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Reports: Uyghur asylum seekers deported from Cambodia sentenced to life, 17 years in prison
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 According to a January 25 Radio Free Asia (RFA) report, citing local sources, Musa Muhammad, one of 20 Uyghur asylum seekers who was deported from Cambodia on December 19, 2009, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison by a Chinese court during a closed trial.
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2011: The Uyghur Human Rights Year in Review
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 Calls for independent and international investigations into Chinese claims of Uyghur terrorism receive very short shrift from Beijing.
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They Can’t Send Me Back: Uyghur Asylum Seekers in Europe
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 A new report by the UHRP documents the challenges faced by Uyghur asylum seekers in Europe, and examines the reasons why they fled East Turkestan or Central Asia.
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“Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”
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A new report, “Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”, examines the Chinese government’s relationships with the governments of predominantly Muslim countries, and how these relationships have muted the Muslim world’s response to China’s repression of the Uyghur people.
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USCIRF Letter to President Obama on Religious Freedom and Rule of Law in China
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) sent the following letter on February 3, 2012:
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McCain to Beijing: Revolution is Coming
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“The Arab Spring is coming to China,” John McCain told Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun at the just-concluded Munich Security Conference, sometimes called the “Davos of Defense.”
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Pipelines, pandas trump democracy
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Last July, the man who is widely expected to succeed Hu Jintao as China’s president stood in front of the palace in Lhasa, Tibet, that is the traditional seat....
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Beijing warning on Tibet vigils
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Beijing has threatened to crack down on protesters as tensions continue to run high in remote Tibetan areas ahead of a global vigil in support of people recently killed by Chinese security forces.
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China Needs to Change Mideast Foreign Policy: James M. Dorsey
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China’s decision to veto a condemnation of Syria’s regime at the United Nations Security Council is just the latest signal that illustrates the need for a fundamental change in Chinese foreign policy.
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China's hardline politics clash with soft power
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China's hardline political stance, as shown by its veto of a UN resolution on Syria at the weekend, is increasingly clashing with the Asian powerhouse's efforts to improve its image abroad, analysts say.
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China: Continued Erasure of Uyghur Identity
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For many Chinese, the recent new year celebrations symbolise a new beginning. It is the celebration of an ongoing journey and is held synonymous with advancement, progress and improvement.
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PM expected to ask about Burlington man in Chinese jail
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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.
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Why India backed Syria vote
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The veto by Russia and China of a resolution in the UN Security Council that called upon Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in the face of the persisting movement against his regime is not based on an objective assessment of the ground situation in Syria.
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Russia, China lose credit in Arab world: League chief
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The Arab League chief said on Monday that Russia and China had lost diplomatic credit in the Arab world by vetoing a U.N. resolution on Syria and may have sent a message to Damascus that it had a free hand to crack down on protests.
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IFC Statement on China's Brutality against Ethnic Uighurs
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In reaction to China's recent brutality against ethnic Uighurs, Initiatives for China issued the following statement:
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Who is Xi: China's next leader
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Anyone interested in world affairs, Chinese diplomacy and China's future should know more about Xi Jinping.
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Rafto worried about the persecution of Uyghurs
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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.
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School Merger Results In Dropouts
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 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.
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Group Slams Xinjiang 'Terror Tactics'
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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.
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American Strategy, Values Coincide in Asia
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America's strategic interests in Asia go hand in hand with democratic values. Not by accident, all of our formal security allies in Asia - Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand - are democracies. And events are trending further in this direction.
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China says to increase police in Xinjiang for stability
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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.
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Uncertainty over Uighurs
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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.
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Is China All It's Cracked Up to Be?
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How many of you who peruse newspapers and websites like this one regularly have concluded that this will be the Chinese century -- a Pax Sinica, which supplants the Pax Americana of the last six decades?
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Brothers Look To Sue Ministry
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 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.
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