Rebiya Kadeer

Is There Anybody Out There?

Elcin Poyrazlar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebiya Kadeer, East Turkestan, China, Uyghurs, Xinjiang Province, Human Rights Violations, Chinese Government, World News
Elcin Poyrazlar

What is happening in East Turkestan is grave. Thousands of people are being killed, arrested, lost and people are living under threat, trauma and fear.

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Internet Restored, But the Evils of Han Chauvinism, Party-State Despotism and Bankrupt Communism Remain

Rebiya Kadeer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Rebiya Kadeer, China Censorship, China, China Human Rights, Uyghurs, World News
Rebiya Kadeer

The Internet is admired as a tool for freedom of speech and citizen participation the world over. But in China, and particularly in East Turkestan, it is used to root out critics of government policies.

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China: Uighur Riots Suspects To Be Tried

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China Uighur Riots, China Uighur, Urumqi, China Riots, China, Uighurs, Uighur Riots, Rebiya Kadeer, World News

BEIJING 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...

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

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Japan, Uighurs, Rebiya Kadeer, China Uighurs, China Uighur Protests, Uighurs China, Uighurs in China, China Uighur Crackdown, China Crackdown, World News

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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If Only the Uyghurs had Twitter

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebiya Kadeer, Xinjiang Province, Twitter, Urumqi, Uyghurs, Urumqi Riots, China, Xinjiang, Uighurs, Uyghur Human Rights Project, Urumchi, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

It's not that Americans don't care about Uyghurs. They just don't hear about the systematic slaughter of the Uyghur people by the Chinese government.

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Rebiya Kadeer: The Woman Blamed For China's Uighur Riots

The Washington Post | David Montgomery | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uighur Protest, Uighur Diaspora, China Protests, Protest in Washington, Uighur Protesters, Chinese Embassy Washington, Washington China Protests, China Protests Washington, Washington Protesters, March in Washington, Uighur, Chinese Protesters, Uighurs, Chinese Protests, China Politics, US CHina News, China, China News, Kadeer, Rebiya Kadeer, World News

The translators kept bursting into tears. That was a problem for Rebiya Kadeer, the tiny and fiery matriarch of the Uighur diaspora, who lives in Fair...

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Uighurs, Tibetans, Jews

Gershon Hepner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Terror, Moslems, Chinese Uighurs, Oil, Urumqi, Tibet, Israel, Rebiya Kadeer, World News
Gershon Hepner

In China, Moslems called the Uighurs are fighting to be free of rule by Han Chinese. It figures that they want liberty.

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Ryan Grim

Tiananmen Anniversary: International Media Network Bows To Chinese Pressure To Suppress Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rebiya Kadeer, Chinese Pressure, Tiananmen Square, Political Prisoner, Media News

Watch CNN footage below Several major news organizations have pulled back from coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, one...

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Ryan Grim

Uighurs Fire Back At Gingrich From Gitmo: "Why Does He Hate Us So Much?"

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Wolf, Rebiya Kadeer, Guantanamo Bay, Newt Gingrich, China, Uighurs, Gitmo, Politics News

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 Ging...

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