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Cambodia Deports 20 Uighurs To China, Gets $1.2 Billion

AP | Posted 12.22.2009 | World

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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's Media "Openness" in East Turkestan

Amy Reger | Posted 12.16.2009 | World

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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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China's Forgotten Minority

Gordon Cinco | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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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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The Fall Of Greg Craig

TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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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Will Obama Help Change Asia's Racism?

David A. Love | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

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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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China Executes 9 Uighurs Over July Ethnic Riots

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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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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Who Are the Six Uighurs Released From Guantanamo to Palau?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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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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Supreme Court To Hear Uighurs' Case

washingtonpost.com | Robert Barnes | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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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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Xinjiang Riots: China Sentences 3 More To Death

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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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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Xinjiang Riots: China Sentences 6 To Death

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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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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75 Guantanamo Prisoners Cleared for Release; 31 Could Leave Today

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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

Henryk Szadziewski | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

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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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Uighur Brothers: Detainee Declines Offer To Leave Guantanamo Out Of Loyalty To Ailing Brother (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

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After eight years of detention, at least one Guantanamo Bay detainee declined an offer to resettle to the Pacific Island of Palau, according to The Wa...

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Guantanamo Envoy: U.S. Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.

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10,000 Protest Needle Stabbings In Urumqi, China

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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URUMQI, China — Security forces patrolled the street corners of Urumqi while residents voiced anger Friday, a day after thousands marched to pro...

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A Plea to Barack Obama from the Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Four months ago, 17 unjustly detained prisoners wrote a letter to Obama asking for their release. The government censors have only just cleared it and I have reprinted it here.

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China: Uighur Riots Suspects To Be Tried

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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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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Parenting Pyongyang

Jennifer Lind | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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Hey! I cannot believe what I just saw, young man! What are you thinking? We've talked about this. You are not allowed to get nuclear weapons. Not while you live under my roof.

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If Skip Gates Lived in China and Other Stories of Racial Profiling Around the World

Phillip Martin | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

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In many parts of China, without the protection of an American passport, Ivy League credentials, diplomatic status or fame, dark skinned people find themselves branded as a drug dealers or worse.

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Will The U.S. and China Ever See Eye-To-Eye?

Julie Farby | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

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To show the world we're not going to risk relations with our favorite creditor on account of a couple of crushed Uighurs, Obama dropped the whole human rights spiel in favor of sports!

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

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

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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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If Only the Uyghurs had Twitter

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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