The early July riots in Urumqi have been spun by Beijing as yet another "foreign interference" conspiracy organized by the Uighur diaspora in exile.
Washington Post | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region for jobs at the Xuri Toy Factory in the country's booming c...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
UPDATE: ABC News reports that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress who lives in Fairfax, Virginia and was recently blamed by the Chin...
AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — Police fatally shot two Uighur men Monday and wounded a third in western China, where violence has persisted despite the massive...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : Re-Settling of US-Russia Relations Facts:US President Barack Obama traveled to Russia this week and met wi...
GlobalPost | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
SHAOGUAN, China -- Three weeks after simmering racial tension escalated to mayhem and a double murder at a toy factory here, about 750 Uighur workers ...
Ankara | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
The Chinese government's crackdown against Uighurs living in Xinjiang province now has the full attention of the House human rights subcommittee, chai...
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...
Mona Eltahawy | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
If these Uighurs were Buddhists, Bjork, Sting, Bono and all those other one-named saviors of the world's poor and oppressed would have held "Free Xinxiang" concerts already.
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.08.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal viol...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
News of Sunday's riots in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region spread quickly on the Internet, where users posted amateur photos an...
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
URUMQI, China — Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the stre...
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
The Bush administration's blind haste to launch a global war on terrorism provided Beijing with the ultimate excuse to crackdown on the Uyghurs.
CFR | Posted 08.06.2009 | World
Introduction The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about...
AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.05.2009 | World
BEIJING -- Chinese state media says that 156 people have been killed in violent riots in the country's western Xinjiang region. The official Xinhua N...
Ginny Sloan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Of the many Guantanamo tragedies, perhaps none has been greater than our handling of the Uighurs, a group of Chinese Muslim detainees.
Alexander Davenport | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
My experiences out West revealed the simmering race relations between the Han and Uighur peoples, which helps explain the necessity of sending Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to Palau and not back to China.
Kim Swan | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Bermuda is a democracy much like yours, though ours has an English flavor. We believe our leaders, like yours, should follow the rule of law rather deciding on their own what the law should be.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
While at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2002, Uighur detainees were interrogated, abused and threatened by a delegation from the People's Repub...
AP | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
LONDON — Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband says he has complained to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the United States st...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
You know, I've wracked my memory and have largely been unable to come up with one significant example of MSNBC's dayside coverage devoting any real de...
New York Times | ERIK ECKHOLM | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics
ST. GEORGE, Bermuda -- Almost exactly seven years after arriving at Guantánamo in chains as accused enemy combatants, and four days after their surpr...
AP | TOMOKO A. HOSAKA and WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
KOROR, Palau — They came from a land of scorching deserts, snowcapped mountains, camels and mosques. Now after several miserable years imprisone...
McClatchy | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
As in Mother England. Thursday morning, Bermuda's premier, Ewart Brown, made the surprising announcement that four Uighur detainees from the American ...
The Real News | Posted 08.15.2009 | World