Rebiya Kadeer

China: Uighur Riots Suspects To Be Tried

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


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...

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

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


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

If Only the Uyghurs had Twitter

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics


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.

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

The Washington Post | David Montgomery | Posted 08.09.2009 | World


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...

Uighurs, Tibetans, Jews

Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.07.2009 | World


Gershon Hepner

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

Ryan Grim

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media


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

Ryan Grim

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics


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...