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Chinese District Reportedly Tries Veils Ban

AP | Posted 12.15.2011

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BEIJING -- A city district in heavily Muslim western China is trying to tamp down religious fervor by prohibiting people from wearing veils, tradition...

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Beijing Launches 'Strike Hard' Crackdown In Xinjiang

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.16.2011

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BEIJING — Chinese security forces have launched a two-month "strike hard" crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following rene...

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China's Forgotten Minority

Gordon Cinco | Posted 05.25.2011

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This Human Rights Day should be more than just an opportunity for politicians to put forth toothless platitudes but instead a time to defend actively the principles in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

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Kashgar: China, UNESCO Clash Over Uighur "Jerusalem"

GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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KASHGAR, China -- What's going on in Kashgar? The bulldozers have gone silent and demolition dust settled in Kashgar's Old City district in recent mo...

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China Executes 9 Uighurs Over July Ethnic Riots

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 p...

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China's Media "Openness" in East Turkestan

Amy Reger | Posted 05.25.2011

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As President Obama emphasized the benefits of the free flow of information in Shanghai last month, around 20 million citizens of China remained submerged in an ongoing Internet blackout.

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The People's Republic of China at Sixty: The Fear of Self-Examination

Henryk Szadziewski | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just as Deng made a bold move to take China into an era of economic reform, Hu will have to make a bold move, by talking with dissenters to take China into an era of meaningful political reform.

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Rebiya Kadeer, Exiled Uighur Leader, Claims 10,000 Uighurs Still Missing

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO — An exiled Uighur activist blamed by China for deadly ethnic riots demanded Wednesday that Beijing allow an international investigation i...

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Xinjiang Mosques Reopen For Friday Prayers

Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

URUMQI, China (AP) - Mosques opened for worshippers in Urumqi on Friday, but shops nearby were forced to shut as security forces kept a tight grip on ...

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China Uighur Protests Traced To Questionable Exported Labor Program

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 c...

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China Warns Citizens In Algeria Of Al Qaeda Threat

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has warned its citizens in Algeria about possible attacks from al Qaeda in retribution for a Chinese government crackdown in...

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China Protests: Al Qaeda Vows Retaliation For Crackdown On Uighurs

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: ABC News reports that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress who lives in Fairfax, Virginia and was recently blamed by the Chin...

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China Protests: Police Kill 2 Uighurs, Wound A Third

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...

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Uighurs Force China To Open Mosques For Friday Prayers

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN and GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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URUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving an ethnic breakdown of t...

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China Protests: Muslims Condemn China's Uighur Crackdown

Ankara | Posted 05.25.2011

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MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...

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China: Rioters Behind Killings Will Be Executed

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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URUMQI, China — Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal viol...

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China's Riots: West Descends Into Mob Violence Between Han Chinese, Muslim Uighurs

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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URUMQI, China — Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the stre...

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China Uighurs Protest Coverage Shows Changes In State Media Blocks

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

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News of Sunday's riots in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region spread quickly on the Internet, where users posted amateur photos an...

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Uighurs And China Explainer

CFR | Posted 05.25.2011

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Introduction The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about...

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Muslim Minority Riots Erupt In China

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING -- Chinese state media says that 156 people have been killed in violent riots in the country's western Xinjiang region. The official Xinhua N...

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Fair and Balanced? Lhasa Vs. Urumqi

Alexander Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why do rioting Tibetans generate more interest than rioting Uighurs?

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Palau Can't Take The Uighurs: Says China

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Palau's president said Thursday that his tiny Pacific nation's tradition of hospitality prompted the decision to take ...

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Uighurs Denied Release In US: Court Reverses Ruling

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that 17 Turkic Muslims cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay must stay at the prison c...

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China Arrests, Beats Two Foreign Journalists In Crackdown

AP | JAY ALABASTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO — Two Japanese journalists were briefly detained and beaten by police in western China, their companies and one of the men said Tuesday, t...

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