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Will the Chinese Courts Allow Another Mentally Ill Individual Be Executed?

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Mental Illness, Gordon Brown, Death Penalty in the United States, Chinese Criminal Procedure Law, Chinese Criminal Law, Drug Trafficking in China, Supreme People's Court, Death Penalty in China, Death Penalty, China, Xinjiang, Akmal Shaikh, Urumqi, World News

The true test of a society's criminal justice system is how well it protects society's most vulnerable.

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China Jitters

Diane Francis | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Urumqi, Stock Markets, Urumqi Riots, Meltdown, China, Global Economic Crisis, Economic Crisis, Business News

The Middle Kingdom has taken its place among the world's most important economies, and China is jittery.

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10,000 Protest Needle Stabbings In Urumqi, China

AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Needle Stabbings, Beijing, Communist Party, Han Chinese, Muslim Uighurs, Aids, Urumqi, Hiv, Hypodermic Needle Stabbings, China, Uighurs, Hypodermic Needle, Xinjiang, World News

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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China: Uighur Riots Suspects To Be Tried

nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighur Riots, China Uighur, Urumqi, China Riots, China, Uighurs, Uighur Riots, Rebiya Kadeer, World News

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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If Only the Uyghurs had Twitter

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rebiya Kadeer, Xinjiang Province, Twitter, Urumqi, Uyghurs, Urumqi Riots, China, Xinjiang, Uighurs, Uyghur Human Rights Project, Urumchi, Politics News

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.

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China Riots: Violence Followed By Beauty Contest

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Uighur Riots, China Violence, Urumqi Riots, Xinjian Riots, Xinjian China, Urumgi China, Uighur Violence, China Riots, China, Ethnic Violence China, Urumqi, Xinjian Region, World News

In the wake of the recent fatal riots in Urumqi, China, an international beauty contest will open in the city this weekend, reports Xinhua. Forty gir...

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Fair and Balanced? Lhasa Vs. Urumqi

Alexander Davenport | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, China Tibet Crackdown, China-Tibet-Conflict, China Uighur Protests, Tibet Protests, Xinjiang Province, Urumqi, Free Tibet, China Riots, Tibet, China Tibet, China Tibet Uprising, Uighurs, China, Xinjiang, World News

Why do rioting Tibetans generate more interest than rioting Uighurs?

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Xinjiang Mosques Reopen For Friday Prayers

Associated Press | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

URUMQI, China (AP) - Mosques opened for worshippers in Urumqi on Friday, but shops nearby were forced to shut as security forces kept a tight grip on ...

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China Protests: Al Qaeda Vows Retaliation For Crackdown On Uighurs

Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Al Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, Al Qaida, Urumqi, Uighurs, China Protests, China Uighurs, China Uighur Protests, China Uighur Crackdown, World News

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...

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Uighurs Force China To Open Mosque For Friday Prayers In Urumqi

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN and GILLIAN WONG | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, Urumqi, Uighurs China, China Unrest, China Riots, China, Uighurs Urumqi, World News

URUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving an ethnic breakdown of t...

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China: Rioters Behind Killings In Urumqi Will Be Executed

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, China-Uyghurs, China Uighur Riots, Urumqi, China Uyghurs, China Riots, China, Urumqi Riots, Uighurs, Riots Urumqi, World News

URUMQI, China — Thousands of Chinese troops flooded into this city Wednesday to separate feuding ethnic groups after three days of communal viol...

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Uighurs, Tibetans, Jews

Gershon Hepner | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Jews, Terror, Moslems, Chinese Uighurs, Oil, Urumqi, Tibet, Israel, Rebiya Kadeer, World News

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

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China Riots: West Descends Into Mob Violence Between Han Chinese, Muslim Uighurs

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, China Uyghurs, Urumqi, China Riots, Chinese Violence, Uyghurs, China, Uighurs, Han Chinese, Chinese Muslims, World News

URUMQI, China — Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the stre...

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Internet Down In Chinese Riot City

Reuters | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media

Read More: China Internet, China, Urumqi, ÜRüMqi-China, Media News

Internet users have not been able to go online in Urumqi, the northwestern Chinese city hit by ethnic violence that killed at least 140 people, reside...

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Green Edge 5: Farm Aid in Islamic China

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

The 8/4 Kashgar attack was not a total surprise: The two attackers were linked to the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), three members of which were executed in a nearby town last month.

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