Guantanamo Prisoners Released In El Salvador
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...
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...
AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 04.29.2012
BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday accused terrorists in a Muslim Uighur region of attacking civilians, but an exiled Uighur group said the violence ...
Rebiya Kadeer | Posted 04.14.2012
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.
John Wagner Givens | Posted 04.14.2012
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.
The Express Tribune | Posted 01.10.2012
"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...
Alim A. Seytoff | Posted 09.03.2011
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?
Tenzin Dorjee | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Nancy Talanian | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
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."
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Gordon Cinco | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 05.25.2011
KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Visiting Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping thanked Cambodia on Monday for deporting 20 Muslim asylum-seekers while handin...
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 p...
AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 05.25.2011
BEIJING — China sentenced three more people to death Thursday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bri...
TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
washingtonpost.com | Robert Barnes | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Amy Reger | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Henryk Szadziewski | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | BEN FOX | Posted 04.19.2012