draws thousands of Muslims each week in this oasis town has all the usual trappings of piety: dusty wool carpets on which to kneel in prayer, a row of turbans and skullcaps for men without headwear, a wall niche facing the holy city of Mecca in the Arabian desert. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2199/1/China-plans-150000-km-of-oil-and-gas-pipelines/index.html : China will build a further 150,000 km (93,000 miles) of oil and gas pipelines in the next 12 years, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, as the energy-hungry nation looks to guarantee supplies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2198/1/A-Pastors-Plea-for-the-Guantanamo-Uyghurs/index.html Alone in GuantanamoThe story of the Uyghurs in Guantánamo — innocent men caught up in the chaos of the Afghan invasion in late 2001 — has long been a prevalent theme in accounts of the arbitrary injustice of the Bush administration’s post-9/11 detention policies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2197/1/Guantanamo-Uyghurs-resettlement-prospects-skewered-by-Justice-Department-lies/index.html A prisoner at GuantanamoGuantánamo is full of bleak stories. How could it fail to be, when it is a vast failed experiment, a “terror prison” that contains few terrorists, a place where innocent men and foot soldiers from someone else’s war — never adequately screened to determine whether they actually constituted a threat to the United States — have been held for nearly seven years without charge or trial? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2193/1/Turkey-to-commemorate-renowned-Turkish-scholar-/index.html Over a hundred scientists from 11 countries will converge in the northern Turkish province of Rize to attend an international symposium. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2191/1/Welcome-awaits-Muslims-from-China-held-at-Guantanamo/index.html Tallahassee is preparing to receive and look after three men on an improbable journey from Guantánamo Bay -- and Tora Bora. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2190/1/China-extends-influence-into-Central-Asia/index.html China has begun a multi-billion-pound scheme in the far-Western province of Xinjiang to build roads and railways that will open up Central Asia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2186/1/Uighurs-without-a-country/index.html THE FEDERAL judiciary still has at least some independent souls. One of them, US District Judge Ricardo Urbina, last week instructed the Bush administration to release 17 Guantanamo prisoners to freedom in the United States, after the government could provide no evidence the inmates had ever presented a security threat to this country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2185/1/Release-of-17-Guantanamo-Detainees-Sputters-as-Officials-Debate-the-Risk-/index.html An urgent effort by the Bush administration to find a country willing to accept 17 detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has stalled because of a bitter dispute inside the government about whether the men are dangerous. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2182/1/China-Uighur-writer-detained/index.html English PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of Uighur journalist and poet Mehbube Ablesh, who was arrested in August 2008 after posting two critical articles online. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2181/1/Celil-allowed-to-meet-with-mother-sister/index.html Even through the grainy, often-undecipherable audio of a secretly recorded prison conversation, the sound of uncontrollable weeping is clear. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2180/1/A-Guantanamo-Homecoming/index.html It will be harder to tune them out when they are not just nameless men behind barbed wire. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2179/1/From-Guantanamo-to-the-United-States/index.html In an extraordinary and unprecedented ruling in a US District Court, Judge Ricardo Urbina has ruled that 17 wrongly imprisoned Chinese Muslims at Guantánamo must be allowed entry to the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2177/1/The-Rule-of-Law-in-Guantanamo-/index.html A federal judge in Washington has struck an important blow for the rule of law by ordering that 17 detainees be freed from Guantánamo Bay. But the Bush administration is fighting the ruling to avoid having the case become an open window into the outlaw world of President Bush's detention camps. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2176/1/17-Detainees/index.html A federal judge overreached in an effort to free Chinese Uighurs from an unjustified legal limbo. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2174/1/DC-Uighurs-wait-to-take-in-Gitmo-detainees/index.html For centuries, hospitality to weary travelers has been part of the Uighur culture. The Uighur land in what is now the far western province of China carried merchants traversing the famed Silk Road. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2173/1/Amnesty-International-Disappointed-by-Appeals-Court-Decision-to-Delay-Release-of-Uighur-Detainees/index.html Human Rights Organization Urges DHS to Recognize Detainees' Non-Enemy Combatant Status zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2172/1/Showdown-ahead-over-17-Uighur-detainees/index.html The Justice Department says the judiciary does not have the power to release Guantánamo detainees into the US. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2171/1/Some-at-Gitmo-see-US-as-ally/index.html A Chinese Muslim locked up at Guantanamo Bay may soon be granted an improbable wish: To move to the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2169/1/US-court-blocks-Uighurs-release-from-Guantanamo/index.html A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslims held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2168/1/Guantanamo-Uighur-release-blocked/index.html An US federal appeal court has blocked a judge's order that 17 Chinese detainees at the Guantanamo Bay camp should immediately be released. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2166/1/Judge-Orders-17-Detainees-at-Guantanamo-Freed-/index.html A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to release 17 detainees at Guantánamo Bay by the end of the week, the first such ruling in nearly seven years of legal disputes over the administration’s detention policies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2165/1/Judge-orders-Chinese-Muslims-freed-from-Gitmo/index.html A federal judge has ordered the immediate release into the United States of 17 Chinese Muslims who have been held for several years in the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2164/1/Anger-over-Guantanamo-Bay-ruling-/index.html The White House has reacted angrily after a judge ordered that 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay should be released into the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2163/1/Ruling-on-Chinese-hits-Bush-jail-policy/index.html A US court has ordered the immediate release of 17 Chinese Uighurs who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, in a landmark decision that deals another blow to the Bush administration's detainee policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2160/1/DC-Area-Families-Are-Ready-to-Receive-Uighur-Detainees/index.html When U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was looking for a place in the United States to send 17 Chinese Muslim detainees he wants released from Guantanamo Bay, the Washington area was an obvious choice. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2159/1/White-House-Seeks-To-Halt-Release-Of-17-Detainees/index.html This week could see a remarkable moment in American legal history, as 17 Guantanamo detainees are on the verge of being let out of prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2158/1/US-Judge-Orders-Release-of-17-Uighur-Muslims-from-Guantamo/index.html A U.S. federal judge has called for the immediate release of seventeen Uighur Muslims who have been detained in Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years, because they're no longer "enemy combatants." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2157/1/Beijing-demands-return-of-Chinese-from-Guantanamo-/index.html China on Tuesday demanded the repatriation of Chinese Muslims held by the United States military at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2156/1/A-Victory-for-the-Uighurs-at-Guantanamobut-Now-What/index.html The strangest cases to come out of Guantanamo have been those against a group of Chinese Muslims who were picked up in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2155/1/Guantanamo-Uyghurs-Ordered-Freed/index.html A U.S. judge orders the release of 17 ethnic Uyghurs held for almost seven years at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2154/1/US-Parole-Uighur-Detainees-Into-the-United-States-/index.html A group of Chinese Uighurs who have been cleared of the "enemy combatant" designation should be freed from Guantanamo and given parole status in the United States, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2153/1/Freedom-remains-an-abstract-concept-for-Uygurs-in-legal-limbo/index.html The United States held him for seven years and then, ultimately, decided that he posed no threat to national security. But he's still sitting in a prison at Guantanamo Bay because no other country will take him. Nor will Washington let him live in the US, even temporarily. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2152/1/Uighur-Detainees-May-Be-Released-to-US/index.html A federal judge is considering whether to order a group of detainees held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay released into the United States, in what would instantly become a landmark legal decision in the years-long battle over the rights of terrorism suspects there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2151/1/Uyghur-wins-tightrope-contest-across-Seoul-river/index.html South Korea: A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul's second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2150/1/Chinese-Muslims-No-Longer-Considered-Enemy-Combatants/index.html The filing of a short notice in federal court late on Tuesday was an admission by the Bush administration that the Chinese Muslim Uighurs currently detained at Guantanamo Bay no longer are considered enemy combatants but are being held only until another country will agree to take them in. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2149/1/Severe-Repression-of-Uyghurs-Intensifies-Conflict-in-China-/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) [1] has strongly condemned the Chinese authorities for having intensified the suppression of Uyghurs and forcing Uyghur people to attack their own ethnic leaders in the Xinjiang Uyghur “Autonomous Region” in the name of “maintaining safety” for the  October 1st National Day. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2148/1/All-Uighurs-now-off-enemy-list/index.html The Justice Department, in a move that could put new pressure on a federal judge to decide whether Guantanamo prisoners are to be released when no longer considered “enemy combatants,” has decided to take all 17 members of a Chinese Muslim minority — the Uighurs — off of that enemies list. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2146/1/A-Chinese-Muslim-in-Gitmo-legal-limbo/index.html The United States held him for seven years and then, ultimately, decided that he poses no threat to national security. But he's still sitting in prison at Guantanamo Bay because no other country will take him. Nor will the U.S. let him come here to live, even temporarily. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2145/1/Doubt-Arises-in-Account-of-an-Attack-in-China-/index.html Just days before the Olympic Games began in August, a truck plowed into a large group of paramilitary officers jogging in western China, sending bodies flying, Chinese officials said at the time. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2144/1/Chinas-Muslims-say-Ramadan-a-time-of-repression/index.html All that was left on the chin of the Muslim man praying at the huge brownstone mosque was a small patch of stubble. He said officials had forced young men in China's far western Xinjiang region to cut off their beards at the start of the holy month of Ramadan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2139/1/Ramadan-Lunches-For-Chinas-Muslims-/index.html Muslim Uyghur employees at government departments in China's northwest are being offered free lunches during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2137/1/China-vows-quotpreemptive-strikesquot-on-Uighur-Muslims/index.html China is preparing to put high-pressure on Uighur Muslims by forcing them to accept identification with the Chinese nation and Chinese culture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2130/1/China-repression-grows-says-US-/index.html Repression of religious freedom in some parts of China has intensified over the past year, the US government says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2129/1/Chinese-Muslims-persecuted-after-bombings/index.html Deadly attacks rocked the Xinjiang region of China this summer. The bombings were attributed to Muslim separatist groups advocating for independence. Now, four local governments in the same area have placed restrictions on the Muslim holiday Ramadan citing the need to protect social stability. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2127/1/China-vows-quotpreemptive-strikesquot-on-Xinjiang-separatists/index.html China's tense far-western region of Xinjiang will conduct a "re-education" drive against separatist unrest in the wake of attacks during the Olympics, with its Party chief vowing preemptive attacks on foes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2120/1/Detainees-seek-to-attend-hearing/index.html Lawyers for a group of Chinese Muslims now being held at Guantanamo Bay asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the Pentagon to take four of the detainees to Washington, D.C., for the hearing on their plea to be released. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2119/1/China-studying-third-West-East-gas-pipeline-report/index.html China may build a third west-east gas pipeline in a bid to meet strong demand along its economically vibrant eastern seaboard, state media reported on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2118/1/Young-woman-fired-from-Uyghur-radio-station-then-arrested/index.html Reporters Without Borders condemns the dismissal and arrest of Mehbube Ablesh, a member of the Uyghur community in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, who worked for Xinjiang People’s Radio Station, a government station based in the provincial capital of Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2117/1/Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-Meets-with-US-Secretary-of-State-Condoleeza-Rice/index.html  Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur democracy leader, and Mr. Alim Seytoff, UAA general secretary, have attended the Iftaar Reception at the U.S. State Department hosted by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in the evening of September the 8th. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2116/1/China-officials-tighten-restrictions-on-Muslim-practices/index.html Government employees and Communist members banned from fasting during Ramadan zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2113/1/Uyghur-Radio-Worker-Sacked-Detained/index.html An official radio station in Xinjiang sacks an outspoken employee, who is now detained. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2108/1/Ramadan-Curbs-Imposed-in-China/index.html Local governments in a Muslim desert region in western China have imposed strict limits on religious practices during the traditional Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began last week, according to the Web sites of four of those governments. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2107/1/Ramadan-Curbs-on-Chinas-Muslims/index.html After the worst violence there in a decade, officials in China's northwesternmost region tighten curbs on the observance of Ramadan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2106/1/No-Tarawih-for-China-Muslims/index.html Muslims in China's far northwest region of Xinjiang are banned from performing Tarawih prayers, special nightly prayers performed during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, with men prevented from growing beards and women from covering their faces, in the latest restrictions on China's Muslim minority. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2105/1/UNPO-UPR-Statement-China/index.html UNPO draws attention to the plight of ethnic minorities in Inner Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkestan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2103/1/Ramadan-crackdown-in-China/index.html Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2102/1/China-imposes-Ramadan-security-crackdown-in-Muslim-northwest/index.html Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2099/1/Symposium-highlights-struggle-of-minorities-in-China-/index.html "If you beat the cat every day, one day, the cat will declare his own independence," said Rebiya Kadeer, referring to the injustices committed against her people by the Chinese government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2097/1/A-crackdown-in-Chinas-wild-West-its-Muslim-majority-chunk-of-Central-Asia-/index.html On the roads crossing the dusty fields of cotton and maize around the oasis city of Kashgar, China’s police are on alert. Terrorists, as they call them, have been stepping up their attacks. Officers at checkpoints turn back foreigners venturing towards troublespots. Citizens entering Kashgar line up by the roadside to have their identity cards scanned. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2096/1/Chinese-region-tightens-controls-over-Muslims-for-Ramadan-/index.html Officials have tightened controls over mosques and religious practice in China's restive Xinjiang region for the ongoing Ramadan festival, according to exiled Uighurs and local government notices seen on Thursday zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2093/1/China-conducts-quotcarpet-searchquot-for-Xinjiang-terror-suspects/index.html Our centre learned that, to prevent terrorist strikes from developing into another upsurge during the time when the nation marks the October 1 National Day, Xinjiang is currently mobilizing 200,000 officers and men of the public security force, the Armed Police Force and militia force to undertake a carpet search among the transient population. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2090/1/Police-officers-killed-in-China-were-ethnic-Uighurs/index.html Two police officers who were killed and five who were wounded in an ambush in western China on Aug. 27 were ethnic Uighurs searching for a woman who they thought might have been involved in an earlier attack, said a police officer in the village where the ambush took place. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2089/1/China-Unlikely-to-Loosen-Its-Grip-in-West/index.html Experts Anticipate Unyielding Response to Latest Fatal Attacks in Xinjiang Province zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2088/1/Security-stepped-up-in-Xinjiang-for-National-Day/index.html Two ethnic Uyghur police officers have been killed and at least two critically injured in a new clash near the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to authoritative sources and witnesses. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2087/1/Police-Killed-in-New-Xinjiang-Clash/index.html Unarmed Uyghur police come under attack while searching for suspects in an August clash. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2081/1/Xinjiang-oil-boom-fuels-Uighur-resentment/index.html Offer energy resources as tribute [to Beijing] to create harmony” proclaims a giant billboard outside a petrol station in Korla, in China’s restive western frontier region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2080/1/2-Chinese-policemen-killed-in-western-China/index.html The first outbreak of violence in China's western region of Xinjiang since a pair of high-profile attacks during the Olympics has left two Chinese policemen dead and seven more wounded, authorities and an activist said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2066/1/Switzerland-urged-to-take-Guantanamo-inmates/index.html Amnesty International called on Switzerland yesterday to grant asylum to three foreign detainees held by U.S. authorities in Guantanamo for more than six years, but free to go if they find a safe haven. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2059/1/More-than-100-Uighurs-arrested-in-Kashgar/index.html An exiled group of China's Uighur Muslims said Thursday that police have arrested more than 100 people following the August 4 attack in Kashgar city which killed 16 paramilitary officers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2058/1/Chinese-Muslim-boxer-determined-for-more-glory/index.html Silamu Hanati goes into Friday's Olympic welterweight semi-finals determined to bring more glory to his troubled Muslim homeland in China's northwest after already ensuring himself an historic medal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2055/1/Three-Guantanamo-detainees-apply-for-asylum-in-Switzerland-/index.html Three detainees at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba have applied for political asylum in Switzerland, reports said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2054/1/Post-Olympic-clamp-on-Muslim-Xinjiang-possible/index.html As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/2053/1/Por-Bazhyn-the-Uygur-Forstress-in-Tuva-/index.html “Just be patient for a month and a half, and we will know the exact date of building of the Por-Bazhyn fortress by dendrochronology – Tuvan scientist, Vladimir Petrukhin, a scientific worker from Institute of Slavic Studies, answered, when asked which was older, Kara-Bulgusun or Por-Bazhyn. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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". zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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? zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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.' zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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.” zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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". zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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, zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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". zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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). zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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" ... zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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). zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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). zerepshan@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.  zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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 zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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. zerepshan@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/index.html It's been a harrowing journey: from repression in China to war in Afghanistan and four long years at Guantánamo Bay as a U.S. captive in the war on terror.  hopes it ends here, in his sister's tidy apartment in a suburb of the Swedish capital. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1242/1/Crackdown-on-protests-leaves-Muslims-without-a-prayer-of-joining-Haj/index.html Muslims are flying into Mecca in their thousands for the Haj, but many followers in China have been grounded by bureaucratic hurdles and political obstacles. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1241/1/The-Wall-Street-Journal-Uighur-Warning/index.html In 2001, Chinese leaders promised to improve the country's human rights conditions in return for the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympics. With the opening ceremonies less than a year away, it's a good time to examine the situation on the ground in farther flung regions that don't enjoy much international attention. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1240/1/Asia-Uyghur-activist-slams-slave-labor-in-China/index.html A leading Uyghur human rights activist in exile criticized the Chinese government earlier this month for what she called the "slave labor" imposed on young Uyghur women. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1239/1/Former-Guantanamo-Detainee-Seeks-Asylum-in-Sweden/index.html On Tuesday November 20, Adel Abdul Hakim, a former Guantánamo detainee from Xinjiang province in the People's Republic of China, took another step towards reconstructing his shattered life by applying for asylum in Sweden. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1237/1/Bingham-Team-Helps-Reunite-Gitmo-Client-with-Family/index.html Bingham pro bono client Adel Abdul Hakim, a Uighur refugee held for four years at Guantanamo Bay despite having been cleared by the U.S. military of any terrorist or military involvement, was reunited with family members in Stockholm, Sweden, on Nov. 19, as Boston partner Sabin Willett recounts. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1234/1/Perceived-violations-along-India-China-border-Antony/index.html  Perceived violations occur along the India-China border due to differing perceptions of its alignment and lead to situations that could have been avoided - but peace and tranquillity prevails along the frontier, parliament was told Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1216/1/Activist-slams-China-over-Uighur-human-rights-abuse-/index.html Chinese authorities have stepped up efforts to suppress the Uighur minority in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, claiming it is part of efforts to fight terrorism, according to Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur human rights activist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1210/1/Chinese-support-for-death-sentences/index.html THE Chinese public has applauded the death sentences handed to five Muslim Uighurs, as the Government sends a message in the run-up to the Olympic Games that it will not tolerate secessionism or religious extremism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1208/1/China-Sentences-5-to-Death-in-Xinjiang/index.html China has sentenced to death five ethnic Muslims from the country's restive far western region who were accused of separatist activities, state media reported Sunday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1207/1/CONFIRMATION-NOTIFICATION-ON-ALIMUJIANG-YIMITIS-ILLEGAL-RELIGIOUS-INFILTRATION-ACTIVITIES-IN-KASHGAR/index.html With tips from some people, our bureau has conducted investigations and has confirmed the following facts on Alimujiang Yimiti (male, of Uyghur ethnicity, resident of Hami, Identification card No. 650104197306104712, current general agent of Xinjiang Jiaerhao Foodstuff Company Limited and head of its branch in Kashi). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1201/1/Editorial-Chinas-other-ethnic-cleansing/index.html While human rights organizations often focus on Beijing's repression of Tibetans and rights advocates throughout China, one group of people, the Uyghurs, has not received the attention a plight of their magnitude should warrant. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1200/1/Campaign-Supports-Participation-of-Muslims-in-China-in-the-Hajj-/index.html On 23 October 2007, UNPO sent a letter to President Hu Jintao to request that fundamental religious rights be guaranteed in China, in accordance with its international commitments. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1198/1/3000-people-contract-HIV-every-month/index.html The number of people with HIV on the mainland rose by an average of 3,000 a month between January 2006 and June 2007, a senior disease control official said yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1197/1/China-emerges-top-gold-producer/index.html In 2006, Chinese mines produced 240 tonnes of gold, about 10 per cent of global production, and up from 224 tonnes in 2005. Output was just 11 tonnes behind Australia, the world's third largest gold producer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1196/1/Rebiya-Kadeer-denounces-the-deportation-of-Uyghur-women/index.html The exiled activist warns that young women are being forced to work long hours in factories far from their homes, and are months behind in their salaries. Over 240 thousand women have already been “transferred”. Kadeer urges US Congress to monitor the situation and pressure Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1190/1/Uighur-activist-asks-US-to-help-stop-China-removals/index.html China's government is forcibly moving young women of the ethnic Uighur minority from their homes in Xinjiang to factories in eastern China, a Uighur activist told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1189/1/Highlighting-persecution-of-Uighur-Muslims/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, China’s most well-known dissident, made a brief visit to the UK earlier this month to highlight the plight of Uighur Muslims. “My visit is to raise awareness of the suffering of Uighur people amongst the British people and British politicians,” Kadeer, who is the President of World Uighur Congress, told The Muslim News. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1184/1/Chinas-Female-Public-Enemy-Number-One-on-the-State-of-Chinas-Muslim-Uighurs/index.html Even before we were introduced I saw a warm smile that was just for me. She was about to give an interview that deserved her full attention, but for the moment what occupied her the most was a friendly smile towards me, coming from a deceptively young face. That was my first meeting with Rebiya Kadeer, President of the World Uighur Congress, in Hamburg. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1183/1/Guantanamo-military-lawyer-breaks-ranks-to-condemn-unconscionable-detention/index.html  An American military lawyer and veteran of dozens of secret Guantanamo tribunals has made a devastating attack on the legal process for determining whether Guantanamo prisoners are "enemy combatants". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1182/1/100000-Shanghai-youths-sent-to-Xinjiang/index.html This story dated October 12, 1964 comes from Michael Manning who's blogging from Xinjiang in The Opposite End of China. He found it while fiddling around with the The New York Times Archive which now allows subscribers to access news reports from as far back as 1851. Interesting look into the China of the past and its geopolitics! How far we've come since the days of the cold war. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1172/1/Human-rights-activist-requests-support-for-Uyghur-while-in-Hamburg/index.html The Uyghur human rights activist, Rebiya Kadeer, from the northwest region of Xinjiang in China, urged the international community Sunday to support her people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1170/1/East-Turkestan-Dutch-Parliament-Petitioned-/index.html On 16 October 2007 UNPO was invited by Stichting Oost-Turkestan, a Netherlands-based NGO campaigning for Uyghur human rights, to attend the delivery of a report regarding human rights abuses in China to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Dutch Parliament. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1161/1/After-Guantanamo-An-Empty-Freedom-Ethnic-Uighurs-Frustrated-in-Albania/index.html For 16 months, they have shared a clutch of tidy rooms in a small refugee camp in this city, living alongside a few dozen others whose lives were unraveled by war or persecution or both. But apart from their new home, the five men from the Uighur ethnic group of western China, whose most recent address was the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have little in common with the camp's other residents, most of whom come from one of Albania's neighbors and blend easily into the crowd on Tirana's busy streets. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1150/1/China-says-unrest-still-a-problem-in-Xinjiang/index.html There is still a problem with ethnic unrest in China's far western region of Xinjiang though the situation is much improved on previous years, its top government official said on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1147/1/China-Russia-gas-pipeline-work-to-start-08--report/index.html Russia has formally decided to start work next year on a gas pipeline to China's western Xinjiang province, a project delayed by disagreements over gas pricing, a Chinese paper reported from its Moscow bureau. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1145/1/Major-Xinjiang-gasfield-found-/index.html PetroChina has discovered another major gasfield in western Xinjiang, a source from the company's Tarim unit confirmed Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1138/1/Chinas-Colonial-Troubles/index.html News of military unrest has come this past week from Chinese-occupied East Turkestan, the 636,000-square-mile territory on the northwest frontier of the People’s Republic, officially called Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1131/1/Congressman-Franks-and-33-Members-of-Congress-Call-onChina-to-Respect-Human-Rights/index.html On September 19th, Congressman Trent Franks sent a letter to President Hu, cosigned by 33 other members of Congress, calling for the release of Chen Guangcheng and drawing attention to China’s destructive family planning policy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1128/1/Chinese-Farmers-Protest-Cotton-Prices/index.html Cotton farmers in China's far west clashed with police and paramilitary guards over alleged price-fixing by local authorities, leaving 40 people injured, witnesses and a Hong Kong media report said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1127/1/Clash-in-Chinas-Xinjiang-injures-40--rights-group/index.html A clash between farmers and police in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang over the price of cotton injured at least 40 people, a Hong Kong human rights watchdog said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1126/1/Climate-campaigners-tipped-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize/index.html Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and other campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1122/1/quotMillionairessquot-Meets-Supporters-in-Edinburgh/index.html She grew up in poverty in the remote Xinjiang region of China, was twice married and the mother of “at least 11 children”*, but later came to be known as “The Millionairess” because of her successful trading and business acumen. Rebiya Kadeer later came to international prominence when she was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities and adopted as a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1121/1/Commentary-Chinese-Uighur-culture-clash-in-Sweden/index.html China's Xinjiang Song and Dance Company gave two wonderful performances in Eskilstuna city in Sweden on Sept. 8th and 9th. At first glance, this kind of cultural performance would appear completely apolitical. However, at the same time a full-page editorial appeared in the city's biggest newspaper criticizing the Eskilstuna Cultural Bureau for allowing the event. The article accused city bureaucrats of fawning on the autocratic Chinese authorities. Obviously, the editorial viewed the performance as political. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1120/1/A-challenge-to-China/index.html China's leaders are dreaming of prosperity and good fortune by deciding to open the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing at 8:08 p.m. on Aug. 8. But when the Olympic torch is lit in Beijing's spectacular new National Stadium, known as the "bird's nest" for its intricate steel beams, the world's attention may be focused as much on China's failures as its success. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1118/1/-East-Turkestan-What-Goes-for-Tibet-Goes-for-East-Turkestan/index.html With the appointment of a new bishop and the controversy over government 'approval' of future Lamas, it may be easy to forget that China's significant Muslim population suffers from similar religious restrictions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1087/1/Earthquake-jolts-southern-part-of-Chinas-Xinjiang/index.html An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale hit the southern part of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region early on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1082/1/China-provides-stage-for-quotKite-Runnerquot------/index.html German-born, Swiss-reared helmer Marc Forster has shot Stateside (most recently "Stranger Than Fiction") and in Europe ("Finding Neverland"). In bringing Khaled Hosseini's book "The Kite Runner" to film, he trekked to the high climes of northwestern China and beyond, calling it "the hardest film I ever made." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1081/1/Chinas-Pipeline-Diplomacy-/index.html In securing approval to build a natural gas pipeline from northern Turkmenistan to China, PetroChina, the country’s largest oil company, has pulled off a move with striking geopolitical implications, providing an extra bloodline for the world’s fastest growing economy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1073/1/KMT-Honorary-Chairman-Lien-Chan-visits-Xinjiang-/index.html The Honorary Chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang Party (KMT), Lien Chan, paid a visit to northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Wednesday, voicing hopes to strengthen economic and trade cooperation between Taiwan and Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1069/1/Teacher-finds-satisfaction-in-Chinese-town-/index.html Don't be embarrassed if you've never heard of Kashgar. Twenty-three year-old Amanda Gatewood never had until she signed up to teach English there last year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1066/1/China-faces-drug-traffic-influx-from-quotGolden-Crescentquot-/index.html China has stepped up vigil in northwest frontier region of Xinjiang against an influx of drug trafficking from the "Golden Crescent," which encompasses the mountain valleys of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1064/1/Supporters-fear-Celil-headed-for-life-in-Chinese-prison/index.html For the first time since he was arrested in Uzbekistan and handed to China some 18 months ago, Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil was allowed to meet his mother and sister in person yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1050/1/China-sets-route-for-second-West-East-natural-gas-pipeline/index.html China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China's largest oil producer, announced Monday that route of China's second West-East natural gas pipeline has been basically decided. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1047/1/Uighur-exiles-ask-German-leader-to-talk-human-rights-on-China-trip/index.html Exiles belonging to the Uighur ethnic group appealed to Chancellor Angela Merkel to lobby for human rights and for the Uighur minority during her trip next week to China in a letter to the German leader released Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1046/1/Construction-of-2nd-highway-completed-in-Xinjiang-desert/index.html China completed on Wednesday the construction of a second blacktop highway across the Taklamakan Desert in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1042/1/CNPC-starts-building-northwest-south-fuel-pipeline/index.html  Top Chinese oil and gas producer China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has started building an oil product pipeline that could eventually enable the firm to pump fuel from northwestern Xinjiang to southern Hunan province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1032/1/New-Zealand-refuses-Guantanamo-detainees-/index.html New Zealand refused several times to take detainees the U.S. wanted to relocate from its Guantanamo Bay military prison, a senior official said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1025/1/SCO-discuss-joint-anti-terrorism-measures/index.html The leaders of Russia, China and four Central Asian countries have agreed on improved energy co-operation as a guarantee for their mutual security. The heads of government have been meeting in a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1024/1/Russia-China-Iran-issue-veiled-warning-to-US-to-stay-away-from-Central-Asia/index.html The leaders of Russia, China and Iran warned the outside world Thursday to leave Central Asia alone to look after its own stability and security, in a veiled message to the United States issued on the eve of major war games between Russia and China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1023/1/Canada-Balked-at-Guantanamo-Refugees/index.html Canada balked at several requests from Washington to provide asylum to men cleared for release from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, government documents released Wednesday show. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1016/1/One-Year-Countdown-to-the-2008-Olympics-in-Beijing-Begins/index.html Exactly one year before the 2008 Olympic Games begin in Beijing, on August 8, Amnesty International (AI) hosted a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., calling on the Chinese regime to fulfill its promise of promoting human rights as part of the fundamental principles of Olympism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1015/1/Chinas-objectives-in-Xinjiang/index.html China is nervously looking forward to hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics, and is ensuring that nothing spoils the global publicity surrounding the event. As such, an incident in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on 11 May does not bode well for those hopes. A protester threw an incendiary device at a large portrait of Mao Zedong hung over the gate leading to the Forbidden City. The last time the portrait was defaced was during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1012/1/WNYC-Talk-Show-quotUnderreported-Chinas-Uighurs-/index.html China's Uighur people are Turkic Muslims from Central Asia, and the Chinese government has a long history of discriminating against them. Uighur separatists have been calling for an independent state since the 1940s. On today's Underreported, Blaine Kaltman, a sociologist and author of Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China; and Sharon Hom, Executive Director of Human Rights in China, join us to talk about the conflicts and mutual suspicion between the Uighurs and China's government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1006/1/Maneuvers-to-Outflank-US/index.html The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) launches military exercises in Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region and China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Thursday. The maneuvers are designed to counter an uprising reminiscent of bloodshed in Uzbekistan in 2005 and aimed to show that Eurasia’s east has a powerful military and political alliance whose members are ready to close ranks in any situation. SCO leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin are to visit a training range in Chebarkul for the final stage of the drills. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1005/1/Kyrgyzstan-Police-crackdown-on-human-rights-picket/index.html The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights (KCHR) are alarmed about a police crackdown on a human rights picket held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1003/1/Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-Holds-Biggest-War-Games-Ahead-of-Leaders-Summit/index.html Some 6,000 troops from China, Russia and four Central Asian states will hold their biggest-ever joint counterterrorism military exercise. Some analysts suggest the group, known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, is evolving into an anti-West defense alliance and Iran is looking to join. VOA's Heda Bayron, in our Asia News Center in Hong Kong, has more on the security implications. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/991/1/Chinese-army-unit-heads-to-war-games-in-Russia/index.html A Chinese army unit flew to Russia Sunday for a series of anti-terrorism drills that aims to cement growing security cooperation in Central Asia, state media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/989/1/UNPO-Discusses-China--World-Power-without-Human-Rights/index.html His Holiness the Dalai Lama has from 21 to 27 of July 2007 presented a series of lectures in the city of Hamburg, Germany, discussing issues including non-violence, Buddhist Philosophy, and globalisation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/984/1/In-Floor-Speech-Wolf-Rails-Against-Abuses-in-China/index.html Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today delivered the following statement on the floor of the House today addressing multiple concerns about China, the products it produces and its poor record on human rights: zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/982/1/Protests-Abound-After-Chinese-Court-Upholds-Life-Sentence-for-Canadian-Man/index.html Human rights groups and the Canadian government separately condemned a ruling this week by a Chinese court affirming a life sentence for a Canadian accused of "separatist activities." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/981/1/Olympics-wont-make-us-forget-Celil/index.html China is resolutely determined to make a good impression on the whole world with next year's Olympic Games. Perhaps those in power there imagine some hoopla and a bag of medals will make Canadians forget about Huseyin Celil. But we don't think that's going to happen. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/980/1/Uyghur-Girls-Forced-Into-Labor-Far-From-Home-By-Local-Chinese-Officials/index.html Several girls and young women belonging to the Muslim Uyghur minority in northwest China are stranded in a coastal Chinese province after “training” programs offered by local officials became effective slave labor, parents and officials say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/979/1/Imams-lawyer-pins-hopes-on-Olympic-spirit/index.html Huseyin Celil's last hope for freedom may well depend on whether China's Communist regime is filled with the Olympic spirit, the lawyer for the Burlington imam says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/978/1/China-violating-due-process-by-jailing-Canadian-for-life-Ottawa-charges/index.html Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay accused China of failing to provide due process to a Canadian citizen Tuesday after a court in China upheld a life prison sentence previously imposed on Huseyin Celil, of Burlington, Ont. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/976/1/Celil-appeal-rejected-by-Chinese-court/index.html In a brief and perfunctory hearing Tuesday, a Chinese court has rejected an appeal by Huseyin Celil, the Canadian Muslim religious leader who was convicted of “separatist activities” in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/975/1/Kazakh-Uighurs-feel-threat-from-China/index.html On a rainy afternoon, in a village near the Kazakh-Chinese border, an engagement party brought two families together. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/972/1/Fear-of-forcible-return-Fear-of-torture-or-ill-treatment-Incommunicado/INDEX.html Osman Aliman, an ethnic Uighur activist from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China, is being detained incommunicado by security forces in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. He is at risk of imminent forcible return to China, where he could face torture or other ill-treatment, unfair trial, and possibly execution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/970/1/Stolen-ethnic-minority-kids-victims-of-Chinese-Fagins/index.html Following the freeing of 1000 children held as slave workers in brick kilns in China, a new report reveals a nationwide network of Fagins living off more than 4000 stolen children trained to steal and beg. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/969/1/China-Confiscates-Muslims-Passports/index.html Authorities in northwestern China have begun confiscating the passports of Muslims, mostly members of the Uyghur ethnic minority, apparently to prevent them from making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, local residents and officials say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/967/1/Pakistan-no-to-forcible-return-of-Uighurs-to-China/index.html Ahead of a bilateral meeting between China and Pakistan, Amnesty International is urging the Pakistan government not to forcibly return 22 unnamed Uighurs to China for fear that they could be at risk of serious human rights violations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/960/1/Chinas-Right-to-Punish-Secessionist-Activists/index.html In her May 30 editorial-page essay "My Chinese Jailers," Rebiya Kadeer accused China of punishing her son out of retaliation for her human-rights activism. This is sheer slander. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/956/1/Chinese-leave-Guantanamo-for-Albanian-limbo/index.html Ahktar Qassim Basit says he is not angry about the four years he spent as an American prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, before his captors mumbled a brief apology and flew him to this drab Balkan capital to begin a new life as a refugee. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/955/1/Canada-vows-to-press-China-on-lack-of-democracy/index.html Canada turned up the pressure on China over human rights on Friday, telling President Hu Jintao that it would pursue Beijing's "problems with the lack of democracy," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/954/1/China-blasts-Bushs-meeting-with-Uighur-activist-calls-it-interference/index.html China blasted U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday for interfering in Beijing's affairs by meeting with a prominent Muslim activist who is an outspoken critic of China's rule in the far western Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/953/1/China-lashes-at-Bush-for-meeting-rights-activist/index.html China condemned on Thursday an announced meeting between U.S. President George Bush and an exiled activist demanding autonomy for Xinjiang, the tense and heavily Muslim region in the nation's far west. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/952/1/China-angry-over-US-presidents-meeting-with-activist/index.html China has expressed anger over a meeting between US President George W Bush and a prominent exiled Uighur Muslim accused by Beijing of secessionist activities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/950/1/Bush-meets-Chinas-exiled-Uighur-leader/index.html US President George W. Bush met the exiled leader of China's Uighur Muslims on Tuesday, US Uighurs said, as he accused Beijing of jailing her sons in retaliation against her human rights campaign. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/949/1/Celil-granted-access-to-lawyer-in-jail-after-Martin-visit-with-Chinese-PM/index.html Jailed Canadian activist Huseyin Celil has finally been allowed to meet with his lawyer, more than a month after a Chinese court sentenced him to life in prison for terrorism-related offences. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/934/1/Uyghur-Wire-Walker-Breaks-World-Record/index.html An ethnic Uyghur from northwest China has won an international tightrope competition in South Korea, highlighting the importance of the ancient practice in his homeland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/933/1/Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-Speaks-at-MIT-on-Human-Rights-of-Uyghurs/index.html Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Uyghur democratic movement, has spoken on the Chinese government's egregious human rights violations of the Uyghur people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the evening of May 15th. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/931/1/A-group-of-60-Uyghur-human-rights-defenders-at-the-European-Parliament/index.html From 7 to 11 May, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and the UNPO organized a capacity-building seminar in The Hague (Netherlands) for Uyghurs from around the free world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/925/1/China-denies-targeting-exiled-dissidents-family/index.html China has arrested relatives of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer not because of their connection to her but because they broke the law, a senior official said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/927/1/Using-Terrorism-to-Justify-Repression/index.html The U.S. War on Terror has inspired far-reaching and unexpected consequences. Rebiya Kadeer will speak at MIT tonight on how the Uyghur Muslim minority in western China has endured one such consequence: the Chinese have adopted our rhetoric, equating Islam with violent separatism and global terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/922/1/Strengthening-the-Uyghur-Voice/index.html The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) gathered more than 50 present and future leaders of the Uyghur community for a series of workshops and seminars to introduce  participants to the workings of key international bodies and effective nonviolent campaigning. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/919/1/China-Slams-US-Religious-Freedom-Report/index.html Beijing accused a U.S. advisory panel on Tuesday of taking "potshots" at China in a report that accuses the government of imprisoning and torturing people for practicing their religion. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/917/1/Beijing-is-always-watching/index.html For Mehmet Tohti, it was the Canadian equivalent of the midnight knock on the door. The phone rang in his Mississauga apartment shortly before bedtime, and on the other end of the line was his mother Turmisa, who lives in the northern Chinese city of Karghilik. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/915/1/IU-wins-grant-to-train-future-military-officers-in-strategic-languages-and-cultures/index.html Indiana University has been selected to receive a two-year federal grant for $481,630 to provide strategic language and culture training to undergraduate students in Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/914/1/China-aghast-at-sacrifice-of-288-pupils/index.html When the first flames flared around the theatre’s stage, many of the excited Chinese children watching must have thought it was all part of the show. Within minutes 288 of them were dead, a tragedy that has haunted their parents for more than a decade but was forgotten by many as China began its headlong rush to prosperity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/913/1/A-western-passport-should-mean-something/index.html I shall never forget my father telling me about his visit to India in the 1980s. Until that time, despite the fact that he had lived in England since 1967, he still held romantic ideas that he would return to his homeland one day. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/911/1/Chinese-skywalker-wins-world-high-wire-championship/index.html China's Abdusattar Ghoja Abdulla on Saturday won what is billed as the world's first high wire championship, organizers of the unusual stunt said. Ghoja Abdulla (Wujiabudula), an ethnic Uighur, took 11 minutes 22.49 seconds to walk a one-kilometer (3,300-foot)-long and three-centimeter (1.2-inch) thick wire strung across the Han River in the South Korean capital. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/910/1/Providing-Uyghur-Leaders-with-the-Means-to-Protect--Promote-their-Human-Rights/index.html Institutional reform is often central to plans to ensure the international community does more to protect and promote human rights across the world. True engagement with those in most need of international assistance requires however also attention to the obstacles that prevent grass-roots activists from accessing these institutions - obstacles as basic as a lack of information about these international bodies and the complex means in which they work and interact. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/907/1/Tent-Archeological-Camp-near-the-Tuvan-Lake-Prepared-to-Host-First-Specialists/index.html A recent inspection to the Tere-Khol district in Tuva, where this summer a large-scale archeological expedition will start excavations on the ancient Uyghur Fortress 'Por-Bazhyn', has proven tha camp is almost ready to host in late May the first shift of over 150 students and 50 specialists and service workers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/906/1/High-wire-artists-perform-death-defying-feats-at-Seoul-event/index.html Five took part in the first day of the competition, of whom two failed, plunging into the chilly water before being saved by waiting boats. Abudusataer Wujiabudula, a 20-year-old ethnic Uighur man from China, clocked the day's best time of 11 minutes and 22 seconds. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/905/1/Democracy--Human-Rights-Uyghur-Leadership-Seminar/index.html UNPO together with the World Uyghur Congress  is organizing a seminar series in which Uyghur participants will be trained and educated in issues such as human rights, democracy, non-violent methodology and international law. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/902/1/Huseyin-Celils-Case-Canadians-Want-Assertive-Condemnation-of-China/index.html Many adults in Canada believe their federal administration should do more to assist Huseyin Celil, according to a poll by Angus Reid Strategies. 46 per cent of respondents think the Canadian government should protest Celil’s sentence in China through regular diplomatic channels, and 27 per cent want Ottawa to publicly condemn China’s actions, even if it risks possible zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/899/1/Canadian-minister-banned-from-meeting-jailed-Canadian/index.html Sino-Canadian relations go sour over treatment of a Uighur-Canadian jailed for life and intellectual property laws. China wants to focus on trade, but Canada insists on protecting rights and complains about Chinese spying on its territory. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/897/1/Canada-harping-on-human-rights/index.html  In a new sign of tense relations, China has accused the Canadian government of "harping on human rights" and "aggressively lobbying" for the release of an alleged terrorist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/895/1/82-Inmates-Cleared-but-Still-Held-at-Guantanamo/index.html More than a fifth of the approximately 385 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared for release but may have to wait months or years for their freedom because U.S. officials are finding it increasingly difficult to line up places to send them, according to Bush administration officials and defense lawyers. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/894/1/Canadian-FM-demands-access-to-citizen-jailed-in-China/index.html Canada's Foreign Minister Peter MacKay demanded consular access to a jailed Canadian citizen in China on Monday during a meeting with his newly appointed counterpart Yang Jiechi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/889/1/China-again-tells-Canada-not-to-meddle-in-Celil-case/index.html Canada has no right to interfere in the case of a Canadian Muslim activist sentenced this month to life in prison in China for alleged terror links, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/888/1/China-boom-threatens-minorities/index.html Some of China's biggest minority groups are failing to benefit from China's rapid economic development, a new report has found. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/886/1/Inherited-Persecution---China-imprisons-the-son-of-a-human-rights-activist/index.html Last week China sentenced Ablikim Abdureyim to nine years in prison. His crime? Having a human rights activist for a mother. His mother, Rebiya Kadeer, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, had been warned. When she was released from her imprisonment in 2005 to the United States, she was told to keep quiet about China's treatment of Uighurs, a Turkic-language Muslim minority. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/885/1/Leading-Uighur-Activist-Imprisoned-in-China-for-Sedition/index.html ARTICLE 19 strongly protests the conviction yesterday of Uighur activist Ablikim Abdiriyim, allegedly for separatist acts resulting from his peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression through the Internet. Abdiriyim was sentenced to nine years imprisonment and three years deprivation of political rights on the basis that he was “instigating and engaging in secessionist activities , turning the public against the Chinese government and distorting China’s human rights and ethnic policies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/884/1/Canada-angry-at-Uighur-sentence/index.html Canada has condemned the authorities in China for sentencing a Canadian Uighur rights activist to life imprisonment. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/883/1/China-Canadian-Uighur-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/celil.html Husein Dzhelil, a Canadian citizen, was sentenced today to life imprisonment by the Urumqi Intermediate People's Court for "plotting to split the country" and to 10 years in prison for joining a terrorist organization. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/881/1/Chinas-development-strategy-fails-to-benefit-critical-ethnic-minorities-and-masks-repression/index.html China's massive economic development strategy, touted to benefit rural ethnic groups in its western regions, in practice excludes, marginalizes, and masks the increased repression of ethnic minority groups such as Mongols, Tibetans, and Uyghurs, according to a new report by Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and Human Rights in China (HRIC). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/879/1/HRIC-Statement-HRIC-Condemns-Rights-Violations-and-Harsh-Sentence-in-Ablikim-Abdureyims-Case/index.html Human Rights in China (HRIC) condemns the harsh sentencing of Ablikim Abdureyim, the son of prominent Uyghur human rights defender Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/878/1/Further-Action-Needed-for-Rebiya-Kadeers-Family-at-Risk-of-Ill-Treatment-and-Unfair-Trial-in-China/index.html Ablikim Abdiriyim, third son of Uighur activist Rebiya  Kadeer, was sentenced on 17 April to nine years'  imprisonment on charges of ''instigation and engaging in  secessionist activities''. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/876/1/Canadian-activist-given-life-sentence-in-China/index.html A Canadian human rights campaigner jailed in China after allegations that he was linked to terrorism was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, the official Xinhua press agency said, in a ruling that could ratchet up political tensions between the countries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/875/1/China-Pakistan-sign-13-agreements/index.html China and Pakistan on Tuesday signed 13 agreements on cooperation in fields such as space, telecommunications, education and legal assistance, vowing to raise their strategic partnership "to a new level". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/874/1/Secret-Trial---Nine-Years-Imprisonment-Son-of-Prominent-Uyghur-Human-Rights-Activist-Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-Sentenced/unpo.html On 17 April 2007 Ablikim Abdureyim, son of prominent Uyghur Human Rights activist and twice Nobel Prize nominee Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment for “instigating and engaging in secessionist activities by the People’s Court of Urumchi in north-west China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/872/1/China-Sentences-Activists-Son/index.html The son of a prominent U.S.-based Chinese Muslim activist was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison on subversion charges, a state news agency said. Ablikim Abdureyim was sentenced in Urumqi, capital of the Muslim Xinjiang region in China's far west, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The government says it is fighting an Islamic separatist movement in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/866/1/Uyghur-Skywalker-Plans-Two-Mile-Sea-Crossing/adil.html A Uyghur acrobat who has already crossed one of China's rugged Yangtze river gorges by tightrope has now set his sights set on a stretch of water between the toe of Italy's boot and the island of Sicily. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/859/1/Por-Bazhyn-Archeological-Expedition-in-Tuva-Prepared/index.html A large archeological camp in the Tere-Khol district of Tuva is getting ready to host over 1000 people this summer. Preparation works are under way. The camp will be based on the former fish-storage place 8 km away from the Kungurtuk village, administrative center of the Tere-Khol district. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/858/1/I-want-justice----Celils-wife/index.html Standing in the chilly rain, Kamila Telendibaeva vows through chattering teeth that she'll fight to free her husband from a Chinese prison until he is returned to her and their four children in Burlington. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/857/1/Beijing-aims-to-increase-its-control-of-ethnic-minorities/index.html A plan announced yesterday will fund the economic development of ethnic minorities, often among the nations poorest peoples. But there will also be a system of social control of minorities to prevent protests. Particular attention is paid to the Uyghurs of Xinjiang and Tibet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/856/1/Uyghurs-in-Forced-Labor-To-Grow-Chinas-Almonds/index.html Chinese authorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region are forcing tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs into producing almonds for the county government without pay, local residents and one official say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/855/1/Uyghur-women-from-throughout-the-world-attend-leadership-workshop-in-Washington-DC/index.html On March 23 and 24, more than 60 Uyghur women from around the globe gathered at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. to attend a Uyghur women’s leadership workshop, held by the International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/850/1/a-hrefnewsindexhtmlworkshopTHE-UYGHUR-WOMENS-WORKSHOP--HUMAN-RIGHTS-AND-DEMOCRACYa.html The International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation (IUHRDF) is pleased to hold the Uyghur Women’s Workshop from March 23 to 24 at the National Endowment for Democracy, 1025 F Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/849/1/China-tightening-Olympics-security/index.html China's top security official insisted yesterday that tighter controls were needed to stop next year's Olympic Games from being disrupted by "hostile forces," including foreigners. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/845/1/China-campagning-against-Rebiya-Kadeer-and-WUC/index.html UNPO, Rafto, Human Rights in China, Society for Threatened Peoples, Non-violent Radical Party, Human Rights House Foundation and No Peace Without Justice have issued a Joint Statement in response to concerns raised by the Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the European Union. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/844/1/Wifes-plea-for-SAs-forgotten-terrorist/index.html AN ADELAIDE man jailed in a former Stalinist labour camp in Central Asia as a convicted terrorist has appealed to the Federal Government not to forget about him. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/843/1/Xinjiang-chief-judge-vows-high-pressure-on-terrorism/index.html Courts in Xinjiang will put sustained high pressure on the "three evil forces" of terrorism, separatism and extremism, said Rozi Ismail, chief judge of the northwest Chinese autonomous region, on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/842/1/Pawns-in-Guantanamos-game/index.html THE NEW SHERIFF in town at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has already set a different tone by firing officials responsible for the Walter Reed scandal. But there is a Walter Reed-style scandal of human rights abuses now festering at the Guantanamo detention center in Cuba that becomes his responsibility the longer it continues under his watch. Gates can begin the process of restoring the United States' reputation as a respecter of human rights by releasing 17 Guantanamo detainees from China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/841/1/Xinjiang-sees-less-terrorist-activity-China/index.html China's restive far western region of Xinjiang is becoming more stable with less and less terrorist activity, its chairman said on Friday, although he said that at least one outlawed group had links to al Qaeda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/840/1/Kazakhstan-and-China-Deadlock-Over-Depletion-of-a-Major-Lake/index.html A conference that convened here this week to address the fate of an ecologically threatened Central Asian basin the size of California has ended in stalemate between Kazakhstan and China, the two countries most reliant on its waters. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/836/1/Amnesty-International-Urgent-Action---Grave-health-fears-for-Rebiya-Kadeers-son/index.html Amnesty International has learnt from reliable sources that Ablikim Abdiriyim, third son of Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, has been tried in secret. Ablikim Abdiriyim is reportedly very ill as a result of beatings suffered in detention, and continues to be denied access to the medical treatment he needs. Amnesty International is gravely concerned about his health and fears that his life may be at risk. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/832/1/China-Detains-Uyghurs-Over-Separatist-Poster/index.html A handwritten poster that the Chinese authorities designated “separatist when it appeared in a remote town in the northwestern Uyghur region of Xinjiang has led to wave of arrests, interrogations, and fines for local people over the past three-and-a-half years, including the detention of two high school students. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/831/1/Our-passport-no-shield/index.html The lure of "home'' is powerful. But a Canadian passport is no guarantee that citizens won't come to grief when they venture into perilous realms. This is self-evidently true for naturalized Canadians who have previously fled from those areas, precisely because they believed themselves at risk of persecution and prosecution. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/828/1/Martin-Waynes-piece-is-quite-telling---but-not-about-East-Turkestan/index.html It's taken me a few days to get a functioning URL of Martin Wayne's Asia Times piece on East Turkestan; mea culpa for that. However, I have now had the chance to examine Wayne's assertion that Communist China (a) has confronted al Qaeda, (b) has largely handled al Qaeda, and (c) its performance in "Xinjiang" can be a model for the rest of the world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/827/1/Supporters-seeking-new-lawyer-for-Celil/index.html Supporters of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen detained in China, say that his court-appointed lawyer is inadequate and that Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs has recommended they obtain independent legal advice there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/824/1/GUNS-AND-STEEL-ON-THE-SILK-ROAD---High-Noon-in-Chinas-Far-West/index.html China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns are rising in Beijing of ethnic unrest in the border region. Its plans for economic development there may be in trouble. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/823/1/VOA-Uzbek-TV-Interviews-Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer/index.html VOA Uzbek Service Television has interviewed Ms. Rebiya Kadeer regarding the human rights situation of the Uyghur people, especially the case of Ismail Semed and Huseyin Celil. This weekly program was directly broadcast into Uzbekistan via satellites. Ms. Kadeer has eloquently answered all the questioned asked by the host of the show. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/821/1/HUS-SAFARI-CHINAS-EMERGING-STRATEGIC-PARTNERSHIPS-IN-AFRICA/index.html Chinese President Hu Jintao wrapped up his eight-country, twelve-day African tour this month in the midst of controversy regarding China’s role in the continent. Government officials from the countries that received China’s leader expressed gratitude for their guest’s generous offers of aid, cancellations of debt and promises of trade and investment. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/818/1/Absolved-Guantanamo-detainees-have-nowhere-to-go/index.html Abu Bakker Qassim faced an unusual situation for a man in prison: His captors, the U.S. military, had essentially declared him innocent. Then again, most of his situation seemed highly unusual. For nearly five years, since being rounded up by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001, Qassim, an ethnic Uighur Muslim from the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, sat in the detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/817/1/Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer-Attends-Reception-In-Honor-of-Former-Czech-President-Vaclav-Havel/index.html Ms. Rebiya Kadeer has attended the "Dissidents and the Fight for Freedom," featuring His Excellency Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic on Tuesday. This wonderful event, joined by dissidents and human rights activists from around the world, was organized by the Library of Congress in cooperation with the National Endowment of Democracy. Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, representing the Uyghur people, praised President Havel for his great contribution to the promotion of human rights and democracy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/815/1/Caught-in-the-grip-of-Beijing/index.html He is a very stubborn man, a pious imam and a proud Uighur. He's drawn the wrath of China's authorities who brand him a terrorist. Huseyin Celil is also a Canadian, jailed in an unknown prison in western China. And his case is straining relations between the two nations zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/814/1/Widow-of-Uyghur-Pop-Star-Suspects-He-Was-Poisoned/index.html The widow of an ethnic Uyghur Russian popstar who died in Moscow Jan. 19 has denied reports that her husband committed suicide, saying she suspects he may have been poisoned. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/808/1/Viewing-Two-Chinas-From-a-Stop-on-the-Silk-Road/index.html Globalization has always been a dodgy term. As a clever neologism, it flatters our need to believe that the times we inhabit offer something truly new. Pause to think about it more clearly, though, and even a basic knowledge of geography or history turns up examples in almost every corner of the globe of the kinds of intercourse that turns global into globalization. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/807/1/Ruined-Uyghur-Fortress-in-Tuva-to-Host-a-Large-Scale-Archeological-Expedition/index.html Tuva is going to turn into an archeological Mekka from this year on. A large-scale archeological expedition is going to start this summer in an ancient fortress on a Tere-Khol lake ireland, project initiator, Russian minister for Emergencies Sergei Shoigu told Tuvan journalists in an online video press-conference connecting Kyzyl and Moscow. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/806/1/Human-rights-must-come-before-trade-with-China-Harper-says/index.html Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will continue championing the cause of human rights in China despite warnings from a Chinese official that it could hurt Canada’s trade relations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/805/1/Terrifying-parallels/index.html The wife of a Burlington man imprisoned in China is reeling after hearing that another man, detained for similar reasons, has been executed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/803/1/Canadian-Chinese-row/index.html A row between Canada and China over human rights sharpened when Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Beijing against expanding the dispute into bilateral trade. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/802/1/PM-vows-to-help-jailed-imam/index.html Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he won't let Huseyin Celil languish in a foreign jail as the former Liberal government did with Maher Arar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/800/1/Wife-of-man-in-Chinese-jail-presses-Ottawa-to-do-more/index.html Huseyin Celil's wife is begging the Conservative government to do more to free her husband from a Chinese jail. "They can do more," Kamila Telendibaeva told the Toronto Star yesterday from the Burlington home she shares with her four young children, who are desperate to see their father after almost a year's separation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/798/1/Celils-desperate-family-had-given-up-hope/celil.html When he was marched in handcuffs into a courtroom in this remote Chinese city last week, Huseyin Celil was like a man returning from the grave. His family had been convinced that he was probably dead. For months, they had been hounding the prisons of Urumqi, begging for any news of him. They searched computer records and spoke to prison staff, desperate for any sign that the Canadian religious leader was still alive. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/797/1/Uyghur-Activist-Executed-in-China/semed.html Chinese authorities in the far-west city of Urumqi today executed an ethnic Uyghur man for allegedly attempting to “split the [Chinese] motherland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/796/1/China-Canada-row-over-imprisoned-Celil-escalates/celil.html China insists that the case of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian activist jailed in China last spring, is not subject to consular agreements. But Canada disagrees. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/795/1/Canada-China-row-intensifies-over-terrorism-charges/celil.html The Canadian government came under fire Thursday for its handling of a diplomatic row with China, after the family of a Chinese-Canadian held on terrorism charges said he had been abandoned by Canadian diplomats. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/792/1/China-says-consular-pact-doesnt-apply-to-Celil-case/celil.html The case of a Canadian activist jailed for alleged terrorist links will be handled according to Chinese law and is not subject to consular agreements, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/791/1/China-rejects-concerns-about-Muslim-activist/celil.html China said on Thursday Canadian diplomats had no right to be present at a court hearing for a Chinese Uighur Muslim accused of terrorism who was awarded joint Canandian citizenship two years ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/790/1/-Chinese-police-tortured-activist-family-says/celil.html A Canadian imprisoned in China told a courtroom he was tortured last year by Chinese secret police, including being starved, constantly questioned and threatened with being buried alive and "disappeared," relatives of Huseyin Celil say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/789/1/Canadian-diplomats-told-to-follow-Chinese-trial-of-Canadian-Uighur/celil.html An angry Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has ordered his diplomats to follow the trial in China of an ethnic Uighur Canadian citizen Beijing has arrested on terrorism charges, according to a media report. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/788/1/PM-irked-as-diplomats-miss-activists-hearing/celil.html Angered by what he believes is lack of attention to a serious human-rights case, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is demanding an explanation for why no Canadian diplomat was present at the recent court appearance of a Canadian man accused of terrorist activities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/786/1/Canadians-trial-starts-in-China-family-learns/celil.html The trial of a Canadian imam detained in China and accused of terrorist activities has finally begun, his family says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/785/1/Protest-marks-Xinjiang-massacre/ghulja.html Dozens of exiled Uighur Muslims have protested outside China’s embassy in Washington DC on the 10th anniversary of a massacre that some say was on a similar scale to events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/784/1/Uyghurs-in-the-US-Commemorate-the-10th-Anniversary-of-the-Ghulja-Massacre/ghulja.html Uyghur Americans have held a peaceful protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC on February 5, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre. More than a 100 Uyghurs and friends of Uyghurs attended this demonstration to protest the killing of hundreds of and imprisonment of thousands of Uyghurs by the Chinese security forces on February 5, 1997. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/783/1/Remembering-the-victims-of-police-brutality-in-Gulja-Xinjiang-on-5-6-February-1997/ghulja.html On Saturday 3 February, about 50-60 Uighurs organized a demonstration in front of the Chinese embassy in Brussels to remind the Chinese authorities of the massacre that was perpetrated on 5-6 February 1997 against their community in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonamous Region of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/782/1/They-never-touch-another-living-thing---For-Camp-6-detainees-life-at-Guantanamo-gets-worse/index.html Abdul Helil Mamut's good behavior earned him a spot in a medium-security compound at the Guantanamo Bay prison, where he slept in a barracks, shared leisurely meals with other prisoners and could spend more than half the day in an outdoor recreation area. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/779/1/Nobel-Peace-Prize-2007-Gore-Ahtisaari-or-Chinas-Kadeer/index.html Former US vice president Al Gore is seen as a possible winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to save the planet from global warming, the head of the Oslo Peace Research Institute has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/778/1/Remember-the-Gulja-massacre-Chinas-crackdown-on-peaceful-protesters/ghulja.html "I have never seen such viciousness in my life...military dogs were attacking peaceful demonstrators. Chinese soldiers were bludgeoning the demonstrators……bodies, some alive, others dead, were being dragged across the ground and dumped all together into dozens of army trucks." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/776/1/Ancient-Uigur-Fortress-on-a-Tuvan-Lake-to-Turn-into-a-Recreation-and-Tourist-Centre/January-19-2007.html An ancient Uigur Fortress (Por-Bazhyn) on a Tere-Khol lake in the eastern part of Tuva (near Kungurtuk village) can become a 'Russian Shaolin' as Sergei Shoigu, native Tuvan and currently Russian minister for Extraordinary Situations (second in popularity after President Putin Russian) put it in today's Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/775/1/Uighurs-Detention-Conditions-Condemned/index.html Chinese Uighurs who have been imprisoned for the past month at a new state-of-the-art detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being held around the clock in near-total isolation, a circumstance their lawyers say is rapidly degrading their mental health, according to an affidavit filed in federal court yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/770/1/Mahathir-presented-with-Uyghur-hat/index.html Musical extravaganza Mystical Steppes: Along the Silk Road continued to enthral its audience on the second day of its performance. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/769/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-placed-in-nightmarish-solitary-lawyer/index.html The US placed ethnic Uighur detainees from China at its Guantanamo prison under extremely brutal solitary confinement after they petitioned for their release in December, a lawyer has said in a court motion. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/773/1/Beijing-inflicts-a-defeat-on-al-Qaeda/index.html Al-Qaeda has a China problem, and no one is watching. Despite sig- nificant efforts to support Muslim insurgents, Beijing has succeeded in limiting popular support for anti-government violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/768/1/It-could-have-been-me/index.html A businesswoman once celebrated by the Chinese authorities was forced to flee to the US because she stood up for human rights. Now her children are being persecuted. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/765/1/Making-up-with-Beijing-wont-help-us/index.html Tim Armstrong says Canada should take China to task over its trade obligations since it will only ignore us on rights issues zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/764/1/Ministers-pledge-to-continue-fight-on-Celil-prison-case/index.html Despite a new emphasis on boosting trade with China, two federal cabinet ministers are pledging to keep fighting for the cause of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian behind bars in an unknown Chinese prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/761/1/Gentle-film-delivers-a-tough-message---Uighur-orphans-walk-a-tightrope-between-Communist-and-Muslim-cultures/index.html How does a documentary filmmaker, who is committed to exposing human rights issues, gain access to members of a vanishing culture in one of the most repressive countries in the world? And, once inside, how does that filmmaker document the repression of that culture without endangering those he seeks to protect. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/759/1/A-voice-for-the-Uyghurs/index.html Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent Uyghur businesswoman and political activist, was detained in Xinjiang in August 1999 and subsequently sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of “leaking state secrets after sending newspaper clippings to her husband in the United States. She was released early on “medical parole on March 14, 2005 and sent to the U.S. In 2006 Kadeer was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. CRF interviewed her on October 26 regarding her efforts on behalf of the uyghur people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/755/1/Chinas-the-cruellest-country/index.html Umar Aziz paid the price for sporting a beard in China. Scarred and scared, the 31-year-old Uighur from Hotan -- in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China -- has now gone underground in New Delhi. Because though the UNHCR has organised a visa for him to go to Sweden, the Indian government is yet to clear it. And each day brings the possibility of Bejing demanding his extradition as a terrorist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/748/1/Kazakstan-Masimov-May-Signal-New-Reform-Priorities/index.html The new Kazak premier, Karim Masimov, may be asked by the president to accelerate political reforms, but is unlikely to wield any more influence over government policy than his predecessors. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/744/1/Guantanamo-Uighurs-strange-odyssey/index.html Sipping orange juice before their midday prayers sit three men once treated as terrorists by two of the world's most powerful nations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/745/1/Albanian-fix-for-Guantanamo-dilemma/index.html America's former terror suspects are embarking on new lives as refugees in Albania. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/741/1/VOA-Chinese-Service-Satellite-TV-Interviews-Ms-Rebiya-Kadeer/index.html Voice of America Chinese Service Satellite Television has interviewed Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Uyghur people, in its program "Issues and Opinion" on Wednesday. This is a live program directly broadcast to China via satellite. Many Chinese callers have called in and asked questions from Ms. Kadeer. She has eloquently answered all of them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/740/1/Kazakh-Parliament-Approves-New-Prime-Minister---An-Ethnic-Uyghur/index.html Kazakhstan has a new prime minister as a joint session of parliament today overwhelmingly approved Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev's nomination of Karim Masimov, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/739/1/Chinese-separatists-killed-in-raid/index.html More than 2000 police and residents in the Xinjiang region of north-western China attended the funeral of a police officer killed in a gun battle at what Beijing called a terrorist camp, state media said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/738/1/US-based-Muslim-activist-urges-UN-probe-of-Chinese-terror-raid-that-killed-18/index.html An exiled Chinese Muslim activist urged China on Wednesday to allow an independent probe of a bloody raid in the country's restive west and challenged Beijing's claim that 18 alleged militants killed had links to international terrorists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/735/1/China-admits-fear-of-Muslim-terror-as-police-kill-18-in-mountain-battle/index.html China revealed the depth of its fear of Islamic-linked violence yesterday when police disclosed that they had killed 18 terrorists and captured another 17 after a fierce battle at a secret training camp in a remote northwestern region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/734/1/Doubt-raised-over-terrorism-in-Chinas-restive-west/index.html In the worldwide battle against terrorism, China has until now stood out as a terrorism free zone. Yet on Tuesday, the country's citizens woke to the headlines: 'Terrorists killed in Xinjiang.' zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/732/1/Chinese-police-kill-18-terrorists-in-Xinjiang/index.html The raid, occurred Friday, was publicized today by the police. According to China, Muslim separatists are linked with al- Qaeda. But many critics accuse China of using the excuse of terrorism to suppress religion and Uighur identity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/730/1/Chinese-police-kill-18-suspects-in-raid-on-alleged-terror-camp/index.html Chinese police killed 18 suspects and arrested 17 others during a raid on an alleged terrorist camp in a far western mountain region near the Pakistan border, a police official said Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/728/1/China-steps-up-campaign-against-exiled-Uighur-rights-activist/rebiya.html China's ruling Communist Party has stepped up a campaign denouncing an exiled dissident nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize as a separatist and "terrorist". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/722/1/font-colorquotbluequotMs-Rebiya-Kadeer-Meets-with-Canadian-Prime-Minister-Stephen-Harperfont.html On the photo (from left to right): Alim Seytoff, WUC Executive Chairman/UAA General Secretary, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, Uyghur leader, Mohamet Tohti, WUC Vice-president/UCA President Ms. Rebiya Kadeer has met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on December 12th, 2006. Ms. Kadeer has visited Canada from December 8 to 14 to raise awareness of the present plight of the Uyghur people and to get support for the release of Uyghur Canadian Huseyin Celil who is still in Chinese custody. Ms. Kadeer has been welcomed by all levels of Canadian Government and Parliament. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/724/1/A-Voice-for-the-Uyghurs.html Ms. Rebiya Kadeer talks to Stacy Mosher, director of communications at Human Rights in China (HRIC), about her efforts on behalf of the Uyghur people. This interview is published at China Rights Forum by HRIC. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/723/1/Uighur-tribals-peeved-at-denial-of-share-in-tourism-revenues/index.html A sleepy village of grape-growers strung along a stream trickling out of the arid mountains in China's remote northwestern Xinjiang region, its main attractions are a small Muslim shrine and a handful of defaced Buddhist grottoes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/721/1/Wife-urges-action-on-jailed-hubby-minister/celil.html The wife of a Canadian man imprisoned in China hopes an overseas trip by Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay will help bring her husband home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/715/1/Celil-family-dare-to-hope/ceilil.html The wife of a Burlington man imprisoned in China hopes an overseas trip by Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay will help bring her husband home. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/713/1/VOA-Satellite-TV-Interviews-Mr-Alim-Seytoff-UAA-General-Secretary/voa.html Voice of America Chinese Service Satellite TV has interviewed Mr. Alim Seytoff, General Secretary of UAA (WUC Executive Chairman), on Tuesday in its program "Issues and Opinions." The program was broadcast live to China at the time of interview. Many interested Chinese callers called Mr. Seytoff and asked him all kinds of questions regarding the Uyghur people and history. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/712/1/Speech-by-Volker-Beck-human-rights-policy/index.html Speech by Volker Beck, PM of German Parlament. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/711/1/Communist-Chinas-Promise-of-Self-Rule-to-Xinjiang-Uyghur-was-a-Lie/rabiye-kanada.html Rebiya Kadeer said, the CCP guaranteed the autonomy of Xinjiang Uyghur in 1955. But now, the CCP transfers Uyghur youths aged 17 to 27 to China's inland schools, to stop them from staying in the local Uyghur regions to be educated zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/706/1/China-Rule-of-Law-Abuses-Unacceptable-USCIRF-Says/uscirf.html The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan federal agency, is concerned by recent reports of torture, intimidation of witnesses, and other due process violations by Chinese authorities in the prosecutions of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng and the three sons of exiled Uighur human rights advocate Rebiya Kadeer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/705/1/Visiting-Activist-Says-Canada-Should-Take-Lead-on-Chinese-Human-Rights/rabiye.html Rebiya Kadeer has been likened to the Dalai Lama. The prominent Uighur (pronounced wee-gur) activist was short-listed for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. On Tuesday she testified before a Canadian parliamentary committee in Ottawa urging Canada to make the human rights of the Uighur people and the release of Uighur-Canadian Huseyin Celil "top priority" in relations with the Chinese. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/704/1/MP-makes-Celil-appeal/huseyin.html NDP human rights critic Wayne Marston recently made a plea for a Canadian diplomatic envoy to advocate on behalf of Burlington's Huseyincan Celil, who is in a Chinese prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/703/1/Press-China-to-free-Canadian-MPs-urged/huseyin.html Canadian MPs should start a letter campaign to pressure China into freeing a Canadian citizen jailed there since June, says a human-rights activist who is working for his release. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/702/1/Wife-Amnesty-plead-for-release-of-Canadian-Muslim-held-in-China/huseyin.html Amnesty International and the wife of a Canadian Imam jailed in China demanded his release, saying he is among thousands of ethnic Uyghurs "hunted down" and wrongly prosecuted by Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/701/1/Australias-forgotten-Uyghur-prisoner/nurpolat.html A DRUNK witness, planted evidence, a forced confession and a tale of Osama bin Laden links have landed an Australian in a Kazakh gulag for six years, his family says. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/700/1/Human-rights-activist-champions-Uyghur-cause/rabiye.html To the Uyghur people, a Muslim minority group engaged with Chinese authorities in a long-running struggle for independence, Ms. Kadeer is a hero -- someone who paid dearly, and continues to pay, for standing up to Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/697/1/Fighting-for-the-rights-of-Uyghurs/rabiye.html Rebiya Kadeer, once one of China's richest entrepreneurs, traded her privileged life in Xinjiang to live in exile near Washington, D.C., as the voice of the persecuted Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic minority in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/696/1/Assistant-Secretary-Sauerbrey-Meets-Uyghur-Human-Rights-Activists/rabiye.html Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen  Sauerbrey met Uyghur human rights activists, Rebiya Kadeer, leader of  the Uyghur human rights movement, and Alim Seytoff, General Secretary  of the Uyghur American Association, in her office at the Department  of State. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/695/1/Chinas-ethnic-minority-kids-caught-in-language-trap/index.html Wearing an NBA sweatshirt and a Mickey Mouse cap, 13-year-old Mingbayi Abdubaki plays beside the mountainous highway to Pakistan with a battery-powered earth digger he built himself from scrap. The Chinese teenager hopes to design real machines when he grows up, but if you believe his headmaster, he cannot understand a word of classes at his state-funded school. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/694/1/Kazakstan-Under-Fire-For-Reported-Extradition-of-Uighur/unhcr.html The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said Kazakstan’s legal system lacks transparency and is failing to protect the rights of asylum-seekers. Commentators interviewed by NBCentralAsia say violations of international obligations to protect refugees are damaging to the country’s reputation, and they recommend that a law on refugees be introduced as soon as possible. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/693/1/Let-Chinese-Muslims-at-Guantanamo-go-lawyers-say/guantanamo.html Lawyers for seven Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay have asked a federal court to order their release, arguing they were captured in the same circumstances as others who were freed from U.S. custody. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/692/1/PetroChina-To-Double-Gas-Output-From-Tarim-In-06/oil.html PetroChina Co. (PTR) will double its natural gas output from the Tarim oil field in the northwestern Xinjiang region this year, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday, citing a company official. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/691/1/cbc-Dispatches---Anthony-Germain-tour-in-East-Turkistan/cbc.html A journey to the far West of the far East -- to Xinjiang province home for the past 4,000 years to the Uyghurs of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/690/1/Lawyers-Demand-Release-of-Chinese-Muslims/index.html Attorneys for a group of Chinese Muslims held for nearly five years in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed suit yesterday, asking that the men be released immediately and alleging that they have been held as part of a political deal between the United States and China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/689/1/UNHCR-Reiterates-Concerns-Over-Kazakhstans-Missing-Chinese-Uyghur/unhcr.html The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) today reiterated concerns over an ethnic Uyghur asylum seeker from China who reportedly disappeared in Almaty in October. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/687/1/Follow-the-Yellow-Silk-Road---Savory-Uyghur-cuisine-comes-of-age-in-Rego-Park/food.html It\'s been nearly a decade since Silk Road cooking first appeared in Queens, at places like Registan—whose name hilariously recast Rego Park as a Central Asian republic—and Uzbekistan Tandoori Bread. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/686/1/RKadeers-Uyghur-Human-Rights-Foundation-Launches-Website/iuhrdf.html The new website of the International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation, IUHRDF, has been launched.  Founded by Rebiya Kadeer in 2005, the year of her release from Chinese prison, the organization is dedicated to promoting human rights and freedom for the Uyghur people.  The website will be a forum to share information about the activities of the organization and to highlight Ms. Kadeer’s work. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/685/1/Straight-Talk-Approach-to-China-Easy-But-Risky/index.html Human rights groups support Harper's tough stance on China, but one expert worries the Chinese government will push back to save faceFalun Gong activists aren't alone in their support for the Canadian government's recent straight-talk on human rights with China, as several human rights groups have expressed their support. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/684/1/Uygur-Muslims---Swamped-by-Han-Influx/Uygur-Muslims---Swamped-by-Han-Influx.html The evening light dances on the glazed pink tiles of the shapely buildings around the ancient Idkah mosque and in the enfolding dusk the site evokes tales from the 'One thousand and one nights'. But the illusion is fleeting -- none of the buildings in this spot, except for the revered mosque, is more than a few years old. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/682/1/Muslim-activists-son-sentenced-to-7-years-in-China-prison-for-tax-evasion-another-fined/rabiye.html The son of a U.S.-based Muslim activist has been sentenced to seven years in a Chinese prison on tax evasion charges, while his brother was fined for the same charges, a rights group said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/681/1/The-World-Uyghur-Congress-Successfully-Concludes-Its-Second-Assembly/wuc.html The World Uyghur Congress has successfully held its Second Assembly from November 24 to 27 in Munich, Germany. Prominent Uyghur political leader and human rights activist Ms. Rebiya Kadeer was unanimously elected as the new President of World Uyghur Congress. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/679/1/China-jails-Uighur-activists-son/1.html The son of a well-known campaigner for the rights of China's Uighur minority has been jailed for tax evasion in the country's north-west Xinjiang province. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/678/1/Canada-pushes-Beijing-on-rights/Canada-pushes-Beijing-on-rights.html Under the former Liberal government of Paul Martin, Canada was for a long time out of step with the rest of the Anglosphere on international affairs and the war on terrorism. The election of conservative Stephen Harper as Prime Minister in February changed that - with one large exception: China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/677/1/Ottawa-expecting-Beijing-to-meet-obligations-on-jailed-man/huseyin.html Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said yesterday the federal government has been given assurances that a Canadian citizen held in China on suspicion of terrorism will not be executed regardless of the outcome of his trial. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/676/1/Another-Christian-Leader-Arrested-and-Imprisoned-in-Xinjiang/Another-Christian-Leader-Arrested-and-Imprisoned-in-Xinjiang.html China Aid Association learned that another Christian was arrested in Xinjiang, which is the 3rd religious persecution event in Xinjiang in the past 2 months. Shandong Administrative Penalty against a House Church was revoked which is the first successful Christian case due to successful legal challenge and CAA 's international media campaign. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/674/1/MacKay-confident-China-wont-execute-Canadian-citizen/huseyin.html The Chinese government has given assurances that a Canadian citizen held on suspicion of terrorism won't face the death penalty, accordiing to Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/672/1/PMs-push-on-Celil-cheers-family/huseyin.html It was brief and unofficial. But the meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Chinese counterpart is an "important first step," say those fighting for the release of a Burlington man jailed in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/671/1/Harper-touts-one-on-one-APEC-work/huseyin.html Harper said his meetings "advanced Canadian interests" and said he did raise the case of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen jailed in China. "As I said to the president, we always have the intention to defend human rights, especially the rights of Canadian citizens." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/669/1/Those-fighting-for-release-of-Canadian-jailed-in-China-hopeful-after-PM-talks/HUSEYIN.html It was brief and unofficial, but those fighting for the release of a Canadian man jailed in China are calling the meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Chinese counterpart an "important first step." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/666/1/Uyghur-Group-Added-To-Kazakh-Terror-List/terror.html A court in Kazakhstan's capital has ordered two groups be added to the country's list of terrorist organizations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/667/1/Doubts-Raised-over-Kazak-China-Gas-Pipeline-Plan/oil.html Despite the announcement that work on a major new gas pipeline from Kazakstan to China will start in 2008, it remains unclear whether the Kazaks have sufficient reserves to make it feasible, especially in view of their other supply commitments. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/664/1/Kazakhstan-UNHCR-concerned-for-Chinese-Uighur-asylum-seeker/UNHCR.html This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 17 November 2006, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/662/1/Harpers-tough-talk-on-China-not-a-surprise/huseyin-harper.html Morality in politics is two-edged. If enough people agree with the principled stand a politician makes, he is a hero. If they do not, he is a fool. This is the curious position in which Prime Minister Stephen Harper finds himself after his blunt (critics would say impolitic) criticisms of China for jailing a man from Burlington named Huseyincan Celil. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/670/1/Hepatitis-B-in-China---B-is-for-bigotry/jiger.html IN CHINA, as elsewhere, people with HIV/AIDS often suffer discrimination. But a far bigger group of virus carriers in China encounters similar bigotry. For 130m Chinese carrying the hepatitis B virus, which can cause fatal liver diseases, it can be hard to get a job—or even a decent education, as a group of schoolchildren in the far west recently found out. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/663/1/Pentagon-sends-Guantanamo-captives-to-Albania/guantanamo.html The Pentagon says it has sent three more Guantánamo captives to Albania for resettlement as refugees -- men from Algeria, Egypt and the former Soviet Union -- whom the military had concluded weren't enemy combatants. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/661/1/China-looks-over-borders-for-help-in-suppressing-Uygurs/huseyin.html China's apparent snub to Canada on the sidelines of this weekend's Apec summit in Hanoi has been put down in the media to Ottawa's criticism of Beijing's handling of human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/659/1/PM-stands-up-for-citizen/huseyin-jilil.html At long last, this country has a leader in Ottawa who is motivated by principles, not by money zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/658/1/Wife-of-man-in-Chinese-prison-hopeful-PM-will-get-answers-on-husbands-case/Huseyin-jilil.html The wife of a Canadian citizen held in a Chinese jail on alleged links to terrorism is hopeful Prime Minister Stephen Harper can shed some light on her husband's condition. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/657/1/Burning-With-Anger/Burning-With-Anger.html How long before China's economic boom runs out of gas?" This metaphorical question also has a literal aspect. China's rising fuel consumption is likely to reach 2.6 billion barrels by 2010, when it could cause global oil demand to outstrip supply, experts say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/656/1/From-flap-to-farce-Harper-Hu-meeting-may-be-on-again/Harper-Hu.html Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen wave on their arrival in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/652/1/China-arrests-Pakistanis-in-major-drug-trafficking-case/drug.html Chinese police have arrested 27 foreign drug trafficking suspects in Xinjiang, including Pakistanis, in the biggest drug seizure in the frontier region of northwest China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/651/1/US-defends-law-on-detainee-rights/US-defends-law-on-detainee-rights.html The Bush administration Monday defended a new law that strips enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay of recourse to traditional civilian court challenges, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/650/1/UAA-Honors-Uyghur-human-rights-activist-musician-and-singer-Kuresh-Kusen/kuresh.html UAA has made a film to honor Kuresh Kusen's lifetime achievement for promoting Uyghur people's human rights and freedom with his powerful music and songs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/643/1/China-builds-desert-highway-to-tap-oil-field/China-builds-desert-highway-to-tap-oil-field.html China will complete a highway across the world's biggest sandy desert, near the ancient Silk Road, six months before schedule to tap oil fields in the west of the country and reduce reliance on imports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/639/1/Taklamakan---Desert-With-No-Ocean-Underground/Taklamakan---Desert-With-No-Ocean-Underground.html When the city of Korla rose from the Taklamakan desert in mid-1950s, it was marvelled as a triumph of human willpower over adverse nature. Thousands of soldiers dispatched by the Chinese communist party put this place on the map in China's far west Xinjiang, by digging 600 km of channels to coax underground water to large collective farms. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/637/1/Top-Uyghur-Musician-Kurash-Kosan-Dies-at-47/Top-Uyghur-Musician-Kurash-Kosan-Dies-at-47.html Ethnic Uyghurs worldwide are mourning the sudden death of Kurash Kosan, 47, a fiercely nationalist singer whose hybrid compositions—using traditional instruments and modern lyrics—made him a household name throughout western China and Central Asia. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/636/1/Exotic-sights-are-fabric-of-Silk-Road/Exotic-sights-are-fabric-of-Silk-Road.html Along the Silk Road, China- From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/635/1/China-pipeline-raises-ethnic-strife---Oil-gas-boom-curbs-Uighurs-autonomy-bid/China-pipeline-raises-ethnic-strife.html Oil and natural gas -- lots of it -- have been discovered beneath the sands near this industrial town in the center of China's isolated western Xinjiang Province. As in Iran and Saudi Arabia at the turn of the last century, the energy boom in the region's Tarim River basin and Taklamakan desert is focusing global attention on an area rich in history but forgotten by the modern world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/634/1/Washington-Times-publishes-LCHR-Presidents-letter-to-the-editor/Washington-Times-publishes-LCHR-Presidents-letter-to-the-editor.html Most Americans have seen images of the atrocities in Darfur broadcast into their living rooms on CNN. Genocide in real time — we can read all about it on Anderson Cooper's 360 Blog. Not as prominently reported are the accounts of human rights abuses against Egypt's Copts and Baha’is,China's Uyghurs, zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/632/1/Exiled-human-rights-activist-urges-Norway-to-boycott-2008-Olympics/Exiled-human-rights-activist-urges-Norway-to-boycott-2008-Olympics.html An exiled Chinese human rights activist urged Norway to boycott the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, reports said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/630/1/Sons-of-exiled-Muslim-leader-tried-in-China-sister-says/Sons-of-exiled-Muslim-leader-tried-in-China-sister-says.html Two sons of Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of China's Uighur Muslim minority in exile in the United States, have been put on trial in China on tax fraud charges, their sister said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/629/1/Kuresh-Kusenge-Qayghuluq-Teziye.html Weten ichi we sirtida tonulghan meshhur kompozitor, shair, ataqliq naxshichi, ot y&uumlrek Uyghur perzenti, Sherqiy T&uumlrkistan milli herikitining pidakar jengchisi K&uumlresh K&uumlsen qutquzush &uumln&uumlm bermey, b&uumlg&uumln (29 – Öktebir) hemmimizdin waqitsiz ayrildi. Qisqighine hayatida weten, xelqi &uumlch&uumln barliqini atighan bu ot yurek Uyghur oghlani qelem we elem k&uumlr&uumlshi qilip, Xitay mustebit hakimiyitige qarshi öz xelqining erkinliki, we kishilik hoquqini qolgha kelt&uumlr&uumlsh yolida bir k&uumlnmu toxtap qalmighan idi. Cheklik hayati bilen, her bir Uyghurning y&uumlrikide öchmes izlar qaldurghan K&uumlresh K&uumlsen, Uyghur xelqidin ayrilghan bolsimu, emma uning yangraq awazi, k&uumly we dastanliri Uyghur xelqining qelbide ebediy – ebet yangraydu. Uyghur xelqi uning Sherqiy Turkistan milliy dewasigha qoshqan töhpisini mengg&uuml untumaydu. K&uumlresh heqiqeten özimu éytqandek K&uumlresh ölmeydu, u mengg&uuml biz bilen bille. Janabiy Allahdin merhumgha rexmet! Aile tawabiatigha sebir – taqet tileymen. Uyghur Milliy Herikitining Yétekchisi Rabiye Qadir zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/627/1/Chinas-hepatitis-victims-claim-discrimination/Chinas-hepatitis-victims-claim-discrimination.html Until a few weeks ago, it seemed there was no stopping Mahsum, a wide-eyed 12-year-old from a dusty cotton-farming township in China’s Xinjiang region. After months of rising early for an extra two hours of study before class, Mahsum, a member of the Uighur ethnic minority, won a coveted subsidised boarding place at a much better school in the regional capital of Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/625/1/Woman-Champions-Rights-For-Ethnic-Minority-In-China/Woman-Champions-Rights-For-Ethnic-Minority-In-China.html Rebiya Kadeer is a former delegate to the Chinese National People's Congress and a member of the country's large Turkic minority group known as the Uighurs. Last year, after six years of imprisonment in China, she was exiled to the United States but is still paying a price for reporting human rights violations committed by Chinese authorities against her people. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/624/1/Rep-Wolf-recognized-for-human-rights-efforts/Rep-Wolf-recognized-for-human-rights-efforts.html Katherine Cameron Porter smiled as she surveyed the ornate and historic Cannon House Caucus Room on Capitol Hill. It was Monday evening, Oct. 16, and the room - filling with the sweet scents of Tibetan food and the odd rhythmic pulses of Uyghur music - was literally humming with 300 human rights activists from around the world, many in native dress. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/623/1/Hurdles-on-the-road-to-Mecca-for-mainland-Muslims/Hurdles-on-the-road-to-Mecca-for-mainland-Muslims.html Arzuguli Saidulla closed her hardware store in Urumqi, Xinjiang, early last month and left home on the journey of a lifetime for most Muslims - her first haj pilgrimage to Mecca. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/617/1/CNPC-finds-2nd-biggest-oil-field/CNPC-finds-2nd-biggest-oil-field.html China National Petroleum Corp., the Mainland’s largest oil producer, has just discovered the country's second-largest natural gas reserve the size of 150 billion cubic meters.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/615/1/Canada-not-protecting-its-own/Canada-not-protecting-its-own.html Husseyin Celil is being treated as a terrorist in China but Stephen Harper doesn't seem to care zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/614/1/China-bans-student-founded-AIDS-group/China-bans-student-founded-AIDS-group.html China has banned an unregistered non-governmental AIDS group founded by university students in the far western region of Xinjiang, an activist and a lawyer said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/612/1/Family-of-Canadian-citizen-in-Chinese-prison-begs-for-help/Family-of-Canadian-citizen-in-Chinese-prison-begs-for-help.html A family in a remote Chinese province is begging the government of Canada to get their son released from prison, saying Ottawa has a duty to protect him because he's a Canadian citizen. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/611/1/China-defends-control-over-religion-in-Uighur-region/China-defends-control-over-religion-in-Uighur-region.html China defended its crackdown against Muslim Uighur activists in its far-northwestern region of Xinjiang yesterday, saying they were using religion as an excuse to foment separatism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/610/1/Surge-in-natural-gas-lifts-PetroChina-output/Surge-in-natural-gas-lifts-PetroChina-output.html PetroChina, the nation's biggest oil company, said Monday that crude oil and natural gas production increased 5.8 percent in the first nine months of the year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/607/1/Kazakhs-fear-death-sentence-for-another-giant-lake/Kazakhs-fear-death-sentence-for-another-giant-lake.html Lake Balkhash, Central Asia's second largest lake, could meet the same fate as the devastated Aral Sea as heavy metals seep into its once pristine waters and nearby China diverts more and more water, environmentalists warn. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/609/1/World-leaders-campaigners-hail-Yunus-Grameen-Bank/World-leaders-campaigners-hail-Yunus-Grameen-Bank.html Development groups and political leaders around the world Friday hailed the new Nobel Peace laureate, Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus, for his work in helping millions escape (The Daily Star) poverty with small-scale loans. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/608/1/Chinese-dissident-seeks-help-of-laureate/Chinese-dissident-seeks-help-of-laureate.html US-based Chinese dissident Rebiya Kadeer yesterday asked Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed Yunus to help introduce his successful poverty eradication concept among minority Uighur Muslims in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/602/1/Chinas-Tarim-oil-fields-may-see-50-pct-output-increase-in-2006---report/Chinas-Tarim-oil-fields-may-see-50-pct-output-increase-in-2006---report.html PetroChina Co said gas and oil output from the Tarim Basin fields in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region may jump 50 pct this year as the company intensifies its search for new supplies, state media reported. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/601/1/Uighur-Cuisine/Uighur-Cuisine.html Nestled in Chinatown, a little piece of Central Asia has exotic charm and a real love of lamb. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/600/1/China-Uyghur-Activist-In-Nobel-Spotlight/China-Uyghur-Activist-In-Nobel-Spotlight.html Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer is regarded among the favorites for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on October 13. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/599/1/All-eyes-on-Nobel-Peace-Prize-possibles/All-eyes-on-Nobel-Peace-Prize-possibles.html The annual Nobel Peace Prize guessing-game has been gathering pace, ahead of an announcement on Friday by the secretive Norwegian committee. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/598/1/Do-women-have-edge-over-men-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize/Do-women-have-edge-over-men-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html Women candidates might have slightly better chances than men to win the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday from a secretive committee with a female majority aware that just 12 women have won since 1901. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/594/1/Nobel-Peace-Prize-speculation-in-full-swing/Nobel-Peace-Prize-speculation-in-full-swing.html  An activist who has campaigned for an ethnic Turkish-speaking minority in China as well as an incumbent and former president who helped end a long-running conflict in Indonesia were among favourites to win the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/592/1/China-rights-activist-a-candidate-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize/China-rights-activist-a-candidate-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html A human rights activist once imprisoned by Chinese authorities on charges of leaking state secrets is a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/591/1/Editorial-Defending-a-dissidents-right-to-speak-out/Editorial-Defending-a-dissidents-right-to-speak-out.html Right here in Northern Virginia, foreign agents seek to intimidate a Chinese dissident nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But 58-year-old Rebiya Kadeer, a former national parliament member and one of China’s most prominent human rights advocates, refuses to back down. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/590/1/The-Long-Arm-of-Chinas-Secret-Police-Reaches-Into-the-US/The-Long-Arm-of-Chinas-Secret-Police-Reaches-Into-the-US.html The white van gunned into a busy Fairfax County, Va., intersection last January, turned right and sped at the line of cars across the yellow line, seeming to aim at the Hyundai Elantra waiting for the light to change. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/589/1/Chinese-government-uses-terrorism-charge-to-eliminate-Uighur-people/Chinese-government-uses-terrorism-charge-to-eliminate-Uighur-people.html Thus claims Rebiya Kadeer, Nobel Peace Prize candidate for her defence of Uighur rights and of women’s rights in China. She described the accusations of terrorism levelled by Beijing as unfounded and said she hoped for more international attention for her people’s plight. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/588/1/Chinas-Iron-Grip---Beijing-Harasses-Dissidents----Even-in-America/Chinas-Iron-Grip---Beijing-Harasses-Dissidents----Even-in-America.html It's no secret that China in recent years has stepped up its repression of political, religious and journalistic freedoms, to only the mousiest of objections from the outside world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/587/1/Freedom-eludes-exiled-Chinese-Uighur-Muslim-leader/Freedom-elusive-for-exiled-Chinese-Uighur-Muslim-leader.html Twenty months after stepping out of prison, freedom remains elusive for Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled leader of China's Uighur Muslim minority and a top Asian nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/586/1/Nobel-Highlights-Uighur-Muslim-Plight/Nobel-Highlights-Uighur-Muslim-Plight.html Nomination for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize is a recognition of the plight of the Uighur Muslim minority in China, said the exiled leader of the Uighur Muslim minority. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/585/1/China-bars-tourists-from-shrinking-glaciers/China-bars-tourists-from-shrinking-glaciers.html CHINA has closed melting glaciers in its northwestern Xinjiang region to tourists who littered, polluted and even drove across the ice that provides water to millions, the official Xinhua agency said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/584/1/Nobel-nomination-highlights-Uighur-plight--activist/Nobel-nomination-highlights-Uighur-plight--activist.html Ethnic Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer expressed satisfaction on Friday that her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize had focused global attention on her people's struggle against Chinese oppression and she denied any link to terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/583/1/Media-outlet-could-join-Nobel-peace-laureates/Media-outlet-could-join-Nobel-peace-laureates.html Forget the Pulitzer prize. Drop the Royal Television Society awards. Journalists could be in line for the ultimate international accolade: the Nobel peace prize. But not, it seems, if they work for the BBC. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/577/1/SAUDI-ARABIA-CHINESE-MUSLIMS-TO-GET-HAJ-VISAS-IN-PAKISTAN/SAUDI-ARABIA-CHINESE-MUSLIMS-TO-GET-HAJ-VISAS-IN-PAKISTAN.html Saudi Arabia has decided to grant Haj visas to hundreds of Chinese Muslims who have been protesting for weeks outside the Saudi embassy in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/575/1/Saudi-embassy-in-Islamabad-agrees-to-issue-Haj-visas-to-Chinese-pilgrims/Saudi-embassy-in-Islamabad-agrees-to-issue-Haj-visas-to-Chinese-pilgrims.html After weeks of protests, the Saudi embassy here Tuesday announced it would grant Haj visas to Chinese Muslims. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/574/1/China-keeps-limits-on-celebration-of-Muslim-holiday/China-keeps-limits-on-celebration-of-Muslim-holiday.html A bare-chested Chinese man glanced through a restaurant window at three women in headscarves as he ambled, under the midday sun, through an alley near Beijing’s 500-year-old Dongsi Mosque. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/150/1/Beijing-wants-more-oil-out-of-Xinjiang/Beijing-wants-more-oil-out-of-Xinjiang.html The province is rich in oil and gas hitherto held in reserve. Now authorities announce greater investments in exploration and refining capacity. But there is also greater fear about police repression. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/573/1/-The-insiders-guide-to-the-Nobel-Prize/The-insiders-guide-to-the-Nobel-Prize.html Dynamite and diplomacy. Everything you need to know about this year's Nobel prizes. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/572/1/Chinese-Muslims-press-for-Saudi-visas-in-Pakistan/Chinese-Muslims-press-for-Saudi-visas-in-Pakistan.html Shouting Koranic verses, hundreds of Chinese Muslims protested in front of the Saudi embassy in Pakistan on Monday, seeking visas so that they can join the annual Haj pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city of Mecca. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/571/1/Ex-Finnish-Indon-heads-Chinese-exile-vie-for-Nobel-prize/Ex-Finnish-Indon-heads-Chinese-exile-vie-for-Nobel-prize.html Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari is tipped to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize for brokering a peace accord in Aceh, though he faces stiff competition from Chinese exile Rebiya Kadeer and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/570/1/Nobel-prize-season-kicks-off-Monday-with-Medicine-Prize/Nobel-prize-season-kicks-off-Monday-with-Medicine-Prize.html The 2006 Nobel prize season kicks off on Monday with the announcement of the Medicine Prize, with the coveted Peace Prize seen going to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari and Amos Oz and Philip Roth tipped for the Literature Prize. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/562/1/The-innocent-man-at-Guantanamo/The-innocent-man-at-Guantanamo.html ``THE INTERROGATOR shut her file and said, `Congratulations! Your interrogation is complete. You're innocent! You'll be leaving soon.' " zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/560/1/Nobel-nominee-speaks-on-campus---Mother-of-Uyghur-people-tells-of-her-imprisonment/Nobel-nominee-speaks-on-campus---Mother-of-Uyghur-people-tells-of-her-imprisonment.html As Rebiye Kadeer walked into the lecture room where members of her audience watched and smiled, she held both hands to her heart. It was only a year and a half ago in a Chinese prison that she was forbidden to read, write, speak or smile. Those who simply looked at her were tortured. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/559/1/The-Final-Say/The-Final-Say.html It’s impossible to predict who of the 191 nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize (to be announced in Oslo on Oct. 13) is likely to win. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/555/1/After-the-Jade-rush-Chinas-imperiled-soul/After-the-Jade-rush-Chinas-imperiled-soul.html Prospectors line the banks of the Yulong Kashgar River overturning boulders, boring into banks and panning pebbles in a scene out of the California Gold Rush. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/554/1/The-First-Five-Years---Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-Reaches-a-Milestone/The-First-Five-Years---Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-Reaches-a-Milestone.html Five years into its existence the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), led by Russia and China, is gaining importance as a counterbalance to America’s perceived dominance. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/553/1/Dont-award-Nobel-to-Kadeer-China-warns-Norway/Dont-award-Nobel-to-Kadeer-China-warns-Norway.html The Chinese authorities have warned Norway that relations between the two countries would suffer if Norway awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer, reported the Oslo daily Aftenposten Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/552/1/China-urges-neighbor-states-to-take-harsher-steps-against-terrorism/China-urges-neighbor-states-to-take-harsher-steps-against-terrorism.html China wants neighboring states to take harsher legal steps against terrorism, citing laws it has itself passed in recent years — including some that critics have described as heavy handed and prone to human rights abuses. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/550/1/China-urges-tougher-counter-terrorism-measures-at-SCO-meet/China-urges-tougher-counter-terrorism-measures-at-SCO-meet.html China's top judges opened a two day meeting in Shanghai on handling terrorism, separatism and extremism with their counterparts from central Asian states and Russia. Senior judges from member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss legal issues relating to the fight against the so-called "three forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism."  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/549/1/Gitmo-Prisoners-Fight-for-Control-of-Post-release-Fate/Gitmo-Prisoners-Fight-for-Control-of-Post-release-Fate.html Public-interest attorneys went to court this week to challenge the "legal Limbo" faced by detainees at the military detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/548/1/Gitmo-Prisoners-Fight-for-Control-of-Post-release-Fate.html Public-interest attorneys went to court this week to challenge the "legal Limbo" faced by detainees at the military detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/547/1/Gitmo-Prisoners-Fight-for-Control-of-Post-release-Fate.html Public-interest attorneys went to court this week to challenge the "legal Limbo" faced by detainees at the military detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/545/1/The-Politics-of-Persecution/The-Politics-of-Persecution.html Hashim Iqbal, research scholar in CCAS Kashmir University comments on the regimes of China and East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and explains how religious freedom is denied to a class of people zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/544/1/Congressional-Executive-Commission-on-China-Releases-2006-Annual-Report/Congressional-Executive-Commission-on-China-2006-Annual-Repost.html The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has released its 2006 Annual Report to the President and the Congress on human right conditions and the development of the rule of law in China.  The Annual Report is now available on the Commission's Web site - www.cecc.gov. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/539/1/Thubron-in-ancient-China/Thubron-in-ancient-China.html In our second extract from Shadow of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron reaches Khotan, once the capital of an ancient and powerful kingdom, now a town being swallowed by the desert zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/538/1/China-tries-to-stop-Holyrood-reception-for-oppressed-group/China-tries-to-stop-Holyrood-reception-for-oppressed-group.html Chinese government officials tried to block a reception in the Scottish parliament which drew attention to the plight of one of the communist regime’s oppressed minorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/536/1/US-report-upholds-Chinas-poor-rating-on-religious-freedoms/US-report-upholds-Chinas-poor-rating-on-religious-freedoms.html China's respect for religious freedom remains "poor," with people being thrown in jail and reportedly facing death due to torture for practising their faiths, an annual US report on international religious freedom said on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/535/1/The-View-From-Guantanamo/The-View-From-Guantanamo.html I HAVE been greatly saddened to hear that the Congress of the United States, a country I deeply admire, is considering new laws that would deny prisoners at Guantánamo Bay the right to challenge their detentions in federal court. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/533/1/CHINA-Would-a-religion-law-help-promote-religious-freedom/CHINA-Would-a-religion-law-help-promote-religious-freedom.html One important characteristic of post-Mao China is the proliferation of formal institutions of governance - not simply physical buildings or government bureaucracies, but also laws and regulations. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/527/1/UNPO-Welcomes-Kadeer-Nobel-Prize-Nomination/UNPO-Welcomes-Kadeer-Nobel-Prize-Nomination.html The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) welcomes the nomination of prominent Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer for the Nobel Prize, made by Swedish parliamentarian Annelie Enochson. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/532/1/Congratulations-to-the-Woman-of-Peace-Rebiya-Kadeer/Congratulations-to-the-Woman-of-Peace-Rebiya-Kadeer.html To congratulate Rebiya Kadeer, president of Uyghur American Association, for her recent Nobel Peace Prize nomination, Ms. Hajinur Uyghur Setiwaldi writes a powerful poem in the English language. Ms. Setiwaldi describes Rebiya Kadeer as the Mother of Peace who defends the rights of the Uyghur people suffering under China's authoritarian rule. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/528/1/China-slams-nomination-of-activist-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize/China-slams-nomination-of-activist-for-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html China on Tuesday denounced the Nobel Peace Prize nomination of a Muslim businesswoman and former political prisoner who has become an outspoken critic of Chinese rule in her homeland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/525/1/Further-Urgent-Action-Needed-for-Husein-Dzhelil-Sentenced-to-15-Years-in-Prison-in-China-fifth-update-to-UA-9905/Further-Urgent-Action-Needed-for-Husein-Dzhelil-Sentenced-to-15-Years-in-Prison-in-China.html According to unconfirmed reports, Husein Dzhelil has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment and is currently being held in Baijiahu prison in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Some accounts suggest that he is going to appeal against his conviction. Amnesty International fears he is at risk of torture or ill-treatment. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/524/1/Jail-2nd-trial-for-Canadian/Jail-2nd-trial-for-Canadian.html Word out of China is that Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil, 37, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for alleged terrorist activities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/523/1/Uyghur-exile-group-calls-on-Merkel-to-lobby-Wen-for-their-rights/Uyghur-exile-group-calls-on-Merkel-to-lobby-Wen-for-their-rights.html The World Uyghur Congress called Tuesday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of this week's visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Germany to lobby for the rights of the Muslim minority in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/521/1/China-questions-nomination-of-secessionist-for-Nobel-Prize/China-questions-nomination-of-secessionist-for-Nobel-Prize.html China today strongly questioned the intentions of those who nominated "secessionist" Rebiya Kadeer for the coveted Nobel Peace Prize after a court in the Communist nation sentenced her for leaking state secrets and endangering national security. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/520/1/Moderate-quake-shakes-western-China/Moderate-quake-shakes-western-China.html A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook northwestern China early Tuesday, but there were no deaths or damage in the remote, thinly populated area, the government said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/519/1/China-jails-Burlington-man-15-years/China-jails-Burlington-man-15-years.html Kamila Telendibaeva has received unconfirmed word that her husband, Muslim activist Huseyin Celil, has been sentenced to 15 years in a Chinese prison. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/518/1/China-blasts-Nobel-Peace-Prize-candidate-for-terrorist-links/China-blasts-Nobel-Peace-Prize-candidate-for-terrorist-links.html China has accused a candidate for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize of maintaining links with terrorist organizations and attempting to undermine China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/517/1/Guantanamo-Detainees-in-Court-Today-to-Argue-for-Right-to-a-Speedy-Trial-in-the-US/Guantanamo-Detainees-in-Court-Today-to-Argue-for-Right-to-a-Speedy-Trial-in-the-US.html September 11 - This morning, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the orders staying the cases of a dozen Guantánamo detainees in the D.C. Circuit Court. All of the men-10 ethnic Uighurs, a refugee arrested in Afghanistan, and an Egyptian man who fled persecution in Egypt-have been held for more than four years without charge. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/516/1/Albania-Hires-Tom-Ridge-to-Boost-NATO-Bid/Albania-Hires-Tom-Ridge-to-Boost-NATO-Bid.html In attempt to boost its bid for a 2008 accession into NATO, the Albanian government has hired former U.S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge as a consultant to Prime Minster Sali Berisha. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/515/1/On-the-Silk-Road-through-China/On-the-Silk-Road-through-China.html China - From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/514/1/China-Muslim-activist-from-unknown-to-Nobel-nominee/China-Muslim-activist-from-unknown-to-Nobel-nominee.html China counted on Rebiya Kadeer, a Muslim businesswoman-turned-activist, fading into political irrelevance like most exiled Chinese dissidents when she left for the United States last year. But it may have miscalculated. Kadeer, 58, an ethnic Uighur jailed for more than five years in China for providing state secrets to foreigners before her exile, won a Rafto Prize for human rights in Norway in 2004 and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/511/1/China-Unveils-Curbs-on-Foreign-News-Distribution/China-Unveils-Curbs-on-Foreign-News-Distribution.html China announced rules on Sunday requiring foreign media to seek approval from its state news agency to distribute news, pictures and graphics domestically, and warned against reports that ``endanger national security.'' zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/509/1/War-on-Terror-Equals-War-on-Minorities/War-on-Terror-Equals-War-on-Minorities.html The U.S.-led global war on terror -- which began five years ago after a rash of terrorist attacks on the United States -- has been transformed primarily into a war against minorities, says a London-based human rights organisation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/508/1/Beijings-suffocating-control-over-Xinjiangs-Muslim-Uighurs/Beijings-suffocating-control-over-Xinjiangs-Muslim-Uighurs.html Young people and teachers are denied the right to worship. A mosque is torn down to leave space for a shopping mall. For experts the region’s energy resources are behind China’s policies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/507/1/Viewpoints-The-world-since-911---Many-governments-have-tried-to-exploit-the-rhetoric-of-the-war-on-terror/Viewpoints-The-world-since-911---Many-governments-have-tried-to-exploit-the-rhetoric-of-the-war-on.html On 12 September 2001, many commentators and political leaders declared that the world had changed for ever. Five years on, what exactly has changed?  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/503/1/A-case-of-federal-ignorance/A-case-of-federal-ignorance.html Burlington man sits in Chinese jail on spurious premise that he's a terrorist because he's Muslim zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/499/1/Highway-linking-China-Kirgizstan-Uzbekistan-expected-to-be-in-service-in-2008/Highway-linking-China-Kirgizstan-Uzbekistan-expected-to-be-in-service-in-2008.html A central Asia highway corridor linking China, Kirgizstan and Uzbekistan is expected to in service by the end of 2008, said an official from the Chinese Ministry of Finance on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/497/1/PetroChina-To-Boost-West-East-Gas-Pipelines-Capacity-42/PetroChina-To-Boost-West-East-Gas-Pipelines-Capacity-42.html PetroChina Co. (PTR), China's largest oil producer by output, plans to expand the capacity of its west-east gas pipeline by 42% next year, to meet booming demand for the clean fuel in the country's east, its parent company said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/496/1/Xinjiang-jade-worthy-of-an-emperor-in-short-supply/Xinjiang-jade-worthy-of-an-emperor-in-short-supply.html Expert in Beijing warns that if the government does not intervene against unrestricted mining, the rare Khotan jade mines will be depleted in five years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/493/1/CURIOUS-CASE-OF-CANUCK-ABROAD-UIGHUR-ACTIVISTS-ALLEGIANCE-APPEARS-TO-BE-ELSEWHERE/CURIOUS-CASE-OF-CANUCK-ABROAD-UIGHUR-ACTIVISTS-ALLEGIANCE-APPEARS-TO-BE-ELSEWHERE.html In a front page story this week, the Globe and Mail recounted how a Canadian citizen, Hussein Celil, had been arrested in Uzbekistan and deported to China. On the surface, it seems yet another case of a Canadian in trouble overseas being abandoned by his government. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/485/1/Jailed-Uyghur-student-has-Todai-on-his-side/Jailed-Uyghur-student-has-Todai-on-his-side.html Tsugitaka Sato, a University of Tokyo (Todai) professor emeritus, is determined to see one of his students freed from an 11-year term in a Chinese prison for inciting unrest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/484/1/China-says-foreign-map-makers-endangering-security-controls-to-be-tightened/China-says-foreign-map-makers-endangering-security-controls-to-be-tightened.html China will tighten controls on foreign mapmakers, who the government says are illegally surveying its territory and endangering national security, a state news agency said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/483/1/China-foils-oilfield-and-power-plant-bombings/China-foils-oilfield-and-power-plant-bombings.html Chinese police have seized explosives and foiled attempts by separatists to blow up oilfields, power plants and highways in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, a Beijing-funded Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/482/1/Counting-the-cost-of-expansion/Counting-the-cost-of-expansion.html China's push into western hinterlands has left many on the land feeling marginalized, writes Don Lee . Not too long ago, Kashgar was a sleepy town with mud houses, largely unchanged since Marco Polo trekked through in the 13th century. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/481/1/Xinjiang-jade-worthy-of-an-emperor-running-in-short-supply/Xinjiang-jade-worthy-of-an-emperor-running-in-short-supply.html Expert in Beijing warns that if the government does not intervene against unrestricted mining, the rare Khotan jade mines will be depleted in five years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/480/1/A-familys-fate-hinges-on-Chinese-justice/A-familys-fate-hinges-on-Chinese-justice.html A day after giving birth, Kamila Telendibaeva sat alone in the corner of a cold hospital room gazing at her newborn son. Bound tightly in a white blanket, the infant slept soundly as his mother chewed on the nail of her index finger. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/479/1/China-finds-Asias-largest-dinosaur/China-finds-Asias-largest-dinosaur.html Chinese paleontologists said they had found the remains of the largest dinosaur ever to be unearthed in Asia, measuring an estimated 35 meters (116 feet). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/478/1/China-to-tackle-terror-at-judicial-summit/China-to-tackle-terror-at-judicial-summit.html The fight against "extremism, separatism and terrorism" is expected to take centre stage at a summit next month between judges from China, Russia and Central Asia, a Chinese official said on Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/477/1/China-Ratifies-Antiterror-Pact-With-Pakistan/China-Ratifies-Antiterror-Pact-With-Pakistan.html China has signalled its high priority to combating terrorism, concluding a major military drill with Kazakhstan and ratifying an anti-terror pact with Pakistan, analysts said yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/475/1/Double-Opportunity-in-Chinas-Far-West/Double-Opportunity-in-Chinas-Far-West.html Not too long ago, Kashgar was a sleepy town with mud houses, largely unchanged since Marco Polo trekked through in the 13th century. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/472/1/Double-track-railway-completed/Double-track-railway-completed.html Construction of a double-track line in China's longest railway tunnel has been completed, breaking a major transport bottleneck on the Eurasia Continental Railway Bridge. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/471/1/A-meeting-of-civilisations-The-mystery-of-Chinas-celtic-mummies/A-meeting-of-civilisations-The-mystery-of-Chinas-celtic-mummies.html The discovery of European corpses thousands of miles away suggests a hitherto unknown connection between East and West in the Bronze Age. Clifford Coonan reports from Urumqi zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/470/1/Anti-terror-drill-targets-3-evil-forces/Anti-terror-drill-targets-3-evil-forces.html China and Kazakhstan completed a joint anti-terror military drill over the weekend, which officials say will help fight terrorists under the framework of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 27 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/467/1/Detainee-in-China-isnt-aware-of-his-new-son/Detainee-in-China-isnt-aware-of-his-new-son.html Kamila Telendibaeva is thrilled with her newborn son, but wishes desperately that her husband, Huseyin Celil, could be there to share her joy. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/466/1/Freedom-in-a-Cage---Consider-the-Uighurs/Freedom-in-a-Cage---Consider-the-Uighurs.html Among the detainees at Guantánamo were five Uighurs captured in Afghanistan after 9/11. The men were natives of Xinjiang province of China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/469/1/China-Drug-Lords-Look-To-Cash-In-On-Economic-Boom/China-Drug-Lords-Look-To-Cash-In-On-Economic-Boom.html China lies right next door to two of the world's main centers of narcotics production -- the so-called Golden Crescent of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Golden Triangle of Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/465/1/ChinaKazakhstan-Forces-Hold-First-Ever-Joint-Terrorism-Exercises/ChinaKazakhstan-Forces-Hold-First-Ever-Joint-Terrorism-Exercises.html Kazakhstan and China launch three days of joint counterterrorism exercises today. It is the first time those two countries have held joint security maneuvers, and testifies to China's aggressive pursuit of improved ties with its immediate CIS neighbors. But Beijing has other motives for such new-fashioned cooperation, particularly with its Central Asian neighbors. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/468/1/Kazakstan-Joins-China-on-Counter-Terror-Exercise/Kazakstan-Joins-China-on-Counter-Terror-Exercise.html Joint training exercises to be conducted by Kazak and Chinese forces this week have the dual aim of curbing ethnic Uighur separatism and ensuring oil pipeline security. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/464/1/China-Sows-The-Whirlwind-Implications-of-Hezbollahs-Iranian-Chinese-Weapons/China-Sows-The-Whirlwind-Implications-of-Hezbollahs-Iranian-Chinese-Weapons.html Israel has been surprised and dismayed in the last few weeks by the unexpectedly high quality of Hezbollah munitions, most notably rockets and missiles. While some of these are indigenous, a serious search for the origin of the improvements looks to lead to China—and, to a degree still difficult to assess, to Israel itself, which has shared with China a wide range of sensitive military technologies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/463/1/XINJIANG-Notices-show-religious-activity-restrictions/XINJIANG-Notices-show-religious-activity-restrictions.html Among the casualties of the 'war on terror' are the largely forgotten Muslim peoples of Xinjiang. This huge area is almost as large as the whole of Western Europe and was traditionally inhabited by the Muslim Uighurs, Kazaks, and some smaller groups. However, the last two decades have seen a massive influx of Han Chinese migrants and the native Muslim population is in danger of being outnumbered in its own heartland. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/461/1/China-claims-it-ruled-oil-rich-Xinjiang-1000-years-ago/China-claims-it-ruled-oil-rich-Xinjiang-1000-years-ago.html China today claimed to have discovered new material evidence that the remote oil-rich region of Xinjiang was ruled by Chinese rulers more than 1,000 years ago during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/462/1/Chinese-legislature-mulls-pact-with-Pakistan-to-fight-terror/Chinese-legislature-mulls-pact-with-Pakistan-to-fight-terror.html All-weather friends, China and Pakistan, are all set to enhance cooperation in the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism under a bill tabled for deliberation today in China's top legislature. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/459/1/Demonstration-in-Front-of-Chinese-Embassy---Hitay-Elchihanisi-Aldida-Namayish/Demonstration-in-Front-of-Chinese-Embassy---Hitay-Elchihanisi-Aldida-Namayish.html The Uyghur American Association (UAA) is going to hold a demonstration protesting against the Chinese government’s continued unlawful detention of Huseyin Celil, Uyghur Canadian, in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC on Friday September 1.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/457/1/Chinese-Farmers-From-Drought-Hit-Southwest-Travel-to-Pick-Cotton-in-Xinjiang/Chinese-Farmers-From-Drought-Hit-Southwest-Travel-to-Pick-Cotton-in-Xinjiang.html More than 100,000 farmers from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality have left their home towns to pick cotton in Xinjiang 3,300 kilometres away after the worst drought in 50 years destroyed their crops. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/456/1/Kazakstan-Moves-into-Chinese-Oil-Market/Kazakstan-Moves-into-Chinese-Oil-Market.html The first successful deliveries of Kazak oil to China will not impact negatively on Astana’s relationship with Russia, say experts. China, which sees Russia and Kazakstan as its best sources of energy imports in the long term, is not going to create opportunities for increased competition between the two countries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/453/1/China-Kazakhstan-to-hold-joint-drill-against-terrorism/China-Kazakhstan-to-hold-joint-drill-against-terrorism.html China and Kazakhstan, both member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), will hold an anti-terrorism exercise from Aug. 24 to 26, China's Ministry of Public Security announced on Monday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/451/1/In-Marco-Polos-steps/In-Marco-Polos-steps.html China From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road, through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns.Along the way, we followed the footsteps made by camel caravans to and from Central Asia and Europe by Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/450/1/Uzbekistan-China-Discuss-Judicial-Cooperation/Uzbekistan-China-Discuss-Judicial-Cooperation.html Members of the Supreme People's Procuracy of China today had talks in Tashkent with Bahtyor Jamalov, the deputy chairman of the Uzbek Supreme Court, and Prosecutor-General Rashitjon Kadyrov. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/448/1/Chinas-rise-leaves-West-wondering/Chinas-rise-leaves-West-wondering.html China is overtaking the world's major economies one by one. It leap-frogged Britain in 2005 and now has Germany and Japan in its sights.Its growing economic muscle is bringing diplomatic and military strength. So should the rest of the world be worried? zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/447/1/CHINA-The-Economics-of-Religious-Freedom/CHINA-The-Economics-of-Religious-Freedom.html China's country-wide desire and need to make money has a large, if under-reported, effect on religious communities and the country's religious freedom. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/443/1/Traveling-Chinas-ancient-Silk-Road/Traveling-Chinas-ancient-Silk-Road.html From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/442/1/5-Men-Leave-Guantanamo-for-a-Bleak-Uncertain-Future/5-Men-Leave-Guantanamo-for-a-Bleak-Uncertain-Future.html Early on May 5, five Asian men who had been detained at the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for years as dangerous terrorists, boarded a military transport plane at the United States naval base there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/441/1/XINJIANG-Chinas-isolated-Xinjiang-religious-minorities/XINJIANG-Chinas-isolated-Xinjiang-religious-minorities.html Three facets of Christianity are officially recognised in China's north-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Forum 18 News Service notes. These are the state-controlled associations of the Three Self Patriotic Movement (Protestant), the Patriotic Catholic Association, and the two state-registered Orthodox communities in Ghulja and Urumqi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/440/1/XINJIANG-Strict-control-of-Chinas-Uighur-Muslims-continues/XINJIANG-Strict-control-of-Chinas-Uighur-Muslims-continues.html In China's north-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, control over Muslim religious believers is much stricter than over believers of other religions, Forum 18 News Service has found. However, the authorities' control over Dungan mosques is less strict than over mosques used by Uighurs, a Turkic people mainly found in Xinjiang but also in Central Asian states. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/435/1/Alim-Seytoff-Is-on-Fire-on-Crossfire---a-VOA-Satellite-TV-Show/Alim-Seytoff-Is-on-Fire-on-Crossfire---a-VOA-Satellite-TV-Show.html This morning, Alim Seytoff, general secretary of UAA, is on VOA Chinese Service's "Crossfire" Program. This is the first time a Uyghur appeared on this live broadcast directly to China via VOA satellite TV and radio. This program is very popular in China and watched by many Chinese people who have satellite TV receiver or dish. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/434/1/PMs-intervention-urged-as-Canadian-faces-death-in-China/PMs-intervention-urged-as-Canadian-faces-death-in-China.html After months of Chinese refusals to provide information on Celil's whereabouts or allow visits from Canadian consular officials, supporters believe Harper's reaching out to Chinese President Hu Jintao may be all that stands between the Burlington, Ont., man and a death sentence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/431/1/Take-an-epic-journey-on-Chinas-Silk-Road/Take-an-epic-journey-on-Chinas-Silk-Road.html From the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/430/1/Chorus-of-voices-plead-with-government-to-help-free-Canadian-jailed-in-China/Chorus-of-voices-plead-with-government-to-help-free-Canadian-jailed-in-China.html The wife of a Canadian detained in China made another desperate plea Wednesday for the federal government to help free her husband.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/428/1/China-puts-Canadian-activist-on-trial/China-puts-Canadian-activist-on-trial.html A Canadian Muslim activist who was extradited from Uzbekistan to his native China in March has gone on trial on terrorism charges, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/429/1/China-Denies-Execution-Of-Canadian-Uyghur-Imminent/China-Denies-Execution-Of-Canadian-Uyghur-Imminent.html China today denied reports that it is about to execute a Canadian-Uyghur activist recently deported to the country from Uzbekistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/426/1/China-to-kill-Canuck---Group-fears-for-jailed-Burlington-man/China-ti-kill-Canuck---Group-fears-for-jailed-Burlington-man.html  Amnesty International fears that a Burlington man held in a Chinese jail could be executed by tomorrow. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/424/1/China-denies-imminent-execution-of-Uighur-Canadian/China-denies-imminent-execution-of-Uighur-Canadian.html China denied on Wednesday a report that it was about to execute a Uighur-Canadian activist it accuses of terrorism, saying his trial was not yet over. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/422/1/-Imminent-Execution-in-China-Scheduled-for-AUGUST-10th-Please-Send-Appeals-Immediately-Third-Update-to-UA-9906/Imminent-Execution-in-China-Scheduled-for-AUGUST-10th-Please-Send-Appeals-Immediately-Third-Upd.html According to unconfirmed reports, Canadian citizen Husein Dzhelil is due to be executed in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China, on or before 10 August, for alleged 'separatist' or 'terrorist' activities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/421/1/Ceku-Berisha-rift-over-Uighur-Muslims/Ceku-Berisha-rift-over-Uighur-Muslims.html There have been misunderstandings between the Prime Ministers of Albania and Kosovo, Sali Berisha and Agim Ceku, over China's request for extradition of Chinese Muslims. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/420/1/China-and-Russia-request-extradition-of-five-persons-from-Albani/China-and-Russia-request-extradition-of-five-persons-from-Albani.html China has reiterated the request for extradition of five Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay and now in Albania, but this time Russia backed the request. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/418/1/The-US-cant-help-all-oppressed-people-including-Uyghurs/The-US-cant-help-all-oppressed-people-including-Uyghurs.html A few weeks ago, I had never heard of the Uyghur culture. Today I wonder how many other folks in the world, besides the Uyghurs, want America to save them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/416/1/Traveling-Chinas-ancient-Silk-Road/Traveling-Chinas-ancient-Silk-Road.html rom the ancient oasis towns of Central Asia, we retraced the epic journeys traveled along the Silk Road through desolate mountains and deserts, through busy bazaars and crumbling mud-brick towns.Along the way, we followed the footsteps made by camel caravans to and from Central Asia and Europe by Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/411/1/Canadian-held-in-China-facing-execution-wife-says/Canadian-held-in-China-facing-execution-wife-says.html A Canadian being held in a Chinese prison could be executed as early as next week, his wife says, and she is pleading for help from Ottawa. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/410/1/Canadian-in-China-faces-execution-Ottawa-told/Canadian-in-China-faces-execution-Ottawa-told.html The Department of Foreign Affairs was scrambling for information yesterday after receiving word that a Canadian man, Huseyin Celil, being held in China could be executed as early as next week, The Globe and Mail has learned. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/409/1/Canadian-may-face-death-in-China-family-learns/Canadian-may-face-death-in-China-family-learns.html The department of Foreign Affairs was scrambling for information Friday after word that a Canadian man being held in China could be executed as early as next week, The Globe and Mail has learned. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/405/1/On-a-Peoples-Train-from-Urumqi-to-Beijing/On-a-Peoples-Train-from-Urumqi-to-Beijing.html It was a slow day in the railway ticket office in downtown Urumqi, and as I walked up to the counter, where there was no line, I was feeling lucky. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/404/1/Kazakh-crude-reaches-Dushanzi-refinery--PetroChina/Kazakh-crude-reaches-Dushanzi-refinery--PetroChina.html Kazakh crude flowing through a landmark pipeline opened six months ago has reached PetroChina's Dushanzi refinery, marking the start of full commercial operations for the mainland's first transnational oil pipeline. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/401/1/China-urges-Albania-to-hand-over-five-Uyghurs/China-urges-Albania-to-hand-over-five-Uyghurs.html Beijing had once again urged Tirana to extradite the five Chinese Muslims (Uyghurs) suspected of terrorism in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/399/1/Guantanamo-prisoners-from-China-receive-asylum-in-Albania/Guantanamo-prisoners-from-China-receive-asylum-in-Albania.html Five Chinese Muslims released from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay have received asylum in Albania, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/397/1/Wife-begs-China-to-release-husband-facing-execution/Wife-begs-China-to-release-husband-facing-execution.html The pregnant wife of a Burlington man detained in China and facing a death sentence says allegations her husband is a terrorist are "lies" and the Canadian government should not stop trying for his release. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/398/1/INTERVIEW---Iran-China-contemptuous-of-rights-issues---Canada/INTERVIEW---Iran-China-contemptuous-of-rights-issues---Canada.html Iran contemptuously ignores Canada when it tries to raise the case of a prominent philosopher jailed on suspicion of espionage, Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay complained on Thursday. Canada is also having trouble persuading China to allow access to a human rights activist who Beijing says is a terrorist, MacKay told Reuters in an interview. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/396/1/Civil-Servant-Recruitment-in-Xinjiang-Favors-Han-Chinese/Civil-Servant-Recruitment-in-Xinjiang-Favors-Han-Chinese.html The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) will hire 840 civil servants from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) through its 2006 recruitment exam, of whom 38 will be ethnic minorities and the remainder Han Chinese... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/395/1/China-kills-400000-chickens-to-control-fresh-bird-flu-outbreak/China-kills-400000-chickens-to-control-fresh-bird-flu-outbreak.html China announced it has killed nearly 400,000 chickens in the far northwest of the country to control a fresh outbreak of bird flu. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/394/1/CHEAP-EATS---Cafe-Kashkar/CHEAP-EATS---Cafe-Kashkar.html This Uyghur restaurant is a small room with an open kitchen in the rear that has a wall-mounted TV showing Central Asian pop stars in Hawaiian shirts breaking down beats with the requisite half-naked dancing girls. The café’s clientele is mainly made up of the Russian and Ukrainians who populate Brighton Beach. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/391/1/Ottawa-seeking-access-to-Canadian-activist-held-in-China/Ottawa-seeking-access-to-Canadian-activist-held-in-China.html Ottawa is seeking access to a Canadian activist who China has reportedly sentenced to death for founding a political party to represent a minority ethnic group in Xinjiang province, an official said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/390/1/China-mum-on-fate-of-detained-Canadian/China-mum-on-fate-of-detained-Canadian.html More than three weeks after a Canadian citizen vanished into Chinese police custody, Chinese authorities are rejecting all of Canada's requests for information on the fate of the 37-year-old man. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/388/1/ESCAPE-TO-HELL-Fleeing-China-Landing-in-Guantanamo/ESCAPE-TO-HELL-Fleeing-China-Landing-in-Guantanamo.html In 2000, five men left their homes in northern China to escape the prospect of torture and imprisonment. They dreamed of a future in the United States. Caught up in America's war on terror along the way, they instead ended up in Guantanamo. It's been six years since they last saw their families. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/389/1/Chinese-police-detain-activist-lawyer/Chinese-police-detain-activist-lawyer.html  Police have detained a Chinese activist lawyer one month after he was released from three years in prison for allegedly revealing state secrets, a rights group said Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/387/1/Kazakhstan-Environmentalists-Say-China-Misusing-Cross-Border-Rivers/Kazakhstan-Environmentalists-Say-China-Misusing-Cross-Border-Rivers.html Environmentalists in Central Asia and Russia are concerned about China's use of water from the Ili and Irtysh rivers. Both rivers originate in China and flow into Kazakhstan, while the Irtysh continues on into Russia. China has been using more and more of the water as the population grows in China's western provinces. Officials in Beijing say they plan to divert more water from both rivers to develop the oil industry in western China. The plan seems to be fueling tension between the two countries. Environmentalists warn that China's overuse of the river water may lead to an ecological catastrophe for Kazakhstan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/386/1/Hearing-on-Religious-Freedom-in-China-at-the-European-Parliament/Hearing-on-Religious-Freedom-in-China-at-the-European-Parliament.html Presentation of Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers Int. AT Hearing on Religious Freedom in China at the European Parliament. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/382/1/Kazakhstan-China-oil-pipeline-opens-to-commercial-operation/Kazakhstan-China-oil-pipeline-opens-to-commercial-operation.html Crude oil from Kazakhstan poured into a petroleum tank in Alataw pass, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 18:45 Tuesday through a cross-border pipeline, marking the beginning of the commercial operation for China's first direct oil import pipeline. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/381/1/Exiled-Muslims-son-tortured-forced-to-admit-separatism-Amnesty/Exiled-Muslims-son-tortured-forced-to-admit-separatism-Amnesty.html A son of exiled Muslim rights activist Rebiya Kadeer has been tortured and forced to confess to attempts to separate the Muslim Xinjiang region from China, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/380/1/Gitmo-How-to-Fix-It/Gitmo-How-to-Fix-It.html The Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld totals 185 pages and can be summarized in two words: Start over. If the Bush Administration wants to try terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay in special military tribunals, it can't just declare them legal--it needs to work with the other branches of government to make them so. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/378/1/The-UK-is-moved-by-the-thrilling-art-of-Uygur-Muqam/The-UK-is-moved-by-the-thrilling-art-of-Uygur-Muqam.html The Chinese Embassy in the UK held an entirely new sort of music salon in the evening on July 5th, featuring the performance by Xinjiang Uygur Muqam Arts Ensemble coming to London for the Muslim Music Festival in the English capital, with some 200 guests from various circles of politics, economy, culture, science and technology as well as education participating in the music feast. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/377/1/Largest-Inland-Freshwater-Lake-in-China-is-Turning-Salty/Largest-Inland-Freshwater-Lake-in-China-is-Turning-Salty.html According to Hong Kong-based Mingpao News, Bosten Lake in Xinjiang province, the largest inland freshwater lake in China, is being seriously contaminated. As a result, the lake water is turning salty. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/376/1/First-Update-to-Urgent-Action-on-ethnic-Uighur-Activist-Rebiya-Kadeer-and-Her-Family-in-China-UA-15606/First-Update-to-Urgent-Action-on-ethnic-Uighur-Activist-Rebiya-Kadeer-and-Her-Family-in-China-UA-15.html Alim, Ablikim and Kahar Abdiriyim, sons of ethnic Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, are facing criminal charges brought by the Chinese authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/372/1/CNPC-makes-new-discovery-in-Xinjiang/CNPC-makes-new-discovery-in-Xinjiang.html The  China  National  Petroleum Corporation  (CNPC),  the  country's  top  oil  developer,  has  made  a discovery of natural gas in Fuhai County in northern Xinjiang Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/371/1/Giant-coalfield-found-in-Xinjiang-Autonomous-Region/Giant-coalfield-found-in-Xinjiang-Autonomous-Region.html The Shandong Provincial Institution of Geological  Surveying and Mapping found a giant coalfield  recently in Changji  Prefecture  of  Xinjiang  Autonomous  Region,  an official said Tuesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/366/1/Family-losing-hope-for-missing-Canadian/Family-losing-hope-for-missing-Canadian.html After 100 days since Huseyincan Celil was taken into foreign custody, questions still swirl around his disappearance, his whereabouts and the Canadian government's response. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/364/1/Further-Urgent-Action-needed-for-refugee-forcibly-returned-to-China-second-update-to-UA-9906/-Further-Urgent-Action-needed-for-refugee-forcibly-returned-to-China-second-update-to-UA-9906.html Husein Dzhelil, who is originally from China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is being held in incommunicado detention in China after being forcibly returned from Uzbekistan at the end of June. He is at risk of serious human rights violations, including torture or other ill-treatment, and possibly the death penalty if tried and convicted of a 'serious crime'. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/363/1/China-More-Security-for-Envoys-in-Region/China-More-Security-for-Envoys-in-Region.html Chinese officials have urged Central and South Asian countries to increase security for Chinese diplomats after the deportations of Uighurs to China from neighboring countries. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/362/1/Kyrgyz-Uyghurs-Protest-At-Chinese-Embassy/Kyrgyz-Uyghurs-Protest-At-Chinese-Embassy.html Representatives of ethnic Uyghurs living in Kyrgyzstan today demonstrated in front of the Chinese Embassy in Bishkek to demand the release of an ethnic Uyghur held in a Chinese jail. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/356/1/Harper-gets-plea-to-save-Canadian---Burlington-man-faces-death-in-China/Harper-gets-plea-to-save-Canadian---Burlington-man-faces-death-in-China.html Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being called on to send a special envoy to China to secure the release of an imprisoned Canadian facing a death sentence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/353/1/Uzbekistan-Family-Demands-Release-Of-Uyghur-Imam-Extradited-To-China/Uzbekistan-Family-Demands-Release-Of-Uyghur-Imam-Extradited-To-China.html The family of a Canadian Muslim religious leader extradited from Uzbekistan to China is demanding his release. Imam Huseyincan Celil, an ethnic Uyghur activist, is reportedly facing possible execution. Family lawyer Chris MacLeod told RFE/RL from Toronto that the Canadian government must make the strongest possible representations to Beijing to get him released. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/359/1/Chinese-diplomats-face-kidnapping/Chinese-diplomats-face-kidnapping.html The Chinese diplomatic mission in Pakistan has said that members of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are planning to kidnap senior Chinese diplomats and consular officers in the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/354/1/Two-Men-Held-Incommunicado-After-Forcible-Return-to-China-from-Kazakhstan-First-Update-to-UA-10006/Two-Men-Held-Incommunicado-After-Forcible-Return-to-China-from-Kazakhstan.html Yusuf Kadir Tohti and Abdukadir Sidik, who are originally from China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), are being held in incommunicado detention in China after being forcibly returned from Kazakhstan on 10 May. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/348/1/Canada-presses-China-over-deported-Uighur-activist/Canada-presses-China-over-deported-Uighur-activist.html Canada is pressing China to reveal what it has done with a Canadian citizen who is also a member of the Muslim Uighur minority, Canada's foreign ministry said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/357/1/EDITORIAL-Uighur-terrorism-in-Pakistan/Uighur-terrorism-in-Pakistan.html The Chinese embassy in Islamabad has reportedly complained that members of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) are planning to kidnap senior Chinese diplomats and consular officers in the country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/345/1/Canadian-citizen-facing-execution-in-China/Canadian-citizen-facing-execution-in-China.html A Canadian citizen faces execution after being extradited from Uzbekistan to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/344/1/Canadian-citizen-extradited-to-China-could-be-put-to-death/Canadian-citizen-extradited-to-China-could-be-put-to-death.html Uzbekistan has extradited a Canadian citizen to China, where he faces a death sentence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/343/1/Imam-now-in-Chinas-hands/Imam-now-in-Chinas-hands.html A Burlington man, who faces a death sentence in China for his human rights work, now finds himself back in that country after being extradicted from Uzbekistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/339/1/The-Price-of-Speaking-Out/The-Price-of-Speaking-Out.html It was the most agonizing moment in my life: worse even than being jailed for six years in China on trumped up charges. Earlier this month, I listened helplessly, as my daughter screamed down a cell phone from the side of a road in northwestern China that one of my sons was being beaten half to death by thugs in uniform. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/338/1/Week-in-Review---Uighur-refugees/Washington-Post-Week-in-Review.html    Two decades after the death of the repressive Enver Hoxha, Albania is making steady progress toward a more open and democratic society. But as freelance correspondent Bruce Konviser discovered on a recent visit to Tirana, it is not there yet. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/337/1/US-sends-14-detainees-home/14-more-Saudis-allowed-to-go-home.html All were Saudis, one was no longer considered an 'enemy combatant'   zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/336/1/Kyrgyz-Supreme-Court-Upholds-Death-Sentence/Kyrgyz-Supreme-Court-Upholds-Death-Sentence.html 23 June, 2006 -- A lawyer in Kyrgyzstan says the country's Supreme Court has upheld a death-sentence verdict given her Uzbek client over the killing of an Uyghur business leader in 2001. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/335/1/Exiled-Uyghur-Dissident-Says-Family-Detained-in-Retaliation/Exiled-Uyghur-Dissident-Says-Family-Detained-in-Retaliation.html U.S.-based Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer has said the arrest of her three adult sons by authorities in China amounts to retaliation by officials angered by her criticism of Chinese rule in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/333/1/VOA-has-interviewed-Alim-Seytoff-general-secretary-of-UAA/VOA-has-interviewed-Alim-Seytoff-general-secretary-of-UAA.html Voice of America Satellite Television (VOA/STV) has interviewed Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uyghur American Association (UAA), on Tuesday on a range of topics including the recent arrest of Ms. Rebiya Kadeer's children. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/332/1/Exile-Asks-UN-To-Probe-China-Rights-Abuses/Exile-Asks-UN-To-Probe-China-Rights-Abuses.html The new U.N. Human Rights Council should probe the record of one of its members, China, which continues to lock up and harass dissidents and minorities, an exiled Uighur activist said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/325/1/No-Word-For-Wife-On-Jailed-Uyghur-Writers-Fate/No-Word-For-Wife-On-Jailed-Uyghur-Writers-Fate.html The wife of a minority Muslim Uyghur writer, jailed by a Chinese court in 1999 for "stealing state secrets," says authorities have never officially told her of her husband's fate or whereabouts in more than seven years. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/324/1/China-Afghan-ink-landmark-agreement-to-cement-bilateral-ties/China-Afghan-ink-landmark-agreement-to-cement-bilateral-ties.html China and Afghanistan have signed a landmark treaty to boost cooperation on security matters, including anti-terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/321/1/The-Uighurs-Ordeal/The-Uighurs-Ordeal.html The US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba still dominates world agenda. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/319/1/China-Uyghur-Separatists-Caught-Up-In-Antiterror-Campaign/China-Uyghur-Separatists-Caught-Up-In-Antiterror-Campaign.html The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on June 15 seems likely to tighten the net around the efforts of China's Muslim Uyghur community to achieve independence from Beijing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/317/1/Shanghai-grouping-moves-centre-stage/Shanghai-grouping-moves-centre-stage.html Leaders from Russia, China and Central Asian states meet in Shanghai on Thursday for what will be the most high profile meeting to date of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/316/1/Press-Release-of-the-Ministry-of-Foreign-Affairs/Press-Release-of-the-Ministry-of-Foreign-Affairs.html In view of the statements made at domestic and international press by an official of the Office for Refugees, that Albania is considering the possibility of sending away the five citizens of Uighur origin, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarifies that such statements are totally untrue and do not constitute the official line of the Albanian Government on this issue. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/315/1/The-US-Challenge-at-the-Shanghai-Summit/The-US-Challenge-at-the-Shanghai-Summit.html On June 15 members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will gather for their annual meeting at the birthplace of this Eurasian bloc—Shanghai. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/314/1/The-Most-Dangerous-Unknown-Pact/The-Most-Dangerous-Unknown-Pact.html The Shanghai Cooperative Organization is the "most dangerous organization that Americans have never heard of," according to the director of the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy, Christopher Brown. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/313/1/Albanian-Gitmo-5-seek-asylum-elsewhere/Albanian-Gitmo-5-seek-asylum-elsewhere.html Lawyers for five Chinese Muslims released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay have asked Albania to suspend asylum procedures, saying their clients are hoping to find another host country where it would be easier for them to integrate, an official said Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/312/1/Canada-may-welcome-detainees/Canada-may-welcome-detainees.html Some prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who have been formally cleared of links to terrorism may soon be attempting to emigrate to Canada. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/310/1/Chinas-Shanghai-Summit-Shifts-Focus-to-Energy-From-Terror/Chinas-Shanghai-Summit-Shifts-Focus-to-Energy-From-Terror.html China is stepping up security for a summit tomorrow with leaders from Russia and four central Asian nations in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as attention focuses on an observer: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/309/1/Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-Must-Not-Punish-Peaceful-Dissent/Shanghai-Cooperation-Organization-Must-Not-Punish-Peaceful-Dissent.html Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) should commit to adhering to international standards on human rights when they meet to discuss joint counterterrorism measures on June 15, Human Rights Watch said today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/308/1/Chinese-Muslims-search-for-sanctuary/Chinese-Muslims-search-for-sanctuary.html Authorities are looking for a new home for five Chinese Muslims who have been held in a refugee camp in a diplomatic limbo since being transferred to Albania from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, last month. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/307/1/Huseyincan-Celils-Location-Unknown/Imams-location-unknown-Burlington-family-fears-hell-be-killed.html Burlington imam Huseyincan Celil, an advocate for China's Uighur minority group held since April in an Uzbekistan detention centre, has been transferred to an undisclosed location, his relatives say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/306/1/A-strange-kind-of-freedom---Albania-wants-to-expel-Uighurs-sent-there-by-US/A-strange-kind-of-freedom---Albania-wants-to-expel-Uighurs-sent-there-by-US.html Five ethnic Uighurs from northwest China suffered through four years in Guantanamo Bay only to be dumped by the U.S. in one of Europe's poorest nations, which now says they are unwelcome and must leave. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/305/1/China-Kyrgyzstan-issue-joint-statement-ink-13-deals/China-Kyrgyzstan-issue-joint-statement-ink-13-deals.html China and Kyrgyzstan issued a joint statement and also signed 13 deals in Beijing on Friday during Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's first state visit to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/301/1/Does-The-Road-To-Shanghai-Go-Through-Tehran/Does-The-Road-To-Shanghai-Go-Through-Tehran.html Chinese interest in Central Asian energy resources is also growing. And the United States continues to maintain close, energy-inflected ties with Kazakhstan and a military base in Kyrgyzstan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/298/1/Chinese-delegation-in-Albania-talk-of-Gitmo-5-likely/Chinese-delegation-in-Albania-talk-of-Gitmo-5-likely.html Albania-A delegation of Chinese parliamentarians will visit Albania Friday, the first official visit since five Chinese Muslims sought asylum here after being released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/296/1/China-Kyrgyzstan-agree-anti-terror-cooperation/China-Kyrgyzstan-agree-anti-terror-cooperation.html China and Kyrgyzstan vowed to cooperate in a crackdown against ethnic Uighur Muslim separatists as part of their fight against “terrorism , state media reported Saturday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/294/1/Shanghai-group-unlikely-to-expand-soon---Russian-deputy-FM/Shanghai-group-unlikely-to-expand-soon---Russian-deputy-FM.html A Eurasian security bloc comprising five former Soviet republics and China is unlikely to produce any agreements on the accession of new members at a forthcoming summit, a deputy Russian foreign minister said Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/289/1/Natives-Feel-Left-Out-of-Chinas-New-West/Natives-Feel-Left-Out-of-Chinas-New-West.html Before the highway arrived last year, threading a strip of black pavement across a moonscape of pale sand, this town in central Xinjiang province was among the lonelier places on earth. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/287/1/China-USCIRF-deplores-detention-of-Rebiya-Kadeer-family-members/China-USCIRF-deplores-detention-of-Rebiya-Kadeer-family-members.html The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is deeply concerned about the recent detention, in violation of international statutes, of family members of Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur Muslim dissident and human rights activist who was exiled to the United States after her release from prison in March 2005.  zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/286/1/Fear-of-torture-and-ill-treatmentDetention-without-chargeMedical-Concern/Fear-of-torture-and-ill-treatmentDetention-without-chargeMedical-Concern.html Ablikim, Alim and Rushangul Abdiriyim, the three adult children of ethnic Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer were reportedly detained by the police on the evening of 29 May in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/282/1/Kadeers-children-must-be-released-and-their-freedom-and-safety-must-be-guaranteed/Kadeers-children-must-be-released-and-their-freedom-and-safety-must-be-guaranteed.html The Rafto Foundation is deeply concerned by reports that authorities in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have beaten two sons of Rafto Laureate Rebiya Kadeer and are intimidating other relatives of the exiled Uighur leader zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/281/1/Tale-of-5-Muslims-Out-of-Guantanamo-And-Into-Limbo/Tale-of-5-Muslims-Out-of-Guantanamo-And-Into-Limbo.html After four years in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Bakker Qassim, a former terror suspect cleared last year of having ties to al Qaeda, got word last month that he finally would be set free. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/284/1/Uyghur-Dissidents-Sons-Detained-Beaten-in-Front-of-Own-Children/Uyghur-Dissidents-Sons-Detained-Beaten-in-Front-of-Own-Children.html Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have formally detained two sons of exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer and are keeping one of her daughters under house arrest for alleged tax evasion, according to the Kadeer family and an official news report. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/283/1/Uighur-activist-China-detained-my-family/Uighur-activist-China-detained-my-family.html Incident is latest in crackdown on Uighur minority by Beijing, which says it is fighting 'terrorists.' zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/280/1/US-urges-China-to-free-dissidents-kin/US-urges-China-to-free-dissidents-kin.html The State Department is urging the Chinese government to release arrested family members of a Muslim dissident in exile in the United States zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/279/1/Chinese-police-severely-beat-exiled-Uighur-leaders-sons-relative/Chinese-police-severely-beat-exiled-Uighur-leaders-sons-relative.html Police in China have detained and severely beaten two sons of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer in the second move against her family this week, a relative in Washington said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/276/1/US-concerned-over-Chinas-arrest-of-exiled-Muslim-leaders-children/US-concerned-over-Chinas-arrest-of-exiled-Muslim-leaders-children.html The United States expressed concern that three children of an exiled leader of China's Muslim Uighur minority, Rebiya Kadeer, pictured in 2005, had been placed under house arrest after being freed from police custody. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/273/1/Uyghur-Activists-Children-Detained-Held-Under-Close-Watch-in-China/Uyghur-Activists-Children-Detained-Held-Under-Close-Watch-in-China.html Chinese police in Xinjiang briefly detained and are closely monitoring three children of exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer in an apparent bid to keep them from meeting with a visiting U.S. congressional team, sources close to the family said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/272/1/The-sands-of-time/The-sands-of-time.html Chinese and French archeologists claim to have discovered the ruins of an ancient city which disappeared in the desert in Northwest China (East Turkistan) more than 2,200 years ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/267/1/Uyghur-Activists-Picket-Uzbek-Embassy/Uyghur-Activists-Picket-Uzbek-Embassy.html Around 30 protesters today picketed the Uzbek Embassy in Kyrgyzstan to demand the release of Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur activist currently in jail in Uzbekistan and wanted by the Kyrgyz authorities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/266/1/Guantanamos-Innocents-Newly-Released-Prisoners-Struggle-to-Find-a-Home/Guantanamos-Innocents-Newly-Released-Prisoners-Struggle-to-Find-a-Home.html Men Without a Country 'Disappointed' in America After a 'Pointless' Four Years at Gitmo zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/265/1/Kazakhstan-Begins-Oil-Deliveries-to-China-Via-New-Pipeline/Kazakhstan-Begins-Oil-Deliveries-to-China-Via-New-Pipeline.html On Thursday, May 25, crude oil from Kazakhstan flowed into China through a newly completed pipeline that links the two countries. This is the first time that imported oil is directly piped into China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/264/1/Get-Serious-About-Chinas-Rising-Military-Freed-from-Guantanamo-5-face-danger-in-Albania/Get-Serious-About-Chinas-Rising-Military.html The Pentagon's annual report to Congress on China's military power, released this week, reveals that Beijing's buildup has advanced well beyond what most analysts considered likely just 10 years ago ... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/260/1/Ancient-city-reveals-life-in-desert-2200-years-ago/Ancient-city-reveals-life-in-desert-2200-years-ago.html Chinese and French archaeologists claim to have discovered the ruins of an ancient city which disappeared in the desert in Northwest China more than 2,200 years ago. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/261/1/Absolved-prisoners-still-at-Guantanamo/Absolved-prisoners-still-at-Guantanamo.html WASHINGTON - Four of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been cleared of all connections to terrorism but continue to live in a legal limbo, with no indication of when they will be freed, according to the captives' attorneys and military documents. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/262/1/4-Men-Cleared-of-Terrorism-Links-but-Still-Detained/4-Men-Cleared-of-Terrorism-Links-but-Still-Detained.html The May 5 release of Chinese Muslims from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, leaves four men there who have been cleared of all connections to terrorism but continue to live in a legal limbo, with no indication of when they will be freed, according to the captives' attorneys and military documents. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 20 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/259/1/Kazakhstan-accused-of-secretly-deporting-two-Uighurs-to-China/Kazakhstan-accused-of-secretly-deporting-two-Uighurs-to-China.html The Vienna-based International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights said Yusuf Kadir Tohti and Abdulkadir Sidik went missing in Kazakhstan after being released from a pretrial detention center, where they had been held on accusation of possessing false passports and information of "an extremist character." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/257/1/Freed-from-Guantanamo-5-face-danger-in-Albania/Freed-from-Guantanamo-5-face-danger-in-Albania.html Five Chinese Muslims recently released from the Guantanamo Bay prison are living under increasingly dangerous conditions in Albania, the only country to let them in after the United States determined they were not 'enemy combatants," according to their lawyer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/239/1/China-history-unravelled-by-mummies/China-history-unravelled-by-mummies.html In a find that could turn conventional history on its head, scientists using genetic testing have discovered that Caucasians lived in western China's Tarim Basin a thousand years before East Asians arrived. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 15 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/244/1/China-Demands-That-Albania-Return-Ex-US-Detainees/China-Demands-That-Albania-Return-Ex-US-Detainees.html China demanded Tuesday that five Chinese Muslims flown to Albania after release from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay be turned over to Chinese authorities for prosecution as terrorists. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/240/1/Guantanamo-Uyghurs-Find-Freedom-Like-a-Celebration/Guantanamo-Uyghurs-Find-Freedom-Like-a-Celebration.html Five Chinese passport-holders, all Muslim Uyghurs cleared of terrorism charges and just released after five years in the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, are trying to adjust to new lives in Albania, the only country to offer them asylum. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/246/1/The-US-does-have-a-heart-after-all/The-US-does-have-a-heart-after-all.html The US' decision to release five Uighurs -- originally from China's Xinjiang Province -- who were being held in Guantanamo Bay and fly them to Albania for resettlement instead of back to China must be congratulated. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/245/1/Five-Muslims-from-China-at-Guantanamo-get-asylum----in-Albania/Five-Muslims-from-China-at-Guantanamo-get-asylum----in-Albania.html Five Muslims from China at Guantánamo get asylum -- in Albania zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/243/1/China-demands-return-of-Uighurs/China-demands-return-of-Uighurs.html China has asked Albania to hand over five Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay prison and applying for asylum in Albania, saying they were members of a terrorist organisation. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/242/1/Five-Guantanamo-Uyghurs-released-already-in-Albania/Five-Guantanamo-Uyghurs-released-already-in-Albania.html The Uyghur American Association has just learned from the US State Department that five Uyghurs who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay have been released from US custody, and have already arrived in Albania where they are to be re-settled. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/241/1/Gitmo-captive-asks-for-US-asylum/Gitmo-captive-asks-for-US-asylum.html In a document made public late yesterday, a Muslim captive from China cleared of ties to al Qaeda is asking Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for asylum in the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/238/1/quotCanadian-citizenquot-arrested-in-Uzbekistan-wanted-by-Interpol/quotCanadian-citizenquot-arrested-in-Uzbekistan-wanted-by-Interpol.html Huseyincan Celil who is wanted by Interpol on terrorism charges, National Central Bureau of Interpol in Uzbekistan said in its statement. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/227/1/Uygurlar-faol-taqdiri-yuzasidan-Toshkentdan-quotaqlli-qarorquot-kutmoqda/Uygurlar-faol-taqdiri-yuzasidan-Toshkentdan-quotaqlli-qarorquot-kutmoqda.html AQSh-Xitoy aloqalarida Taivan va Tibet masalasi qatorida Uyg’ur muxtoriyati, Pekinning uyg’urlarga nisbatan munosabati muhim o’rin egallaydi. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/237/1/Gitmo-Releases-Suggest-Numerous-Mistakes/Gitmo-Releases-Suggest-Numerous-Mistakes.html News that the Pentagon will soon release about a third of the prisoners still detained at Guantanamo Bay..... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/232/1/Woman-says-China-targets-Muslim-population-for-forced-family-planning/Woman-says-China-targets-Muslim-population-for-forced-family-planning.html Chinese authorities are targeting an autonomous Muslim population for forced family planning, said a woman once held as a Chinese political prisoner. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/228/1/Guantanamo-Bay-prisoners-plant-seeds-of-hope-in-secret-garden/Guantanamo-Bay-prisoners-plant-seeds-of-hope-in-secret-garden.html Mr Turkistani's plight is especially pitiful. An ethnic Uighur who was living in Afghanistan, he had been jailed by the Taliban for three years and then freed by ..... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/231/1/Imams-release-sought-MP/Imams-release-sought-MP.html Government concerned, Kenney says. Detention in Uzbekistan attacked zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/230/1/Central-Asia-Uyghurs-Hit-By-Autocratic-States-Cooperation-With-Beijing/Central-Asia-Uyghurs-Hit-By-Autocratic-States-Cooperation-With-Beijing.html An Uyghur political dissident from China, Huseyin Celil, remains in detention in Uzbekistan. Celil -- who is now a Canadian citizen -- was arrested in March in Tashkent at the request of Chinese authorities. Human rights groups fear that Celil might face torture and even death if extradited to China. Meanwhile, two more Uyghur men have been in detention in neighboring Kazakhstan. Observers say Uyghurs are victims of cooperation between the autocratic states in Central Asia and China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/235/1/Wilting-Dreams-At-Gitmo/Wilting-Dreams-At-Gitmo.html A Detainee Is Denied A Garden, and Hope zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/234/1/Amnesty-International-2-Urgent-Actions-on-behalf-of-ethnic-Uighurs-facing-deportation-to-China/Amnesty-International-2-Urgent-Actions-on-behalf-of-ethnic-Uighurs-facing-deportation-to-China.html Yusuf Kadir Tohti (also known as Erdagan), Abdukadir Sidik, Husein Dzhelil (known as Huseyin Celil) facing deportation to China.... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/233/1/Worst-of-the-worst/Worst-of-the-worst.html Then there are the cases of two Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs from western China. U.S. authorities have conceded that they weren't terrorists but .... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/229/1/Six-Nation-Bloc-Plans-Anti-Terror-Maneuvers/Six-Nation-Bloc-Plans-Anti-Terror-Maneuvers.html China, Russia and four Central Asian nations announced Wednesday that they will hold joint anti-terrorism exercises next year, emphasizing a desire to balance U.S. military influence in Asia with stepped-up preparations of their own. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/226/1/Growing-Heroin-Trade-Hits-Uyghurs-in-Chinas-Northwest/Growing-Heroin-Trade-Hits-Uyghurs-in-Chinas-Northwest.html Uyghur Muslim families in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang are feeling the devastating impact of the heroin trade as drug-trafficking routes become well-established, bringing addiction, crime, and HIV/AIDS infection in their wake. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/225/1/Chinas-Gitmo-Refugees/Chinas-Gitmo-Refugees.html As a measure of Europe's true concern for the men held at Guantanamo, we offer the story of 15 Uighur inmates there...... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/224/1/Wife-of-man-arrested-in-Uzbekistan-returns-alone/Wife-of-man-arrested-in-Uzbekistan-returns-alone.html Burlington man could be facing death. `Canada needs to be very vocal': Lawyer zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/223/1/Cross-your-fingers-if-youre-an-Uighur/Cross-your-fingers-if-youre-an-Uighur.html ... considering the two hapless Uighurs — ethnically Turkic Muslims mainly from China’s Xinjiang province — are stuck between a rock and a hard place in a spot called Guantanamo Bay.... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/222/1/China-calls-on-US-to-return-prisoners---Uyghurs-in-Guantanamo/China-calls-on-US-to-return-prisoners---Uyghurs-in-Guantanamo.html The Chinese foreign ministry has called on the US government to repatriate Uighur prisoners held in its Guantanamo Bay prison camp. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/221/1/US-lawmaker-accuses-China-of-genocide-ahead-of-Bush-Hu-summit/US-lawmaker-accuses-China-of-genocide-ahead-of-Bush-Hu-summit.html A senior lawmaker from US President George W. Bush's Republican party accused China of genocide for allegedly conducting forced abortions to phase out indigenous populations in the largely Buddhist Tibet and Muslim Xinjiang regions. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/220/1/High-court-wont-free-2-detainees/High-court-wont-free-2-detainees.html The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by two Chinese Muslims for immediate release from the Guantánamo Bay center where they have been held for years despite a government finding that they were wrongly classified as enemy combatants when captured in Pakistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/219/1/Supreme-Court-Rejects-Chinese-Muslims-Appeal/Supreme-Court-Rejects-Chinese-Muslims-Appeal.html The military agrees they should be freed from Guantanamo, but it has no place to send them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/218/1/Free-the-Uighurs/Free-the-Uighurs.html Unfortunately, for a small group of Chinese Muslims and others held at Guantanamo Bay ... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/217/1/Supreme-Court-Wont-Hear-Chinese-Detainees-Case/Supreme-Court-Wont-Hear-Chinese-Detainees-Case.html The Supreme Court yesterday declined to expedite the case of two Chinese Muslims who have been held for four years at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite being cleared of ties to terrorism. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/216/1/Top-court-rejects-appeal-by-Uighurs-at-Guantanamo/Top-court-rejects-appeal-by-Uighurs-at-Guantanamo.html The Supreme Court declined on Monday to consider whether a federal judge can free two Chinese Muslims who remain imprisoned unlawfully at Guantanamo Bay, despite being cleared as "enemy combatants." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/214/1/Beijing-tightens-control-on-Uyghurs/Beijing-tightens-control-on-Uyghurs.html Diplomats fear Ontario man could be deported to China and executed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/215/1/US-pressures-Merkel-to-accept-Guantanamo-group/US-pressures-Merkel-to-accept-Guantanamo-group.html The U.S. government wants to deport a group of Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo prison camp to Germany and is pressuring Chancellor Angela Merkel to take in the ethnic Uighurs, a newspaper reported on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/213/1/Uzbekistan-arrests-Canadian-national-wanted-by-China-wife/Uzbekistan-arrests-Canadian-national-wanted-by-China-wife.html A political dissident from China who is now a Canadian citizen has been arrested in the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan and could face extradition to China, his wife said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/212/1/China-Moves-Farmers-as-Tarim-River-Waters-Dwindle/China-Moves-Farmers-as-Tarim-River-Waters-Dwindle.html Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang are relocating hundreds of ethnic minority farming families along the dwindling Tarim River. These Uyghur families blame major Han Chinese farming and industrial complexes for exhausting upstream waters. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/210/1/America-Seeking-To-Block-Appeal-Of-Two-Chinese-at-Guantanamo/America-Seeking-To-Block-Appeal-Of-Two-Chinese-at-Guantanamo.html The Bush administration is asking the Supreme Court to refuse to hear an unusual petition brought by two Muslims from China who are being held at Guantanamo Bay despite the American military's determination that the pair pose no threat to America. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/249/1/UAAUHRP-Funding-Update/UAAUHRP-Funding-Update.html The Uyghur American Association is pleased to announce it will receive a substantial increase in funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for UAA's Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) for the next fiscal year. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/211/1/Impact-of-Detainee-Act-Debated-in-Court/Impact-of-Detainee-Act-Debated-in-Court.html Panel to Decide Whether It Has Jurisdiction Over Bids for Freedom zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/209/1/Habeas-Schmabeas/Habeas-Schmabeas.html A program about detains in Guantanamo including Uyghur from This American Life. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/208/1/Adels-Anniversary-A-Guantanamo-Tale/Adels-Anniversary-A-Guantanamo-Tale.html JURIST Special Guest Columnist P. Sabin Willett, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, working pro bono with a team of Bingham lawyers in the Guantanamo habeas litigation, says that the detention of a Chinese Uighur is just one proof that the general, officially-articulated proposition that Guantanamo holds terrorists is a lie... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/207/1/US-calls-China-serious-rights-abuser-despite-reforms/US-calls-China-serious-rights-abuser-despite-reforms.html China increased its censorship of the Internet and of media critics last year and harassment and detention of those challenging the authorities grew, the United States said on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/206/1/Some-Gitmo-detainees-fear-reprisals-if-sent-home/Some-Gitmo-detainees-fear-reprisals-if-sent-home.html In transcripts, prisoners tell tribunals of possible torture, death zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/205/1/Religion-in-China-still-restricted-rights-group-says/Religion-in-China-still-restricted-rights-group-says.html Arrests, Closures, Crackdowns Continue zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/203/1/Chinese-parliament-to-target-financing-of-terrorism/Chinese-parliament-to-target-financing-of-terrorism.html China, facing what it says is terror threat in its restive far northwest, has sent a U.N. convention that tackles the financing of terrorism to parliament for approval, Xinhua news agency said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/201/1/Dateline-Xinjiang---Notes-from-Uighur-Country/Dateline-Xinjiang---Notes-from-Uighur-Country.html Notes from Uighur Country zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/204/1/Nobel-Peace-Prize-for-2006-draws-191-nominations/Nobel-Peace-Prize-for-2006-draws-191-nominations.html A near-record 191 Nobel Peace Prize nominations were made for 2006, including a Finnish peace mediator, Indonesia's President, two Irish rock stars and a former U.S. secretary of state. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/200/1/Chinese-Call-for-More-Birth-Control-in-Muslim-West-Sparks-Outcry-from-Activists/Chinese-Call-for-More-Birth-Control-in-Muslim-West-Sparks-Outcry-from-Activists.html Calls for tougher birth control enforcement in China's Muslim west have provoked protests by activists who say such measures would lead to further human rights violations against the region's native Uighur ethnic group. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/202/1/Innocent-Men-in-Legal-Limbo-Still-at-Gitmo/Innocent-Men-in-Legal-Limbo-Still-at-Gitmo.html Five Detainees Cleared By Pentagon, But Cannot Go Home zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/199/1/Innocent-but-in-limbo-at-Guantanamo/Innocent-but-in-limbo-at-Guantanamo.html Five Chinese Muslims, captured in Pakistan by mistake, try to get the US Supreme Court to take their case. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/197/1/Go-West-policy-begins-to-flourish/Go-West-policy-begins-to-flourish.html China's western development policy has just entered its sixth year. There is little doubt the program is having a huge impact on the frontier regions in the west while strengthening central government control and national unity. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/198/1/Lawyer-of-the-lost/Lawyer-of-the-lost.html The US won't release the Chinese Muslims being held illegally at Guantanamo Bay. Sabin Willett can't let them go either. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/196/1/China-Bans-Officials-State-Employees-Children-From-Mosques/China-Bans-Officials-State-Employees-Children-From-Mosques.html Chinese authorities have tightened curbs on minority Muslims in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, banning any government officials, state employee, Party members, and in some cases women from entering mosques. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/193/1/Putonghua-push-in-Uygur-nursery-schools/Putonghua-push-in-Uygur-nursery-schools.html Beijing says plan will help minority, but critics say culture is being shoved aside zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/194/1/China-Admits-Flaws-But-Slams-Rights-Report/China-Admits-Flaws-But-Slams-Rights-Report.html China's retort Thursday to the latest report by Human Rights Watch combined vitriol and vagueness, but officials admit there's room for improvement. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/195/1/No-longer-enemies-Chinese-still-held-at-Guantanamo/No-longer-enemies-Chinese-still-held-at-Guantanamo.html The U.S. military decided at least 10 months ago that a handful of Chinese Muslims held at the Guantanamo prison camp are not enemy combatants, and a federal court has deemed their continued detention illegal. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/192/1/China-to-strike-hard-against-rising-unrest/China-to-strike-hard-against-rising-unrest.html China is preparing to "strike hard" against rising public unrest, a senior police official said according to state media on Thursday, highlighting the government's fears for stability even as the economy booms. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/191/1/China-arrests-rise-in-restive-Xinjiang-activist/China-arrests-rise-in-restive-Xinjiang-activist.html Chinese authorities arrested more than 18,000 people for crimes including national security offenses in the mainly Muslim western region of Xinjiang last year, a newspaper said on Friday, which a dissident described as a rise of a quarter. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/190/1/Chinese-Detainees-Lawyers-Will-Take-Case-to-High-Court/Chinese-Detainees-Lawyers-Will-Take-Case-to-High-Court.html Chinese Detainees' Lawyers Will Take Case to High Court, Ruling on Uighurs Is Called Vital zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/189/1/US-Based-Uyghur-Lashes-Out-at-Pressure-To-Spy-for-China/US-Based-Uyghur-Lashes-Out-at-Pressure-To-Spy-for-China.html A U.S.-based member of the Muslim Uyghur ethnic group, which is deeply unhappy with Chinese rule in its territory, has hit out at Chinese officials who he says are holding his wife and children under house arrest to pressure him into spying for them. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/188/1/Risky-business-in-Chinas-west/Risky-business-in-Chinas-west.html The "Go West" campaign is one of many policies China has initiated to develop the infrastructure and vast resources of its far western regions, Xinjiang and Xizang, also known as the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, while strengthening political and economic ties with bordering states. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/187/1/Suicide-underlines-plight-of-Uyghur-refugees/Suicide-underlines-plight-of-Uyghur-refugees.html Burhan Zunun, a Uyghur from Ghulja in East Turkistan, died at mid-day on December 29 in hospital in Denmark, apparently as a result of injuries sustained during an attempted suicide in police detention on Christmas Day. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/186/1/Oil-boom-changes-Muslim-region-in-Chinas-wild-West/Oil-boom-changes-Muslim-region-in-Chinas-wild-West.html The prop plane packed with businessmen swoops into this once-sleepy oasis town in far western China, flying low over the spectacular Tian Shan mountain range, now snowcapped. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/183/1/One-China-One-Taiwan/One-China-One-Taiwan.html During his recent trip to Japan, South Korea, China, and Mongolia, President Bush extolled the region's wave of democratization as "one of the greatest stories in human history" and lamented the holdouts who are "out of step with their neighbors and isolated from the world." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/185/1/Detainee-Cleared-for-Release-Is-in-Limbo-at-Guantanamo/Detainee-Cleared-for-Release-Is-in-Limbo-at-Guantanamo.html When U.S. forces freed Saddiq Ahmad Turkistani from a Taliban prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in late 2001, the detainee met with reporters at a news conference and told U.S. officials that he had been wrongly imprisoned for allegedly plotting to kill Osama bin Laden. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/184/1/China-blasts-US-for-letting-Muslim-speak/China-blasts-US-for-letting-Muslim-speak.html China has called on the United States not to provide a platform for separatists, after a Chinese Muslim leader reported abuses at a Congressional hearing. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/182/1/Court-May-Hear-Chinese-Uyghur-Detainees/Court-May-Hear-Chinese-Uyghur-Detainees.html A federal judge in Washington said yesterday that he will consider allowing two detainees in the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to appear before him in court to challenge their confinement, telling lawyers that the ethnic Uighurs who have been cleared for release have been held too long. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/181/1/Judge-nears-decision-on-fate-of-15-Guantanamo-detainees-Uyghurs/Judge-nears-decision-on-fate-of-15-Guantanamo-detainees-Uyghurs.html Judge nears decision on fate of 15 Guantanamo detaineesMilitary tribunal ordered release of Chinese Muslims zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/180/1/Han-to-mouth/Han-to-mouth.html With no fewer than 47 ethnic groups thronging the local markets, it's not surprising that China's vast Xinjiang province is the place for rare and unusual delicacies - and the best naan in the world. Fuchsia Dunlop reports zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/179/1/World-Human-Rights-Day--Remember-Abduhelil-Zunun/World-Human-Rights-Day--Remember-Abduhelil-Zunun.html The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) takes the opportunity of World Human Rights Day on December 10 to remind the world of the case of Abduhelil Zunun, a Uyghur sentenced to 20 years in prison in November 2001 for translating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) into the Uyghur language. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/178/1/China-builds-pipeline-through-restive-Uighurstan/China-builds-pipeline-through-restive-Uighurstan.html The current (Dec. 1) issue of The Economist includes a profile of "China's far west"—a region variously known as Xinjiang (to the Chinese), or East Turkestan or Uighurstan to its indigenous inhabitants, the Turkic and Muslim Uighurs. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/177/1/Twin-sword-hangs-over-HIV-infected/Twin-sword-hangs-over-HIV-infected.html GULI, a young woman in Yining, on China's far western border with Central Asia, is part of an HIV/AIDS problem that is intensely embarrassing for China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/176/1/Special-apporteur-on-torture-highlights-challenges-at-end-of-visit-to-china/Special-apporteur-on-torture-highlights-challenges-at-end-of-visit-to-china.html The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment concluded a two-week visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/175/1/China-needs-major-reform-to-curb-torture-UN/China-needs-major-reform-to-curb-torture-UN.html The use of torture is widespread in China and the country needs major structural reform to its legal system for the situation to improve, a top U.N. envoy said on Friday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/174/1/Under-the-thumb-Chinas-far-west/Under-the-thumb-Chinas-far-west.html In dampening resentment, nothing succeeds like successTO CHINESE cadres, the town of Yining is an advertisement for their country's six-year-old policy of boosting development in lagging western regions... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/172/1/Chinas-grip-on-Xinjiang-Muslims/Chinas-grip-on-Xinjiang-Muslims.html The young men studying at the Islam College in Urumqi, near China's western border, sit ramrod straight listening intently to their teacher. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/173/1/Muslim-Human-Rights-Activist-Takes-on-China/Muslim-Human-Rights-Activist-Takes-on-China.html Rebiya Kadeer is fighting to bring the Chinese leadership before an international human rights tribunal. She accuses the regime of repressing the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in northwest China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/171/1/China-more-aware-of-torture-use/China-more-aware-of-torture-use.html The UN special envoy on torture has said that his invitation to visit China indicates growing awareness in Beijing that the practice is still widely used. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/170/1/UN-torture-envoy-in-China/UN-torture-envoy-in-China.html The U.N. envoy on torture arrives in China on Monday as Beijing grapples with a series of cases in which people have been wrongly convicted after giving forced confessions, a practice rights groups says happens too often. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/169/1/Mutiny-stirs-on-the-last-frontier-of-Maoism/Mutiny-stirs-on-the-last-frontier-of-Maoism.html In 1956 an 18-year-old boy named Chen Shujie followed orders from his work unit in the central province of Henan and set off for the furthest side of China, along with scores of other young "volunteers". zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/168/1/Broken-China/Broken-China.html Democratic leaders who recently met the wholly un-democratic Chinese president, Hu Jintao, on his tour of western Europe, have been heavily criticized for not putting the issue of human rights higher on their agendas. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/165/1/Chinas-western-border-defenders/Chinas-western-border-defenders.html Bai Xinguo makes a good living tending his tiny orchard, in the far western Chinese province of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/164/1/Uyghurs-Invited-onto-Stage-with-His-Holiness-The-Dalai-Lama/Uyghurs-Invited-onto-Stage-with-His-Holiness-The-Dalai-Lama.html Rebiya Kadeer and Nury Turkel profoundly honored. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/163/1/Detainees-Deserve-Court-Trials/Detainees-Deserve-Court-Trials.html As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me...... zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/162/1/Chinese-Court-Jails-Uyghur-Editor-for-Publishing-Veiled-Dissent/Chinese-Court-Jails-Uyghur-Editor-for-Publishing-Veiled-Dissent.html Chinese authorities have jailed the chief editor of the Uyghur-language Kashgar Literature Journal for publishing a fable they regard as a veiled indictment of China's heavy-handed rule in its Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/161/1/Chinese-hotel-terror-alert-was-false-alarm-US-says/Chinese-hotel-terror-alert-was-false-alarm-US-says.html The United States on Thursday withdrew a statement that China had warned its luxury hotels that Islamic extremists may be planning attacks, saying the source of the threat was not credible. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/160/1/United-States-Releases-2005-International-Religious-Freedom-Report/United-States-Releases-2005-International-Religious-Freedom-Report.html The U.S. Department of State released the seventh annual International Religious Freedom Report, which examines the status of religious freedom around the world. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/159/1/Intl-program-on-AIDS-prevention-launched-in-Xinjiang/Intl-program-on-AIDS-prevention-launched-in-Xinjiang.html A 9.8-million-US-dollar project co-sponsored by the British Department for International Development (BDID) and the Norwegian government has been launched in Xinjiang to help the northwestern Uygur autonomous region prevent HIV/AIDS zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/158/1/Super-salt-mine-discovered-in-Xinjiang/Super-salt-mine-discovered-in-Xinjiang.html An outsize salt mine with a proved reserve of 14.5 billion tons has been discovered in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local government sources said on Thursday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/157/1/Worlds-smallest-temple-discovered-in-China/Worlds-smallest-temple-discovered-in-China.html Chinese archaeologists have claimed to have discovered the world's smallest ancient temple with Mahayana scriptures in the southern rim of the Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/155/1/Chinese-Muslims-Uyghurs-too-scared-to-talk/Chinese-Muslims-Uyghurs-too-scared-to-talk.html The same muttered phrase greets any curious visitor who strays into the mosques and bazaars dotting towns in Xinjiang province in China's remote northwest. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/156/1/CECC-released-its-2005-Annual-Report/CECC-released-its-2005-Annual-Report.html The Congressional-Executive Commission on China has released its 2005 Annual Report. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/154/1/Xinjiang-Oil-Commerce-Chamber-Ties-With-Kazakhstan-Counterpart/Xinjiang-Oil-Commerce-Chamber-Ties-With-Kazakhstan-Counterpart.html China's Xinjiang Oil Commerce Chamber has signed an agreement recently with Kazakhstan Oil Commerce Chamber to form closer ties in energy cooperation, aiming to help its member companies find a feasible way out to do business with overseas oil companies. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/153/1/Chinas-Xinjiang-Lanzhou-Oil-Pipeline-Fnished/Chinas-Xinjiang-Lanzhou-Oil-Pipeline-Fnished.html The Xinjiang-Lanzhou oil pipeline has in the main been completed, according to an announcement by the China Petroleum and Natural Gas Pipeline Bureau that undertook the project. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/101/1/7-Oct-2005-Nobel-Prize-panels-announce-laureates--women-power-honored/7-Oct-2005-Nobel-Prize-panels-announce-laureates--women-power-honored.html Rebiya Kadeer, a prisoner of conscience in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, also known as East Turkistan, in China, also has a chance of bringing the prize home for women. She is a prominent symbol of the Uyghurs' struggle for basic human rights. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/152/1/ICT-Europe-and-Rebiya-Kadeer-Speak-on-Minority-Rights-in-China/ICT-Europe-and-Rebiya-Kadeer-Speak-on-Minority-Rights-in-China.html As part of an unofficial alternative program to the Amsterdam China Festival that began on 1 October in Amsterdam, Amnesty International and other organizations hosted a panel discussion on October 5 on "China: The Next Generation - Forgotten minorities" with Rebiya zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/151/1/UNPO-Appeal-on-Uyghur-Political-Prisoners/UNPO-Appeal-on-Uyghur-Political-Prisoners.html APPEAL FOR THE RELEASE OF UNJUSTLY JAILED UYGHUR PRISONERS AND ABOLITION OF DRAFT ANTI-TERRORISM LAW zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/149/1/Anti-Chinese-feeling-rising-in-Xinjiang/Anti-Chinese-feeling-rising-in-Xinjiang.html Anti-Chinese feeling ‘rising’ in Xinjiang zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/148/1/Chinese-Pioneers-Being-Asked-to-Relocate----Once-More/Chinese-Pioneers-Being-Asked-to-Relocate----Once-More.html They came 50 years ago to settle Xinjiang, a mostly Muslim hinterland. Now, the homes they built are being torn down to make way for development zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/116/1/Renewed-Strike-Hard-Campaign-Ordered-in-Xinjiang/Renewed-Strike-Hard-Campaign-Ordered-in-Xinjiang.html A senior Chinese official calls for stepped-up efforts against separatism in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, now marking 50 years under Chinese rule. But a leading Uyghur dissident says any increased dissent reflects widespread dissatisfaction among Uyghur people there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/115/1/US-warns-of-possible-terror-in-Chinas-northwest/US-warns-of-possible-terror-in-Chinas-northwest.html The United States has warned American travellers to be vigilant against a terrorist attack in China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang after Beijing told police there to be prepared for danger. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/114/1/Uyghur-Activists-Call-for-Day-of-Mourning/Uyghur-Activists-Call-for-Day-of-Mourning.html Activists abroad, who refer to Xinjiang as East Turkistan, said Oct. 1 should be designated a day of mourning. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/112/1/China-given-warning-on-Xinjiang/China-given-warning-on-Xinjiang.html China's treatment of Uighurs living in its western region of Xinjiang risks turning the area into a "time bomb", an exiled Uighur group has said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/110/1/China-raises-alerts-for-Xinjiang/China-raises-alerts-for-Xinjiang.html China has told police in Xinjiang, in the country's remote northwest, to "prepare for danger" ahead of its 50th anniversary as an autonomous region after accusing a dissident of plotting to sabotage the festivities. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/109/1/Chinese-scholars-historians-probe-sites-of-historical-interest-in-quotSea-of-Deathquot/Chinese-scholars-historians-probe-sites-of-historical-interest-in-quotSea-of-Deathquot.html A group of over 50 Chinese scholars and cultural workers left Korla City Tuesday for Lop Nur, known as the "Sea of Death" in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to investigate historical sites in the region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/108/1/Saudi-Arabia-and-China-extend-ties-beyond-oil/Saudi-Arabia-and-China-extend-ties-beyond-oil.html Though initially slow to develop, Sino-Saudi relations today are multifaceted expanding both in scale and in scope. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/107/1/XINJIANG-How-long-will-arrested-Sufi-Muslims-be-held/XINJIANG-How-long-will-arrested-Sufi-Muslims-be-held.html Local Muslim Abdu Raheman has confirmed to Forum 18 News Service that the government of the Ili-Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of China's north-western Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region banned the Sala movement – a local Sufi Muslim order - in August and that an unknown number of its followers have been arrested. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/105/1/Chinas-top-inland-river-revitalized-with-ecological-conservation/Chinas-top-inland-river-revitalized-with-ecological-conservation.html Zhu Xiangmin sighed with a relief as the second phase of the current water infusion for the Tarim, China's longest inland river, has since late August gone smoothly. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/104/1/Northwest-China-region-becomes-bridgehead-for-trade-ties-with-Central-Asia/Northwest-China-region-becomes-bridgehead-for-trade-ties-with-Central-Asia.html Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is becoming a bridgehead for promoting trade ties with the neighboring countries in Central Asia, according to a top regional official. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/106/1/Uyghur-Children-Forced-To-Work-in-Cotton-Fields/Xinjiang-Children-Forced-To-Work-in-Cotton-Fields.html Schoolchildren in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are routinely pressed by army-backed production brigades into backbreaking, unpaid labor to help with the yearly cotton harvest, residents and officials say. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/113/1/China-Puts-Focus-on-Security-in-Muslim-Region/China-Puts-Focus-on-Security-in-Muslim-Region.html China urged local security agencies Thursday to "prepare for danger" and remain vigilant against terrorists in the predominantly Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/111/1/Chinese-Pioneers-Being-Asked-to-Relocate----Once-More/Chinese-Pioneers-Being-Asked-to-Relocate----Once-More.html They came 50 years ago to settle Xinjiang, a mostly Muslim hinterland. Now, the homes they built are being torn down to make way for development. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/103/1/Free-trade-zone-in-pipeline-in-Xinjiang/Free-trade-zone-in-pipeline-in-Xinjiang.html The foundation will be laid within this year for a border free trade zone between China and Kazakhstan at port Korgas in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/102/1/Kyrgyzstan-bans-quotextremismquot-with-prodding-from-Beijing/Kyrgyzstan-bans-quotextremismquot-with-prodding-from-Beijing.html Kyrgyzstan bans "extremism" with prodding from Beijing zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/100/1/Uyghur-organizations-president-attacks-PRC-oppression-in-Xinjiang/Uyghur-organizations-president-attacks-PRC-oppression-in-Xinjiang.html World Uyghur Congress (WUC) president Erkin Alptekin yesterday urged the international community to intervene and pressure the Chinese government into starting talks with the Uyghur people of Xinjiang so that disputes there can be resolved peacefully. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/98/1/Oilgas-supply-line-built-along-Silk-Road/Oilgas-supply-line-built-along-Silk-Road.html China is building an energy supply artery along the ancient Silk Road in a bid to transport oil and gas from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and from the adjacent central Asian nations to the eastern and central parts of China zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/97/1/Human-rights-key-to-Chinas-development/Human-rights-key-to-Chinas-development.html During a recent visit to Beijing, U.N. rights envoy Louise Arbour called attention to the serious human-rights situation in China and the need for improvements according to international human-rights standards. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/96/1/Tibetans--Uyghurs-Protest-as-Chinese-President-Address-UN-Opening/Tibetans--Uyghurs-Protest-as-Chinese-President-Address-UN-Opening.html Tibetans, Uyghurs and their supporters will hold a demonstration to coincide with Hu Jintao addressing the opening of the United Nations General Assembly today. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/95/1/Oil-Products-Sales-Top-24857-MLN-Tons-In-Chinas-Xinjiang/Oil-Products-Sales-Top-24857-MLN-Tons-In-Chinas-Xinjiang.html Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region sold a total of 2.4857 million tons of finished oil, including 571,600 tons of petrol and 1.9141 million tons of diesel oil in the first eight months of this year, sources of the regional economic and trade commission disclosed. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/99/1/20000-farmers-go-to-Xinjiang-to-pick-cotton/20000-farmers-go-to-Xinjiang-to-pick-cotton.html At least 20,000 farmers have gone to Xinjiang by the end of August to pick cotton, Chongqing Labour Service Office told the reporter yesterday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/94/1/Beijing--I---Rebiya-Kadeer/Beijing--I---Rebiya-Kadeer.html The Chinese government says I am a terrorist. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/93/1/China-fuels-energy-cold-war/China-fuels-energy-cold-war.html A notable feature of 2004 was the volatility in oil prices - New York light sweet crude prices reached a peak of US$55.67 on October 25, ending the year up 33.6% at $43.45 per barrel. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/92/1/Chinas-oil-quest-causes-friction/Chinas-oil-quest-causes-friction.html Amid global shortages and price rises, what China is paying for its imported oil could involve much more than just cash. China's strategy of tapping new oil reserves in some countries, blacklisted by the US as troublesome, is meeting increasing political resistance from Washington. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/91/1/Oil-focus-shifting-to-Xinjiang/Oil-focus-shifting-to-Xinjiang.html For the entire history of the Chinese oil industry, eastern fields have been the main contributors to production, while the northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with its rich reserves, took the role of a strategic substitutive zone. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/90/1/Chinas-Newest-Terrorist-Works-for-Peace/Chinas-Newest-Terrorist-Works-for-Peace.html China's latest "terrorist" is someone who has never participated in a suicide bomb attack, planted a roadside bomb, hijacked a plane, or indeed committed any act of violence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/88/1/China-blames-Uighur-independence-groups-for-260-attacks-160-deaths/China-blames-Uighur-independence-groups-for-260-attacks-160-deaths.html Uighur separatists in western China have carried out 260 attacks over the past decade, killing 160 people and injuring 440, state media reported Tuesday in a rare disclosure. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/89/1/Activist-Slams-Chinas-Anti-Muslims-quotOpportunistic-Bidquot/Activist-Slams-Chinas-Anti-Muslims-quotOpportunistic-Bidquot.html A human rights activist Tuesday, September 6, said that China's accusation to Muslims in the northwestern region of Xinjiang of being terrorists was an "opportunistic bid" to shift attention form its oppressive rule there. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/87/1/French-Giant-Invests-in-Sewage-Treatment-Plant-in-China/French-Giant-Invests-in-Sewage-Treatment-Plant-in-China.html French-based Veolia Water Group recently signed an agreement with the Urumqi city government in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to invest in a local sewage treatment plant. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/86/1/China-marks-western-Xinjiang-as-main-terror-threat/China-marks-western-Xinjiang-as-main-terror-threat.html Separatists in China's far-flung, predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang are the main terror threat to the country, killing 160 people and wounding 440 over the past decade, officials were quoted on Tuesday as saying. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/83/1/China-marks-western-Xinjiang-as-main-terror-threat/China-marks-western-Xinjiang-as-main-terror-threat.html Separatists in China's far-flung, predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang are the main terror threat to the country, killing 160 people and wounding 440 over the past decade, officials were quoted on Tuesday as saying. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/85/1/Xinjiang-Becomes-Major-Thick-Oil-Base-In-China/Xinjiang-Becomes-Major-Thick-Oil-Base-In-China.html Xinjiang has acquired an annual thick oil production capacity of 3.2 million tons to become a major thick oil production and processing base in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/84/1/Chinese-Police-Form-Special-Unit-for-Exile-Uyghur-Dissidents-Family/Chinese-Police-Form-Special-Unit-for-Exile-Uyghur-Dissidents-Family.html Police in Urumqi, capital of China's Muslim-majority Uyghur region, have formed a special unit to deal with the relatives and business interests of exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer, according to one of Kadeer's sons and a local police officer. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/80/1/Human-rights-concerns-cloud-Chinese-leaders-US-visit/Human-rights-concerns-cloud-Chinese-leaders-US-visit.html Chinese President Hu Jintao will be bombarded by charges and protests over alleged human rights abuses when he makes his first US visit since taking over the helm two years ago, rights groups said. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/79/1/Former-American-businessman-lobbies-for-Chinas-political-prisoners/Former-American-businessman-lobbies-for-Chinas-political-prisoners.html If China frees any political prisoners before its president's first official visit to the United States next week, chances are John Kamm will have played a role in this goodwill gesture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/78/1/Dissident-rejects-terror-plot-claims/Dissident-rejects-terror-plot-claims.html A PROMINENT Muslim Uighur dissident has dismissed China's claim that she was plotting with "terrorist groups" to disrupt the anniversary of Beijing's takeover of the Xinjiang region. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/82/1/Former-Military-Officer-Reveals-Situation-in-Xinjiang/Former-Military-Officer-Reveals-Situation-in-Xinjiang.html Executive member of the Chinese National Liberation Union and former military officer Li Qike describes the history of the Xinjiang corps and explains some of the reasons behind the unit's discontentment. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/81/1/China-May-be-Preparing-Another-Crackdown-on-Ethnic-Muslims-in-Xinjiang/China-May-be-Preparing-Another-Crackdown-on-Ethnic-Muslims-in-Xinjiang.html Exile groups and human rights advocates say China may be preparing to crack down on ethnic Muslim Uighurs in the region of Xinjiang. Communist officials have repeated their warnings against what they say are terrorist groups operating in Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/77/1/Uighur-detainees-moved-but-not-freed/Uighur-detainees-moved-but-not-freed.html Officials at the United States detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have moved five ethnic Uighurs into a less restrictive area of the prison while Washington tries to find a way to free the Chinese separatists in a third country. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/76/1/UN-rights-chief-to-visit-China/UN-rights-chief-to-visit-China.html The U.N.'s top human rights official on Monday starts her first trip to China, a country widely criticised for keeping a tight grip on the media, and for using harsh methods to control Tibet and its restive western region of Xinjiang. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/167/1/CECC-held-a-Roundtable-on-Xinjiang/CECC-held-a-Roundtable-on-Xinjiang.html The Congressional-Executive Commission on China held another in its series of staff-led Issues Roundtables, entitled "China's Changing Strategic Concerns: The Impact on Human Rights in Xinjiang" on Wednesday. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 16 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/74/1/People-Power-Sends-a-Message-To-Oppressive-Regimes/People-Power-Sends-a-Message-To-Oppressive-Regimes.html The resurgence of people power in the sequence of "colored revolutions" in the post-Soviet states has brought unprecedented hope to the more than 10 million strong Uighur population of East Turkistan. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/72/1/Commentary-Uighurs-Release-Is-a-Victory-Over-Tyranny/Commentary-Uighurs-Release-Is-a-Victory-Over-Tyranny.html Regardless of Beijing's motives for her release, the liberation of prominent Uighur political prisoner Rebiya Kadeer is a victory for freedom over tyranny. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/70/1/China-Frees-Rebiya-Kadeer/China-Frees-Rebiya-Kadeer.html Uyghur businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer, freed from a Chinese jail in an apparent deal with Washington, arrived here from Beijing late Thursday, rejoicing at her unexpected release and vowing to work "for the entire Uyghur nation." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/73/1/The-Big-Babble/The-Big-Babble.html To find New York's Uighur speakers (there are 535 according to the survey) I spoke to Gulametta Pahta, a 72-year-old Uighur campaigner who lives on Long Island and he gave me directions to a restaurant. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/75/1/Treat-China-With-Caution/Treat-China-With-Caution.html Alim A Seytoff, General secretary of the Uyghur American Association speaks about China's Future Ambition on Asia Times. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/71/1/Telling-a-Thousand-Year-Story/Telling-a-Thousand-Year-Story.html With all eyes on Turkey's efforts to join the European Union, now would seem an ideal time for London's Royal Academy of Arts to stage what is probably the world's greatest ever exhibition of Turk art and culture. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/68/1/PBS-Interview-With-Serene-Fang-Secret-Meetings-and-an-Unexpected-Arrest/PBS-Interview-With-Serene-Fang-Secret-Meetings-and-an-Unexpected-Arrest.html FRONTLINE/World reporter Serene Fang found herself covering the arrest of a Uighur citizen when she traveled to the remote northwest Xinjiang province in China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/65/1/Chinas-Muslim-Uyghurs-See-Sharp-Rise-in-AIDS-Infections/Chinas-Muslim-Uyghurs-See-Sharp-Rise-in-AIDS-Infections.html The northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang has become a hot spot for the spread of HIV/AIDS in China, second only to Yunnan Province near the infamous Golden Triangle drug-producing region, RFA's Uyghur service reports. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/67/1/Centuries-old-Ties-That-Bind-Chinas-Muslims/Centuries-old-Ties-That-Bind-Chinas-Muslims.html Spilling out into the courtyard of Beijing's 1000-year-old Niujie Mosque prior to Ramadan, the audience of more than 400 Chinese Muslims sat in silence. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/62/1/A-World-Apart-on-Chinas-Silk-Road/A-World-Apart-on-Chinas-Silk-Road.html The pounding drums drew me into the alley. Stepping off the main street, I saw an old man with a thick beard and a white skullcap sitting in front of a shop, banging an insistent, Arab-sounding rhythm on a hand drum. Next to him, a younger man with thin stubble kept up a keening wail, like a snake charmer, on a tiny flute. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/64/1/Chinas-Growing-Influence-in-Central-Asia/Chinas-Growing-Influence-in-Central-Asia.html Chinese pop music blares from loudspeakers, mixing with the cries of Chinese traders at this busy local market. Welcome to China? No, we are in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty, at the Ya Lian bazaar. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/63/1/Fear-of-the-dragon-China-Still-Spooks-Its-Neighbors/Fear-of-the-dragon-China-Still-Spooks-Its-Neighbors.html On the surface, relations between China and its Central Asian neighbours have never been better. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/66/1/Corps-Values-Endure-on-the-Mainlands-Wild-West-Frontier/Corps-Values-Endure-on-the-Mainlands-Wild-West-Frontier.html A military group sent to Xinjiang 50 years ago has turned into one ofChina's largest institutions zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/61/1/Sultans-Song/Sultans-Song.html A long way from his homeland, the singer Sultan Kurash is a potent voice for the plight of the Uyghur people zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/60/1/In-Post-911-World-Chinese-Dissidents-Pose-US-Dilemma/In-Post-911-World-Chinese-Dissidents-Pose-US-Dilemma.html Uighur Nationalists Have Peaceful, Violent Wings; Deciding Who Is a Threat 'Omar Is Not a Bomb Thrower' zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/57/1/Why-China-Fears-This-Uyghur-Exile/Why-China-Fears-This-Uyghur-Exile.html THE GOVERNMENT OF China did everything it could to prevent Erkin Alptekin, the 65-year-old leader of a new exile group dedicated to self-determination for a region in northwest China, from visiting the United States recently. In lobbying the State Department and the White House to deny entry to Alptekin, China's embassy accused his organization, the World Uyghur Congress, of planning "terrorist activities aimed at splitting China." zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/53/1/New-Uyghur-Leader-Calls-for-Non-Violent-Opposition-to-China/New-Uyghur-Leader-Calls-for-Non-Violent-Opposition-to-China.html Erkin Alptekin, recently elected as President of the World Uyghur Congress, visits the United States. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/59/1/Beleaguered-Uyghurs-Oppressed-minority-terrorist-recruits-or-both/Beleaguered-Uyghurs-Oppressed-minority-terrorist-recruits-or-both.html One observance of the Tiananmen anniversary, in Washington over Memorial Day, brought new lessons about China. This was the fourth national convention of the Uighur American Association (UAA). zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/4108/1/US-decries-Cambodias-Uighur-move-.html The US has expressed deep concern about the fate of 20 Uighur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia back to China. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800 http://www.uyghuramerican.org/articles/1988/1/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. zerepshan@gmail.com (UAA Administrator) Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 -0800