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Guantanamo Prisoners Released In El Salvador

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 04.19.2012

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Two men from western China who had been held for nearly a decade without charge at the Guantanamo Bay prison amid a dipl...

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Deadly Riots In China

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 04.29.2012

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BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday accused terrorists in a Muslim Uighur region of attacking civilians, but an exiled Uighur group said the violence ...

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The United States Must Press China's Vice President on the Plight of the Uighur People

Rebiya Kadeer | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: China Human Rights Violations, China, China Human Rights, Uyghurs, Uighurs, Xi Jingping, Syria, World News
Rebiya Kadeer

All the talk of the Arab Spring painfully reminds us that life for the Uighur people resembles a cruel, endless winter. That is why the United States must use the occasion of future Chinese President Xi's visit to take the lead, and begin the thaw we pray for.

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Kitchen Sink Laundry Lists and Broken Clocks

John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.14.2012

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John Wagner Givens

Corruption perceptions indices suggest that China is not especially corrupt for its level of development and actually does better than many more developed countries, including Russia, Argentina, and Mexico.

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Freed From Guantanamo, Uighur Makes Pizzas In Tirana

The Express Tribune | Posted 01.10.2012

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"I started a new life in Albania, I cannot return to China and the Chinese authorities will not allow my family to leave the country and come to Alban...

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"Sunday, Bloody Sunday"

Alim A. Seytoff | Posted 09.03.2011

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Alim A. Seytoff

This July 5 will be the second anniversary of Urumchi Massacre. But how many massacres do we need to face from the Chinese regime in order to live with human dignity, enjoy our basic freedoms and democratic rights?

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Tiananmen 2.0: Why China Is Not Immune to the Tunisia Effect

Tenzin Dorjee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tenzin Dorjee

In spite of China's image as a high-functioning economy, many of the social causes of mass discontent that exploded in the Arab world -- endemic corruption, income inequality, labor unrest, inflation, pollution -- continue to plague the nation.

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Guantánamo Uighurs Are Not Alone: US Communities Welcome Other Detainees in Need of Safe Haven

Nancy Talanian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Talanian

On April 22, attorneys for five Chinese Uighurs who remain at Guantánamo Bay prison will argue for their clients' entry into the US at a hearing sche...

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Who Are the Four Prisoners Released from Guantanamo to Albania and Spain?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

The majority of the men held at Guantánamo had no involvement with terrorism. Of the three men rehoused in Albania, one was a businessman, living in Europe, who had traveled to Afghanistan to provide humanitarian aid.

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Swiss Take Two Guantanamo Uighurs, Solve Obama's Problem

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

Obama is fortunate to have such kind allies, but he himself is the loser, the longer he refuses to tackle those who insist, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that everyone who was held at Guantánamo was a "terrorist."

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Who Are the Six Uighurs Released From Guantanamo to Palau?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

I am drawing together here the stories of six men who, nearly eight years after their wrongful and mistaken capture, are finally free from Guantánamo, even if an uncertain future awaits them.

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Xinjiang Riots: China Sentences 6 To Death

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — A court in China's far western Xinjiang region sentenced six men to death Monday for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic r...

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Stateless Pawns in the Global Game of the Superpowers

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Jan Honigsberg

The U.S. cannot repatriate seven men from Guantanamo to their homes in East Turkistan because the Chinese, who depict the detainees as terrorists, will likely torture and kill them.

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Will Obama Help Change Asia's Racism?

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

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David A. Love

President Obama's visit to Asia showed how long a journey it's been since the 1955 Bandung Conference, the historic meeting of African and Asian states striving for self-determination.

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Justice at Last? Guantanamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court for Release Into U.S.

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

In briefs, the battle lines have been drawn. On the one hand is the government, endorsing Bush-era policies. And for the Uighurs, there is a Boston-based attorney and his team.

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China's Forgotten Minority

Gordon Cinco | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gordon Cinco

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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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...

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75 Guantanamo Prisoners Cleared for Release; 31 Could Leave Today

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

If the rationale for not releasing the Yemenis from Guantánamo was extended to the U.S. prison system, no prisoner would ever be released at the end of their sentence, because prison "might have radicalized" them.

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Cambodia Deports 20 Uighurs To China, Gets $1.2 Billion

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping thanked Cambodia on Monday for deporting 20 Muslim asylum-seekers while handin...

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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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Xinjiang Riots: China Sentences 3 More To Death

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — China sentenced three more people to death Thursday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bri...

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The Fall Of Greg Craig

TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...

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Supreme Court To Hear Uighurs' Case

washingtonpost.com | Robert Barnes | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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China's Media "Openness" in East Turkestan

Amy Reger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Reger

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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Henryk Szadziewski

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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